Wigan Linux Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Linux skills within the Wigan region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Atherstone Aylesbury Baldock Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Faversham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gourock Grantham Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochford Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Helens St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Torquay Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Witham Woking Wokingham Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	0	0
Average minimum salary	-	-
Average salary	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	-
UK excluding London average salary	£36,512	£36,686
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Operating Systems Wigan
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.002 %
Salaries quoted	4	5
Average minimum salary	£17,778	£23,000
Average salary	£18,222	£24,950
% change on same period last year	-26.96 %
Average maximum salary	£18,667	£26,900
UK excluding London average salary	£33,991	£34,646
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Wigan region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Wigan region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 9 (81.82 %) Perl 1 9 (81.82 %) Pensions 2 6 (54.55 %) LAN 2 6 (54.55 %) WAN 2 6 (54.55 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (54.55 %) DNS 3 4 (36.36 %) UNIX 4 3 (27.27 %) Shell Script 5 2 (18.18 %) Tomcat 5 2 (18.18 %) Health 5 2 (18.18 %) Solaris 5 2 (18.18 %) C++ 5 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 6 1 (9.091 %) JSF 6 1 (9.091 %) Ruby

6 1 (9.091 %) Degree 6 1 (9.091 %) C 6 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 6 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 6 1 (9.091 %) EJB 6 1 (9.091 %) JDBC 6 1 (9.091 %) JSP 6 1 (9.091 %) SOAP 6 1 (9.091 %) Struts 6 1 (9.091 %) XML 6 1 (9.091 %) HTML 6 1 (9.091 %) Java 6 1 (9.091 %) JavaScript 6 1 (9.091 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (9.091 %) Apache

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 2 1 (9.091 %) EJB 2 1 (9.091 %) JDBC 2 1 (9.091 %) JSP 2 1 (9.091 %) SOAP 2 1 (9.091 %) Struts 2 1 (9.091 %) XML 2 1 (9.091 %) JSF 2 1 (9.091 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) Tomcat 2 1 (9.091 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 6 (54.55 %) LAN 1 6 (54.55 %) WAN 1 6 (54.55 %) TCP/IP 1 6 (54.55 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server
General 1 9 (81.82 %) Pensions 2 2 (18.18 %) Health	Job Titles 1 7 (63.64 %) Administrator 1 7 (63.64 %) Linux Administrator 2 6 (54.55 %) Linux Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Release Engineer 3 2 (18.18 %) Test Engineer 4 1 (9.091 %) J2EE Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) UNIX Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) Web Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) Server Administrator 4 1 (9.091 %) JSP Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Systems Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Java Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Developer
Operating Systems 1 4 (36.36 %) UNIX 2 2 (18.18 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) OOA/OOD 1 1 (9.091 %) OOD 1 1 (9.091 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 9 (81.82 %) Perl 2 3 (27.27 %) Shell Script 3 2 (18.18 %) C++ 4 1 (9.091 %) Java 4 1 (9.091 %) JavaScript 4 1 (9.091 %) Tcl 4 1 (9.091 %) Ruby 4 1 (9.091 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) Degree
Vendors 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle