The first table below looks at the demand for FreeBSD skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited FreeBSD over the 3 months to 23 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
FreeBSD
Rank 792 849 828
Rank change year-on-year
+57 -21
Permanent jobs citing FreeBSD 70 49 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.065% 0.041% 0.036%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.239% 0.152% 0.143%
Number of salaries quoted 61 37 40
Average salary £47,500 £52,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.52% +31.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £25,100 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £77,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £25,000
% change year-on-year
- +60.00%
All Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
29264 32215 31424
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.21% 26.69% 24.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24711 27634 26525
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

FreeBSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

FreeBSD Jobs Demand Trend

FreeBSD
Salary Trend

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

FreeBSD Salary Trend

FreeBSD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing FreeBSD over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

FreeBSD Salary Histogram

FreeBSD
Top 20 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FreeBSD within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 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
England +44 67 £48,750 -7.14%
London +62 46 £50,000 -4.76%
City of London +22 21 £55,000 +4.76%
South East +11 14 £42,500 -41.37%
Berkshire - 11 £42,500 -
Newbury - 11 £42,500 -
East of England - 5 £35,000 -
Hertfordshire - 5 £35,000 -
Surrey +13 2 £65,000 -13.33%
Uxbridge - 2 £40,000 -
Staines - 2 £65,000 -
Hemel Hempstead - 2 - -
Hampshire +8 1 - -
North West - 1 £30,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £35,000 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £35,000 -
Lancashire - 1 £30,000 -
Burnley - 1 £30,000 -
St Albans - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 - -

FreeBSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD.

1 97 (88.18%) Linux
2 59 (53.64%) MySQL
3 52 (47.27%) Apache
4 45 (40.91%) Perl
5 43 (39.09%) Bash shell
5 43 (39.09%) Puppet
6 40 (36.36%) Python
7 35 (31.82%) Windows
8 34 (30.91%) Red Hat
9 33 (30.00%) CentOS
10 32 (29.09%) Debian
11 30 (27.27%) PHP
12 29 (26.36%) iSCSI
13 27 (24.55%) UNIX
14 26 (23.64%) C
15 25 (22.73%) TCP/IP
16 24 (21.82%) LAMP
17 23 (20.91%) Nagios
17 23 (20.91%) C++
17 23 (20.91%) Cacti
18 22 (20.00%) Ubuntu
18 22 (20.00%) NFS
19 21 (19.09%) DNS
19 21 (19.09%) Ruby
19 21 (19.09%) nginx
20 20 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
20 20 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
21 19 (17.27%) VMware
21 19 (17.27%) SSL
21 19 (17.27%) Embedded C

FreeBSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (21.82%) LAMP
2 19 (17.27%) Web Services
3 17 (15.45%) Flash
3 17 (15.45%) FIX Protocol
4 14 (12.73%) Memcached
5 7 (6.364%) XMPP
6 6 (5.455%) jQuery
6 6 (5.455%) Django
7 5 (4.545%) Ext JS
8 1 (0.909%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.909%) YUI
8 1 (0.909%) XHTML
8 1 (0.909%) HTML
8 1 (0.909%) CSS
8 1 (0.909%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 52 (47.27%) Apache
2 21 (19.09%) nginx
3 17 (15.45%) SAS
4 8 (7.273%) MS Exchange
5 7 (6.364%) Amazon AWS
5 7 (6.364%) IIS
5 7 (6.364%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.818%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.455%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.909%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 29 (26.36%) iSCSI
2 25 (22.73%) TCP/IP
3 21 (19.09%) DNS
4 20 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
5 19 (17.27%) SSL
6 18 (16.36%) SNMP
7 16 (14.55%) SAN
8 15 (13.64%) DHCP
9 13 (11.82%) Internet
10 7 (6.364%) SMTP
10 7 (6.364%) Firewall
11 6 (5.455%) Cisco PIX
11 6 (5.455%) NAS
12 5 (4.545%) BGP
12 5 (4.545%) OSPF
13 4 (3.636%) HTTP
14 3 (2.727%) VLAN
14 3 (2.727%) IMAP
14 3 (2.727%) OpenVPN
14 3 (2.727%) MRTG
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (53.64%) MySQL
2 17 (15.45%) Big Data
3 14 (12.73%) MongoDB
4 12 (10.91%) Sybase ASE
5 7 (6.364%) Riak
6 5 (4.545%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.545%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.545%) ObjectStore
7 2 (1.818%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.909%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (5.455%) VTune
2 5 (4.545%) Git (software)
2 5 (4.545%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.909%) JIRA
3 1 (0.909%) Subversion
General
1 7 (6.364%) Marketing
2 1 (0.909%) Games
Job Titles
1 42 (38.18%) Systems Administrator
1 42 (38.18%) Administrator
2 31 (28.18%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 31 (28.18%) Linux Administrator
3 17 (15.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 17 (15.45%) Software Engineer
4 12 (10.91%) Developer
5 10 (9.091%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 10 (9.091%) UNIX Engineer
6 9 (8.182%) Linux Engineer
7 7 (6.364%) Systems Manager
7 7 (6.364%) Operations Manager
8 6 (5.455%) PHP Developer
8 6 (5.455%) Data Centre Technician
9 5 (4.545%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
9 5 (4.545%) Senior Linux Administrator
9 5 (4.545%) C Developer
10 3 (2.727%) Systems Engineer
11 2 (1.818%) C++ Developer
11 2 (1.818%) Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Clustering
2 17 (15.45%) Device Driver
2 17 (15.45%) Firmware
2 17 (15.45%) Open Source
3 10 (9.091%) Streaming Media
4 6 (5.455%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (5.455%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.818%) SaaS
6 1 (0.909%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.909%) Physics
6 1 (0.909%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.909%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 97 (88.18%) Linux
2 35 (31.82%) Windows
3 33 (30.00%) CentOS
4 32 (29.09%) Debian
5 27 (24.55%) UNIX
6 22 (20.00%) Ubuntu
7 20 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (11.82%) OpenBSD
9 10 (9.091%) AIX
10 3 (2.727%) Fedora
11 2 (1.818%) Gentoo
11 2 (1.818%) SUSE
12 1 (0.909%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.909%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.909%) Windows NT
12 1 (0.909%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (15.45%) Root Cause Analysis
2 13 (11.82%) Load Balancing
2 13 (11.82%) Configuration Management
3 12 (10.91%) Release Management
4 10 (9.091%) High Availability
4 10 (9.091%) Change Control
5 8 (7.273%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (6.364%) Fault Management
6 7 (6.364%) Risk Analysis
6 7 (6.364%) Project Management
7 5 (4.545%) Unit Testing
7 5 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (4.545%) OO
7 5 (4.545%) TDD
8 3 (2.727%) E-Commerce
9 2 (1.818%) Benchmarking
9 2 (1.818%) Capacity Management
10 1 (0.909%) Waterfall
10 1 (0.909%) ITIL
10 1 (0.909%) DRM
Programming Languages
1 45 (40.91%) Perl
2 43 (39.09%) Bash shell
3 40 (36.36%) Python
4 30 (27.27%) PHP
5 26 (23.64%) C
6 23 (20.91%) C++
7 21 (19.09%) Ruby
8 19 (17.27%) Embedded C
8 19 (17.27%) Embedded C++
9 11 (10.00%) sed
9 11 (10.00%) AWK
10 6 (5.455%) JavaScript
11 5 (4.545%) SQL
12 4 (3.636%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (6.364%) Degree
2 6 (5.455%) Network+ Certification
2 6 (5.455%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (5.455%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.818%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (20.00%) NFS
2 12 (10.91%) Varnish
2 12 (10.91%) Postfix
