The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 12 22 20
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 100 50 74
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 14.88% 8.834% 11.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.39% 32.68% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 99 42 60
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,650 £25,900
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £39,800 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
All Operating Systems
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
211 153 175
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 31.40% 27.03% 26.28%
Number of salaries quoted 206 123 153
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,350 £28,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,250 £50,000 £44,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
East of England

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Suffolk Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Ipswich -5 35 £40,000 +23.07%
Bury St Edmunds - 7 £32,500 - 1
Stowmarket - 2 £32,500 -
Felixstowe - 1 - -
Linux
East of England

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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.

1 100 (61.73%) Windows
2 60 (37.04%) Web Services
3 57 (35.19%) Java
3 57 (35.19%) JavaScript
4 49 (30.25%) UNIX
5 48 (29.63%) XML
6 45 (27.78%) SOAP
7 44 (27.16%) Spring
8 43 (26.54%) Degree
9 39 (24.07%) SQL Server
10 38 (23.46%) Microsoft
10 38 (23.46%) Computer Science
11 37 (22.84%) MySQL
12 36 (22.22%) SQL
12 36 (22.22%) REST
13 34 (20.99%) Agile Software Development
14 33 (20.37%) JSON
15 32 (19.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 32 (19.75%) JBoss
15 32 (19.75%) Tomcat
15 32 (19.75%) Active Directory
16 31 (19.14%) Firewall
16 31 (19.14%) UML
17 29 (17.90%) VoIP
18 28 (17.28%) Finance
19 27 (16.67%) Red Hat
20 26 (16.05%) jQuery
21 25 (15.43%) Mobile App
21 25 (15.43%) J2EE
22 23 (14.20%) Oracle

