The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wigan region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 17 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 Wigan region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 27 33 15
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -18
Permanent jobs citing Linux 4 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wigan 5.063% 3.150% 2.632%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.57% 20.00% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 1
Average salary £31,650 £34,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.26% +11.29%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Wigan
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
14 20 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wigan 17.72% 15.75% 26.32%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 10
Average salary £27,300 £26,000 £25,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% +1.96%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,900 £16,500 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
Manchester

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wigan 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 Wigan region.

Wigan Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Wigan region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wigan Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 19 (95.00%) Windows
1 19 (95.00%) MS Exchange
1 19 (95.00%) VMware
1 19 (95.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 19 (95.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 17 (85.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 17 (85.00%) Firewall
2 17 (85.00%) Backup Exec
2 17 (85.00%) LAN
2 17 (85.00%) VoIP
2 17 (85.00%) WAN
2 17 (85.00%) TCP/IP
2 17 (85.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (70.00%) UNIX
3 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (65.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (60.00%) Windows Vista
5 12 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 12 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 12 (60.00%) Mitel
5 12 (60.00%) DNS
5 12 (60.00%) Windows XP
5 12 (60.00%) MS Office
5 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
5 12 (60.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 12 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 9 (45.00%) Service Delivery
7 8 (40.00%) MS Excel
7 8 (40.00%) Internet
8 5 (25.00%) Juniper

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 Platforms
1 19 (95.00%) MS Exchange
1 19 (95.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 17 (85.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (5.000%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (60.00%) MS Office
2 8 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (85.00%) LAN
1 17 (85.00%) VoIP
1 17 (85.00%) WAN
1 17 (85.00%) TCP/IP
1 17 (85.00%) Firewall
2 12 (60.00%) DNS
3 8 (40.00%) Internet
4 5 (25.00%) VPN
5 2 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server 2012
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Analyst
1 17 (85.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 12 (60.00%) Senior Analyst
2 12 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 5 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.000%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Support Manager
4 1 (5.000%) IT Support Manager
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) IT Support
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) CLARiiON
2 1 (5.000%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 19 (95.00%) Windows
1 19 (95.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 14 (70.00%) UNIX
3 12 (60.00%) Windows Vista
3 12 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 12 (60.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (5.000%) Asset Management
2 1 (5.000%) Incident Management
2 1 (5.000%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
System Software
1 17 (85.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (65.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
3 2 (10.00%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Backup Exec
2 5 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 19 (95.00%) VMware
2 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (60.00%) Mitel
4 5 (25.00%) Juniper
4 5 (25.00%) NetApp
5 2 (10.00%) HP
5 2 (10.00%) EMC
5 2 (10.00%) Citrix
5 2 (10.00%) Brocade
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle
6 1 (5.000%) Nimsoft
6 1 (5.000%) Dell
6 1 (5.000%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.000%) Symantec
6 1 (5.000%) McAfee
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