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The table below looks at the demand for FreeBSD skills across the UK with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited FreeBSD over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFreeBSD
Location
3 months to
5 Sep 2008
Same period last year
Rank830857
Rank change on same period last yearUp+27
Matching permanent IT job ads93153
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.051 %0.064 %
As % of the category below0.211 %0.254 %
Salaries quoted83130
Average minimum salary£44,195£35,003
Average salary£47,483£38,678
% change on same period last year+22.76 %
Average maximum salary£50,770£42,354
UK excluding London average salary£40,587£39,916
% change on same period last year+1.68 %
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads4416560121
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled24.44 %25.21 %
Salaries quoted3697847443
Average minimum salary£35,868£37,107
Average salary£38,726£40,124
% change on same period last year-3.48 %
Average maximum salary£41,584£43,141
UK excluding London average salary£34,069£34,572
% change on same period last year-1.45 %

FreeBSD
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing FreeBSD within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

FreeBSD Demand Trend

FreeBSD
Salary Trend

The 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

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing FreeBSD over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 within the UK.

FreeBSD Salary Histogram

FreeBSD
Top 30 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 5 September 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+4392£47,483+23.35 %
South EastUp+4548£43,448+5.29 %
BuckinghamshireUp+3035£44,712+5.71 %
Milton KeynesUp+3031£44,759-12.23 %
LondonUp+5528£65,583+82.02 %
OxfordUp+26£37,083-3.42 %
West MidlandsUp+26£31,667+26.66 %
OxfordshireDown-36£37,083-0.50 %
StaffordshireDown-75£33,000+32.00 %
SurreyUp+385£43,500-1.13 %
TamworthNew entry-5£33,000-
ManchesterNew entry-4£27,833-
BerkshireUp+244£42,500+2.26 %
North WestNew entry-4£27,833-
West YorkshireUp+133£26,500+47.22 %
YorkshireNo change03£26,500+12.76 %
City of LondonDown-182£45,000+35.54 %
South WestNew entry-2£27,500-
ScotlandUp+262--
EdinburghUp+202--
LeedsUp+192£26,500+47.22 %
BristolNew entry-2£27,500-
BuryNew entry-1£27,500-
CamberleyNew entry-1£42,500-
BasingstokeNew entry-1£42,500-
BedfordNew entry-1£45,000-
BedfordshireNew entry-1£45,000-
HampshireNew entry-1£42,500-
NorthamptonshireNew entry-1£45,000-
ReadingNew entry-1--

FreeBSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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.

1201 (90.54 %)Linux
2152 (68.47 %)UNIX
3135 (60.81 %)Solaris
492 (41.44 %)MySQL
584 (37.84 %)Perl
683 (37.39 %)Apache
770 (31.53 %)Internet
865 (29.28 %)PHP
961 (27.48 %)Sun
1055 (24.77 %)Java
1154 (24.32 %)Telecoms
1244 (19.82 %)Cisco
1342 (18.92 %)DNS
1342 (18.92 %)Red Hat Linux
1441 (18.47 %)Red Hat
1441 (18.47 %)Oracle
1537 (16.67 %)Windows
1634 (15.32 %)Clustering
1732 (14.41 %)Shell Script
1831 (13.96 %)SQL
1928 (12.61 %)SQL Server
2026 (11.71 %)JavaScript
2123 (10.36 %)IPTV
2123 (10.36 %)Firewall
2220 (9.009 %)Nagios
2319 (8.559 %)C
2319 (8.559 %)HTML
2319 (8.559 %)XML
2319 (8.559 %)Debian
2418 (8.108 %)AJAX

FreeBSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, 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.

IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
119 (8.559 %)HTML
119 (8.559 %)XML
218 (8.108 %)Spring
218 (8.108 %)AJAX
316 (7.207 %)LAMP
415 (6.757 %).NET
513 (5.856 %)ASP
612 (5.405 %)CSS
710 (4.505 %)CGI
89 (4.054 %)SOAP
89 (4.054 %)WebServices
89 (4.054 %)XHTML
98 (3.604 %)Hibernate
107 (3.153 %)J2EE
115 (2.252 %)ASP.NET
115 (2.252 %)WAP
124 (1.802 %)Adobe Flex
133 (1.351 %)Symfony
142 (0.901 %)Ruby on Rails
142 (0.901 %)WebSphere
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
183 (37.39 %)Apache
217 (7.658 %)Tomcat
312 (5.405 %)IIS
49 (4.054 %)MS Exchange
54 (1.802 %)CMS
54 (1.802 %)Exchange Server 2003
54 (1.802 %)SharePoint Portal Server
54 (1.802 %)Exchange Server 2007
54 (1.802 %)JBoss
54 (1.802 %)SharePoint
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
17 (3.153 %)MS Excel
17 (3.153 %)MS Visio
24 (1.802 %)InfoPath
33 (1.351 %)MS Office
42 (0.901 %)Photoshop
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
170 (31.53 %)Internet
242 (18.92 %)DNS
323 (10.36 %)Firewall
416 (7.207 %)LDAP
514 (6.306 %)TCP/IP
613 (5.856 %)SAN
613 (5.856 %)BGP
712 (5.405 %)LLU
810 (4.505 %)VPN
99 (4.054 %)SMTP
99 (4.054 %)Wi-Fi
99 (4.054 %)OSPF
108 (3.604 %)IMAP
108 (3.604 %)BSS
116 (2.703 %)MPLS
116 (2.703 %)HTTP
116 (2.703 %)Cisco PIX
125 (2.252 %)PPP
125 (2.252 %)WAN
125 (2.252 %)SMS
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
192 (41.44 %)MySQL
228 (12.61 %)SQL Server
313 (5.856 %)PostgreSQL
49 (4.054 %)Oracle 10g
58 (3.604 %)Oracle 9i
58 (3.604 %)DB2
63 (1.351 %)RDBMS
71 (0.450 %)Ingres
71 (0.450 %)Informix
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
15 (2.252 %)Subversion
22 (0.901 %)JUnit
22 (0.901 %)Flash
31 (0.450 %)Paros
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
154 (24.32 %)Telecoms
214 (6.306 %)Health
313 (5.856 %)Pensions
410 (4.505 %)Marketing
410 (4.505 %)Billing
58 (3.604 %)Back Office
63 (1.351 %)Advertising
72 (0.901 %)Insurance
72 (0.901 %)Graphic Design
81 (0.450 %)Publishing
81 (0.450 %)Finance
81 (0.450 %)Education
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
183 (37.39 %)Administrator
262 (27.93 %)Systems Administrator
337 (16.67 %)Applications Support
429 (13.06 %)UNIX Administrator
528 (12.61 %)Developer
626 (11.71 %)Team Leader
723 (10.36 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
723 (10.36 %)Linux Administrator
820 (9.009 %)Support Engineer
917 (7.658 %)Applications Support Engineer
917 (7.658 %)Linux Systems Administrator
1016 (7.207 %)Senior Systems Administrator
1016 (7.207 %)Network Engineer
1114 (6.306 %)Analyst
1114 (6.306 %)Support Analyst
1114 (6.306 %)Support Team Leader
1210 (4.505 %)Web Developer
139 (4.054 %)Senior UNIX Systems Administrator
148 (3.604 %)Senior UNIX Administrator
148 (3.604 %)UNIX Team Leader
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
134 (15.32 %)Clustering
223 (10.36 %)IPTV
39 (4.054 %)Computer Science
47 (3.153 %)German Language
55 (2.252 %)Dutch Language
63 (1.351 %)Finnish Language
63 (1.351 %)Danish Language
63 (1.351 %)Norwegian Language
63 (1.351 %)Statistics
