The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Debian over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category.

Debian Linux
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank529648586
Rank change year-on-year
Up+119Down-62
Matching permanent IT job ads390215169
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.322 %0.176 %0.177 %
As % of the Operating Systems category1.207 %0.708 %0.726 %
Number of salaries quoted341205163
Average salary£42,500£40,000£33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %+21.21 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£24,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,500£50,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£30,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %+25.00 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
323033036123292
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK26.65 %24.88 %24.46 %
Number of salaries quoted277292559119492
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Debian
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Debian within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Debian Demand Trend

Debian
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Debian within the UK.

Debian Salary Trend

Debian
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Debian over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Debian Salary Histogram

Debian
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+131372£42,500+6.25 %
LondonUp+105251£45,000+5.88 %
South EastDown-2239£41,500-
East of EnglandUp+2133£40,000-
City of LondonUp+1428£50,000+19.04 %
YorkshireNo change022£35,000-
CambridgeUp+818£45,000+12.50 %
CambridgeshireUp+818£45,000+12.50 %
North WestDown-614£42,500+30.76 %
ScotlandNew entry-13£31,500-
West YorkshireDown-1212£40,000+90.47 %
WakefieldNew entry-12£40,000-
LiverpoolNew entry-11£39,000-
MerseysideNew entry-11£39,000-
SurreyDown-410£45,000+20.00 %
North YorkshireUp+79£35,000-12.50 %
East SussexDown-159£41,500-44.66 %
BrightonDown-169£41,500-44.66 %
West MidlandsDown-148£21,000-44.00 %
OxfordshireUp+86£27,795-25.88 %
BerkshireDown-416£32,500-15.58 %
ShrewsburyNew entry-6£21,000-
GlasgowNew entry-6£30,000-
MiddlesbroughNew entry-6£35,000-
ShropshireNew entry-6£21,000-
IpswichNew entry-5£35,000-
SuffolkNew entry-5£35,000-
HertfordshireUp+204£37,500-6.25 %
HampshireDown-104£27,500-35.29 %
Tunbridge WellsNew entry-4£42,500-

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Debian 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 Debian.

1791 (94.05 %)Linux
2459 (54.58 %)MySQL
3411 (48.87 %)Red Hat
4407 (48.39 %)Apache
5327 (38.88 %)Windows
6302 (35.91 %)Perl
7288 (34.24 %)Ubuntu
8273 (32.46 %)PHP
9268 (31.87 %)CentOS
10249 (29.61 %)Bash shell
11231 (27.47 %)TCP/IP
12226 (26.87 %)Python
13219 (26.04 %)Java
13219 (26.04 %)DNS
14198 (23.54 %)Firewall
15189 (22.47 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16186 (22.12 %)VMware
17181 (21.52 %)UNIX
18175 (20.81 %)Cisco
19157 (18.67 %)LAMP
20153 (18.19 %)Nagios
21144 (17.12 %)Puppet
22139 (16.53 %)SQL
23138 (16.41 %)JavaScript
23138 (16.41 %)Web Services
24125 (14.86 %)HTTP
25124 (14.74 %)Tomcat
26118 (14.03 %)VMware Infrastructure
27115 (13.67 %)Degree
27115 (13.67 %)SQL Server

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1157 (18.67 %)LAMP
2138 (16.41 %)Web Services
363 (7.491 %)CSS
363 (7.491 %)HTML
451 (6.064 %).NET
545 (5.351 %)Servlets
639 (4.637 %)JSP
737 (4.400 %)jQuery
831 (3.686 %)Memcached
930 (3.567 %)XML
1029 (3.448 %)Ajax
1123 (2.735 %)XHTML
1221 (2.497 %)SOAP
1221 (2.497 %)HTML5
1317 (2.021 %)ASP.NET
1416 (1.902 %)ASP
1515 (1.784 %)REST
1612 (1.427 %)CSS3
1612 (1.427 %)YUI
1710 (1.189 %)CodeIgniter
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1407 (48.39 %)Apache
2124 (14.74 %)Tomcat
370 (8.323 %)Amazon EC2
468 (8.086 %)IIS
550 (5.945 %)nginx
649 (5.826 %)Amazon AWS
736 (4.281 %)Magento
830 (3.567 %)MS Exchange
919 (2.259 %)Confluence
1017 (2.021 %)Amazon S3
1116 (1.902 %)WebLogic
1215 (1.784 %)SharePoint
1215 (1.784 %)Exchange Server 2010
1313 (1.546 %)CMS
1313 (1.546 %)OpenStack
1412 (1.427 %)WordPress
159 (1.070 %)Exchange Server 2007
159 (1.070 %)Apache Solr
159 (1.070 %)Force.com
159 (1.070 %)Exchange Server 2003
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
127 (3.210 %)MS Excel
217 (2.021 %)Google Apps
314 (1.665 %)Photoshop
45 (0.595 %)MS Visio
54 (0.476 %)GIMP
63 (0.357 %)Adobe Illustrator
72 (0.238 %)MS Office
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
113 (1.546 %)BASE24
25 (0.595 %)SunGard APT
25 (0.595 %)FastVal
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1231 (27.47 %)TCP/IP
2219 (26.04 %)DNS
3198 (23.54 %)Firewall
4125 (14.86 %)HTTP
5112 (13.32 %)Internet
6111 (13.20 %)VPN
7106 (12.60 %)SAN
8105 (12.49 %)DHCP
9100 (11.89 %)SMTP
1071 (8.442 %)SSL
1167 (7.967 %)LDAP
1259 (7.015 %)iSCSI
1341 (4.875 %)VLAN
1341 (4.875 %)IPsec
1439 (4.637 %)NAS
1537 (4.400 %)FTP
1537 (4.400 %)LAN
1636 (4.281 %)Ethernet
1733 (3.924 %)WAN
1831 (3.686 %)VoIP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1459 (54.58 %)MySQL
2115 (13.67 %)SQL Server
372 (8.561 %)PostgreSQL
444 (5.232 %)NoSQL
536 (4.281 %)Apache Cassandra
628 (3.329 %)MongoDB
723 (2.735 %)Hadoop
818 (2.140 %)SQL Server 2008
99 (1.070 %)OLTP
106 (0.713 %)Data Warehouse
115 (0.595 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
115 (0.595 %)SQL Server Integration Services
122 (0.238 %)Redis
122 (0.238 %)SQL Server 2005
122 (0.238 %)CouchDB
122 (0.238 %)SQL Server 2000
131 (0.119 %)Oracle 8/8i
131 (0.119 %)DB2
131 (0.119 %)RDBMS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1112 (13.32 %)Subversion
2107 (12.72 %)Git (software)
358 (6.897 %)Selenium
447 (5.589 %)Hudson
541 (4.875 %)JUnit
622 (2.616 %)JIRA
719 (2.259 %)TeamCity
811 (1.308 %)Cucumber
811 (1.308 %)FishEye
99 (1.070 %)Ant
99 (1.070 %)Mercurial
105 (0.595 %)Atlassian Bamboo
114 (0.476 %)Oracle Forms
123 (0.357 %)Capistrano
132 (0.238 %)Mockito
132 (0.238 %)Maven
132 (0.238 %)WebDriver
132 (0.238 %)EasyMock
132 (0.238 %)TestNG
132 (0.238 %)jMock
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
182 (9.750 %)Finance
255 (6.540 %)Telecoms
353 (6.302 %)Advertising
436 (4.281 %)Retail
530 (3.567 %)Marketing
624 (2.854 %)Games
720 (2.378 %)Manufacturing
813 (1.546 %)Electronics
912 (1.427 %)Publishing
1011 (1.308 %)Banking
1011 (1.308 %)Music
1110 (1.189 %)Online Betting
129 (1.070 %)Back Office
135 (0.595 %)Investment Banking
144 (0.476 %)Law
153 (0.357 %)French Language
162 (0.238 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1480 (57.07 %)Administrator
2442 (52.56 %)Systems Administrator
3300 (35.67 %)Linux Administrator
4261 (31.03 %)Linux Systems Administrator
5120 (14.27 %)Developer
684 (9.988 %)Linux Engineer
757 (6.778 %)Senior Systems Administrator
853 (6.302 %)Systems Engineer
944 (5.232 %)PHP Developer
1036 (4.281 %)Senior Linux Administrator
1133 (3.924 %)UNIX Administrator
1133 (3.924 %)QA Engineer
1230 (3.567 %)Support Engineer
1329 (3.448 %)Senior Linux Systems Administrator
1426 (3.092 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1525 (2.973 %)Web Developer
1615 (1.784 %)Infrastructure Engineer
1713 (1.546 %)IT Administrator
1713 (1.546 %)Windows Systems Administrator
1812 (1.427 %)Senior Linux Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1109 (12.96 %)Open Source
256 (6.659 %)Digital Media
352 (6.183 %)Computer Science
