The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Stoke-on-Trent region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 29 38 21
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Linux 8 6 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 5.195% 3.141% 7.027%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.06% 12.24% 32.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 3
Average salary £55,000 £36,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+52.77% +24.13%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,250 £24,800 £28,200
10% offered a salary of more than £73,000 £47,200 £36,600
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Stoke-on-Trent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
17 49 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 11.04% 25.65% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 16 37 26
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £27,400
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £40,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Staffordshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Stoke-on-Trent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Stoke-on-Trent Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Stoke-on-Trent region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Stoke-on-Trent Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent region citing Linux also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Linux.

1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 7 (63.64%) Java
3 7 (63.64%) JDBC
3 7 (63.64%) J2SE
3 7 (63.64%) Middleware
3 7 (63.64%) Grid Computing
3 7 (63.64%) Degree
3 7 (63.64%) Computer Science
3 7 (63.64%) Multithreading
3 7 (63.64%) Complex Event Processing
4 6 (54.55%) Mathematics
5 3 (27.27%) Back Office
5 3 (27.27%) Web Development
6 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (9.091%) Firewall
7 1 (9.091%) Symantec
7 1 (9.091%) SEO
7 1 (9.091%) CMS
7 1 (9.091%) LAMP
7 1 (9.091%) VMware
7 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
7 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
7 1 (9.091%) jQuery
7 1 (9.091%) Graphic Design
7 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista
7 1 (9.091%) NetBackup
7 1 (9.091%) CSS3
7 1 (9.091%) Process Improvement

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent region citing Linux also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (63.64%) JDBC
1 7 (63.64%) J2SE
1 7 (63.64%) Middleware
2 1 (9.091%) LAMP
2 1 (9.091%) jQuery
2 1 (9.091%) CSS3
2 1 (9.091%) HTML5
2 1 (9.091%) XHTML
2 1 (9.091%) HTML
2 1 (9.091%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) ASP
2 1 (9.091%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) CMS
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
1 1 (9.091%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
1 1 (9.091%) LAN
1 1 (9.091%) WAN
1 1 (9.091%) DHCP
1 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.091%) VPN
1 1 (9.091%) DNS
1 1 (9.091%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
General
1 3 (27.27%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Graduate Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Graduate
3 3 (27.27%) Graduate Java Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 1 (9.091%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
4 1 (9.091%) Network Support
4 1 (9.091%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Development Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Grid Computing
1 7 (63.64%) Computer Science
2 6 (54.55%) Mathematics
3 1 (9.091%) Graphic Design
3 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.091%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Ubuntu
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
2 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Multithreading
1 7 (63.64%) Complex Event Processing
2 3 (27.27%) Web Development
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.091%) SEO
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
4 1 (9.091%) Process Improvement
4 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.091%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Java
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.091%) PHP
3 1 (9.091%) C#
3 1 (9.091%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) Symantec
1 1 (9.091%) VMware
1 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.091%) NetApp