The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Weybridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 20 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 Weybridge region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 14 25 16
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -9
Permanent jobs citing Linux 11 4 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Weybridge 11.83% 2.424% 5.882%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 10.53% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 3
Average salary £35,500 £46,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.82% -3.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £46,000 £45,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £46,000 £48,700
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,683 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-0.47% +7.45%
All Operating Systems
Weybridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
44 38 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Weybridge 47.31% 23.03% 21.57%
Number of salaries quoted 41 36 15
Average salary £35,000 £43,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.54% +19.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £25,500 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,800 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Surrey

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Weybridge 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 Weybridge region.

Weybridge Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Weybridge 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 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 18 (78.26%) PHP
3 17 (73.91%) TCP/IP
3 17 (73.91%) UNIX
4 11 (47.83%) Internet
5 10 (43.48%) CISSP
5 10 (43.48%) CISM
5 10 (43.48%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (43.48%) Management Information System
5 10 (43.48%) Risk Management
5 10 (43.48%) Java
5 10 (43.48%) Perl
5 10 (43.48%) VB
5 10 (43.48%) Legal
5 10 (43.48%) Ethical Hacking
5 10 (43.48%) CEH
5 10 (43.48%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 10 (43.48%) Penetration Testing
5 10 (43.48%) Business Continuity
5 10 (43.48%) Security Testing
6 9 (39.13%) SQL
7 8 (34.78%) .NET
7 8 (34.78%) MySQL
7 8 (34.78%) Apache
7 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
7 8 (34.78%) Firewall
8 7 (30.43%) Change Management
8 7 (30.43%) IIS
8 7 (30.43%) ASP
8 7 (30.43%) Tomcat

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Weybridge 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 8 (34.78%) .NET
2 7 (30.43%) ASP
3 1 (4.348%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (34.78%) Apache
2 7 (30.43%) Tomcat
2 7 (30.43%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (73.91%) TCP/IP
2 11 (47.83%) Internet
3 8 (34.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) MySQL
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 10 (43.48%) Legal
2 1 (4.348%) Marketing
2 1 (4.348%) Korean Language
2 1 (4.348%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Tester
2 10 (43.48%) Systems Tester
2 10 (43.48%) Penetration Tester
2 10 (43.48%) Security Tester
3 5 (21.74%) Web Hosting Specialist
4 2 (8.696%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Help Desk Specialist
5 1 (4.348%) Lead Tester
5 1 (4.348%) Junior Tester
5 1 (4.348%) Help Desk Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Help Desk Support
5 1 (4.348%) Junior
5 1 (4.348%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.348%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.348%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (73.91%) UNIX
3 2 (8.696%) SUSE
3 2 (8.696%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.348%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (43.48%) Risk Management
1 10 (43.48%) Business Continuity
1 10 (43.48%) Ethical Hacking
1 10 (43.48%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 10 (43.48%) Penetration Testing
1 10 (43.48%) Security Testing
2 7 (30.43%) Change Management
3 1 (4.348%) Test Scripting
3 1 (4.348%) Automated Testing
3 1 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (4.348%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) PHP
2 10 (43.48%) Java
2 10 (43.48%) Perl
2 10 (43.48%) VB
3 9 (39.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) CISSP
1 10 (43.48%) CISM
1 10 (43.48%) CEH
2 1 (4.348%) ISEB
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) VMware
3 2 (8.696%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.348%) Microsoft