Wales Linux Support Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support role in IT jobs within the Wales region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Support in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Linux Support
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Farnham Gourock Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire Inverclyde Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Reigate Rugby Scotland South East South Wales South Yorkshire St Albans Surrey UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.612 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	26	0
Average minimum salary	£35,154	-
Average salary	£37,231	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£39,308	-
UK excluding London average salary	£33,403	£30,069
% change on same period last year	+11.08 %
Job Titles Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	1613	2048
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.893 %	0.859 %
Salaries quoted	1457	1833
Average minimum salary	£31,175	£30,202
Average salary	£34,932	£33,757
% change on same period last year	+3.47 %
Average maximum salary	£38,688	£37,313
UK excluding London average salary	£38,058	£39,448
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
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Linux Support
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Linux Support across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Linux Support
Salary Trend

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

Linux Support
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux Support across the Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Linux Support
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Support within the Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	-	26	£37,231	-

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Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region that cited Linux Support in their job title 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 with Linux Support in their job title.

1 42 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 42 (100.00 %) Linux 2 38 (90.48 %) Apache 2 38 (90.48 %) Red Hat 2 38 (90.48 %) Red Hat Linux 3 35 (83.33 %) SUSE 3 35 (83.33 %) Samba 3 35 (83.33 %) Shell Script 3 35 (83.33 %) Solaris 4 33 (78.57 %) Oracle 5 4 (9.524 %) Streaming Video 5 4 (9.524 %) Perl 5 4 (9.524 %) LAN 5 4 (9.524 %) WAN 6 3 (7.143 %) SQL

6 3 (7.143 %) XML 6 3 (7.143 %) Windows 6 3 (7.143 %) Fedora 6 3 (7.143 %) Internet 6 3 (7.143 %) Retail 6 3 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (4.762 %) Migration 7 2 (4.762 %) Data Migration 7 2 (4.762 %) JavaScript 8 1 (2.381 %) SLA 8 1 (2.381 %) Cisco 8 1 (2.381 %) Government 8 1 (2.381 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (2.381 %) Oracle Application Server

Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region that cited Linux Support in their job title 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 with Linux Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (7.143 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 38 (90.48 %) Apache 2 1 (2.381 %) Oracle Application Server
Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.524 %) LAN 1 4 (9.524 %) WAN 2 3 (7.143 %) Internet	General 1 3 (7.143 %) Retail 2 1 (2.381 %) Government 2 1 (2.381 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.524 %) Streaming Video 2 1 (2.381 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 42 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 42 (100.00 %) Linux 2 38 (90.48 %) Red Hat Linux 3 35 (83.33 %) Solaris 3 35 (83.33 %) SUSE 4 3 (7.143 %) Fedora 4 3 (7.143 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 1 3 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (4.762 %) Migration 2 2 (4.762 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 35 (83.33 %) Shell Script 2 4 (9.524 %) Perl 3 3 (7.143 %) SQL 4 2 (4.762 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 1 (2.381 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.381 %) SLA
System Software 1 35 (83.33 %) Samba	Vendors 1 38 (90.48 %) Red Hat 2 33 (78.57 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.381 %) Cisco