3 11 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 11 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 10 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (7.273%) Sendmail
6 7 (6.364%) VirtualBox
7 4 (3.636%) Xen
8 3 (2.727%) Squid
8 3 (2.727%) VMware ESX
9 2 (1.818%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.909%) vSphere
10 1 (0.909%) Samba
10 1 (0.909%) Nmap
10 1 (0.909%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 43 (39.09%) Puppet
2 23 (20.91%) Nagios
2 23 (20.91%) Cacti
3 12 (10.91%) YUM
3 12 (10.91%) Cobbler
4 11 (10.00%) Zenoss
5 1 (0.909%) Munin
Vendors
1 34 (30.91%) Red Hat
2 19 (17.27%) VMware
3 13 (11.82%) Cisco
4 12 (10.91%) Sybase
5 8 (7.273%) NetApp
6 7 (6.364%) HP
6 7 (6.364%) Dell
6 7 (6.364%) Microsoft
6 7 (6.364%) Sun
6 7 (6.364%) Remedy
7 5 (4.545%) Juniper
8 4 (3.636%) Oracle
9 1 (0.909%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.909%) IBM
9 1 (0.909%) JBoss
9 1 (0.909%) Symantec
9 1 (0.909%) Tripwire
9 1 (0.909%) Google
London
The ideal candidate will have excellent Linux and Unix skills, additionally possesing; - Ubuntu - Debain - Puppet - Open / Free BSD - Knowledge of AIX This is an exciting and unique opportunity...
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
West London
Web services using apache and nginx. RDBMS management, preferably Sybase ASE... Apache, Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, mod_perl. Sybase (ASE and RepServer), MySQL, Mongo, Memcached. Puppet, DHCP, PXE, Kickstart (Cobbler),...
Moonfruit
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Exc Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Burnley, Lancashire
Expertise needed in all or most of the following areas: Excellent experience of installation, configuration and maintenance of CentOS and FreeBSD Excellent Linux Systems admin skills - troubleshooting, grep,...
NES Global Talent
Salary: £35k + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Experience and understanding of networking, load balancing and DNS... * Comfortable with scripting in any of the following: Bash, PHP, sed, awk, Perl, Python and Ruby * MySQL or other...
Opilio Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - 55000 Per Annum +Very competitive benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Key skills: Unix / Linux Engineer, TCP/IP, Unix scripting, NAS systems, Python, Django, AIX, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Ceph, Netapp, Virtualisation, Load balancer, Puppet, Ubuntu, Debian, Open Source Apply now...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + be - pens, health, shares +
Posted: 19 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
Embedded C, Embedded Software, Firmware, C/C++, FreeBSD Kernel, RTOS, Linux, Device drivers, PCIe, Fiber channel, SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, Storage, Datacentre, SATA disks, Disk storage, R&D. This...
Saxon Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Some knowledge of AIX, OpenBSD and FreeBSD is also desirable... Understanding of Linux and Unix operating systems (Debian & Ubuntu preferably) Unix Scripting... NAS systems. Capacity planning... Python/Django...
Ocado
Salary: £Competitive
Posted: 21 May 2013
West London
Apache, Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, mod_perl, JVM. Bash, Perl. Sybase (ASE and RepServer), MySQL, Mongo, Memcached, Riak. Puppet, DHCP, PXE, Kickstart (Cobbler) Heartbeat, LVS. Yum, RPMs... SATA, iSCSI. Nagios,...
Moonfruit
Salary: £50000 - £80000 per annum + Exc Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills: Linux, Unix, Unix Scripting,, Debian, Ubuntu, Ceph, Netapp, Virtualisation... Understanding of Linux and Unix operating systems (Debian & Ubuntu preferably) Unix Scripting Server build and configuration (e...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits & Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
A leading email marketing service provider with an impressive client base requires a highly skilled Senior System Administrator (FreeBSD) who is looking for an opportunity to become part...
Blue Glue
Salary: From £40,000 to £47,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Key Skills *Commercial FreeBSD experience *Solid experience of Network and system security *Experience of Backup/recovery management and disaster recovery provisions *Experience managing company systems (email and intranet...
People Source Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £47000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
West London
5+ years back-end Java experience. Experience with Spring, Struts or other web framework. Front-end dev experience: Javascript, CSS, HTML. SQL (we use MySQL) A degree in...
Ingresso Group Limited
Salary: Up to £60,000 per annum plus share options
Posted: 17 May 2013