England Linux Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Linux skills within the England 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 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Bargoed Barnet Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bexhill-On-Sea Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Brixham Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Diss Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely Emsworth England Epsom Essex Evesham Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kendal Kent Kilmarnock Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham Monmouth Monmouthshire Much Wenlock Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Ringwood Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thetford Tonbridge Torquay Towcester Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Whitstable Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	21	22
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	7879	11735
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	6.810 %	5.989 %
As % of the category below	29.29 %	25.05 %
Salaries quoted	6846	9692
Average minimum salary	£37,457	£38,832
Average salary	£40,723	£42,451
% change on same period last year	-4.07 %
Average maximum salary	£43,990	£46,070
UK excluding London average salary	£36,187	£35,747
% change on same period last year	+1.22 %
Operating Systems England
Matching permanent IT job ads	26897	46837
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	23.25 %	23.90 %
Salaries quoted	23230	38568
Average minimum salary	£35,529	£36,065
Average salary	£38,291	£38,978
% change on same period last year	-1.76 %
Average maximum salary	£41,052	£41,891
UK excluding London average salary	£34,281	£34,122
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
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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 England 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 England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux across the England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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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 England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. 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	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
London	+2	3329	£48,228	-3.45 %
South East	+1	1751	£36,225	-5.16 %
East of England	+10	871	£39,717	+7.68 %
South West	+5	587	£35,906	+6.43 %
Yorkshire	+9	466	£34,566	+3.59 %
West Midlands	-6	321	£33,994	+3.37 %
North West	-16	309	£34,067	+10.91 %
East Midlands	+5	202	£32,558	-1.08 %
North East	+29	82	£30,214	+7.16 %
Midlands	+20	35	£53,339	+30.19 %
South Coast	+7	4	£45,000	+39.53 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 8773 (47.04 %) UNIX 2 6884 (36.91 %) Windows 3 4630 (24.82 %) SQL 4 4012 (21.51 %) Java 5 3806 (20.41 %) Oracle 6 3652 (19.58 %) MySQL 7 3634 (19.48 %) Solaris 8 3369 (18.06 %) Apache 9 3346 (17.94 %) Perl 10 3212 (17.22 %) Finance 11 3158 (16.93 %) C++ 12 3078 (16.50 %) PHP 13 2670 (14.32 %) Red Hat Linux 14 2635 (14.13 %) Red Hat 15 2206 (11.83 %) Degree

16 2156 (11.56 %) C 17 2146 (11.51 %) SQL Server 18 2060 (11.04 %) TCP/IP 19 2004 (10.74 %) XML 20 1997 (10.71 %) JavaScript 21 1850 (9.919 %) HTML 22 1689 (9.056 %) Microsoft 23 1631 (8.745 %) OO 24 1613 (8.648 %) Windows Server 2003 25 1527 (8.187 %) Firewall 26 1523 (8.166 %) SAN 27 1501 (8.048 %) Cisco 28 1494 (8.010 %) CSS 29 1448 (7.764 %) Shell Script 30 1383 (7.415 %) Internet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 2004 (10.74 %) XML 2 1850 (9.919 %) HTML 3 1494 (8.010 %) CSS 4 1375 (7.372 %) J2EE 5 1110 (5.951 %) .NET 6 961 (5.153 %) LAMP 7 897 (4.809 %) AJAX 8 822 (4.407 %) XHTML 9 801 (4.295 %) WebServices 10 587 (3.147 %) JSP 11 549 (2.944 %) WebSphere 12 539 (2.890 %) Spring 13 428 (2.295 %) Hibernate 14 421 (2.257 %) Middleware 15 365 (1.957 %) SOAP 16 337 (1.807 %) Servlets 17 310 (1.662 %) STL 