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 22 May 2012 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.

Linux
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank172018
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3Down-2
Matching permanent IT job ads12277113478434
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK10.18 %9.254 %8.834 %
As % of the Operating Systems category38.10 %37.17 %36.17 %
Number of salaries quoted1038495767122
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,500£36,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.94 %+2.85 %
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
322193052723318
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK26.72 %24.90 %24.42 %
Number of salaries quoted276442574319496
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 22 May 2012 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 22 May 2012. 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+411686£42,500-
LondonNo change05820£47,500-5.00 %
South EastUp+42518£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonUp+31243£50,000-13.04 %
East of EnglandDown-41117£40,000+6.66 %
BerkshireUp+6786£40,000+2.56 %
SurreyNo change0625£45,000+14.64 %
North WestUp+4609£35,000+6.06 %
South WestDown-2514£40,000+14.28 %
CambridgeshireDown-2494£40,000+6.66 %
YorkshireDown-3456£35,000+11.11 %
CambridgeDown-2425£42,500+13.33 %
HampshireUp+2417£40,000+6.66 %
ReadingUp+5338£40,000+11.11 %
HertfordshireUp+1329£40,750-4.11 %
West MidlandsDown-1328£33,000-9.58 %
ManchesterUp+7315£33,500+11.66 %
ScotlandDown-3303£35,000-
West YorkshireDown-7288£35,000+16.66 %
East MidlandsUp+4246£32,500-
East SussexUp+16221£37,500+31.57 %
BrightonUp+16210£37,500+31.57 %
BristolUp+3195£37,500-
SouthamptonUp+1173£39,000+20.00 %
CheshireUp+10172£37,500+8.69 %
LeedsDown-10170£35,000+16.66 %
EdinburghUp+6164£35,000-6.66 %
StainesUp+9162£45,000-
OxfordshireUp+3152£35,000-
BuckinghamshireDown-1145£35,000-12.50 %

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

19704 (39.84 %)UNIX
28998 (36.94 %)Windows
37135 (29.29 %)Java
46740 (27.67 %)SQL
56133 (25.18 %)MySQL
65396 (22.15 %)Apache
75037 (20.68 %)Oracle
84634 (19.03 %)PHP
94473 (18.36 %)Degree
104454 (18.29 %)JavaScript
114312 (17.70 %)Perl
124103 (16.85 %)Finance
134028 (16.54 %)C++
143649 (14.98 %)Red Hat
153605 (14.80 %)HTML
163312 (13.60 %)CSS
173187 (13.08 %)Python
183040 (12.48 %)XML
193023 (12.41 %)VMware
202827 (11.61 %)TCP/IP
212819 (11.57 %)Microsoft
222746 (11.27 %)C
232719 (11.16 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
242705 (11.11 %)SQL Server
252608 (10.71 %)OO
262468 (10.13 %)Cisco
272377 (9.759 %)Solaris
282289 (9.398 %)Computer Science
292283 (9.373 %)Agile Software Development
302274 (9.336 %)Shell Script

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
13605 (14.80 %)HTML
23312 (13.60 %)CSS
33040 (12.48 %)XML
41970 (8.088 %)Web Services
51827 (7.501 %)J2EE
61780 (7.308 %)LAMP
71617 (6.639 %).NET
81600 (6.569 %)jQuery
91591 (6.532 %)Spring
101455 (5.974 %)Ajax
111120 (4.598 %)Hibernate
12979 (4.019 %)WebSphere
13949 (3.896 %)Middleware
14911 (3.740 %)XHTML
15770 (3.161 %)JSP
16754 (3.096 %)SOAP
17611 (2.509 %)JDBC
18538 (2.209 %)HTML5
