The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 36 15 8
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -7
Permanent jobs citing Linux 40 110 89
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 5.083% 13.78% 14.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.81% 52.63% 62.24%
Number of salaries quoted 34 96 89
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,250 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £60,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Warwickshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
168 209 143
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 21.35% 26.19% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 152 189 141
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,150 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

Warwickshire Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Rugby -8 15 £32,500 -7.14%
Warwick -19 12 £31,500 -45.21%
Nuneaton - 6 £28,500 -
Leamington Spa -1 4 £34,250 -2.14%
Southam - 2 £30,250 -
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire 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 84 (60.00%) UNIX
2 64 (45.71%) Java
3 63 (45.00%) Windows
4 45 (32.14%) PHP
4 45 (32.14%) Ruby
5 41 (29.29%) C++
5 41 (29.29%) Perl
6 40 (28.57%) SQL
7 39 (27.86%) Oracle
8 38 (27.14%) HTML
8 38 (27.14%) JavaScript
8 38 (27.14%) CSS
9 35 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
10 34 (24.29%) Apache
11 31 (22.14%) Subversion
12 30 (21.43%) Ruby on Rails
13 28 (20.00%) XML
14 26 (18.57%) Web Services
15 25 (17.86%) SQL Server
15 25 (17.86%) VMware
16 24 (17.14%) LAMP
17 23 (16.43%) ActionScript
17 23 (16.43%) Open Source
18 19 (13.57%) XSLT
18 19 (13.57%) JDBC
18 19 (13.57%) Degree
19 18 (12.86%) Ajax
19 18 (12.86%) Modbus
20 17 (12.14%) DHCP
21 16 (11.43%) Spring

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire 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 38 (27.14%) HTML
1 38 (27.14%) CSS
2 30 (21.43%) Ruby on Rails
3 28 (20.00%) XML
4 26 (18.57%) Web Services
5 24 (17.14%) LAMP
6 19 (13.57%) XSLT
6 19 (13.57%) JDBC
7 18 (12.86%) Ajax
8 16 (11.43%) Spring
9 15 (10.71%) SOAP
10 9 (6.429%) WebSphere
11 7 (5.000%) Zend Framework
11 7 (5.000%) jQuery
11 7 (5.000%) XHTML
12 6 (4.286%) Hibernate
13 5 (3.571%) .NET
14 2 (1.429%) J2SE
14 2 (1.429%) RESTful
15 1 (0.714%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 34 (24.29%) Apache
2 10 (7.143%) Lotus Notes
3 6 (4.286%) Lotus Domino
4 4 (2.857%) MS Exchange
4 4 (2.857%) IIS
5 2 (1.429%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 2 (1.429%) lighttpd
5 2 (1.429%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (1.429%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (1.429%) ESB
5 2 (1.429%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (1.429%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.714%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (5.000%) Photoshop
1 7 (5.000%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (2.857%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.429%) CATIA
4 1 (0.714%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.714%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.86%) Modbus
2 17 (12.14%) DHCP
3 15 (10.71%) SAN
4 6 (4.286%) iSCSI
5 5 (3.571%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.857%) VPN
6 4 (2.857%) HTTP
6 4 (2.857%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (2.143%) Wireless
7 3 (2.143%) ZigBee
7 3 (2.143%) SNMP
8 2 (1.429%) FTP
8 2 (1.429%) LAN
8 2 (1.429%) WAN
8 2 (1.429%) Firewall
8 2 (1.429%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.86%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.143%) MySQL
4 9 (6.429%) DB2
5 7 (5.000%) Oracle 10g
6 3 (2.143%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.429%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (1.429%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.714%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 31 (22.14%) Subversion
2 15 (10.71%) Maven
2 15 (10.71%) Ant
3 11 (7.857%) Selenium
4 4 (2.857%) Git (software)
5 3 (2.143%) WATIR
5 3 (2.143%) RSpec
5 3 (2.143%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.429%) Hudson
6 2 (1.429%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.429%) ClearCase
6 2 (1.429%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.429%) JIRA
6 2 (1.429%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 14 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 10 (7.143%) Finance
3 5 (3.571%) Marketing
4 2 (1.429%) Back Office
4 2 (1.429%) Automotive
5 1 (0.714%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.714%) Games
Job Titles
1 73 (52.14%) Developer
2 25 (17.86%) Analyst
3 24 (17.14%) Applications Developer