445 (5.351 %)Clustering
535 (4.162 %)Replication
634 (4.043 %)Social Media
733 (3.924 %)SaaS
816 (1.902 %)Cloud Computing
913 (1.546 %)Data Protection Act
1010 (1.189 %)Graphic Design
1010 (1.189 %)Wiki
1010 (1.189 %)Management Information System
119 (1.070 %)Enterprise Storage
128 (0.951 %)Social Network
135 (0.595 %)Client/Server
135 (0.595 %)Firmware
135 (0.595 %)Informatics
135 (0.595 %)EqualLogic
135 (0.595 %)Hedge funds
144 (0.476 %)Mathematics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1791 (94.05 %)Linux
2327 (38.88 %)Windows
3288 (34.24 %)Ubuntu
4268 (31.87 %)CentOS
5189 (22.47 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6181 (21.52 %)UNIX
787 (10.34 %)Windows Server 2003
884 (9.988 %)Solaris
983 (9.869 %)Windows Server 2008
1048 (5.707 %)SUSE
1140 (4.756 %)Mac OS X
1228 (3.329 %)FreeBSD
1323 (2.735 %)Fedora
1420 (2.378 %)AIX
1519 (2.259 %)Windows 7
1616 (1.902 %)VMS
1715 (1.784 %)OpenSolaris
1812 (1.427 %)OpenBSD
1812 (1.427 %)Windows XP
1911 (1.308 %)Windows 2000
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1115 (13.67 %)E-Commerce
275 (8.918 %)Agile Software Development
362 (7.372 %)Load Balancing
460 (7.134 %)OO
543 (5.113 %)Configuration Management
642 (4.994 %)OOP
642 (4.994 %)TDD
739 (4.637 %)Build Automation
835 (4.162 %)Business Development
933 (3.924 %)Web Development
1031 (3.686 %)Contextual Advertising
1130 (3.567 %)Automated Testing
1226 (3.092 %)Migration
1324 (2.854 %)Scrum
1420 (2.378 %)ITIL
1519 (2.259 %)MVC
1519 (2.259 %)Penetration Testing
1617 (2.021 %)Project Management
1617 (2.021 %)Time Management
1617 (2.021 %)Software Engineering
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1302 (35.91 %)Perl
2273 (32.46 %)PHP
3249 (29.61 %)Bash shell
4226 (26.87 %)Python
5219 (26.04 %)Java
6139 (16.53 %)SQL
7138 (16.41 %)JavaScript
8110 (13.08 %)Ruby
9108 (12.84 %)Shell Script
1054 (6.421 %)C
1142 (4.994 %)PHP5
1224 (2.854 %)AWK
1323 (2.735 %)Korn
1421 (2.497 %)PowerShell
1421 (2.497 %)C#
1517 (2.021 %)C++
1611 (1.308 %)ActionScript
178 (0.951 %)VBScript
187 (0.832 %)C-shell
196 (0.713 %)R
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1115 (13.67 %)Degree
266 (7.848 %)RHCE
348 (5.707 %)Cisco Certification
446 (5.470 %)CCNA
539 (4.637 %)RHCT
625 (2.973 %)Microsoft Certification
720 (2.378 %)MCSE
812 (1.427 %)Security Cleared
98 (0.951 %)MCITP
106 (0.713 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
115 (0.595 %)MCDBA
115 (0.595 %)CEH
115 (0.595 %)MCTS
123 (0.357 %)MCSA
123 (0.357 %)MCP
123 (0.357 %)MCDST
132 (0.238 %)CCNP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
161 (7.253 %)QA
212 (1.427 %)SLA
36 (0.713 %)PCI DSS
44 (0.476 %)COBIT
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1118 (14.03 %)VMware Infrastructure
290 (10.70 %)Active Directory
370 (8.323 %)NFS
466 (7.848 %)Samba
556 (6.659 %)Xen
639 (4.637 %)Postfix
639 (4.637 %)VMware ESXi
639 (4.637 %)Varnish
737 (4.400 %)vSphere
828 (3.329 %)Squid
925 (2.973 %)XenServer
1024 (2.854 %)Sendmail
1117 (2.021 %)VMware ESX
1212 (1.427 %)Dovecot
1310 (1.189 %)FreeRADIUS
1310 (1.189 %)qmail
147 (0.832 %)Oracle RAC
155 (0.595 %)Veritas Volume Manager
155 (0.595 %)Snort
155 (0.595 %)Nmap
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1153 (18.19 %)Nagios
2144 (17.12 %)Puppet
363 (7.491 %)Cacti
431 (3.686 %)Munin
529 (3.448 %)ZABBIX
621 (2.497 %)Splunk
715 (1.784 %)Red Hat Satellite
814 (1.665 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
913 (1.546 %)Nessus
108 (0.951 %)OpenNMS
117 (0.832 %)NetBackup
126 (0.713 %)vCenter
126 (0.713 %)Ganglia
133 (0.357 %)Backup Exec
133 (0.357 %)HP Data Protector
133 (0.357 %)Cobbler
133 (0.357 %)CFEngine
141 (0.119 %)SCCM
141 (0.119 %)Zenoss
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1411 (48.87 %)Red Hat
2186 (22.12 %)VMware
3175 (20.81 %)Cisco
471 (8.442 %)Juniper
564 (7.610 %)Microsoft
657 (6.778 %)Oracle
750 (5.945 %)HP
845 (5.351 %)Citrix
929 (3.448 %)Dell
1023 (2.735 %)Google
1121 (2.497 %)EMC
1219 (2.259 %)JBoss
1318 (2.140 %)NetApp
1416 (1.902 %)Percona
1514 (1.665 %)F5
1514 (1.665 %)Zend
1613 (1.546 %)Sun
1712 (1.427 %)Veritas
1811 (1.308 %)Reuters
1811 (1.308 %)Bloomberg