The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Welwyn Garden City region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 22 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 19 12 19
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +7
Permanent jobs citing Linux 25 12 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 10.00% 9.375% 12.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.32% 37.50% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 23 10 31
Average salary £45,000 £42,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.50% +12.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £39,750 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Welwyn Garden City
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
62 32 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 24.80% 25.00% 31.06%
Number of salaries quoted 60 27 81
Average salary £45,000 £42,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.50% +20.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,400 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £65,000
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 Welwyn Garden City region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Welwyn Garden City region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Welwyn Garden City Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 22 (56.41%) Red Hat
1 22 (56.41%) VMware
2 21 (53.85%) SAN
2 21 (53.85%) Windows
3 19 (48.72%) Perl
4 18 (46.15%) Oracle
4 18 (46.15%) Citrix
4 18 (46.15%) Xen
4 18 (46.15%) NAS
5 17 (43.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (43.59%) UNIX
6 15 (38.46%) SQL
7 14 (35.90%) MS Exchange
7 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
7 14 (35.90%) Active Directory
7 14 (35.90%) Windows Server 2003
7 14 (35.90%) Windows Server 2008
8 13 (33.33%) ITIL
9 12 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (25.64%) VB
11 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
11 9 (23.08%) PRINCE2
11 9 (23.08%) SharePoint
11 9 (23.08%) MS Excel
11 9 (23.08%) BizTalk Server
11 9 (23.08%) CommVault
11 9 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2007
11 9 (23.08%) Postini
11 9 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
11 9 (23.08%) Bash shell

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 4 (10.26%) Middleware
2 3 (7.692%) JMS
2 3 (7.692%) JDBC
2 3 (7.692%) SOAP
2 3 (7.692%) Web Services
2 3 (7.692%) XML
2 3 (7.692%) XSL
2 3 (7.692%) JNDI
3 1 (2.564%) ASP
3 1 (2.564%) .NET
3 1 (2.564%) Qt
Application Platforms
1 14 (35.90%) MS Exchange
2 9 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 9 (23.08%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2007
2 9 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
2 9 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (7.692%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.564%) Apache
4 1 (2.564%) IIS
4 1 (2.564%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 9 (23.08%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 21 (53.85%) SAN
2 18 (46.15%) NAS
3 9 (23.08%) Fibre Channel
4 8 (20.51%) LAN
5 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
5 5 (12.82%) VPN
6 1 (2.564%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.128%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.564%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) OpenDeploy
2 3 (7.692%) Log4j
3 1 (2.564%) JIRA
General
1 4 (10.26%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (2.564%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Designer
4 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Designer
5 3 (7.692%) Junior
5 3 (7.692%) Junior Architect
5 3 (7.692%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (5.128%) Release Manager
6 2 (5.128%) Wintel Technical Specialist
6 2 (5.128%) Wintel Specialist
7 1 (2.564%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.564%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.564%) Senior Designer
7 1 (2.564%) Storage Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Chemistry
2 4 (10.26%) Replication
2 4 (10.26%) Mathematics
3 3 (7.692%) Clustering
4 2 (5.128%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 21 (53.85%) Windows
2 17 (43.59%) UNIX
3 14 (35.90%) Windows Server 2003
3 14 (35.90%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.692%) AIX
5 3 (7.692%) Solaris
6 1 (2.564%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) ITIL
2 9 (23.08%) PRINCE2
2 9 (23.08%) Migration
2 9 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (23.08%) TOGAF
3 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (12.82%) Project Management
4 5 (12.82%) E-Commerce
4 5 (12.82%) CRM
4 5 (12.82%) Release Management
5 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (7.692%) Configuration Management
6 3 (7.692%) Business Continuity
7 2 (5.128%) Time Management
8 1 (2.564%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (2.564%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (2.564%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (2.564%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Perl
2 15 (38.46%) SQL
3 10 (25.64%) VB
4 9 (23.08%) Bash shell
5 8 (20.51%) C
5 8 (20.51%) Java
6 5 (12.82%) Fortran
6 5 (12.82%) C++
7 4 (10.26%) Python
8 3 (7.692%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.564%) C#
9 1 (2.564%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (12.82%) CCNA
1 5 (12.82%) MCSE
1 5 (12.82%) MCITP
2 4 (10.26%) PhD
3 1 (2.564%) RHCE
3 1 (2.564%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.564%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.564%) QA
System Software
1 18 (46.15%) Xen
2 17 (43.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (35.90%) Active Directory
4 8 (20.51%) Hyper-V
5 5 (12.82%) VMware ESX
5 5 (12.82%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.564%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 9 (23.08%) NetBackup
1 9 (23.08%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 22 (56.41%) Red Hat
1 22 (56.41%) VMware
2 18 (46.15%) Oracle
2 18 (46.15%) Citrix
3 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
4 9 (23.08%) CommVault
4 9 (23.08%) Postini
5 8 (20.51%) HP
6 6 (15.38%) NetApp
7 5 (12.82%) Cisco
7 5 (12.82%) TIBCO
7 5 (12.82%) Symantec
7 5 (12.82%) JBoss
7 5 (12.82%) ATG
7 5 (12.82%) Endeca
8 1 (2.564%) Intel
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Salary: Competitive
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Salary: Unspecified Excellent Base, Bonus, Car Allowance and Benefits
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