The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Uxbridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux 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
Linux
Rank 15 21 31
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Linux 21 15 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Uxbridge 10.61% 6.579% 2.105%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.34% 24.19% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 20 15 3
Average salary £46,250 £40,000 £72,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.62% -44.82%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +8.33%
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%
Linux
London

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Salary Trend

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

Uxbridge Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Uxbridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Uxbridge Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 21 (53.85%) Red Hat
2 20 (51.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 19 (48.72%) UNIX
4 18 (46.15%) VMware
5 17 (43.59%) Windows
6 14 (35.90%) Apache
6 14 (35.90%) SQL
6 14 (35.90%) VMware Infrastructure
7 13 (33.33%) DNS
8 12 (30.77%) SAN
8 12 (30.77%) MySQL
9 10 (25.64%) Firewall
9 10 (25.64%) PHP
9 10 (25.64%) ITIL
10 9 (23.08%) Oracle
10 9 (23.08%) Python
10 9 (23.08%) SMTP
11 8 (20.51%) Puppet
11 8 (20.51%) TCP/IP
12 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
12 7 (17.95%) EMC
12 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
12 7 (17.95%) Red Hat Satellite
13 6 (15.38%) Xen
13 6 (15.38%) IMAP
13 6 (15.38%) RHCE
13 6 (15.38%) IBM
13 6 (15.38%) VPN
13 6 (15.38%) NFS
13 6 (15.38%) FTP

