Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 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.

LinkLinux
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank151923
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Up+4
Matching permanent IT job ads10749575011455
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK9.928 %8.456 %6.444 %
As % of the Operating Systems category38.34 %33.38 %26.37 %
Salaries quoted905847809737
Average salary£44,000£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£65,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+5.710 %-
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
280371722843443
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK25.90 %25.33 %24.44 %
Salaries quoted234701436736464
Average salary£40,000£36,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.580 %+4.280 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£22,500£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.690 %-

Linux
Demand Trend

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

Linux Demand Trend

Linux
Salary Trend

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

Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 within the UK.

Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010. 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+410372£45,000+12.50 %
LondonUp+25762£55,000+14.58 %
South EastUp+51891£37,500-
City of LondonUp+31700£60,000+20.00 %
East of EnglandUp+2905£40,000+8.84 %
CambridgeshireUp+4547£40,000+14.28 %
BerkshireDown-1507£40,000-
CambridgeNo change0502£40,000+14.28 %
SurreyUp+8456£38,500-3.75 %
YorkshireDown-3448£32,500+1.56 %
South WestDown-1427£33,000-5.71 %
HampshireUp+7390£37,500+7.14 %
North WestUp+9363£33,000+10.00 %
West MidlandsUp+3326£35,500+18.33 %
West YorkshireUp+10301£32,500+1.56 %
HertfordshireDown-6248£45,000+12.50 %
ReadingUp+6190£36,000-20.00 %
LeedsUp+18174£32,500-1.51 %
East MidlandsUp+8168£30,000-9.09 %
ScotlandDown-8159£35,000+18.64 %
ManchesterUp+17154£31,500+12.50 %
CheshireUp+3139£36,000+24.13 %
MiddlesexUp+17135£45,000-
OxfordshireDown-3119£40,000+14.28 %
GloucestershireUp+599£35,500-4.05 %
BirminghamNo change097£40,000-
BristolDown-297£35,000+7.69 %
EdinburghDown-194£34,000+19.29 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1992£35,000+6.06 %
WalesUp+1092£32,000+1.23 %

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Linux 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 Linux.

19188 (46.76 %)UNIX
26849 (34.86 %)Windows
36219 (31.65 %)Java
45735 (29.19 %)SQL
54387 (22.33 %)C++
63891 (19.80 %)MySQL
73873 (19.71 %)Oracle
83835 (19.52 %)Finance
93734 (19.00 %)Perl
103427 (17.44 %)Degree
113417 (17.39 %)Apache
123064 (15.59 %)PHP
132857 (14.54 %)C
142631 (13.39 %)Red Hat Linux
152584 (13.15 %)Solaris
162582 (13.14 %)XML
172493 (12.69 %)Red Hat
182467 (12.56 %)Banking
192414 (12.29 %)JavaScript
202317 (11.79 %)HTML
212305 (11.73 %)SQL Server
222198 (11.19 %)OO
232106 (10.72 %)CSS
241947 (9.909 %)TCP/IP
251925 (9.797 %)Python
261835 (9.339 %)Shell Script
271816 (9.242 %)Microsoft
281731 (8.810 %)Computer Science
291585 (8.067 %)C#
301539 (7.832 %)VMware