63 (1.351 %)CLARiiON
63 (1.351 %)Swedish Language
72 (0.901 %)AS400
72 (0.901 %)Streaming Video
72 (0.901 %)Mathematics
72 (0.901 %)Russian Language
72 (0.901 %)Spanish Language
72 (0.901 %)Japanese Language
72 (0.901 %)French Language
81 (0.450 %)IVR
81 (0.450 %)e-Health
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1201 (90.54 %)Linux
2152 (68.47 %)UNIX
3135 (60.81 %)Solaris
442 (18.92 %)Red Hat Linux
537 (16.67 %)Windows
619 (8.559 %)Debian
711 (4.955 %)Ubuntu
711 (4.955 %)Windows 2000
89 (4.054 %)Windows Server 2003
89 (4.054 %)SUSE
97 (3.153 %)Windows NT
104 (1.802 %)Windows XP
104 (1.802 %)OpenBSD
113 (1.351 %)NetBSD
113 (1.351 %)Windows Server 2008
113 (1.351 %)AIX
113 (1.351 %)HPUX
122 (0.901 %)CentOS
131 (0.450 %)Slackware
131 (0.450 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
112 (5.405 %)Incident Management
112 (5.405 %)Web Development
210 (4.505 %)OO
38 (3.604 %)Project Management
47 (3.153 %)Project Planning
56 (2.703 %)Integration Testing
65 (2.252 %)Network Design
65 (2.252 %)Risk Assessment
74 (1.802 %)Disaster Recovery
74 (1.802 %)CRM
74 (1.802 %)ERP
83 (1.351 %)E-Commerce
83 (1.351 %)Search Engine Marketing
92 (0.901 %)BCP
92 (0.901 %)Service Management
92 (0.901 %)Business Continuity
101 (0.450 %)UML
101 (0.450 %)Information Security
101 (0.450 %)Content Management
101 (0.450 %)Penetration Testing
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
184 (37.84 %)Perl
265 (29.28 %)PHP
355 (24.77 %)Java
432 (14.41 %)Shell Script
531 (13.96 %)SQL
626 (11.71 %)JavaScript
719 (8.559 %)C
815 (6.757 %)Python
912 (5.405 %)VB.NET
1011 (4.955 %)C#
118 (3.604 %)Tcl
118 (3.604 %)Ruby
125 (2.252 %)AWK
125 (2.252 %)DHTML
134 (1.802 %)VB
134 (1.802 %)PHP5
134 (1.802 %)PHP4
143 (1.351 %)VBScript
152 (0.901 %)C++
152 (0.901 %)ActionScript
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
113 (5.856 %)Cisco Certification
28 (3.604 %)CCIE
35 (2.252 %)CCNP
44 (1.802 %)CCIP
44 (1.802 %)CCNA
44 (1.802 %)Microsoft Certification
44 (1.802 %)HND
44 (1.802 %)MCSE
44 (1.802 %)Degree
53 (1.351 %)RHCE
62 (0.901 %)CCDP
71 (0.450 %)CCSA
71 (0.450 %)CCSE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
110 (4.505 %)SLA
25 (2.252 %)QA
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
111 (4.955 %)Active Directory
28 (3.604 %)Oracle RMAN
28 (3.604 %)NFS
28 (3.604 %)VMware Infrastructure
35 (2.252 %)NetBackup
44 (1.802 %)Backup Exec
44 (1.802 %)Terminal Services
51 (0.450 %)Samba
51 (0.450 %)Snort
51 (0.450 %)Oracle RAC
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
120 (9.009 %)Nagios
26 (2.703 %)Netcool
35 (2.252 %)OpenView
44 (1.802 %)Tivoli
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
161 (27.48 %)Sun
244 (19.82 %)Cisco
341 (18.47 %)Oracle
341 (18.47 %)Red Hat
414 (6.306 %)Microsoft
513 (5.856 %)Intel
612 (5.405 %)HP
612 (5.405 %)Remedy
711 (4.955 %)VERITAS
88 (3.604 %)Sybase
88 (3.604 %)VMware
95 (2.252 %)Yahoo!
95 (2.252 %)TIBCO
95 (2.252 %)NetApp
104 (1.802 %)Adobe
104 (1.802 %)Macromedia
104 (1.802 %)Symantec
104 (1.802 %)Micromuse
113 (1.351 %)EMC
122 (0.901 %)Nortel