The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 Warrington region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 21 23 25
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Linux 27 52 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 7.521% 10.12% 5.654%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.73% 30.77% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 26 51 13
Average salary £43,000 £40,000 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.50% -13.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £35,000 £29,600
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
101 169 102
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 28.13% 32.88% 36.04%
Number of salaries quoted 82 157 94
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £21,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Cheshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Warrington region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Warrington Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 30 (42.86%) Windows
2 23 (32.86%) Java
3 18 (25.71%) UNIX
3 18 (25.71%) iSeries
4 16 (22.86%) Oracle
5 15 (21.43%) C
6 14 (20.00%) XML
7 13 (18.57%) ITIL
7 13 (18.57%) JavaScript
7 13 (18.57%) TCP/IP
7 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
7 13 (18.57%) VMware
7 13 (18.57%) Red Hat
8 12 (17.14%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (17.14%) PHP
9 11 (15.71%) C++
9 11 (15.71%) Active Directory
9 11 (15.71%) JNI
9 11 (15.71%) Image Processing
9 11 (15.71%) Windows Server 2008
9 11 (15.71%) Wireshark
10 10 (14.29%) Hibernate
10 10 (14.29%) Tomcat
10 10 (14.29%) JDBC
10 10 (14.29%) JSP
10 10 (14.29%) MySQL
10 10 (14.29%) Struts
10 10 (14.29%) Web Services
11 9 (12.86%) CSS
11 9 (12.86%) Apache

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 14 (20.00%) XML
2 11 (15.71%) JNI
3 10 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 10 (14.29%) JDBC
3 10 (14.29%) JSP
3 10 (14.29%) Struts
3 10 (14.29%) Web Services
4 9 (12.86%) CSS
4 9 (12.86%) Spring
5 7 (10.00%) Flash
6 6 (8.571%) LAMP
7 5 (7.143%) HTML
7 5 (7.143%) Servlets
7 5 (7.143%) SOAP
7 5 (7.143%) XSLT
7 5 (7.143%) JAXB
7 5 (7.143%) JMS
7 5 (7.143%) REST
7 5 (7.143%) Ajax
7 5 (7.143%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 10 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 9 (12.86%) Apache
3 8 (11.43%) MS Exchange
4 7 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (7.143%) Jetty
6 4 (5.714%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (5.714%) Lync
6 4 (5.714%) Drupal
6 4 (5.714%) SharePoint
7 3 (4.286%) SAS
7 3 (4.286%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (2.857%) IIS
9 1 (1.429%) CMS
9 1 (1.429%) Zimbra
9 1 (1.429%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (5.714%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.857%) MS Project
2 2 (2.857%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) TCP/IP
2 11 (15.71%) Wireshark
3 9 (12.86%) SAN
4 4 (5.714%) NAS
4 4 (5.714%) LAN
4 4 (5.714%) WAN
5 3 (4.286%) Firewall
6 2 (2.857%) DNS
6 2 (2.857%) FTP
6 2 (2.857%) SNMP
7 1 (1.429%) VPN
7 1 (1.429%) SSL
7 1 (1.429%) LDAP
7 1 (1.429%) SMTP
7 1 (1.429%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) MySQL
2 6 (8.571%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.286%) DB2
4 2 (2.857%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.857%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) JIRA
2 5 (7.143%) Ant
2 5 (7.143%) JUnit
2 5 (7.143%) Log4j
2 5 (7.143%) Subversion
2 5 (7.143%) Maven
3 1 (1.429%) Eclipse
General
1 8 (11.43%) Telecoms
2 3 (4.286%) Finance
2 3 (4.286%) Billing
3 1 (1.429%) Games
3 1 (1.429%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Developer
2 16 (22.86%) Java Developer
3 12 (17.14%) Systems Administrator
3 12 (17.14%) Administrator
4 9 (12.86%) Linux Administrator
4 9 (12.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 9 (12.86%) Analyst
5 7 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 7 (10.00%) Team Leader
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 7 (10.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 6 (8.571%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.714%) Systems Manager
8 3 (4.286%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 3 (4.286%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (4.286%) Drupal Developer
9 2 (2.857%) Operations Team Leader
9 2 (2.857%) Oracle Team Leader
9 2 (2.857%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.71%) iSeries
2 2 (2.857%) Mathematics
2 2 (2.857%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.857%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (2.857%) AS400
3 1 (1.429%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.429%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 30 (42.86%) Windows
2 18 (25.71%) UNIX
3 12 (17.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (15.71%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (10.00%) Solaris
7 4 (5.714%) Windows 7
7 4 (5.714%) Windows NT
8 3 (4.286%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.429%) Android
9 1 (1.429%) CentOS
9 1 (1.429%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.429%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.57%) ITIL
2 11 (15.71%) Image Processing
3 6 (8.571%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (8.571%) PRINCE2
4 5 (7.143%) RAD
4 5 (7.143%) MVC
4 5 (7.143%) Risk Management
4 5 (7.143%) Scrum
4 5 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (7.143%) TDD
4 5 (7.143%) High Availability
5 4 (5.714%) Waterfall
5 4 (5.714%) Network Management
5 4 (5.714%) Change Management
6 3 (4.286%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (4.286%) PRINCE
6 3 (4.286%) Project Management
6 3 (4.286%) Customer Insight
6 3 (4.286%) Analytics
6 3 (4.286%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) Java
2 15 (21.43%) C
3 13 (18.57%) JavaScript
4 12 (17.14%) PHP
5 11 (15.71%) C++
6 8 (11.43%) SQL
7 4 (5.714%) PHP5
8 3 (4.286%) Ruby
9 2 (2.857%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.429%) Perl
10 1 (1.429%) Python
10 1 (1.429%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (10.00%) MCP
3 5 (7.143%) MCSE
3 5 (7.143%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.143%) CCNA
3 5 (7.143%) MCTS
3 5 (7.143%) MCITP
4 4 (5.714%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.857%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.857%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.143%) SLA
2 4 (5.714%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.714%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.857%) QA
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.286%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.857%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.857%) Sendmail
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) Oracle
2 13 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.57%) VMware
2 13 (18.57%) Red Hat
3 9 (12.86%) Dell
3 9 (12.86%) Nimsoft
4 7 (10.00%) Citrix
5 5 (7.143%) Zend
6 3 (4.286%) Business Objects
6 3 (4.286%) Cisco
6 3 (4.286%) Cognos
7 2 (2.857%) SonicWALL
7 2 (2.857%) Draytek
7 2 (2.857%) Planview
7 2 (2.857%) Sophos
7 2 (2.857%) IBM
8 1 (1.429%) NetApp
8 1 (1.429%) NETGEAR
Warrington, North West
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Warrington, Cheshire
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