The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Trowbridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 Trowbridge region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 7 9 1
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Trowbridge 30.77% 11.11% 50.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 80.00% 33.33% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 3
Average salary £33,750 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.62% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,200 £40,000 £31,300
10% offered a salary of more than £36,450 £40,000 £33,900
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Trowbridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
5 6 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Trowbridge 38.46% 33.33% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 3
Average salary £34,000 £45,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.44% +38.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £40,000 £31,750
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £33,375 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Wiltshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Trowbridge 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 Trowbridge region.

Trowbridge Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Trowbridge region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Trowbridge Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Trowbridge 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 4 (66.67%) XML
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) Marketing
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) Online Marketing
3 2 (33.33%) Social Media
3 2 (33.33%) Local Government
3 2 (33.33%) Web Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Zend
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) SEO
3 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (33.33%) Ingres
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Apache
3 2 (33.33%) XHTML

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Trowbridge 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 4 (66.67%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) XHTML
4 1 (16.67%) JMS
4 1 (16.67%) JSP
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) XML Schema
4 1 (16.67%) Spring
4 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 1 (16.67%) Bing Maps
4 1 (16.67%) JSTL
4 1 (16.67%) Google Maps API
4 1 (16.67%) Ext JS
4 1 (16.67%) Qt
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Ingres
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Hudson
1 1 (16.67%) jMock
General
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) Local Government
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Web Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Web Development Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Development Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Social Media
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Web Development
1 2 (33.33%) Online Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) Web Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) SEO
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Zend
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) JBoss
3 1 (16.67%) Google
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Job Title: ICT Systems Engineer (Ref: 142/12T) BSS Grade 4 - 5Salary: £18,758 - £21,103 - dependent upon experienceLocation: Trowbridge, WiltshireTechnically challenging role supporting 3000 desktops, definitely NOT...
Wiltshire College
Salary: £18,758 - £21,103 - dependent upon experience
Posted: 20 May 2013