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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 30 21 13
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Linux 11 29 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 5.116% 10.21% 11.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.58% 35.37% 37.10%
Number of salaries quoted 11 28 23
Average salary £35,000 £25,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.00% -28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £19,000 £24,600
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £37,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
Worcestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
43 82 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Worcestershire 20.00% 28.87% 31.31%
Number of salaries quoted 41 68 56
Average salary £36,000 £26,000 £26,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% -2.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £19,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire 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
Worcester -11 10 £35,000 +59.09%
Linux
West Midlands

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 34 (65.38%) SQL
2 31 (59.62%) Windows
3 26 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 23 (44.23%) MySQL
5 22 (42.31%) C++
6 19 (36.54%) Java
6 19 (36.54%) Oracle
7 15 (28.85%) C#
7 15 (28.85%) PL/SQL
7 15 (28.85%) Tomcat
8 14 (26.92%) PHP
9 13 (25.00%) Python
10 12 (23.08%) SQL Server
10 12 (23.08%) .NET
10 12 (23.08%) COM
10 12 (23.08%) PHP5
11 10 (19.23%) QA
11 10 (19.23%) JBoss
11 10 (19.23%) Perl
11 10 (19.23%) TOAD
11 10 (19.23%) WAN
11 10 (19.23%) Citrix
11 10 (19.23%) SQLPlus
11 10 (19.23%) Software Engineering
12 9 (17.31%) Degree
12 9 (17.31%) MVC
12 9 (17.31%) WebLogic
13 8 (15.38%) OO
13 8 (15.38%) VMware
14 7 (13.46%) CSS

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 12 (23.08%) .NET
1 12 (23.08%) COM
2 7 (13.46%) CSS
2 7 (13.46%) HTML
2 7 (13.46%) jQuery
3 6 (11.54%) Django
3 6 (11.54%) Web Services
3 6 (11.54%) LAMP
4 3 (5.769%) WebSphere
5 2 (3.846%) XML
5 2 (3.846%) XSL
6 1 (1.923%) Middleware
6 1 (1.923%) Symfony
6 1 (1.923%) MooTools
6 1 (1.923%) Smarty
Application Platforms
1 15 (28.85%) Tomcat
2 9 (17.31%) WebLogic
3 7 (13.46%) Apache
4 5 (9.615%) IIS
5 4 (7.692%) SharePoint
6 3 (5.769%) WebSphere Process Server
6 3 (5.769%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (5.769%) WebSphere Portal
6 3 (5.769%) Quickr
7 2 (3.846%) MS Exchange
8 1 (1.923%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 6 (11.54%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.923%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) WAN
2 7 (13.46%) VoIP
3 6 (11.54%) LAN
4 5 (9.615%) Firewall
4 5 (9.615%) DNS
4 5 (9.615%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (7.692%) DHCP
6 3 (5.769%) Internet
7 1 (1.923%) VLAN
7 1 (1.923%) SSH
7 1 (1.923%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (44.23%) MySQL
2 12 (23.08%) SQL Server
3 10 (19.23%) TOAD
3 10 (19.23%) SQLPlus
4 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.769%) GIS
6 2 (3.846%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.846%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.923%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.769%) Ant
2 2 (3.846%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.923%) Subversion
3 1 (1.923%) Build Forge
General
1 4 (7.692%) French Language
2 1 (1.923%) Electronics
2 1 (1.923%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Software Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Developer
3 9 (17.31%) Software Support Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Support Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) PHP Developer
5 5 (9.615%) Technical Consultant
5 5 (9.615%) Consultant
5 5 (9.615%) LAMP Developer
6 4 (7.692%) IT Support
6 4 (7.692%) Analyst
7 3 (5.769%) IT Support Specialist
7 3 (5.769%) Technical Specialist
7 3 (5.769%) Test Analyst
7 3 (5.769%) Support Specialist
8 2 (3.846%) WebSphere Technical Specialist
8 2 (3.846%) Technical Support
8 2 (3.846%) Junior
8 2 (3.846%) Web Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Junior Developer
8 2 (3.846%) WebSphere Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Digital Media
2 5 (9.615%) VLE
2 5 (9.615%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.846%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.923%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.923%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.923%) Clustering
4 1 (1.923%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (59.62%) Windows
2 4 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.769%) UNIX
3 3 (5.769%) Solaris
4 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (3.846%) Windows Vista
4 2 (3.846%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.923%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.923%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.923%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.23%) Software Engineering
2 9 (17.31%) MVC
3 8 (15.38%) OO
4 6 (11.54%) Network Design
4 6 (11.54%) Web Development
4 6 (11.54%) Change Management
5 4 (7.692%) OOP
6 3 (5.769%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (5.769%) RAD
6 3 (5.769%) OOD
6 3 (5.769%) Performance Testing
6 3 (5.769%) Test Scripting
6 3 (5.769%) Automation Testing
6 3 (5.769%) Business Transformation
7 2 (3.846%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (3.846%) Resource Management
8 1 (1.923%) Incident Management
8 1 (1.923%) Load Balancing
8 1 (1.923%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.923%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (65.38%) SQL
2 22 (42.31%) C++
3 19 (36.54%) Java
4 15 (28.85%) C#
4 15 (28.85%) PL/SQL
5 14 (26.92%) PHP
6 13 (25.00%) Python
7 12 (23.08%) PHP5
8 10 (19.23%) Perl
9 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
10 3 (5.769%) Jython
11 2 (3.846%) Bash shell
12 1 (1.923%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 5 (9.615%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (9.615%) CCNP
2 5 (9.615%) CCNA
3 4 (7.692%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.769%) ISEB
5 1 (1.923%) HNC
5 1 (1.923%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.923%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.923%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.23%) QA
2 1 (1.923%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (9.615%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 26 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (36.54%) Oracle
3 10 (19.23%) JBoss
3 10 (19.23%) Citrix
4 8 (15.38%) VMware
5 6 (11.54%) Cisco
5 6 (11.54%) HP
5 6 (11.54%) Juniper
6 5 (9.615%) CheckPoint
7 4 (7.692%) Red Hat
8 3 (5.769%) Lotus
8 3 (5.769%) IBM