19524 (2.151 %)XSLT
20513 (2.106 %)Java EE
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15396 (22.15 %)Apache
22158 (8.860 %)Tomcat
31082 (4.442 %)IIS
4968 (3.974 %)WebLogic
5838 (3.440 %)MS Exchange
6505 (2.073 %)Drupal
7504 (2.069 %)CMS
8456 (1.872 %)SharePoint
9311 (1.277 %)Exchange Server 2010
10305 (1.252 %)nginx
11298 (1.223 %)Exchange Server 2007
12275 (1.129 %)WordPress
13246 (1.010 %)Amazon AWS
14243 (0.998 %)WebSphere Application Server
15231 (0.948 %)Magento
16225 (0.924 %)Exchange Server 2003
17221 (0.907 %)ESB
18217 (0.891 %)Amazon EC2
19213 (0.874 %)WebSphere MQ
20200 (0.821 %)ActiveMQ
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11266 (5.198 %)MS Excel
2550 (2.258 %)MS Office
3396 (1.626 %)MS Visio
4221 (0.907 %)Photoshop
5113 (0.464 %)Google Apps
6109 (0.448 %)MATLAB
770 (0.287 %)MS PowerPoint
842 (0.172 %)MS Project
936 (0.148 %)Fireworks
1029 (0.119 %)Adobe Illustrator
1118 (0.074 %)Spreadsheet
129 (0.037 %)InDesign
129 (0.037 %)Paint Shop Pro
129 (0.037 %)Maya
129 (0.037 %)3ds Max
138 (0.033 %)Adobe After Effects
138 (0.033 %)SketchUp
147 (0.029 %)Office 365
147 (0.029 %)Adobe Premiere
156 (0.025 %)Final Cut Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
196 (0.394 %)Oracle EBS
293 (0.382 %)RMDS
391 (0.374 %)Oracle Applications
462 (0.255 %)Oracle EBS R12
540 (0.164 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
633 (0.135 %)Oracle ERP
731 (0.127 %)Summit
731 (0.127 %)Oracle 11i
731 (0.127 %)Oracle BPM
823 (0.094 %)Google Analytics
915 (0.062 %)Dynamics CRM
1014 (0.057 %)BASE24
1113 (0.053 %)3000 Xtra
1212 (0.049 %)Hyperion Planning
1212 (0.049 %)HFM
1311 (0.045 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
1410 (0.041 %)SunGard AvantGard
1410 (0.041 %)Tridion
159 (0.037 %)Oracle Financials
159 (0.037 %)BusinessWorks
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12827 (11.61 %)TCP/IP
22161 (8.872 %)Firewall
32031 (8.338 %)Internet
41958 (8.039 %)SAN
51886 (7.743 %)DNS
61128 (4.631 %)HTTP
7882 (3.621 %)LAN
8855 (3.510 %)DHCP
9811 (3.330 %)WAN
10807 (3.313 %)VPN
11634 (2.603 %)LDAP
12617 (2.533 %)VoIP
13608 (2.496 %)NAS
14511 (2.098 %)SSL
15492 (2.020 %)SMTP
16392 (1.609 %)Network Security
17367 (1.507 %)FTP
18350 (1.437 %)Wireless
19323 (1.326 %)VLAN
20311 (1.277 %)Ethernet
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16133 (25.18 %)MySQL
22705 (11.11 %)SQL Server
3729 (2.993 %)RDBMS
4667 (2.738 %)PostgreSQL
5600 (2.463 %)Oracle 11g
6520 (2.135 %)DB2
7502 (2.061 %)Oracle 10g
8411 (1.687 %)NoSQL
9352 (1.445 %)SQL Server 2005
10349 (1.433 %)SQL Server 2008
11344 (1.412 %)Oracle 8/8i
12304 (1.248 %)Hadoop
13284 (1.166 %)Data Warehouse
14274 (1.125 %)MongoDB
15178 (0.731 %)ETL
16165 (0.677 %)Data Mining
17154 (0.632 %)Oracle Reports
18130 (0.534 %)Redis
19129 (0.530 %)Informix
20127 (0.521 %)OLTP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12106 (8.646 %)Subversion
21162 (4.771 %)Git (software)
3660 (2.710 %)Eclipse
4643 (2.640 %)Maven
5569 (2.336 %)JUnit
6549 (2.254 %)Ant
7546 (2.242 %)Selenium
8323 (1.326 %)JIRA
9315 (1.293 %)Hudson
10220 (0.903 %)Mercurial
11201 (0.825 %)Visual Studio
12190 (0.780 %)Bugzilla
13183 (0.751 %)ClearCase
14168 (0.690 %)Cucumber
