Tyne and Wear Linux Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Linux skills within the Tyne and Wear region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Aylesbury Baldock Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Faversham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gourock Grantham Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochford Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Witham Woking Wokingham Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	35
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	39	38
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	27.66 %	18.36 %
Salaries quoted	33	36
Average minimum salary	£26,000	£31,158
Average salary	£28,181	£32,592
% change on same period last year	-13.53 %
Average maximum salary	£30,361	£34,026
UK excluding London average salary	£36,512	£36,686
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Operating Systems Tyne and Wear
Matching permanent IT job ads	141	207
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.076 %	0.086 %
Salaries quoted	126	186
Average minimum salary	£26,745	£31,182
Average salary	£30,084	£33,709
% change on same period last year	-10.75 %
Average maximum salary	£33,424	£36,236
UK excluding London average salary	£33,991	£34,646
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Tyne and Wear region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Tyne and Wear region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Newcastle Upon Tyne	0	16	£28,750	+22.34 %
Newcastle	+18	15	£27,577	-30.72 %
Sunderland	-	8	£27,583	-
Tyneside	-	2	£35,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 45 (46.88 %) UNIX 2 36 (37.50 %) Windows 3 35 (36.46 %) Apache 4 31 (32.29 %) PHP 5 30 (31.25 %) C++ 5 30 (31.25 %) OO 6 28 (29.17 %) MySQL 7 17 (17.71 %) LAMP 8 16 (16.67 %) Macromedia 8 16 (16.67 %) SQL 8 16 (16.67 %) COBOL 8 16 (16.67 %) STL 8 16 (16.67 %) Dreamweaver 8 16 (16.67 %) Web Development 9 15 (15.63 %) C

10 13 (13.54 %) Oracle 10 13 (13.54 %) XML 10 13 (13.54 %) UML 10 13 (13.54 %) Shell Script 11 12 (12.50 %) HTML 12 11 (11.46 %) CSS 12 11 (11.46 %) Business Intelligence 12 11 (11.46 %) Finance 12 11 (11.46 %) Degree 13 10 (10.42 %) Mathematics 13 10 (10.42 %) Pensions 14 9 (9.375 %) OOD 14 9 (9.375 %) WebServices 14 9 (9.375 %) JavaScript 15 8 (8.333 %) LAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 17 (17.71 %) LAMP 2 16 (16.67 %) STL 3 13 (13.54 %) XML 4 12 (12.50 %) HTML 5 11 (11.46 %) CSS 6 9 (9.375 %) WebServices 7 7 (7.292 %) .NET 8 6 (6.250 %) ASP 8 6 (6.250 %) XSLT 8 6 (6.250 %) AJAX 9 4 (4.167 %) JBoss Seam 9 4 (4.167 %) EJB 3.0 9 4 (4.167 %) EJB 9 4 (4.167 %) JSF 9 4 (4.167 %) J2EE 9 4 (4.167 %) JSP 9 4 (4.167 %) Servlets 10 1 (1.042 %) ASP.NET 10 1 (1.042 %) SAP Basis 10 1 (1.042 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 35 (36.46 %) Apache 2 6 (6.250 %) JBoss 2 6 (6.250 %) MS Exchange 3 5 (5.208 %) Oracle Application Server 4 4 (4.167 %) Tomcat 5 3 (3.125 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (1.042 %) GroupWise 6 1 (1.042 %) Zope 6 1 (1.042 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.042 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5 (5.208 %) MATLAB 2 2 (2.083 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (5.208 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 8 (8.333 %) LAN 1 8 (8.333 %) WAN 2 7 (7.292 %) Firewall 3 6 (6.250 %) VPN 4 4 (4.167 %) Internet 5 3 (3.125 %) LDAP 5 3 (3.125 %) DNS 5 3 (3.125 %) VoIP 6 1 (1.042 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (1.042 %) SAN 6 1 (1.042 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (29.17 %) MySQL 2 5 (5.208 %) Datawarehouse 2 5 (5.208 %) RDBMS 3 4 (4.167 %) SQL Server 4 1 (1.042 %) Informix 4 1 (1.042 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.042 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (1.042 