4 20 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 18 (12.86%) Software Developer
6 15 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.143%) Web Developer
7 10 (7.143%) Java Software Engineer
7 10 (7.143%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 9 (6.429%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.429%) Support Analyst
9 8 (5.714%) DBA
9 8 (5.714%) Oracle DBA
9 8 (5.714%) Technical Analyst
9 8 (5.714%) Capacity Analyst
9 8 (5.714%) Capacity Planning Analyst
10 7 (5.000%) Ruby Developer
10 7 (5.000%) Senior Applications Developer
10 7 (5.000%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 7 (5.000%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.43%) Open Source
2 14 (10.00%) Digital Media
3 8 (5.714%) Device Driver
4 7 (5.000%) iSeries
5 5 (3.571%) Credit Risk
5 5 (3.571%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.857%) Replication
7 3 (2.143%) PMI
7 3 (2.143%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.429%) IaaS
8 2 (1.429%) SaaS
8 2 (1.429%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.429%) Visualisation
9 1 (0.714%) Clustering
9 1 (0.714%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.714%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 84 (60.00%) UNIX
2 63 (45.00%) Windows
3 7 (5.000%) HPUX
3 7 (5.000%) Ubuntu
4 6 (4.286%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (4.286%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (4.286%) Solaris
5 4 (2.857%) Windows NT
5 4 (2.857%) Windows XP
5 4 (2.857%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.143%) CentOS
6 3 (2.143%) Debian
7 2 (1.429%) Windows 2000 Server
7 2 (1.429%) zOS
8 1 (0.714%) MVS
8 1 (0.714%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.714%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (10.71%) Scrum
2 14 (10.00%) OO
3 13 (9.286%) Capacity Planning
3 13 (9.286%) Web Application Development
4 11 (7.857%) ITIL
5 7 (5.000%) OOP
5 7 (5.000%) Project Management
5 7 (5.000%) MVC
5 7 (5.000%) CRM
6 5 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (3.571%) Configuration Management
7 4 (2.857%) Web Development
7 4 (2.857%) Unit Testing
7 4 (2.857%) Time Management
7 4 (2.857%) BDD
7 4 (2.857%) Change Control
8 3 (2.143%) High Availability
8 3 (2.143%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (2.143%) Project Planning
8 3 (2.143%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.71%) Java
2 45 (32.14%) PHP
2 45 (32.14%) Ruby
3 41 (29.29%) C++
3 41 (29.29%) Perl
4 40 (28.57%) SQL
5 38 (27.14%) JavaScript
6 23 (16.43%) ActionScript
7 13 (9.286%) C#
8 9 (6.429%) Python
9 8 (5.714%) C
9 8 (5.714%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.429%) VBScript
10 2 (1.429%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.429%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.714%) Bash shell
11 1 (0.714%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 19 (13.57%) Degree
2 6 (4.286%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.857%) CCNA
3 4 (2.857%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (2.857%) MCP
3 4 (2.857%) MCSE
4 3 (2.143%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.429%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.429%) MCITP
5 2 (1.429%) MCSA
5 2 (1.429%) CCNP
6 1 (0.714%) OCP
6 1 (0.714%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.714%) ISO 9001
1 1 (0.714%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.714%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.857%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.857%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.429%) vSphere
4 2 (1.429%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.429%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (5.714%) Data Guard
2 5 (3.571%) SCCM
3 4 (2.857%) Puppet
3 4 (2.857%) NetBackup
3 4 (2.857%) Nagios
4 3 (2.143%) Ganglia
5 2 (1.429%) OpenNMS
5 2 (1.429%) Zenoss
5 2 (1.429%) WhatsUp Gold
5 2 (1.429%) HP SIM
5 2 (1.429%) ARCserve
5 2 (1.429%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (1.429%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.429%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (1.429%) Backup Exec
5 2 (1.429%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (27.86%) Oracle
2 25 (17.86%) VMware
3 13 (9.286%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.143%) Lotus
4 10 (7.143%) Red Hat
4 10 (7.143%) IBM
5 9 (6.429%) HP
6 8 (5.714%) Dell
6 8 (5.714%) Sun
6 8 (5.714%) NetApp
7 7 (5.000%) Zend
8 6 (4.286%) Citrix
8 6 (4.286%) Symantec
8 6 (4.286%) Cisco
9 4 (2.857%) LANDesk
9 4 (2.857%) Acronis
10 3 (2.143%) JBoss
11 2 (1.429%) EMC
11 2 (1.429%) McAfee
11 2 (1.429%) Sophos
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