15166 (0.682 %)LoadRunner
16152 (0.624 %)VSS/SourceSafe
17140 (0.575 %)PHPUnit
18139 (0.571 %)QuickTest Pro
19105 (0.431 %)RSpec
2094 (0.386 %)TeamCity
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14103 (16.85 %)Finance
21266 (5.198 %)Telecoms
31240 (5.091 %)Banking
4878 (3.605 %)Games
5843 (3.461 %)Retail
6660 (2.710 %)Marketing
7457 (1.876 %)Front Office
8407 (1.671 %)Investment Banking
9359 (1.474 %)Back Office
10316 (1.297 %)Advertising
11313 (1.285 %)Electronics
12285 (1.170 %)Publishing
13234 (0.961 %)Financial Institution
14180 (0.739 %)French Language
15177 (0.727 %)Manufacturing
16176 (0.723 %)German Language
17118 (0.484 %)Music
18110 (0.452 %)Legal
1996 (0.394 %)Law
2087 (0.357 %)Multimedia
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17960 (32.68 %)Developer
23313 (13.60 %)Administrator
32632 (10.81 %)Systems Administrator
42159 (8.864 %)Java Developer
52046 (8.400 %)Analyst
61835 (7.534 %)Software Engineer
71716 (7.045 %)PHP Developer
81573 (6.458 %)Linux Administrator
91381 (5.670 %)Senior Developer
101343 (5.514 %)Linux Systems Administrator
111144 (4.697 %)Support Engineer
121107 (4.545 %)C++ Developer
13994 (4.081 %)Web Developer
14964 (3.958 %)Architect
15830 (3.408 %)Software Developer
16816 (3.350 %)Linux Engineer
17768 (3.153 %)Support Analyst
18765 (3.141 %)Consultant
19736 (3.022 %)DBA
20725 (2.977 %)Systems Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12289 (9.398 %)Computer Science
21781 (7.312 %)Open Source
3837 (3.436 %)Clustering
4661 (2.714 %)Mathematics
5575 (2.361 %)Replication
6515 (2.114 %)SaaS
7455 (1.868 %)Management Information System
8421 (1.728 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
9418 (1.716 %)Hedge funds
10400 (1.642 %)Social Media
10400 (1.642 %)Digital Media
11398 (1.634 %)Cloud Computing
12378 (1.552 %)Embedded Systems
13377 (1.548 %)Derivative
14359 (1.474 %)Online Games
15297 (1.219 %)Device Driver
16287 (1.178 %)Client/Server
17282 (1.158 %)Physics
18240 (0.985 %)Blackberry
18240 (0.985 %)Equities
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19704 (39.84 %)UNIX
28998 (36.94 %)Windows
32719 (11.16 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
42377 (9.759 %)Solaris
51533 (6.294 %)Windows Server 2008
61500 (6.158 %)Windows Server 2003
71018 (4.179 %)CentOS
8794 (3.260 %)Debian
9741 (3.042 %)AIX
10717 (2.944 %)Ubuntu
11609 (2.500 %)Android
12565 (2.320 %)HPUX
13552 (2.266 %)Windows XP
14382 (1.568 %)Windows 7
15339 (1.392 %)Apple iOS
16330 (1.355 %)Mac OS X
17294 (1.207 %)Embedded Linux
18249 (1.022 %)SUSE
19178 (0.731 %)Windows Vista
20177 (0.727 %)Windows 2000
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12608 (10.71 %)OO
22283 (9.373 %)Agile Software Development
32160 (8.868 %)E-Commerce
41726 (7.086 %)ITIL
51198 (4.919 %)Scrum
61084 (4.450 %)MVC
71080 (4.434 %)Multithreading
81041 (4.274 %)TDD
91018 (4.179 %)Web Development
10968 (3.974 %)Project Management
11897 (3.683 %)OOP
12819 (3.362 %)UML
13804 (3.301 %)Software Engineering
14786 (3.227 %)Configuration Management
15737 (3.026 %)Continuous Integration
16666 (2.734 %)Load Balancing
17655 (2.689 %)Disaster Recovery
18577 (2.369 %)Service Delivery
19570 (2.340 %)Unit Testing
20539 (2.213 %)SOA