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs within the UK citing Linux 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 Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12582 (13.14 %)XML
22317 (11.79 %)HTML
32106 (10.72 %)CSS
41370 (6.972 %).NET
51337 (6.804 %)J2EE
61294 (6.586 %)LAMP
71227 (6.245 %)Web Services
81211 (6.163 %)Spring
91099 (5.593 %)AJAX
10819 (4.168 %)jQuery
11775 (3.944 %)XHTML
12717 (3.649 %)Middleware
13685 (3.486 %)Hibernate
14610 (3.104 %)JSP
15570 (2.901 %)STL
16543 (2.763 %)WebSphere
17475 (2.417 %)SOAP
18460 (2.341 %)JMS
19409 (2.082 %)ASP.NET
20393 (2.000 %)J2SE
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13417 (17.39 %)Apache
21199 (6.102 %)Tomcat
3880 (4.479 %)IIS
4567 (2.886 %)WebLogic
5534 (2.718 %)MS Exchange
6348 (1.771 %)CMS
7237 (1.206 %)Exchange Server 2003
8233 (1.186 %)SharePoint
9230 (1.171 %)Drupal
10206 (1.048 %)Exchange Server 2007
11196 (0.998 %)WebSphere Application Server
12131 (0.667 %)MQSeries
1397 (0.494 %)TIBCO EMS
1495 (0.483 %)Rendezvous
1587 (0.443 %)WordPress
1587 (0.443 %)GlassFish
1685 (0.433 %)ESB
1783 (0.422 %)Joomla!
1881 (0.412 %)SAS
1974 (0.377 %)Magento
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11003 (5.105 %)MS Excel
2293 (1.491 %)MS Visio
3283 (1.440 %)MS Office
4148 (0.753 %)Photoshop
543 (0.219 %)Adobe Illustrator
637 (0.188 %)Spreadsheet
736 (0.183 %)MS PowerPoint
828 (0.143 %)MATLAB
925 (0.127 %)Fireworks
1021 (0.107 %)MS Project
1110 (0.051 %)FastStats
129 (0.046 %)PrintSoft PReS
137 (0.036 %)ImageReady
146 (0.031 %)SPSS
155 (0.025 %)S-PLUS
164 (0.020 %)Maya
164 (0.020 %)3ds Max
164 (0.020 %)InfoPath
173 (0.015 %)Houdini
173 (0.015 %)Simulink
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1171 (0.870 %)RMDS
298 (0.499 %)Oracle EBS
379 (0.402 %)Oracle Applications
457 (0.290 %)ION MarketView
536 (0.183 %)Oracle 11i
634 (0.173 %)Oracle EBS R12
730 (0.153 %)Google Analytics
829 (0.148 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
922 (0.112 %)Great Plains
1019 (0.097 %)SoftGrid
1111 (0.056 %)Oracle BPM
1111 (0.056 %)Dynamics CRM
1111 (0.056 %)SAP CRM
1210 (0.051 %)Microsoft CRM
1210 (0.051 %)Dynamics AX
1210 (0.051 %)Kondor+
1210 (0.051 %)Beauchamp
1210 (0.051 %)Line 50
1210 (0.051 %)Loan IQ
139 (0.046 %)BusinessWorks
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11947 (9.909 %)TCP/IP
21458 (7.420 %)Internet
31381 (7.028 %)Firewall
41369 (6.967 %)SAN
51048 (5.334 %)DNS
6711 (3.619 %)LAN
7702 (3.573 %)WAN
8569 (2.896 %)HTTP
9564 (2.870 %)VPN
10429 (2.183 %)NAS
11409 (2.082 %)LDAP
12387 (1.970 %)VoIP
13336 (1.710 %)Wireless
14314 (1.598 %)SMTP
15313 (1.593 %)Network Security
16292 (1.486 %)DHCP
17238 (1.211 %)FTP
18231 (1.176 %)SSL
19210 (1.069 %)SNMP
20201 (1.023 %)BGP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13891 (19.80 %)MySQL
22305 (11.73 %)SQL Server
3960 (4.886 %)RDBMS
4464 (2.361 %)Oracle 10g
5392 (1.995 %)PostgreSQL
6387 (1.970 %)DB2
7310 (1.578 %)Oracle 11g
8308 (1.568 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
9289 (1.471 %)SQL Server 2005
10259 (1.318 %)Oracle 8/8i
11195 (0.992 %)Oracle 9i
12184 (0.936 %)ETL
13172 (0.875 %)SQL Server 2008
14168 (0.855 %)Informix
15137 (0.697 %)Oracle Reports
16132 (0.672 %)SQL Server 2000
17100 (0.509 %)BusinessObjects
1881 (0.412 %)Reference Data
1975 (0.382 %)Sybase ASE
2072 (0.366 %)KDB
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11147 (5.837 %)Subversion
