The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 18 14 9
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Linux 77 100 147
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 8.480% 9.416% 13.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.81% 30.67% 49.83%
Number of salaries quoted 69 86 135
Average salary £36,000 £40,250 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.55% +23.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £31,500 £25,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
All Operating Systems
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
215 326 295
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 23.68% 30.70% 26.34%
Number of salaries quoted 201 267 274
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +17.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £47,900
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
South West

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Wiltshire Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Swindon +4 42 £34,500 -21.59% 12
Chippenham +3 9 £43,750 +9.37% 10
Salisbury -1 7 £37,500 +15.38%
Trowbridge +1 2 £33,750 -15.62%
Melksham - 1 £35,000 -
Linux
South West

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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.

1 118 (64.48%) Oracle
2 103 (56.28%) SQL
3 75 (40.98%) PHP
4 70 (38.25%) SOA
5 65 (35.52%) Apache
6 64 (34.97%) OO
6 64 (34.97%) MySQL
7 60 (32.79%) Finance
8 55 (30.05%) LAMP
9 49 (26.78%) QA
10 48 (26.23%) Automated Testing
10 48 (26.23%) C
11 43 (23.50%) C++
12 39 (21.31%) Enterprise Software
13 35 (19.13%) Integration Testing
13 35 (19.13%) DSDM
14 34 (18.58%) Windows
14 34 (18.58%) SAN
15 32 (17.49%) Business Intelligence
15 32 (17.49%) UNIX
16 30 (16.39%) Oracle 10g
17 28 (15.30%) VMware
17 28 (15.30%) Oracle EBS
17 28 (15.30%) Oracle EBS R12
18 27 (14.75%) Oracle BI EE
18 27 (14.75%) BPEL
18 27 (14.75%) Siebel
18 27 (14.75%) SQL Server
19 26 (14.21%) XSLT
19 26 (14.21%) Red Hat