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
17135 (29.29 %)Java
26740 (27.67 %)SQL
34634 (19.03 %)PHP
44454 (18.29 %)JavaScript
54312 (17.70 %)Perl
64028 (16.54 %)C++
73187 (13.08 %)Python
82746 (11.27 %)C
92274 (9.336 %)Shell Script
101656 (6.799 %)Bash shell
111613 (6.622 %)C#
121296 (5.321 %)Ruby
131009 (4.143 %)PHP5
14763 (3.133 %)PL/SQL
15347 (1.425 %)PowerShell
16316 (1.297 %)Embedded C
17310 (1.273 %)VB
18268 (1.100 %)Korn
19262 (1.076 %)VBScript
20229 (0.940 %)XPath
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14473 (18.36 %)Degree
2992 (4.073 %)Security Cleared
3924 (3.794 %)Cisco Certification
4680 (2.792 %)CCNA
5659 (2.706 %)Microsoft Certification
6557 (2.287 %)SC Cleared
7472 (1.938 %)MCSE
8440 (1.806 %)RHCE
9357 (1.466 %)CCNP
10303 (1.244 %)DV Cleared
11286 (1.174 %)ISEB
12281 (1.154 %)CISSP
13229 (0.940 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14223 (0.916 %)MCITP
15207 (0.850 %)MCP
16143 (0.587 %)MCSA
17136 (0.558 %)PhD
18134 (0.550 %)ITIL Certification
19130 (0.534 %)ISTQB
20119 (0.489 %)HND
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11195 (4.906 %)QA
2496 (2.036 %)SLA
3240 (0.985 %)PCI DSS
4208 (0.854 %)ISO/IEC 27001
5126 (0.517 %)ISO 9001
669 (0.283 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
742 (0.172 %)DO-178B
837 (0.152 %)WAI
922 (0.090 %)COBIT
1018 (0.074 %)JTAG
1115 (0.062 %)ISO/IEC 17799
1210 (0.041 %)ISO 9000
1210 (0.041 %)ISO 14001
1210 (0.041 %)WCAG
137 (0.029 %)HMG Infosec
137 (0.029 %)Data Quality
146 (0.025 %)HIPAA
146 (0.025 %)TickIT
146 (0.025 %)BS7799
154 (0.016 %)ISO 8583
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11782 (7.316 %)Active Directory
21686 (6.922 %)VMware Infrastructure
3629 (2.582 %)vSphere
4567 (2.328 %)VMware ESX
5412 (1.692 %)NFS
6310 (1.273 %)Xen
7277 (1.137 %)VMware ESXi
8273 (1.121 %)Oracle RAC
9242 (0.994 %)Hyper-V
10241 (0.989 %)Oracle RMAN
11236 (0.969 %)Samba
12160 (0.657 %)Varnish
13158 (0.649 %)Veritas Cluster Server
14150 (0.616 %)Postfix
15140 (0.575 %)XenServer
16129 (0.530 %)Squid
17127 (0.521 %)XenApp
18115 (0.472 %)Sendmail
1959 (0.242 %)Terminal Services
2047 (0.193 %)Nmap
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1766 (3.145 %)Puppet
2690 (2.833 %)Nagios
3393 (1.613 %)NetBackup
4193 (0.792 %)Tivoli
5191 (0.784 %)Data Guard
6186 (0.764 %)HP Quality Center
7184 (0.755 %)Backup Exec
8175 (0.718 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
9162 (0.665 %)Cacti
10137 (0.562 %)vCenter
11136 (0.558 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
12123 (0.505 %)ZABBIX
13118 (0.484 %)Nessus
1496 (0.394 %)Ganglia
1589 (0.365 %)SCCM
1684 (0.345 %)WSUS
1773 (0.300 %)Munin
1862 (0.255 %)HP SIM
1960 (0.246 %)OpenView
2057 (0.234 %)Splunk
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15037 (20.68 %)Oracle
23649 (14.98 %)Red Hat
33023 (12.41 %)VMware
42819 (11.57 %)Microsoft
52468 (10.13 %)Cisco
61400 (5.748 %)JBoss
71255 (5.153 %)HP
8923 (3.789 %)IBM
9852 (3.498 %)Citrix
10810 (3.326 %)Zend
11714 (2.931 %)Sun
12597 (2.451 %)EMC
13552 (2.266 %)NetApp
14472 (1.938 %)Juniper
15439 (1.802 %)Veritas
16410 (1.683 %)Sybase
17365 (1.499 %)Google
18337 (1.384 %)CheckPoint
19278 (1.141 %)Symantec
20275 (1.129 %)F5