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 60 (37.04%) Web Services
2 48 (29.63%) XML
3 45 (27.78%) SOAP
4 44 (27.16%) Spring
5 36 (22.22%) REST
6 33 (20.37%) JSON
7 26 (16.05%) jQuery
8 25 (15.43%) J2EE
9 19 (11.73%) Ajax
10 13 (8.025%) Grails
10 13 (8.025%) Hibernate
10 13 (8.025%) CSS
11 10 (6.173%) .NET
12 8 (4.938%) HTML5
12 8 (4.938%) CSS3
13 7 (4.321%) HTML
13 7 (4.321%) LAMP
14 4 (2.469%) XHTML
15 2 (1.235%) JSP
15 2 (1.235%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 32 (19.75%) Tomcat
2 23 (14.20%) Amazon AWS
3 19 (11.73%) Apache
4 10 (6.173%) MS Exchange
5 7 (4.321%) Drupal
6 3 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (1.235%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (1.235%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.617%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (3.704%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.852%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.617%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 31 (19.14%) Firewall
2 29 (17.90%) VoIP
3 20 (12.35%) Internet
4 17 (10.49%) TCP/IP
5 15 (9.259%) LAN
5 15 (9.259%) WAN
6 13 (8.025%) IP Telephony
7 12 (7.407%) DNS
8 11 (6.790%) DHCP
9 8 (4.938%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.469%) 3G
10 4 (2.469%) 4G
11 3 (1.852%) SNMP
12 2 (1.235%) BGP
12 2 (1.235%) OSPF
12 2 (1.235%) SAN
12 2 (1.235%) IPv6
12 2 (1.235%) Network Security
13 1 (0.617%) VPN
13 1 (0.617%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (24.07%) SQL Server
2 37 (22.84%) MySQL
3 10 (6.173%) Oracle 8/8i
4 9 (5.556%) Big Data
5 8 (4.938%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (4.938%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (3.704%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (1.235%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.617%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 9 (5.556%) Subversion
2 7 (4.321%) Eclipse
3 2 (1.235%) Dreamweaver
3 2 (1.235%) Git (software)
3 2 (1.235%) Selenium
4 1 (0.617%) Serena SBM
General
1 28 (17.28%) Finance
2 4 (2.469%) Back Office
2 4 (2.469%) Billing
3 2 (1.235%) Financial Institution
4 1 (0.617%) Marketing
4 1 (0.617%) Electronics
4 1 (0.617%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (38.89%) Developer
2 47 (29.01%) Java Developer
3 27 (16.67%) Analyst
4 17 (10.49%) Java Software Developer
4 17 (10.49%) Software Developer
4 17 (10.49%) Architect
5 16 (9.877%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 16 (9.877%) Infrastructure Architect
6 14 (8.642%) Systems Engineer
7 13 (8.025%) Network Engineer
8 12 (7.407%) Support Analyst
9 11 (6.790%) DBA
9 11 (6.790%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (6.173%) PHP Developer
11 9 (5.556%) Junior
11 9 (5.556%) Applications Support
12 8 (4.938%) Administrator
12 8 (4.938%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 7 (4.321%) Applications Support Analyst
13 7 (4.321%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.46%) Computer Science
2 25 (15.43%) Mobile App
3 23 (14.20%) Speech Recognition
4 13 (8.025%) Open Source
5 7 (4.321%) IaaS
5 7 (4.321%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.469%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.235%) Replication
7 2 (1.235%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.617%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.617%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 100 (61.73%) Windows
2 49 (30.25%) UNIX
3 32 (19.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (3.704%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (3.086%) Debian
7 4 (2.469%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.469%) Android
7 4 (2.469%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.852%) Windows 2000
9 2 (1.235%) CentOS
9 2 (1.235%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.617%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (0.617%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (20.99%) Agile Software Development
2 31 (19.14%) UML
3 21 (12.96%) TDD
4 16 (9.877%) ITIL
5 14 (8.642%) Network Architecture
6 13 (8.025%) Web Development
7 9 (5.556%) Analytics
8 8 (4.938%) MVC
9 7 (4.321%) Technical Architecture
10 5 (3.086%) OO
10 5 (3.086%) Scrum
11 3 (1.852%) Software Engineering
11 3 (1.852%) Incident Management
11 3 (1.852%) OOP
11 3 (1.852%) Disaster Recovery
12 2 (1.235%) Service Management
12 2 (1.235%) Change Management
12 2 (1.235%) Project Management
12 2 (1.235%) E-Commerce
12 2 (1.235%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 57 (35.19%) Java
1 57 (35.19%) JavaScript
2 36 (22.22%) SQL
3 21 (12.96%) PHP
4 8 (4.938%) C
5 7 (4.321%) PHP5
6 5 (3.086%) Groovy
6 5 (3.086%) Python
6 5 (3.086%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.086%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.469%) Perl
8 3 (1.852%) Bash shell
8 3 (1.852%) C++
8 3 (1.852%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.235%) C#
9 2 (1.235%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.235%) Ruby
10 1 (0.617%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.617%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (26.54%) Degree
2 14 (8.642%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (6.790%) CCNP
3 11 (6.790%) CCNA
4 9 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.704%) OCP
5 6 (3.704%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.235%) MCSE
6 2 (1.235%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.617%) MCTS
7 1 (0.617%) MCP
7 1 (0.617%) RHCE
7 1 (0.617%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.617%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.852%) QA
2 1 (0.617%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (19.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.086%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.469%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.469%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.852%) vSphere
5 1 (0.617%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.617%) XenServer
5 1 (0.617%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (1.235%) Nagios
1 2 (1.235%) ZABBIX
2 1 (0.617%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 32 (19.75%) JBoss
3 27 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 23 (14.20%) Oracle
5 11 (6.790%) Cisco
6 8 (4.938%) VMware
7 3 (1.852%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.235%) IBM
9 1 (0.617%) Zend
9 1 (0.617%) Twitter
9 1 (0.617%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.617%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (0.617%) Dell
9 1 (0.617%) EMC
9 1 (0.617%) Citrix
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