2509 (2.590 %)Ant
3495 (2.519 %)Maven
4444 (2.260 %)Eclipse
5319 (1.623 %)JUnit
6316 (1.608 %)Git (software)
7227 (1.155 %)Selenium
8174 (0.886 %)ClearCase
9150 (0.763 %)QuickTest Pro
10138 (0.702 %)JIRA
11113 (0.575 %)Oracle Forms
1289 (0.453 %)Visual Studio
1362 (0.316 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1461 (0.310 %)NUnit
1554 (0.275 %)PHPUnit
1554 (0.275 %)RSpec
1653 (0.270 %)ProC
1750 (0.254 %)Cucumber
1844 (0.224 %)WinRunner
1941 (0.209 %)TestDirector
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13835 (19.52 %)Finance
22467 (12.56 %)Banking
31282 (6.525 %)Pensions
41190 (6.056 %)Front Office
51010 (5.140 %)Investment Banking
6903 (4.596 %)Telecoms
7827 (4.209 %)Health
8814 (4.143 %)Education
9660 (3.359 %)Insurance
10596 (3.033 %)Games
11472 (2.402 %)Marketing
12335 (1.705 %)Retail
13273 (1.389 %)Advertising
13273 (1.389 %)Electronics
14271 (1.379 %)Government
15263 (1.338 %)Back Office
16250 (1.272 %)Financial Institution
17181 (0.921 %)Manufacturing
18162 (0.824 %)Online Games
19140 (0.713 %)Publishing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16892 (35.08 %)Developer
21966 (10.01 %)Java Developer
31829 (9.308 %)Analyst
41767 (8.993 %)Administrator
51384 (7.044 %)Software Engineer
61252 (6.372 %)Systems Administrator
71227 (6.245 %)C++ Developer
81220 (6.209 %)PHP Developer
91187 (6.041 %)Senior Developer
10909 (4.626 %)Support Engineer
11877 (4.463 %)Support Analyst
12818 (4.163 %)Linux Administrator
13783 (3.985 %)Applications Support
14782 (3.980 %)Web Developer
15731 (3.720 %)Architect
16688 (3.501 %)DBA
17679 (3.456 %)Consultant
18638 (3.247 %)Linux Systems Administrator
19535 (2.723 %)Graduate
20507 (2.580 %)Team Leader
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11731 (8.810 %)Computer Science
21211 (6.163 %)Open Source
3962 (4.896 %)Derivative
4833 (4.239 %)Multithreading
5774 (3.939 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
6769 (3.914 %)Fixed Income
7768 (3.909 %)Client/Server
8741 (3.771 %)Equities
9644 (3.278 %)Clustering
10629 (3.201 %)Mathematics
11351 (1.786 %)Replication
12334 (1.700 %)Equity Derivative
13331 (1.685 %)Hedge funds
14263 (1.338 %)Device Driver
15239 (1.216 %)SaaS
16210 (1.069 %)Management Information System
17205 (1.043 %)Blackberry
18193 (0.982 %)German Language
19188 (0.957 %)iPhone
20172 (0.875 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19188 (46.76 %)UNIX
26849 (34.86 %)Windows
32631 (13.39 %)Red Hat Linux
42584 (13.15 %)Solaris
51220 (6.209 %)Windows Server 2003
6931 (4.738 %)AIX
7628 (3.196 %)Windows Server 2008
8623 (3.171 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9578 (2.942 %)HPUX
10507 (2.580 %)Windows XP
11402 (2.046 %)CentOS
12358 (1.822 %)Debian
13315 (1.603 %)Windows 2000
14299 (1.522 %)Embedded Linux
15290 (1.476 %)Android
16270 (1.374 %)SUSE
17252 (1.283 %)Ubuntu
18231 (1.176 %)Windows 2000 Server
19219 (1.115 %)Windows Vista
20155 (0.789 %)Windows Mobile
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12198 (11.19 %)OO
21397 (7.110 %)Agile Software Development
31225 (6.234 %)E-Commerce
41039 (5.288 %)ITIL
5914 (4.652 %)Project Management
6727 (3.700 %)Web Development
7651 (3.313 %)MVC
8630 (3.206 %)Scrum
9622 (3.166 %)Software Engineering
10559 (2.845 %)UML
11533 (2.713 %)OOD
12531 (2.702 %)OOP
13509 (2.590 %)Electronic Trading
14507 (2.580 %)TDD
15460 (2.341 %)Continuous Integration
16447 (2.275 %)Unit Testing
17446 (2.270 %)Algorithmic Trading
18434 (2.209 %)Risk Management
19401 (2.041 %)Automated Testing
20380 (1.934 %)Load Balancing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16219 (31.65 %)Java
25735 (29.19 %)SQL
34387 (22.33 %)C++
43734 (19.00 %)Perl
53064 (15.59 %)PHP
62857 (14.54 %)C
72414 (12.29 %)JavaScript
81925 (9.797 %)Python
91835 (9.339 %)Shell Script
101585 (8.067 %)C#
11927 (4.718 %)Bash shell
12831 (4.229 %)PL/SQL
13720 (3.664 %)PHP5
14665 (3.384 %)Ruby
15343 (1.746 %)VB
16341 (1.735 %)Korn
17226 (1.150 %)T-SQL
18202 (1.028 %)VBScript
19189 (0.962 %)Assembly Language
20177 (0.901 %)VC++
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13427 (17.44 %)Degree
2657 (3.344 %)Cisco Certification
3592 (3.013 %)Microsoft Certification
4494 (2.514 %)CCNA
5456 (2.321 %)MCSE
6364 (1.853 %)Security Cleared
7252 (1.283 %)ISEB
8246 (1.252 %)CCNP
9233 (1.186 %)RHCE
10185 (0.942 %)SC Cleared
11183 (0.931 %)MCP
12182 (0.926 %)PhD
13163 (0.830 %)CISSP
14113 (0.575 %)RHCT
15104 (0.529 %)MCITP
16101 (0.514 %)Oracle Certification
17100 (0.509 %)CCIE
1884 (0.428 %)ITIL Certification
1983 (0.422 %)MCSA
2082 (0.417 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1819 (4.168 %)QA
2407 (2.071 %)SLA
371 (0.361 %)ISO/IEC 27001
457 (0.290 %)PCI DSS
539 (0.198 %)ISO 9001
636 (0.183 %)WCAG
735 (0.178 %)JTAG
827 (0.137 %)WAI
925 (0.127 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
1011 (0.056 %)COBIT
118 (0.041 %)ISO 9000
124 (0.020 %)BS7799
124 (0.020 %)MiFID
133 (0.015 %)HMG Infosec
142 (0.010 %)TickIT
151 (0.005 %)HL7
151 (0.005 %)JSP 440
151 (0.005 %)BS15000
151 (0.005 %)Basel II
151 (0.005 %)ISO/IEC 17799
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11154 (5.873 %)Active Directory
2812 (4.133 %)VMware Infrastructure
3349 (1.776 %)Oracle RAC
4346 (1.761 %)VMware ESX
5333 (1.695 %)NFS
6230 (1.171 %)Xen
7142 (0.723 %)Veritas Volume Manager
8140 (0.713 %)Samba
9117 (0.595 %)Oracle RMAN
10112 (0.570 %)vSphere
1197 (0.494 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1286 (0.438 %)Postfix
1380 (0.407 %)Hyper-V
1472 (0.366 %)Sendmail
1472 (0.366 %)XenApp
1571 (0.361 %)Terminal Services
1666 (0.336 %)Veritas File System
1761 (0.310 %)ISA Server
1856 (0.285 %)XenServer
1948 (0.244 %)Squid
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1358 (1.822 %)Nagios
2213 (1.084 %)NetBackup
3140 (0.713 %)Data Guard
4139 (0.707 %)Tivoli
5134 (0.682 %)Backup Exec
6129 (0.657 %)AutoSys
7103 (0.524 %)Cacti
896 (0.489 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
988 (0.448 %)OpenView
1083 (0.422 %)SCCM
1180 (0.407 %)Puppet
1268 (0.346 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1367 (0.341 %)HP Quality Center
1461 (0.310 %)Legato
1549 (0.249 %)BladeLogic
1645 (0.229 %)Netcool
1743 (0.219 %)MOM
1842 (0.214 %)Control-M
1939 (0.198 %)Nessus
1939 (0.198 %)SCOM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13873 (19.71 %)Oracle
22493 (12.69 %)Red Hat
31816 (9.242 %)Microsoft
41539 (7.832 %)VMware
51410 (7.176 %)Cisco
61343 (6.835 %)Sybase
7824 (4.194 %)HP
8811 (4.127 %)Sun
9810 (4.122 %)IBM
10723 (3.680 %)JBoss
11553 (2.814 %)Citrix
12512 (2.606 %)Zend
13467 (2.377 %)NetApp
14464 (2.361 %)EMC
15378 (1.924 %)Veritas
16370 (1.883 %)TIBCO
17334 (1.700 %)Juniper
18261 (1.328 %)Google
19232 (1.181 %)Reuters
20228 (1.160 %)Perforce