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (12.82%) XML
2 4 (10.26%) Middleware
2 4 (10.26%) LAMP
2 4 (10.26%) jBPM
2 4 (10.26%) WebSphere
2 4 (10.26%) SOAP
3 2 (5.128%) HTML5
3 2 (5.128%) Memcached
3 2 (5.128%) CSS3
3 2 (5.128%) Zend Framework
3 2 (5.128%) HTML
3 2 (5.128%) CSS
4 1 (2.564%) XSL
4 1 (2.564%) XSLT
4 1 (2.564%) SAP Basis
4 1 (2.564%) Ajax
4 1 (2.564%) Django
4 1 (2.564%) jQuery
4 1 (2.564%) MooTools
4 1 (2.564%) Smarty
Application Platforms
1 14 (35.90%) Apache
2 5 (12.82%) Confluence
3 4 (10.26%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (10.26%) Tomcat
3 4 (10.26%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (10.26%) IIS
4 3 (7.692%) MS Exchange
5 2 (5.128%) SharePoint
5 2 (5.128%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (5.128%) Joomla!
5 2 (5.128%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (2.564%) Escenic
6 1 (2.564%) Drupal
6 1 (2.564%) WordPress
6 1 (2.564%) NetWeaver
6 1 (2.564%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.564%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) MS Excel
1 4 (10.26%) MS Visio
1 4 (10.26%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.564%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 13 (33.33%) DNS
2 12 (30.77%) SAN
3 10 (25.64%) Firewall
4 9 (23.08%) SMTP
5 8 (20.51%) TCP/IP
6 6 (15.38%) VPN
6 6 (15.38%) FTP
6 6 (15.38%) IMAP
7 4 (10.26%) DHCP
7 4 (10.26%) LDAP
8 3 (7.692%) SMS
8 3 (7.692%) HTTP
8 3 (7.692%) SNMP
8 3 (7.692%) SSL
8 3 (7.692%) SSH
8 3 (7.692%) OpenVPN
8 3 (7.692%) MRTG
9 2 (5.128%) IPsec
10 1 (2.564%) IP Telephony
10 1 (2.564%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) MySQL
2 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (10.26%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (2.564%) SAP BW
4 1 (2.564%) Essbase
4 1 (2.564%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) JIRA
2 4 (10.26%) Git (software)
3 3 (7.692%) Subversion
4 1 (2.564%) GitHub
General
1 5 (12.82%) Retail
2 2 (5.128%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.564%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.564%) Finance
3 1 (2.564%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Administrator
1 11 (28.21%) Linux Administrator
2 9 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 8 (20.51%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (15.38%) Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Designer
6 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Designer
6 4 (10.26%) Java Developer
7 3 (7.692%) Team Leader
7 3 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (5.128%) Network Manager
8 2 (5.128%) Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (5.128%) Network Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (5.128%) Data Centre Engineer
9 1 (2.564%) Storage Systems Administrator
9 1 (2.564%) PHP Developer
9 1 (2.564%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 1 (2.564%) Financial Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.692%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.128%) Computer Science
2 2 (5.128%) SaaS
3 1 (2.564%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.564%) Open Source
3 1 (2.564%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.564%) Device Driver
3 1 (2.564%) Clustering
3 1 (2.564%) PDA
3 1 (2.564%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.564%) Physics
3 1 (2.564%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 19 (48.72%) UNIX
3 17 (43.59%) Windows
4 4 (10.26%) Fedora
4 4 (10.26%) CentOS
5 3 (7.692%) FreeBSD
6 2 (5.128%) Solaris
6 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.564%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.564%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) ITIL
2 6 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (15.38%) Scrum
2 6 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (12.82%) TDD
3 5 (12.82%) TOGAF
3 5 (12.82%) Project Management
3 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (10.26%) Risk Analysis
4 4 (10.26%) Integration Testing
4 4 (10.26%) ITIL V3
4 4 (10.26%) Configuration Management
5 3 (7.692%) Migration
6 2 (5.128%) BCP
6 2 (5.128%) SEO
6 2 (5.128%) Web Development
6 2 (5.128%) Business Continuity
7 1 (2.564%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.564%) Problem Management
7 1 (2.564%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) SQL
2 10 (25.64%) PHP
3 9 (23.08%) Python
4 5 (12.82%) Java
4 5 (12.82%) Perl
4 5 (12.82%) Bash shell
5 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.128%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.564%) C#
7 1 (2.564%) C++
7 1 (2.564%) Ruby
7 1 (2.564%) PHP5
7 1 (2.564%) PHP4
7 1 (2.564%) tcsh
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) RHCE
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (10.26%) VCDX
3 4 (10.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (10.26%) MCSE
4 3 (7.692%) Degree
5 1 (2.564%) HP AIS
5 1 (2.564%) MCDST
5 1 (2.564%) MCSA
5 1 (2.564%) CCNA
5 1 (2.564%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.564%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.564%) IBM Certification
5 1 (2.564%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.692%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.564%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (35.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
3 6 (15.38%) NFS
3 6 (15.38%) Xen
4 3 (7.692%) Samba
5 2 (5.128%) VMware ESX
5 2 (5.128%) vSphere
5 2 (5.128%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.564%) Varnish
6 1 (2.564%) XenApp
6 1 (2.564%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Puppet
2 7 (17.95%) Red Hat Satellite
3 6 (15.38%) Nagios
4 4 (10.26%) Tivoli
4 4 (10.26%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 4 (10.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (10.26%) SCOM
5 3 (7.692%) Cacti
6 2 (5.128%) Backup Exec
7 1 (2.564%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 21 (53.85%) Red Hat
2 18 (46.15%) VMware
3 9 (23.08%) Oracle
4 7 (17.95%) EMC
5 6 (15.38%) IBM
6 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
6 5 (12.82%) Citrix
6 5 (12.82%) Cisco
7 4 (10.26%) HP
7 4 (10.26%) Hitachi
8 3 (7.692%) Dell
9 2 (5.128%) Zend
9 2 (5.128%) WatchGuard
10 1 (2.564%) DataCore
10 1 (2.564%) Hyperion
10 1 (2.564%) NetApp
10 1 (2.564%) Veritas
10 1 (2.564%) Sun
10 1 (2.564%) SAP
10 1 (2.564%) JBoss
Uxbridge, Middlesex
Linux Systems Engineer... Key Skills; Linux Redhat. VMware. Nice to Have; SAN - EMC... Linux Systems Engineer Linux Redhat, VMWare, SAN, Networking Uxbridge, Middlesex, South East, UK £40,000 - £...
Sanderson
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013