The first table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Debian 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 193 182 158
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -24
Permanent jobs citing Debian 6 8 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.119% 0.173% 0.319%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.519% 0.739% 1.508%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 12
Average salary £36,000 £21,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+71.42% -44.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £21,000 £24,650
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £30,750 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Operating Systems
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1157 1083 862
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 23.00% 23.47% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 987 978 761
Average salary £37,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.82% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,300 £22,650 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Debian
England

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Debian across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Debian Salary Trend

Debian
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Warwickshire +8 3 £34,500 +12.19%
West Bromwich - 2 £40,000 -
Coventry - 1 £37,500 -
Debian
England

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 7 (87.50%) Java
3 6 (75.00%) Nagios
4 5 (62.50%) VMware
4 5 (62.50%) CentOS
5 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (50.00%) Postfix
5 4 (50.00%) Sendmail
5 4 (50.00%) nginx
5 4 (50.00%) Apache Solr
5 4 (50.00%) Replication
5 4 (50.00%) Varnish
5 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (50.00%) LAMP
5 4 (50.00%) Network Security
5 4 (50.00%) SAN
5 4 (50.00%) Perl
5 4 (50.00%) PHP
5 4 (50.00%) SQL
5 4 (50.00%) MySQL
5 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (50.00%) UNIX
5 4 (50.00%) DNS
5 4 (50.00%) Apache
5 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
5 4 (50.00%) Python
6 3 (37.50%) JBoss
6 3 (37.50%) HTTP

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) nginx
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Solr
1 4 (50.00%) Apache
1 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) Network Security
2 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (37.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Principle Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Replication
2 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) CentOS
3 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (50.00%) UNIX
4 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (12.50%) SUSE
5 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Perl
2 4 (50.00%) PHP
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Postfix
1 4 (50.00%) Sendmail
1 4 (50.00%) Varnish
2 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Nagios
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) JBoss
4 1 (12.50%) NetApp