The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT jobs advertised for the York 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 York region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 7 31 20
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -11
Permanent jobs citing Linux 76 31 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York 17.88% 7.311% 9.572%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.30% 29.81% 29.46%
Number of salaries quoted 20 9 20
Average salary £33,000 £40,000 £42,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.50% -5.32%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £34,500 £25,900
10% offered a salary of more than £42,750 £42,500 £50,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.94%
All Operating Systems
York
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
122 104 129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York 28.71% 24.53% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 39 59 86
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% +21.21%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £25,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £45,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Linux
North Yorkshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

York 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 York region.

York Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

York Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the York 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.

1 100 (63.69%) UNIX
2 65 (41.40%) Java
3 57 (36.31%) Microsoft
4 53 (33.76%) Tomcat
5 50 (31.85%) Internet
6 49 (31.21%) HTTP
6 49 (31.21%) ITIL
7 37 (23.57%) Service Management
7 37 (23.57%) Workflow
8 36 (22.93%) MS Excel
9 34 (21.66%) Apache
10 33 (21.02%) SQL
10 33 (21.02%) Project Management
11 32 (20.38%) TCP/IP
12 29 (18.47%) Windows
12 29 (18.47%) Jetty
12 29 (18.47%) nginx
12 29 (18.47%) High Availability
13 27 (17.20%) Oracle
14 25 (15.92%) Python
14 25 (15.92%) Load Balancing
15 24 (15.29%) WebSphere
15 24 (15.29%) Risk Management
15 24 (15.29%) XML
16 23 (14.65%) Solaris
17 22 (14.01%) Firewall
17 22 (14.01%) VMware
18 21 (13.38%) VMware Infrastructure
19 20 (12.74%) Video on Demand
19 20 (12.74%) Perl

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the York 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 24 (15.29%) WebSphere
1 24 (15.29%) XML
2 19 (12.10%) SOAP
2 19 (12.10%) REST
3 6 (3.822%) J2EE
3 6 (3.822%) HTML
3 6 (3.822%) Java EE
3 6 (3.822%) Spring
4 1 (0.637%) Symfony
4 1 (0.637%) LAMP
4 1 (0.637%) CSS
4 1 (0.637%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 53 (33.76%) Tomcat
2 34 (21.66%) Apache
3 29 (18.47%) Jetty
3 29 (18.47%) nginx
4 8 (5.096%) IIS
5 5 (3.185%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (3.185%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (3.185%) Amazon S3
5 5 (3.185%) WebLogic
5 5 (3.185%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.274%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (0.637%) Zen Cart
Applications
1 36 (22.93%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.548%) QuarkXPress
2 4 (2.548%) InDesign
3 2 (1.274%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 50 (31.85%) Internet
2 49 (31.21%) HTTP
3 32 (20.38%) TCP/IP
4 22 (14.01%) Firewall
5 19 (12.10%) LDAP
5 19 (12.10%) SAN
5 19 (12.10%) SSH
5 19 (12.10%) NAS
6 4 (2.548%) Network Security
7 1 (0.637%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.637%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.637%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.637%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.637%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.637%) NetScreen
7 1 (0.637%) DNS
7 1 (0.637%) OSPF
7 1 (0.637%) BGP
7 1 (0.637%) LAN
7 1 (0.637%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.096%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.185%) SimpleDB
3 4 (2.548%) Pentaho
4 3 (1.911%) MySQL
5 2 (1.274%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.637%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.637%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.637%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 19 (12.10%) Maven
1 19 (12.10%) MSBuild
2 2 (1.274%) MSI
3 1 (0.637%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (2.548%) French Language
1 4 (2.548%) German Language
1 4 (2.548%) Portuguese Language
1 4 (2.548%) Spanish Language
1 4 (2.548%) Swedish Language
2 1 (0.637%) Retail
2 1 (0.637%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (26.75%) Project Manager
2 35 (22.29%) Administrator
3 34 (21.66%) Technical Leader
4 33 (21.02%) Systems Administrator
5 30 (19.11%) Linux Administrator
6 28 (17.83%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 27 (17.20%) Infrastructure Manager
8 25 (15.92%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 20 (12.74%) Linux Engineer
10 17 (10.83%) UNIX Engineer
10 17 (10.83%) Technical Manager
10 17 (10.83%) Technical Project Manager
11 16 (10.19%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 16 (10.19%) Senior UNIX Engineer
12 7 (4.459%) Developer
13 6 (3.822%) Graduate
13 6 (3.822%) Graduate Developer
13 6 (3.822%) Java Developer
13 6 (3.822%) Graduate Java Developer
14 5 (3.185%) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.74%) Video on Demand
2 19 (12.10%) Enterprise Storage
2 19 (12.10%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (3.822%) Computer Science
4 5 (3.185%) Replication
5 2 (1.274%) New Media
6 1 (0.637%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.637%) Derivative
6 1 (0.637%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 100 (63.69%) UNIX
2 29 (18.47%) Windows
3 23 (14.65%) Solaris
4 6 (3.822%) Android
4 6 (3.822%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.185%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.548%) Debian
7 3 (1.911%) SUSE
8 1 (0.637%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.637%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.637%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (31.21%) ITIL
2 37 (23.57%) Service Management
2 37 (23.57%) Workflow
3 33 (21.02%) Project Management
4 29 (18.47%) High Availability
5 25 (15.92%) Load Balancing
6 24 (15.29%) Risk Management
7 18 (11.46%) Project Planning
7 18 (11.46%) PRINCE2
8 5 (3.185%) Problem Management
8 5 (3.185%) CRM
9 4 (2.548%) Data Management
9 4 (2.548%) Master Data Management
10 2 (1.274%) E-Commerce
10 2 (1.274%) Software Distribution
11 1 (0.637%) Unit Testing
11 1 (0.637%) SIEM
11 1 (0.637%) Web Application Development
11 1 (0.637%) Asset Management
11 1 (0.637%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 65 (41.40%) Java
2 33 (21.02%) SQL
3 25 (15.92%) Python
4 20 (12.74%) Perl
5 19 (12.10%) Bash shell
6 7 (4.459%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.274%) PHP
8 1 (0.637%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 18 (11.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 6 (3.822%) Degree
3 1 (0.637%) CCSE
3 1 (0.637%) CCNP
3 1 (0.637%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.637%) OCP
3 1 (0.637%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.006%) SLA
2 4 (2.548%) QA
System Software
1 21 (13.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (6.369%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.274%) VMware ESX
4 1 (0.637%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.637%) vSphere
4 1 (0.637%) Snort
4 1 (0.637%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (3.185%) MOM
2 2 (1.274%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (1.274%) SCCM
3 1 (0.637%) Plesk
3 1 (0.637%) Nessus
Vendors
1 57 (36.31%) Microsoft
2 27 (17.20%) Oracle
3 22 (14.01%) VMware
4 19 (12.10%) JBoss
4 19 (12.10%) Sun
5 14 (8.917%) Cisco
6 6 (3.822%) Adobe
7 4 (2.548%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.911%) Juniper
9 2 (1.274%) IBM
9 2 (1.274%) FrontRange
9 2 (1.274%) Altiris
9 2 (1.274%) Akamai
10 1 (0.637%) Zend
10 1 (0.637%) Infoblox
10 1 (0.637%) Imperva
10 1 (0.637%) F5
10 1 (0.637%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.637%) Blue Coat
10 1 (0.637%) Citrix
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