The first table below looks at the demand for SpamAssassin skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SpamAssassin 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 System Software category.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache SpamAssassin
Rank 858 896 873
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -23
Permanent jobs citing SpamAssassin 4 3 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.002% 0.006%
As % of the System Software category 0.039% 0.028% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 8
Average salary £48,750 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+39.28% -22.22%
UK excluding London average salary - £33,500 -
All System Software
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
10354 10549 9467
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 9.580% 8.741% 7.609%
Number of salaries quoted 8721 9090 7789
Average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%

SpamAssassin
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SpamAssassin within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

SpamAssassin Jobs Demand Trend

SpamAssassin
Salary Trend

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

SpamAssassin Salary Trend

SpamAssassin
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SpamAssassin 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 +26 4 £48,750 +39.28%
London +52 2 £48,750 +39.28%
North West +4 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Salford - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 - -
Harrow - 1 £47,500 -

SpamAssassin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (86.67%) Linux
1 13 (86.67%) DNS
2 12 (80.00%) Cisco
2 12 (80.00%) MySQL
3 11 (73.33%) Subversion
4 9 (60.00%) Perl
5 8 (53.33%) PHP
6 7 (46.67%) C
6 7 (46.67%) C++
6 7 (46.67%) NFS
6 7 (46.67%) HP
6 7 (46.67%) Nagios
6 7 (46.67%) Sendmail
6 7 (46.67%) Cacti
7 6 (40.00%) SolarWinds
7 6 (40.00%) SolarWinds Orion
7 6 (40.00%) MRTG
7 6 (40.00%) FreeRADIUS
7 6 (40.00%) SSH
7 6 (40.00%) assyst
7 6 (40.00%) Time Management
7 6 (40.00%) Firewall
7 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (40.00%) TACACS
7 6 (40.00%) Project Management
7 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (40.00%) Billing
7 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
7 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (40.00%) Active Directory

SpamAssassin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) Regular Expression
2 1 (6.667%) HTML
2 1 (6.667%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) IIS
1 6 (40.00%) Apache
1 6 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.667%) lighttpd
2 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.667%) MS Office
1 1 (6.667%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (40.00%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) DNS
2 6 (40.00%) MRTG
2 6 (40.00%) SSH
2 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 6 (40.00%) TACACS
2 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (40.00%) SSL
2 6 (40.00%) VoIP
3 5 (33.33%) VPN
4 4 (26.67%) IPsec
5 2 (13.33%) POP3
5 2 (13.33%) SMTP
5 2 (13.33%) IMAP
6 1 (6.667%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (6.667%) DHCP
6 1 (6.667%) FTP
6 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) MySQL
2 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Subversion
2 1 (6.667%) SVK
2 1 (6.667%) Trac
2 1 (6.667%) Bazaar
2 1 (6.667%) Dreamweaver
General
1 6 (40.00%) Billing
1 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (20.00%) Games
3 1 (6.667%) Marketing
3 1 (6.667%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Security Manager
3 2 (13.33%) IT Security Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Marketing Assistant
4 1 (6.667%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) IT Operations Manager
4 1 (6.667%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) IT Security Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.667%) Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Operations Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (20.00%) Online Games
3 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (40.00%) UNIX
2 6 (40.00%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Time Management
1 6 (40.00%) Project Management
2 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
2 4 (26.67%) QMS
2 4 (26.67%) Data Protection
2 4 (26.67%) Security Architecture
3 1 (6.667%) Email Marketing
3 1 (6.667%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Perl
2 8 (53.33%) PHP
3 7 (46.67%) C
3 7 (46.67%) C++
4 6 (40.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Java
6 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) BS7799
1 4 (26.67%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) NFS
1 7 (46.67%) Sendmail
2 6 (40.00%) FreeRADIUS
2 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.667%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Nagios
1 7 (46.67%) Cacti
2 6 (40.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 6 (40.00%) OpenView
3 2 (13.33%) MIMEsweeper
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Cisco
2 7 (46.67%) HP
3 6 (40.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (13.33%) Websense
4 2 (13.33%) Clearswift
4 2 (13.33%) Webroot
4 2 (13.33%) Postini
5 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.667%) Adobe
5 1 (6.667%) Juniper