The first table below looks at the demand for Gentoo skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Gentoo over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gentoo Linux
Rank 857 887 870
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -17
Permanent jobs citing Gentoo 5 12 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.005% 0.010% 0.009%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.017% 0.037% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 9
Average salary £53,750 £37,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+43.33% -25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,000 £22,050 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,500 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £22,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+144.44% -52.63%
All Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
29395 32200 30988
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.20% 26.68% 24.91%
Number of salaries quoted 24824 27612 26147
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%

Gentoo
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gentoo Jobs Demand Trend

Gentoo
Salary Trend

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

Gentoo Salary Trend

Gentoo
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Gentoo over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Gentoo Salary Histogram

Gentoo
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Gentoo within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +19 5 £53,750 +34.37%
London +47 4 £48,750 +8.33%
South East +5 1 £55,000 +144.44%
City of London +1 1 £19,000 -39.20%
Surrey - 1 £55,000 -
Berkshire - 1 £55,000 -

Gentoo
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Gentoo 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 Gentoo.

1 18 (94.74%) MySQL
1 18 (94.74%) Linux
2 17 (89.47%) Apache
3 14 (73.68%) PHP
4 13 (68.42%) Ubuntu
5 12 (63.16%) Ruby
6 11 (57.89%) Ruby on Rails
6 11 (57.89%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (57.89%) nginx
6 11 (57.89%) Puppet
6 11 (57.89%) Redis
6 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
6 11 (57.89%) Mac OS X
7 10 (52.63%) Shell Script
7 10 (52.63%) Capistrano
7 10 (52.63%) Active Record
8 9 (47.37%) Cucumber
8 9 (47.37%) PHPUnit
8 9 (47.37%) Phing
8 9 (47.37%) Static Code Analysis
8 9 (47.37%) RSpec
8 9 (47.37%) Open Source
8 9 (47.37%) Zend
8 9 (47.37%) Zend Framework
8 9 (47.37%) Configuration Management
9 7 (36.84%) CentOS
10 6 (31.58%) Windows
10 6 (31.58%) DNS
10 6 (31.58%) NFS
11 5 (26.32%) Firewall

Gentoo
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Gentoo 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 Gentoo. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (57.89%) Ruby on Rails
2 9 (47.37%) Zend Framework
3 2 (10.53%) Resque
3 2 (10.53%) JSON
3 2 (10.53%) XML
4 1 (5.263%) .NET
4 1 (5.263%) ASP
4 1 (5.263%) CSS
4 1 (5.263%) SOAP
4 1 (5.263%) Web Services
4 1 (5.263%) HTML
4 1 (5.263%) Spring
4 1 (5.263%) X-Windows
4 1 (5.263%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.263%) Ajax
4 1 (5.263%) jQuery
4 1 (5.263%) RESTful
4 1 (5.263%) Gearman
4 1 (5.263%) HTML5
4 1 (5.263%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 17 (89.47%) Apache
2 11 (57.89%) nginx
3 3 (15.79%) Apache Solr
4 1 (5.263%) Tomcat
4 1 (5.263%) Drupal
4 1 (5.263%) WordPress
4 1 (5.263%) OpenStack
4 1 (5.263%) CloudStack
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) DNS
2 5 (26.32%) Firewall
3 4 (21.05%) DHCP
3 4 (21.05%) FTP
4 3 (15.79%) VoIP
4 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
4 3 (15.79%) SSL
4 3 (15.79%) IPsec
4 3 (15.79%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (10.53%) iSCSI
5 2 (10.53%) SMTP
6 1 (5.263%) LAN
6 1 (5.263%) SNMP
6 1 (5.263%) SSH
6 1 (5.263%) SAN
6 1 (5.263%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (94.74%) MySQL
2 11 (57.89%) Redis
3 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.263%) Hazelcast
4 1 (5.263%) OrientDB
4 1 (5.263%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.263%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.263%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 10 (52.63%) Capistrano
3 9 (47.37%) Cucumber
3 9 (47.37%) PHPUnit
3 9 (47.37%) Phing
3 9 (47.37%) RSpec
4 3 (15.79%) Git (software)
5 1 (5.263%) Subversion
5 1 (5.263%) Maven
5 1 (5.263%) JIRA
5 1 (5.263%) Selenium
5 1 (5.263%) Artifactory
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (26.32%) Administrator
5 3 (15.79%) Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (15.79%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Data Centre Manager
7 1 (5.263%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 1 (5.263%) UNIX Administrator
7 1 (5.263%) IT Administrator
7 1 (5.263%) PHP Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Solaris Systems Administrator
7 1 (5.263%) Solaris Administrator
7 1 (5.263%) Ruby Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Open Source
2 2 (10.53%) SaaS
2 2 (10.53%) Clustering
3 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.263%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.263%) IaaS
3 1 (5.263%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Linux
2 13 (68.42%) Ubuntu
3 11 (57.89%) Mac OS X
4 7 (36.84%) CentOS
5 6 (31.58%) Windows
6 4 (21.05%) UNIX
7 3 (15.79%) Debian
8 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
8 2 (10.53%) FreeBSD
9 1 (5.263%) Solaris
9 1 (5.263%) Fedora
9 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (5.263%) SUSE
9 1 (5.263%) Android
9 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (52.63%) Active Record
3 9 (47.37%) Static Code Analysis
3 9 (47.37%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.263%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (5.263%) OO
5 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
5 1 (5.263%) Scrum
5 1 (5.263%) Workflow
5 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.263%) Multithreading
5 1 (5.263%) Software Architecture
5 1 (5.263%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) PHP
2 12 (63.16%) Ruby
3 10 (52.63%) Shell Script
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Perl
5 1 (5.263%) AWK
5 1 (5.263%) PHP5
5 1 (5.263%) sed
5 1 (5.263%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) NFS
2 3 (15.79%) VMware ESX
3 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.53%) Postfix
3 2 (10.53%) Varnish
4 1 (5.263%) Samba
4 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.263%) vSphere
4 1 (5.263%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Puppet
2 3 (15.79%) Nagios
3 1 (5.263%) NetBackup
3 1 (5.263%) ZABBIX
3 1 (5.263%) Cacti
3 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Zend
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Juniper
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.79%) F5
3 2 (10.53%) HP
4 1 (5.263%) Sun
4 1 (5.263%) Hitachi
4 1 (5.263%) Apple
4 1 (5.263%) Brocade
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