Linux Support Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Support in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support
Rank 746 763 704
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Support 118 137 166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.108% 0.112% 0.136%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.115% 0.118% 0.144%
Number of salaries quoted 97 117 140
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £49,900
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +9.37%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 102708 116230 115193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 85414 99672 97379
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Linux Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Linux Support within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Linux Support Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support
Salary Trend

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

Linux Support Salary Trend

Linux Support
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Support over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Linux Support Salary Histogram

Linux Support
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +16 117 £40,000 +14.28%
London +27 44 £48,000 +37.14%
South East +11 38 £35,000 -
City of London +21 20 £47,500 +72.72%
Berkshire +16 20 £23,000 -45.88%
Reading +15 16 £23,000 -8.00%
North West -10 12 £45,000 +50.00%
South West +10 11 £42,000 +76.84%
Hampshire +10 6 £38,750 +29.16%
East of England +4 6 £35,000 +2.94%
Gloucestershire - 6 £42,000 -
Gloucester - 6 £42,000 -
Surrey +12 5 £36,500 -14.11%
Cambridge - 5 £35,000 -
Cambridgeshire - 5 £35,000 -
Devon +3 4 £27,127 +20.56%
Plymouth -5 4 £27,127 +20.56%
Oxfordshire -18 4 £35,000 -
West Yorkshire - 4 £40,000 -
Yorkshire - 4 £40,000 -
East Sussex +1 3 £22,000 -24.13%
Brighton -2 3 £22,000 -24.13%
Manchester -16 3 £29,000 -3.33%
Slough - 3 £50,000 -
Farnborough - 3 £25,000 -
Camberley - 2 £36,500 -
Croydon - 2 £49,000 -
Leeds - 2 £33,361 -
Oxford - 2 £35,000 -
Wakefield - 2 £40,000 -

Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Linux Support in their job title 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 with Linux Support in their job title.

1 272 (100.00%) Linux
2 144 (52.94%) Windows
3 117 (43.01%) Red Hat
4 96 (35.29%) UNIX
5 79 (29.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 53 (19.49%) Apache
6 53 (19.49%) Perl
6 53 (19.49%) DNS
6 53 (19.49%) TCP/IP
7 52 (19.12%) Python
8 49 (18.01%) CentOS
9 47 (17.28%) VMware
10 46 (16.91%) Bash shell
11 45 (16.54%) Ubuntu
12 44 (16.18%) MySQL
13 40 (14.71%) ITIL
14 39 (14.34%) Oracle
15 37 (13.60%) Cisco
16 36 (13.24%) Shell Script
16 36 (13.24%) Windows Server 2008
17 35 (12.87%) Firewall
18 32 (11.76%) Debian
19 31 (11.40%) Tomcat
20 30 (11.03%) Active Directory
21 29 (10.66%) SAN
21 29 (10.66%) Finance
22 28 (10.29%) Degree
23 26 (9.559%) HTTP
24 25 (9.191%) Solaris
24 25 (9.191%) DHCP

Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Linux Support in their job title 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 with Linux Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (6.618%) Middleware
2 16 (5.882%) LAMP
3 11 (4.044%) WebSphere
4 9 (3.309%) J2EE
5 8 (2.941%) .NET
5 8 (2.941%) Java EE
6 6 (2.206%) ASP.NET
6 6 (2.206%) Web Services
6 6 (2.206%) XML
7 4 (1.471%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.103%) JMX
8 3 (1.103%) JMS
9 1 (0.368%) JRules
9 1 (0.368%) X-Windows
9 1 (0.368%) JSP
9 1 (0.368%) ASP
9 1 (0.368%) WebCenter
9 1 (0.368%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.368%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 53 (19.49%) Apache
2 31 (11.40%) Tomcat
3 17 (6.250%) MS Exchange
4 13 (4.779%) IIS
5 8 (2.941%) WebSphere MQ
6 7 (2.574%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.471%) Alfresco
8 3 (1.103%) CMS
8 3 (1.103%) nginx
8 3 (1.103%) Drupal
8 3 (1.103%) GlassFish
8 3 (1.103%) WordPress
9 2 (0.735%) Confluence
9 2 (0.735%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.735%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.735%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (0.368%) Escenic
10 1 (0.368%) Moodle
Applications
1 8 (2.941%) MS Office
2 3 (1.103%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.368%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 53 (19.49%) DNS
1 53 (19.49%) TCP/IP
2 35 (12.87%) Firewall
3 29 (10.66%) SAN
4 26 (9.559%) HTTP
5 25 (9.191%) DHCP
6 20 (7.353%) LDAP
7 19 (6.985%) SMTP
8 18 (6.618%) Internet
9 15 (5.515%) VPN
10 10 (3.676%) FTP
10 10 (3.676%) WAN
10 10 (3.676%) LAN
11 9 (3.309%) SNMP
12 8 (2.941%) VoIP
13 7 (2.574%) NAS
14 5 (1.838%) Wireless
14 5 (1.838%) MPLS
14 5 (1.838%) TELNET
14 5 (1.838%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.18%) MySQL
2 15 (5.515%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.206%) RDBMS
3 6 (2.206%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.838%) DB2
5 4 (1.471%) Big Data
5 4 (1.471%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (1.103%) Text Mining
6 3 (1.103%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (1.103%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.368%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.368%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 2 (0.735%) Mercurial
1 2 (0.735%) JIRA
General
1 29 (10.66%) Finance
2 10 (3.676%) Banking
3 7 (2.574%) Telecoms
4 6 (2.206%) Retail
5 5 (1.838%) Games
6 1 (0.368%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.368%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.368%) French Language
6 1 (0.368%) German Language
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.515%) Computer Science
2 9 (3.309%) Open Source
3 7 (2.574%) Clustering
3 7 (2.574%) SaaS
4 6 (2.206%) Client/Server
5 5 (1.838%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.838%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.838%) Online Games
6 4 (1.471%) Wiki
6 4 (1.471%) NHS
6 4 (1.471%) CLARiiON
6 4 (1.471%) EMC Centera
7 3 (1.103%) Grid Computing
7 3 (1.103%) Handset
7 3 (1.103%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.103%) Social Media
8 2 (0.735%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.735%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.368%) E-Learning
9 1 (0.368%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 272 (100.00%) Linux
2 144 (52.94%) Windows
3 96 (35.29%) UNIX
4 79 (29.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (18.01%) CentOS
6 45 (16.54%) Ubuntu
7 36 (13.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 32 (11.76%) Debian
9 25 (9.191%) Solaris
10 22 (8.088%) Windows Server 2003
11 17 (6.250%) SUSE
11 17 (6.250%) Windows 7
12 13 (4.779%) Mac OS X
12 13 (4.779%) AIX
13 9 (3.309%) Mac OS
14 8 (2.941%) Windows 8
15 7 (2.574%) Fedora
16 6 (2.206%) Oracle Linux
17 5 (1.838%) Windows XP
17 5 (1.838%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (14.71%) ITIL
2 24 (8.824%) Load Balancing
3 17 (6.250%) E-Commerce
4 13 (4.779%) Service Delivery
5 9 (3.309%) Problem Management
6 7 (2.574%) Content Management
7 6 (2.206%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (1.838%) Project Planning
8 5 (1.838%) Statistical Analysis
8 5 (1.838%) Information Security
8 5 (1.838%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (1.838%) High Availability
9 4 (1.471%) Budget Control
9 4 (1.471%) Asset Management
10 3 (1.103%) Web Development
10 3 (1.103%) Information Security Management
10 3 (1.103%) Security Management
10 3 (1.103%) Service Management
10 3 (1.103%) Configuration Management
10 3 (1.103%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 53 (19.49%) Perl
2 52 (19.12%) Python
3 46 (16.91%) Bash shell
4 36 (13.24%) Shell Script
5 24 (8.824%) PHP
6 23 (8.456%) Java
7 18 (6.618%) SQL
8 10 (3.676%) Ruby
9 7 (2.574%) C
10 5 (1.838%) AWK
11 4 (1.471%) Fortran
12 3 (1.103%) VB
12 3 (1.103%) sed
13 2 (0.735%) C++
13 2 (0.735%) Korn
14 1 (0.368%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (10.29%) Degree
2 17 (6.250%) RHCE
3 12 (4.412%) Linux+ Certification
4 4 (1.471%) Postgraduate
5 3 (1.103%) CCNP
5 3 (1.103%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.103%) HND
5 3 (1.103%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.368%) RHCT
6 1 (0.368%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.412%) SLA
2 3 (1.103%) COBIT
2 3 (1.103%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.103%) QA
System Software
1 30 (11.03%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.721%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.353%) vSphere
4 19 (6.985%) NFS
5 17 (6.250%) Samba
6 13 (4.779%) VMware ESX
6 13 (4.779%) Postfix
7 11 (4.044%) Sendmail
7 11 (4.044%) qmail
8 10 (3.676%) ISA Server
8 10 (3.676%) Squid
9 4 (1.471%) Varnish
10 2 (0.735%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.735%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 2 (0.735%) Nmap
11 1 (0.368%) Xen
11 1 (0.368%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.368%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.368%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 12 (4.412%) Tivoli
2 11 (4.044%) Nagios
3 8 (2.941%) Puppet
4 6 (2.206%) Ganglia
4 6 (2.206%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (1.838%) Cacti
5 5 (1.838%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 4 (1.471%) Plesk
6 4 (1.471%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 2 (0.735%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 2 (0.735%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.735%) WSUS
8 1 (0.368%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.368%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.368%) Oracle Identity Manager
8 1 (0.368%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 117 (43.01%) Red Hat
2 47 (17.28%) VMware
3 39 (14.34%) Oracle
4 37 (13.60%) Cisco
5 22 (8.088%) Microsoft
6 19 (6.985%) IBM
7 17 (6.250%) Juniper
8 15 (5.515%) F5
9 12 (4.412%) CheckPoint
10 11 (4.044%) JBoss
11 9 (3.309%) EMC
12 7 (2.574%) Veritas
12 7 (2.574%) Apple
13 6 (2.206%) HP
14 5 (1.838%) Brocade
14 5 (1.838%) Intel
14 5 (1.838%) NetApp
15 4 (1.471%) Citrix
16 3 (1.103%) Remedy
16 3 (1.103%) Foundry
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