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 16 (16.67 %) Dreamweaver 2 6 (6.250 %) NUnit	General 1 11 (11.46 %) Finance 2 10 (10.42 %) Pensions 3 8 (8.333 %) Health 4 5 (5.208 %) Education 5 4 (4.167 %) Police 6 2 (2.083 %) Banking 6 2 (2.083 %) Investment Banking 7 1 (1.042 %) Insurance 7 1 (1.042 %) Government 7 1 (1.042 %) Marketing 7 1 (1.042 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 44 (45.83 %) Developer 2 25 (26.04 %) Web Developer 3 13 (13.54 %) C++ Developer 4 11 (11.46 %) Software Engineer 5 10 (10.42 %) Administrator 6 9 (9.375 %) Systems Administrator 6 9 (9.375 %) C++ Software Engineer 7 8 (8.333 %) Analyst 8 7 (7.292 %) DBA 9 6 (6.250 %) PHP Developer 10 5 (5.208 %) Junior 10 5 (5.208 %) Oracle DBA 10 5 (5.208 %) C Software Engineer 11 4 (4.167 %) Systems Analyst 12 3 (3.125 %) Systems Support 12 3 (3.125 %) Junior DBA 12 3 (3.125 %) PHP Web Developer 13 2 (2.083 %) J2EE Developer 13 2 (2.083 %) Technical Support Specialist 13 2 (2.083 %) Network Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 10 (10.42 %) Mathematics 2 5 (5.208 %) Applied Mathematics 2 5 (5.208 %) Physics 2 5 (5.208 %) Computer Science 3 3 (3.125 %) Data Protection Act 4 1 (1.042 %) Replication 4 1 (1.042 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 45 (46.88 %) UNIX 2 36 (37.50 %) Windows 3 7 (7.292 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (3.125 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 2 (2.083 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (1.042 %) Embedded Linux 6 1 (1.042 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (1.042 %) AIX 6 1 (1.042 %) HPUX 6 1 (1.042 %) Solaris 6 1 (1.042 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (1.042 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (31.25 %) OO 2 16 (16.67 %) Web Development 3 13 (13.54 %) UML 4 11 (11.46 %) Business Intelligence 5 9 (9.375 %) OOD 6 6 (6.250 %) Software Testing 7 5 (5.208 %) CRM 7 5 (5.208 %) Refactoring 8 4 (4.167 %) Security Cleared 9 3 (3.125 %) Data Protection 9 3 (3.125 %) Agile Software Development 9 3 (3.125 %) Customer Intelligence 10 2 (2.083 %) Project Management 10 2 (2.083 %) Process Management 10 2 (2.083 %) Asset Management 10 2 (2.083 %) Data Management 10 2 (2.083 %) Software Engineering 10 2 (2.083 %) Load Testing 11 1 (1.042 %) Systems Analysis 11 1 (1.042 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 31 (32.29 %) PHP 2 30 (31.25 %) C++ 3 16 (16.67 %) COBOL 3 16 (16.67 %) SQL 4 15 (15.63 %) C 5 13 (13.54 %) Shell Script 6 9 (9.375 %) JavaScript 7 7 (7.292 %) PL/SQL 7 7 (7.292 %) C# 8 6 (6.250 %) Java 8 6 (6.250 %) AWK 9 4 (4.167 %) Perl 10 1 (1.042 %) VB.NET 10 1 (1.042 %) ActionScript 10 1 (1.042 %) Python 10 1 (1.042 %) Embedded C	Qualifications 1 11 (11.46 %) Degree 2 4 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (4.167 %) OCP 2 4 (4.167 %) OCA 2 4 (4.167 %) Oracle Certification 3 3 (3.125 %) RHCE 3 3 (3.125 %) MCP 3 3 (3.125 %) HND 4 2 (2.083 %) CCNA 4 2 (2.083 %) ISEB 4 2 (2.083 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (1.042 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (5.208 %) ISO9000 2 3 (3.125 %) QA 3 1 (1.042 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (6.250 %) Oracle RMAN 1 6 (6.250 %) Oracle RAC 2 2 (2.083 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.083 %) Samba 3 1 (1.042 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (1.042 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (1.042 %) Legato 1 1 (1.042 %) ARCserve 1 1 (1.042 %) Norton AntiVirus 1 1 (1.042 %) EMC NetWorker	Vendors 1 16 (16.67 %) Macromedia 2 13 (13.54 %) Oracle 3 8 (8.333 %) Microsoft 4 4 (4.167 %) Remedy 4 4 (4.167 %) Citrix 5 2 (2.083 %) Red Hat 6 1 (1.042 %) Symantec 6 1 (1.042 %) Novell 6 1 (1.042 %) Lotus 6 1 (1.042 %) SAP 6 1 (1.042 %) Siebel 6 1 (1.042 %) HP 6 1 (1.042 %) EMC 6 1 (1.042 %) McAfee Security 6 1 (1.042 %) VMware 6 1 (1.042 %) Blue Coat