The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Uxbridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited CentOS over the 3 months to 17 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 for the Uxbridge region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 34 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs citing CentOS 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Uxbridge 1.010% 0.439% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.985% 1.613% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +11.11%
All Operating Systems
Uxbridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
67 62 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Uxbridge 33.84% 27.19% 11.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59 61 21
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £80,000 £52,200
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
CentOS
London

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing CentOS across the Uxbridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Uxbridge CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing CentOS across the Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge CentOS Salary Trend

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Uxbridge region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 4 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Fedora
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Cacti
2 3 (75.00%) OpenVPN
2 3 (75.00%) MRTG
2 3 (75.00%) Xen
2 3 (75.00%) IMAP
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Nagios
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) FreeBSD
2 3 (75.00%) SMS
2 3 (75.00%) SMTP
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) RHCE
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Uxbridge region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) IMAP
2 3 (75.00%) OpenVPN
2 3 (75.00%) MRTG
2 3 (75.00%) SMS
2 3 (75.00%) SMTP
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 4 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (100.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Fedora
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) FreeBSD
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Xen
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Nagios
1 3 (75.00%) Cacti
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp