Yorkshire Linux Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Linux skills within the Yorkshire 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 24 July 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 Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Droitwich Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable 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 Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gourock Grantham Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames 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 Kent Kings Langley Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Malton Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket 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 Romford Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby 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 Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Witham Woking Wokingham Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	29
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching permanent IT job ads	750	592
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.395 %	0.243 %
As % of the category below	28.59 %	23.24 %
Salaries quoted	616	446
Average minimum salary	£32,075	£29,986
Average salary	£34,036	£32,297
% change on same period last year	+5.38 %
Average maximum salary	£35,996	£34,609
UK excluding London average salary	£36,382	£36,366
% change on same period last year	+0.04 %
Operating Systems Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2623	2547
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.381 %	1.045 %
Salaries quoted	2183	2086
Average minimum salary	£29,376	£28,653
Average salary	£31,249	£30,322
% change on same period last year	+3.05 %
Average maximum salary	£33,122	£31,991
UK excluding London average salary	£34,479	£34,989
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
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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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
West Yorkshire	+2	273	£33,510	+8.10 %
South Yorkshire	+3	241	£33,789	+3.58 %
North Yorkshire	+17	173	£35,523	+0.12 %
East Yorkshire	+29	60	£31,902	+13.06 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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.

1 672 (43.55 %) UNIX 2 446 (28.90 %) SQL 3 411 (26.64 %) MySQL 4 402 (26.05 %) Windows 5 366 (23.72 %) Apache 6 362 (23.46 %) Java 7 349 (22.62 %) Oracle 8 336 (21.78 %) PHP 9 334 (21.65 %) Solaris 10 287 (18.60 %) TCP/IP 11 266 (17.24 %) C 12 247 (16.01 %) JavaScript 13 244 (15.81 %) XML 14 240 (15.55 %) Internet 15 233 (15.10 %) C++

16 209 (13.55 %) Perl 17 197 (12.77 %) SQL Server 18 185 (11.99 %) Firewall 19 182 (11.80 %) DB2 20 181 (11.73 %) DNS 21 179 (11.60 %) Finance 22 169 (10.95 %) Red Hat 23 158 (10.24 %) Degree 24 156 (10.11 %) OO 24 156 (10.11 %) AIX 25 153 (9.916 %) HTML 25 153 (9.916 %) Cisco 26 146 (9.462 %) CSS 27 135 (8.749 %) LAN 27 135 (8.749 %) Oracle 9i

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 1 244 (15.81 %) XML 2 153 (9.916 %) HTML 3 146 (9.462 %) CSS 4 118 (7.647 %) J2EE 5 114 (7.388 %) WebSphere 6 108 (6.999 %) .NET 6 108 (6.999 %) JSP 7 90 (5.833 %) XSLT 8 89 (5.768 %) XHTML 9 78 (5.055 %) AJAX 10 66 (4.277 %) Servlets 11 60 (3.889 %) LAMP 12 52 (3.370 %) Ruby on Rails 13 47 (3.046 %) Struts 14 46 (2.981 %) WebServices 15 41 (2.657 %) Hibernate 16 39 (2.528 %) Spring 17 34 (2.203 %) SOAP 18 30 (1.944 %) Middleware 19 28 (1.815 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 366 (23.72 %) Apache 2 110 (7.129 %) Tomcat 3 107 (6.935 %) JBoss 4 75 (4.861 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 71 (4.601 %) MS Exchange 6 60 (3.889 %) WebLogic 7 51 (3.305 %) SharePoint 8 42 (2.722 %) IIS 9 24 (1.555 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 22 (1.426 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 19 (1.231 %) MQSeries 12 18 (1.167 %) CMS 13 15 (0.972 %) WebSphere MQ 14 12 (0.778 %) Oracle Application Server 14 12 (0.778 %) Exchange Server 2007 15 8 (0.518 %) Lotus Domino 16 7 (0.454 %) Oracle HTTP Server 17 6 (0.389 %) BizTalk Server 17 6 (0.389 %) iPlanet 18 4 (0.259 %) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications 1 57 (3.694 %) MS Excel 2 28 (1.815 %) Photoshop 3 21 (1.361 %) MS Visio 4 12 (0.778 %) MS Project 5 8 (0.518 %) MS Office 6 1 (0.065 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 1 (0.065 %) Pro/ENGINEER 6 1 (0.065 %) NASTRAN 6 1 (0.065 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 3 (0.194 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (0.065 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (0.065 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.065 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.065 %) Oracle iRecruitment 2 1 (0.065 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer
Communications & Networking 1 287 (18.60 %) TCP/IP 2 240 (15.55 %) Internet 3 185 (11.99 %) Firewall 4 181 (11.73 %) DNS 5 135 (8.749 %) LAN 6 127 (8.231 %) WAN 7 93 (6.027 %) SAN 8 84 (5.444 %) VPN 9 65 (4.213 %) DVB 10 64 (4.148 %) DOCSIS 11 48 (3.111 %) VLAN 12 47 (3.046 %) SNMP 13 40 (2.592 %) RTP 14 37 (2.398 %) RTSP 15 33 (2.139 %) SMTP 16 31 (2.009 %) DHCP 17 30 (1.944 %) FTP 17 30 (1.944 %) LDAP 18 26 (1.685 %) Intranet 19 23 (1.491 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 411 (26.64 %) MySQL 2 197 (12.77 %) SQL Server 3 182 (11.80 %) DB2 4 135 (8.749 %) Oracle 9i 5 125 (8.101 %) RDBMS 6 115 (7.453 %) Oracle 10g 7 68 (4.407 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 37 (2.398 %) Informix 9 20 (1.296 %) Oracle Reports 10 12 (0.778 %) Datawarehouse 11 9 (0.583 %) PostgreSQL 12 7 (0.454 %) NonStop SQL 12 7 (0.454 %) SQL Server 2005 13 5 (0.324 %) SQL Server 2000 14 3 (0.194 %) FileMaker 14 3 (0.194 %) Crystal Reports 15 2 (0.130 %) DB2 UDB 15 2 (0.130 %) SQL Server 7 15 2 (0.130 %) OLTP 16 1 (0.065 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 49 (3.176 %) JUnit 2 24 (1.555 %) Eclipse 3 21 (1.361 %) Subversion 4 15 (0.972 %) Ant 5 12 (0.778 %) WebLOAD 6 8 (0.518 %) ClearQuest 6 8 (0.518 %) Oracle Forms 6 8 (0.518 %) Flash 6 8 (0.518 %) ClearCase 7 6 (0.389 %) Oracle APEX 8 5 (0.324 %) NUnit 9 3 (0.194 %) HttpUnit 9 3 (0.194 %) Bugzilla 10 2 (0.130 %) Log4j 10 2 (0.130 %) WebSpeed 10 2 (0.130 %) Dreamweaver 11 1 (0.065 %) TestDirector 11 1 (0.065 %) QuickTest Pro 11 1 (0.065 %) LoadRunner 11 1 (0.065 %) Visual Studio	General 1 179 (11.60 %) Finance 2 71 (4.601 %) Pensions 3 70 (4.537 %) Telecoms 4 60 (3.889 %) Health 5 44 (2.852 %) Financial Institution 6 38 (2.463 %) Education 7 36 (2.333 %) Electronics 8 35 (2.268 %) Multimedia 9 26 (1.685 %) Insurance 10 22 (1.426 %) Automotive 11 21 (1.361 %) Retail 12 19 (1.231 %) Banking 13 13 (0.843 %) Marketing 14 12 (0.778 %) Publishing 14 12 (0.778 %) Games 15 6 (0.389 %) Online Banking 16 5 (0.324 %) Auditing 16 5 (0.324 %) Law 16 5 (0.324 %) Legal 17 3 (0.194 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 405 (26.25 %) Developer 2 242 (15.68 %) Administrator 3 168 (10.89 %) DBA 4 152 (9.851 %) Systems Administrator 5 147 (9.527 %) Software Engineer 6 127 (8.231 %) PHP Developer 7 123 (7.971 %) Web Developer 8 122 (7.907 %) Analyst 9 116 (7.518 %) Oracle DBA 10 112 (7.259 %) Java Developer 11 84 (5.444 %) Linux Administrator 12 78 (5.055 %) Embedded Software Engineer 13 68 (4.407 %) Support Engineer 13 68 (4.407 %) Linux Systems Administrator 14 60 (3.889 %) Team Leader 15 59 (3.824 %) UNIX Administrator 16 58 (3.759 %) Senior Developer 17 55 (3.564 %) Network Analyst 18 52 (3.370 %) Linux Engineer 19 49 (3.176 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 84 (5.444 %) MPEG 2 55 (3.564 %) DTV 3 40 (2.592 %) Computer Science 4 31 (2.009 %) Clustering 5 28 (1.815 %) STB 6 23 (1.491 %) W3C 7 22 (1.426 %) Mainframe 8 19 (1.231 %) IPTV 9 17 (1.102 %) Client/Server 10 16 (1.037 %) HACMP 10 16 (1.037 %) E-Learning 10 16 (1.037 %) Web 2.0 11 10 (0.648 %) Social Network 12 9 (0.583 %) Device