Linux Jobs in Watford
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Watford region.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 19 10 10
Rank change year-on-year
-9 0
Permanent jobs citing Linux 29 82 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 10.10% 23.43% 19.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.61% 46.33% 45.79%
Number of salaries quoted 15 41 35
Average salary £51,500 £40,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.75% -15.78%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 109 177 190
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 37.98% 50.57% 42.13%
Number of salaries quoted 92 105 120
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £26,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £65,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Hertfordshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 79 (61.24%) Windows
2 76 (58.91%) AIX
3 73 (56.59%) Oracle
4 68 (52.71%) UNIX
4 68 (52.71%) Finance
5 66 (51.16%) Java
6 63 (48.84%) DB2
7 62 (48.06%) Retail
8 61 (47.29%) HTTP
9 60 (46.51%) WebSphere
10 59 (45.74%) IBM
10 59 (45.74%) WebSphere Application Server
11 55 (42.64%) SQL
12 53 (41.09%) E-Commerce
13 49 (37.98%) Tomcat
14 48 (37.21%) Games
15 46 (35.66%) Perl
16 45 (34.88%) J2EE
17 42 (32.56%) IIS
18 41 (31.78%) IBM HTTP Server
19 37 (28.68%) MQSeries
20 30 (23.26%) Red Hat
21 27 (20.93%) SUSE
21 27 (20.93%) Sun
22 22 (17.05%) ITIL
22 22 (17.05%) Bash shell
23 21 (16.28%) Apache
23 21 (16.28%) Internet
24 20 (15.50%) Project Management
25 19 (14.73%) .NET

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 60 (46.51%) WebSphere
2 45 (34.88%) J2EE
3 19 (14.73%) .NET
4 12 (9.302%) Servlets
5 11 (8.527%) OLE
6 10 (7.752%) Middleware
6 10 (7.752%) JDBC
7 7 (5.426%) HTML
7 7 (5.426%) JSP
7 7 (5.426%) CSS
8 5 (3.876%) EJB
8 5 (3.876%) Web Services
9 3 (2.326%) Spring
10 2 (1.550%) Qt
10 2 (1.550%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 2 (1.550%) Spring Security
10 2 (1.550%) Spring Web Flow
10 2 (1.550%) jQuery
10 2 (1.550%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.550%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 59 (45.74%) WebSphere Application Server
2 49 (37.98%) Tomcat
3 42 (32.56%) IIS
4 41 (31.78%) IBM HTTP Server
5 37 (28.68%) MQSeries
6 21 (16.28%) Apache
7 2 (1.550%) Liferay
8 1 (0.775%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 11 (8.527%) MS Office
2 2 (1.550%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 61 (47.29%) HTTP
2 21 (16.28%) Internet
3 12 (9.302%) Firewall
4 11 (8.527%) HTTPS
5 9 (6.977%) FTP
6 5 (3.876%) SNMP
6 5 (3.876%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.876%) DNS
7 2 (1.550%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (48.84%) DB2
2 8 (6.202%) MySQL
3 7 (5.426%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.101%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.550%) Berkeley DB
5 2 (1.550%) Informix
Development Applications
1 14 (10.85%) Ant
2 13 (10.08%) Subversion
2 13 (10.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.876%) Rational Application Developer
4 3 (2.326%) JUnit
4 3 (2.326%) Git (software)
5 2 (1.550%) Qt Creator
5 2 (1.550%) GCC
5 2 (1.550%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.775%) Maven
General
1 68 (52.71%) Finance
2 62 (48.06%) Retail
3 48 (37.21%) Games
4 16 (12.40%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.426%) Advertising
6 2 (1.550%) Billing
6 2 (1.550%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.775%) Interactive Media
7 1 (0.775%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (21.71%) Analyst
2 19 (14.73%) Developer
3 18 (13.95%) Architect
4 17 (13.18%) Support Analyst
4 17 (13.18%) Administrator
5 13 (10.08%) Junior
6 12 (9.302%) Infrastructure Architect
6 12 (9.302%) Systems Administrator
7 11 (8.527%) Linux Administrator
8 10 (7.752%) Embedded Software Developer
8 10 (7.752%) Operations Analyst
8 10 (7.752%) Operations Support Analyst
8 10 (7.752%) Software Developer
9 9 (6.977%) Services Delivery Manager
9 9 (6.977%) Performance Tester
9 9 (6.977%) Applications Support
9 9 (6.977%) Tester
9 9 (6.977%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 9 (6.977%) Delivery Manager
9 9 (6.977%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.752%) Handset
1 10 (7.752%) Firmware
2 5 (3.876%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.550%) FMCG
3 2 (1.550%) SaaS
3 2 (1.550%) Online Games
3 2 (1.550%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.775%) Blog
4 1 (0.775%) Statistics
4 1 (0.775%) Open Source
4 1 (0.775%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 79 (61.24%) Windows
2 76 (58.91%) AIX
3 68 (52.71%) UNIX
4 27 (20.93%) SUSE
5 19 (14.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (8.527%) Solaris
6 11 (8.527%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (7.752%) VxWorks
8 3 (2.326%) CentOS
9 2 (1.550%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.775%) VMS
10 1 (0.775%) Fedora
10 1 (0.775%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.09%) E-Commerce
2 22 (17.05%) ITIL
3 20 (15.50%) Project Management
4 18 (13.95%) UML
5 17 (13.18%) Performance Testing
6 16 (12.40%) Web Development
7 14 (10.85%) Service Delivery
8 12 (9.302%) Service Management
9 10 (7.752%) Embedded Software Development
10 8 (6.202%) Capacity Planning
11 7 (5.426%) Scrum
11 7 (5.426%) ITSM
11 7 (5.426%) Data Analysis
12 6 (4.651%) TDD
12 6 (4.651%) OO
13 5 (3.876%) MVC
13 5 (3.876%) Automated Testing
13 5 (3.876%) Performance Management
14 4 (3.101%) Problem Management
14 4 (3.101%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 66 (51.16%) Java
2 55 (42.64%) SQL
3 46 (35.66%) Perl
4 22 (17.05%) Bash shell
5 15 (11.63%) C
5 15 (11.63%) C++
6 12 (9.302%) Embedded C
6 12 (9.302%) Python
7 10 (7.752%) Delphi
7 10 (7.752%) PHP
8 8 (6.202%) JavaScript
9 7 (5.426%) VB
9 7 (5.426%) Korn
10 6 (4.651%) C#
11 5 (3.876%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.775%) AWK
12 1 (0.775%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (14.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.326%) QA
2 2 (1.550%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.101%) Oracle RAC
1 4 (3.101%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.775%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (3.876%) Tivoli
1 5 (3.876%) Netcool
1 5 (3.876%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 5 (3.876%) Control-M
2 3 (2.326%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 1 (0.775%) Puppet
Vendors
1 73 (56.59%) Oracle
2 59 (45.74%) IBM
3 30 (23.26%) Red Hat
4 27 (20.93%) Sun
5 17 (13.18%) JBoss
6 16 (12.40%) HP
6 16 (12.40%) Dell
7 11 (8.527%) Microsoft
7 11 (8.527%) VMware
8 5 (3.876%) BMC
9 2 (1.550%) Perforce
10 1 (0.775%) Thunderhead
10 1 (0.775%) Endeca
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