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 55 (30.05%) LAMP
2 26 (14.21%) XSLT
3 25 (13.66%) XML
4 24 (13.11%) HTML
5 23 (12.57%) Middleware
6 18 (9.836%) Web Services
6 18 (9.836%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (6.011%) CSS
8 10 (5.464%) J2EE
8 10 (5.464%) jQuery
9 6 (3.279%) WCF
9 6 (3.279%) Spring
9 6 (3.279%) Hibernate
10 5 (2.732%) JMX
10 5 (2.732%) JMS
10 5 (2.732%) JDBC
10 5 (2.732%) JAXB
10 5 (2.732%) REST
11 4 (2.186%) HTML5
11 4 (2.186%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 65 (35.52%) Apache
2 16 (8.743%) Tomcat
3 15 (8.197%) Oracle Workflow
3 15 (8.197%) ESB
4 11 (6.011%) Oracle 10gAS
5 7 (3.825%) MS Exchange
6 6 (3.279%) IIS
7 4 (2.186%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (1.639%) WebLogic
8 3 (1.639%) CMS
9 2 (1.093%) WordPress
9 2 (1.093%) Joomla!
9 2 (1.093%) Drupal
10 1 (0.546%) Mule
10 1 (0.546%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 18 (9.836%) MS Excel
2 5 (2.732%) MS Office
3 4 (2.186%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.093%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.093%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 28 (15.30%) Oracle EBS
1 28 (15.30%) Oracle EBS R12
2 14 (7.650%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (7.104%) Oracle 11i
4 7 (3.825%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 3 (1.639%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (1.639%) Summit
6 1 (0.546%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.546%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 34 (18.58%) SAN
2 20 (10.93%) TCP/IP
3 17 (9.290%) DNS
4 15 (8.197%) HTTP
5 13 (7.104%) NAS
6 12 (6.557%) DHCP
7 10 (5.464%) SSL
8 7 (3.825%) LAN
9 6 (3.279%) WAN
9 6 (3.279%) Internet
9 6 (3.279%) Network Security
10 5 (2.732%) Wireless
10 5 (2.732%) 3G
10 5 (2.732%) MPLS
10 5 (2.732%) Broadband
11 4 (2.186%) OSPF
11 4 (2.186%) BGP
11 4 (2.186%) EIGRP
11 4 (2.186%) iSCSI
11 4 (2.186%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (34.97%) MySQL
2 30 (16.39%) Oracle 10g
3 27 (14.75%) SQL Server
3 27 (14.75%) Oracle BI EE
4 22 (12.02%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (9.290%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (8.743%) Oracle 11g
7 10 (5.464%) RDBMS
8 7 (3.825%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (3.825%) Star Schema
8 7 (3.825%) Cognos Powerplay
8 7 (3.825%) Essbase
9 3 (1.639%) SQL Server 2005
9 3 (1.639%) Oracle 8/8i
9 3 (1.639%) SQL Server 2008
10 2 (1.093%) Ingres
11 1 (0.546%) TOAD
11 1 (0.546%) OLTP
11 1 (0.546%) OLAP
11 1 (0.546%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 15 (8.197%) JDeveloper
2 6 (3.279%) Ant
2 6 (3.279%) JUnit
2 6 (3.279%) Maven
2 6 (3.279%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.186%) Subversion
3 4 (2.186%) Selenium
4 2 (1.093%) Hudson
5 1 (0.546%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (0.546%) jMock
5 1 (0.546%) ANTLR
5 1 (0.546%) SilkPerformer
5 1 (0.546%) JIRA
5 1 (0.546%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.546%) LoadRunner
General
1 60 (32.79%) Finance
2 13 (7.104%) Telecoms
3 10 (5.464%) Retail
4 3 (1.639%) Marketing
5 2 (1.093%) Local Government
5 2 (1.093%) Back Office
6 1 (0.546%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.546%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 94 (51.37%) Developer
2 43 (23.50%) Software Developer
3 19 (10.38%) PHP Developer
4 17 (9.290%) Analyst
5 16 (8.743%) DBA
6 15 (8.197%) LAMP Developer
7 12 (6.557%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.918%) Oracle DBA
9 8 (4.372%) Administrator
9 8 (4.372%) Support Analyst
9 8 (4.372%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.372%) Senior DBA
10 7 (3.825%) Cognos Developer
10 7 (3.825%) Architect
11 6 (3.279%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.279%) Technical Support
11 6 (3.279%) UNIX Specialist
11 6 (3.279%) Technical Analyst
11 6 (3.279%) OBIEE Developer
12 5 (2.732%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.31%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (7.104%) Clustering
3 9 (4.918%) Open Source
4 5 (2.732%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.186%) Inversion of Control
5 4 (2.186%) CESG
5 4 (2.186%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 4 (2.186%) Statistics
6 2 (1.093%) Social Media
6 2 (1.093%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.546%) Replication
7 1 (0.546%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.546%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.58%) Windows
2 32 (17.49%) UNIX
3 20 (10.93%) Solaris
4 19 (10.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (6.011%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (6.011%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (4.372%) CentOS
7 4 (2.186%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (1.639%) SUSE
8 3 (1.639%) AIX
9 2 (1.093%) HPUX
9 2 (1.093%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.546%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.546%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.546%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (38.25%) SOA
2 64 (34.97%) OO
3 48 (26.23%) Automated Testing
4 35 (19.13%) Integration Testing
4 35 (19.13%) DSDM
5 32 (17.49%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (14.75%) BPEL
7 24 (13.11%) Configuration Management
8 21 (11.48%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (9.836%) ETL
9 18 (9.836%) CRM
10 17 (9.290%) Workflow
11 16 (8.743%) Agile Software Development
11 16 (8.743%) ITIL
11 16 (8.743%) ERP
12 14 (7.650%) Service Management
13 13 (7.104%) Performance Management
14 11 (6.011%) ITIL V3
14 11 (6.011%) Software Engineering
14 11 (6.011%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 103 (56.28%) SQL
2 75 (40.98%) PHP
3 48 (26.23%) C
4 43 (23.50%) C++
5 25 (13.66%) Shell Script
6 19 (10.38%) Java
7 17 (9.290%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.290%) Perl
8 15 (8.197%) PL/SQL
8 15 (8.197%) XQuery
9 6 (3.279%) C#
9 6 (3.279%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.186%) PHP5
11 2 (1.093%) Groovy
11 2 (1.093%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.093%) VB
12 1 (0.546%) Tcl
12 1 (0.546%) Scala
12 1 (0.546%) Bash shell
12 1 (0.546%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 23 (12.57%) Degree
2 11 (6.011%) MCSE
2 11 (6.011%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (5.464%) MCP
4 9 (4.918%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.825%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.093%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.093%) HNC
6 2 (1.093%) HND
6 2 (1.093%) ISEB
6 2 (1.093%) CISSP
6 2 (1.093%) OCP
6 2 (1.093%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.546%) RHCE
7 1 (0.546%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.546%) MCITP
7 1 (0.546%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (26.78%) QA
2 8 (4.372%) SLA
3 4 (2.186%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.639%) ISO 14001
5 2 (1.093%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.546%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.546%) JTAG
System Software
1 26 (14.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (10.93%) Active Directory
3 15 (8.197%) NFS
3 15 (8.197%) Oracle RAC
4 11 (6.011%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (5.464%) Xen
6 2 (1.093%) vSphere
6 2 (1.093%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.546%) Samba
Systems Management
1 10 (5.464%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.546%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (0.546%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (0.546%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.546%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.546%) Legato
Vendors
1 118 (64.48%) Oracle
2 28 (15.30%) VMware
3 27 (14.75%) Siebel
4 26 (14.21%) Red Hat
5 19 (10.38%) IBM
5 19 (10.38%) Informatica
6 14 (7.650%) Sun
7 12 (6.557%) Cisco
8 10 (5.464%) Hyperion
9 8 (4.372%) NetApp
9 8 (4.372%) HP
9 8 (4.372%) Microsoft
10 7 (3.825%) Cognos
11 4 (2.186%) EMC
11 4 (2.186%) Citrix
12 3 (1.639%) Google
12 3 (1.639%) Zend
13 2 (1.093%) Sage
13 2 (1.093%) JBoss
13 2 (1.093%) Adobe
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