Driver 12 9 (0.583 %) Smartcard 13 7 (0.454 %) N-Tier 13 7 (0.454 %) AS400 14 6 (0.389 %) NHS 14 6 (0.389 %) Blog 15 5 (0.324 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 672 (43.55 %) UNIX 2 402 (26.05 %) Windows 3 334 (21.65 %) Solaris 4 156 (10.11 %) AIX 5 85 (5.509 %) Embedded Linux 6 67 (4.342 %) Windows 2000 7 61 (3.953 %) VxWorks 8 54 (3.500 %) SUSE 9 44 (2.852 %) Windows XP 10 36 (2.333 %) Windows Server 2003 11 31 (2.009 %) Debian 12 20 (1.296 %) Tru64 13 19 (1.231 %) Nucleus RTOS 14 17 (1.102 %) Fedora 15 13 (0.843 %) HPUX 16 12 (0.778 %) Windows NT 17 11 (0.713 %) Ubuntu 18 8 (0.518 %) VMS 18 8 (0.518 %) NetWare 19 7 (0.454 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 156 (10.11 %) OO 2 115 (7.453 %) ITIL 3 77 (4.990 %) Load Balancing 4 64 (4.148 %) OOP 5 54 (3.500 %) OOD 6 52 (3.370 %) UML 7 50 (3.240 %) Web Development 8 47 (3.046 %) Project Management 9 40 (2.592 %) E-business 10 36 (2.333 %) E-Commerce 11 33 (2.139 %) Disaster Recovery 12 27 (1.750 %) Software Engineering 13 22 (1.426 %) Quality Management 14 21 (1.361 %) Agile Software Development 15 18 (1.167 %) Content Management 16 17 (1.102 %) Performance Management 17 16 (1.037 %) Service Delivery 18 15 (0.972 %) Information Security 19 13 (0.843 %) Project Planning 20 12 (0.778 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 446 (28.90 %) SQL 2 362 (23.46 %) Java 3 336 (21.78 %) PHP 4 266 (17.24 %) C 5 247 (16.01 %) JavaScript 6 233 (15.10 %) C++ 7 209 (13.55 %) Perl 8 103 (6.675 %) Shell Script 9 96 (6.222 %) Ruby 10 78 (5.055 %) PL/SQL 11 70 (4.537 %) PHP5 12 65 (4.213 %) Embedded C 13 54 (3.500 %) PHP4 14 49 (3.176 %) Python 15 44 (2.852 %) C# 16 36 (2.333 %) Embedded C++ 17 31 (2.009 %) VB 18 12 (0.778 %) DHTML 19 11 (0.713 %) VBScript 20 7 (0.454 %) RPG	Qualifications 1 158 (10.24 %) Degree 2 43 (2.787 %) Microsoft Certification 3 32 (2.074 %) Cisco Certification 4 28 (1.815 %) CCNA 5 25 (1.620 %) HND 6 19 (1.231 %) MCSE 7 15 (0.972 %) ITIL Certification 8 13 (0.843 %) MCP 9 12 (0.778 %) CCNP 10 9 (0.583 %) MCSA 11 8 (0.518 %) Oracle Certification 12 5 (0.324 %) IBM Certification 13 4 (0.259 %) CCVP 13 4 (0.259 %) CCIE 13 4 (0.259 %) CCDP 14 3 (0.194 %) OCP 15 2 (0.130 %) CCA 15 2 (0.130 %) Citrix Certification 15 2 (0.130 %) CISSP 15 2 (0.130 %) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 18 (1.167 %) QA 2 17 (1.102 %) WAI 3 14 (0.907 %) SLA 4 9 (0.583 %) PCI DSS 5 5 (0.324 %) ISO27001 6 3 (0.194 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 119 (7.712 %) Oracle RAC 2 110 (7.129 %) Active Directory 3 92 (5.962 %) Oracle RMAN 4 24 (1.555 %) ISA Server 5 19 (1.231 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 16 (1.037 %) NetBackup 7 9 (0.583 %) Terminal Services 8 7 (0.454 %) Squid 9 5 (0.324 %) NFS 10 4 (0.259 %) Samba 10 4 (0.259 %) VMware ESX 10 4 (0.259 %) Novell eDirectory 11 3 (0.194 %) Citrix Presentation Server 11 3 (0.194 %) Backup Exec 11 3 (0.194 %) Terminal Server 12 1 (0.065 %) NDS 12 1 (0.065 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 42 (2.722 %) Nagios 2 20 (1.296 %) OpenView 3 18 (1.167 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 9 (0.583 %) Tivoli 5 5 (0.324 %) Legato 6 4 (0.259 %) ZENworks 6 4 (0.259 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 6 4 (0.259 %) Oracle Statspack 7 3 (0.194 %) HP Data Protector 7 3 (0.194 %) CiscoWorks 7 3 (0.194 %) Unicenter 7 3 (0.194 %) MOM 7 3 (0.194 %) ARCserve 8 2 (0.130 %) EMC TimeFinder 8 2 (0.130 %) WSUS 9 1 (0.065 %) Netcool 9 1 (0.065 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 349 (22.62 %) Oracle 2 169 (10.95 %) Red Hat 3 153 (9.916 %) Cisco 4 120 (7.777 %) Microsoft 5 109 (7.064 %) Sun 6 108 (6.999 %) IBM 7 73 (4.731 %) VMware 8 59 (3.824 %) HP 9 51 (3.305 %) Citrix 10 46 (2.981 %) VERITAS 11 24 (1.555 %) Websense 11 24 (1.555 %) Juniper 11 24 (1.555 %) LANDesk 12 21 (1.361 %) EMC 13 19 (1.231 %) NetApp 14 18 (1.167 %) Remedy 15 16 (1.037 %) Nokia 16 14 (0.907 %) Hitachi 17 13 (0.843 %) OpenTV 18 12 (0.778 %) CheckPoint