18 306 (1.641 %) ASP.NET 19 300 (1.608 %) Flash 20 291 (1.560 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 3369 (18.06 %) Apache 2 1122 (6.016 %) Tomcat 3 733 (3.930 %) MS Exchange 4 664 (3.560 %) IIS 5 532 (2.852 %) JBoss 6 513 (2.751 %) WebLogic 7 397 (2.129 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 230 (1.233 %) SharePoint 9 229 (1.228 %) CMS 10 150 (0.804 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 147 (0.788 %) ColdFusion 12 130 (0.697 %) Lotus Notes 13 123 (0.659 %) Exchange Server 2007 14 114 (0.611 %) Oracle Application Server 15 100 (0.536 %) Drupal 16 86 (0.461 %) MQSeries 17 84 (0.450 %) WebSphere MQ 18 68 (0.365 %) Exchange Server 2000 19 58 (0.311 %) SAS 20 52 (0.279 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 960 (5.147 %) MS Excel 2 301 (1.614 %) MS Office 3 156 (0.836 %) MS Visio 4 122 (0.654 %) Photoshop 5 39 (0.209 %) MATLAB 6 36 (0.193 %) MS Project 7 29 (0.155 %) Fireworks 8 21 (0.113 %) MS PowerPoint 9 19 (0.102 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 16 (0.086 %) Spreadsheet 11 12 (0.064 %) Quicktime 12 9 (0.048 %) AutoCAD 12 9 (0.048 %) CA Clarity 13 7 (0.038 %) InDesign 13 7 (0.038 %) CATIA 13 7 (0.038 %) Acrobat 14 6 (0.032 %) ImageReady 15 5 (0.027 %) Shockwave 15 5 (0.027 %) NASTRAN 15 5 (0.027 %) Abaqus	Business Applications 1 142 (0.761 %) Oracle Applications 2 138 (0.740 %) Oracle EBS 3 113 (0.606 %) Oracle 11i 4 39 (0.209 %) RMDS 5 23 (0.123 %) Oracle EBS R12 6 22 (0.118 %) Oracle Financials 7 20 (0.107 %) Summit 8 15 (0.080 %) WebTrends 9 9 (0.048 %) PeopleSoft Financials 9 9 (0.048 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 9 9 (0.048 %) SAP Retail 10 8 (0.043 %) MFGPRO 11 5 (0.027 %) SalesLogix 11 5 (0.027 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 12 4 (0.021 %) Murex MxG2000 13 3 (0.016 %) Oracle Manufacturing 13 3 (0.016 %) Beauchamp 13 3 (0.016 %) Dynamics CRM 13 3 (0.016 %) Academy Housing 14 2 (0.011 %) Compiere
Communications & Networking 1 2060 (11.04 %) TCP/IP 2 1527 (8.187 %) Firewall 3 1523 (8.166 %) SAN 4 1383 (7.415 %) Internet 5 1337 (7.169 %) DNS 6 907 (4.863 %) LAN 7 858 (4.600 %) WAN 8 639 (3.426 %) VPN 9 401 (2.150 %) DHCP 10 398 (2.134 %) HTTP 11 392 (2.102 %) SMTP 12 352 (1.887 %) Wireless 13 320 (1.716 %) VoIP 14 309 (1.657 %) LDAP 15 270 (1.448 %) Network Security 16 252 (1.351 %) SSL 17 251 (1.346 %) FTP 18 226 (1.212 %) Intranet 19 199 (1.067 %) SNMP 20 184 (0.987 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3652 (19.58 %) MySQL 2 2146 (11.51 %) SQL Server 3 897 (4.809 %) Oracle 10g 4 636 (3.410 %) RDBMS 5 466 (2.499 %) Oracle 9i 6 430 (2.306 %) SQL Server 2005 7 345 (1.850 %) DB2 8 342 (1.834 %) SQL Server 2000 9 264 (1.415 %) PostgreSQL 10 254 (1.362 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 152 (0.815 %) Oracle Reports 12 140 (0.751 %) Oracle 11g 13 133 (0.713 %) Datawarehouse 14 94 (0.504 %) Informix 15 86 (0.461 %) GIS 16 71 (0.381 %) Oracle Discoverer 17 67 (0.359 %) ETL 18 55 (0.295 %) TOAD 19 52 (0.279 %) Data Mining 20 44 (0.236 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 496 (2.659 %) Subversion 2 376 (2.016 %) Eclipse 3 303 (1.625 %) Ant 4 251 (1.346 %) JUnit 5 166 (0.890 %) Visual Studio 6 123 (0.659 %) ClearCase 7 100 (0.536 %) Oracle Forms 8 77 (0.413 %) Dreamweaver 9 58 (0.311 %) Selenium 10 57 (0.306 %) Log4j 11 45 (0.241 %) LoadRunner 12 42 (0.225 %) PVCS 12 42 (0.225 %) JIRA 13 35 (0.188 %) VSS/SourceSafe 14 29 (0.155 %) Bugzilla 15 27 (0.145 %) NUnit 16 25 (0.134 %) ClearQuest 17 24 (0.129 %) WinRunner 17 24 (0.129 %) Telelogic Synergy 18 22 (0.118 %) MSI	General 1 3212 (17.22 %) Finance 2 1259 (6.750 %) Banking 3 799 (4.284 %) Telecoms 4 737 (3.952 %) Pensions 5 654 (3.507 %) Investment Banking 6 591 (3.169 %) Health 7 478 (2.563 %) Insurance 8 468 (2.509 %) Marketing 9 420 (2.252 %) Front Office 10 416 (2.230 %) Games 11 373 (2.000 %) Education 12 251 (1.346 %) Retail 13 233 (1.249 %) Publishing 14 221 (1.185 %) Electronics 15 214 (1.147 %) Government 16 181 (0.970 %) Financial Institution 17 160 (0.858 %) Multimedia 18 146 (0.783 %) Back Office 19 116 (0.622 %) Advertising 20 107 (0.574 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 4996 (26.79 %) Developer 2 2914 (15.62 %) Administrator 3 2054 (11.01 %) Systems Administrator 4 1672 (8.965 %) Analyst 5 1245 (6.675 %) Software Engineer 6 1150 (6.166 %) Java Developer 7 967 (5.185 %) Linux Administrator 8 941 (5.045 %) PHP Developer 9 928 (4.976 %) DBA 10 837 (4.488 %) Senior Developer 10 837 (4.488 %) UNIX Administrator 11 829 (4.445 %) Support Engineer 12 800 (4.289 %) Linux Systems Administrator 13 769 (4.123 %) Support Analyst 14 716 (3.839 %) Oracle DBA 15 699 (3.748 %) Consultant 16 671 (3.598 %) Web Developer 17 666 (3.571 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 18 645 (3.458 %) C++ Developer 19 604 (3.238 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 878 (4.708 %) Computer Science 2 439 (2.354 %) Clustering 3 412 (2.209 %) Derivative 4 307 (1.646 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 285 (1.528 %) Mathematics 6 276 (1.480 %) Multithreading 7 275 (1.474 %) Device Driver 8 262 (1.405 %) Equities 9 245 (1.314 %) Replication 10 174 (0.933 %) Blackberry 11 167 (0.895 %) Client/Server 12 151 (0.810 %) Web 2.0 13 146 (0.783 %) Fixed Income 14 138 (0.740 %) IPTV 15 134 (0.718 %) French Language 16 126 (0.676 %) iSeries 17 125 (0.670 %) HACMP 18 124 (0.665 %) W3C 19 123 (0.659 %) STB 20 121 (0.649 %) Physics
Operating Systems 1 8773 (47.04 %) UNIX 2 6884 (36.91 %) Windows 3 3634 (19.48 %) Solaris 4 2670 (14.32 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1613 (8.648 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1006 (5.394 %) AIX 7 746 (4.000 %) Windows XP 8 689 (3.694 %) HPUX 9 619 (3.319 %) Windows 2000 10 450 (2.413 %) SUSE 11 428 (2.295 %) Debian 12 366 (1.962 %) Embedded Linux 13 343 (1.839 %) Windows 2000 Server 14 303 (1.625 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 15 229 (1.228 %) Windows Vista 16 197 (1.056 %) CentOS 17 195 (1.046 %) Ubuntu 18 169 (0.906 %) Fedora 19 159 (0.853 %) Mac OS X 20 142 (0.761 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 1631 (8.745 %) OO 2 784 (4.204 %) E-Commerce 3 716 (3.839 %) ITIL 4 684 (3.667 %) Web Development 5 604 (3.238 %) Project Management 6 569 (3.051 %) UML 7 505 (2.708 %) Agile Software Development 8 498 (2.670 %) Software Engineering 9 453 (2.429 %) OOP 10 380 (2.037 %) Disaster Recovery 11 334 (1.791 %) OOD 12 292 (1.566 %) Algorithmic Trading 13 283 (1.517 %) Electronic Trading 14 254 (1.362 %) SOA 15 245 (1.314 %) Migration 16 234 (1.255 %) Load Balancing 17 217 (1.163 %) Content Management 18 208 (1.115 %) Unit Testing 19 203 (1.088 %) Configuration Management 20 198 (1.062 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 4630 (24.82 %) SQL 2 4012 (21.51 %) Java 3 3346 (17.94 %) Perl 4 3158 (16.93 %) C++ 5 3078 (16.50 %) PHP 6 2156 (11.56 %) C 7 1997 (10.71 %) JavaScript 8 1448 (7.764 %) Shell Script 9 1329 (7.126 %) Python 10 993 (5.324 %) C# 11 722 (3.871 %) PL/SQL 12 519 (2.783 %) PHP5 13 465 (2.493 %) Ruby 14 340 (1.823 %) Embedded C 15 295 (1.582 %) VB 16 227 (1.217 %) Korn 17 219 (1.174 %) Transact-SQL 18 166 (0.890 %) PHP4 19 164 (0.879 %) VBScript 20 154 (0.826 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 2206 (11.83 %) Degree 2 654 (3.507 %) Microsoft Certification 3 514 (2.756 %) MCSE 4 509 (2.729 %) Cisco Certification 5 420 (2.252 %) Security Cleared 6 389 (2.086 %) CCNA 7 216 (1.158 %) RHCE 8 203 (1.088 %) CCNP 9 146 (0.783 %) MCP 10 135 (0.724 %) SC Cleared 11 131 (0.702 %) Oracle Certification 12 111 (0.595 %) MCSA 13 99 (0.531 %) PhD 14 91 (0.488 %) ISEB 14 91 (0.488 %) CISSP 15 90 (0.483 %) OCP 16 84 (0.450 %) RHCT 17 81 (0.434 %) ITIL Certification 18 78 (0.418 %) HND 19 72 (0.386 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 431 (2.311 %) QA 2 333 (1.785 %) SLA 3 50 (0.268 %) ISO27001 4 45 (0.241 %) ISO9001 5 31 (0.166 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 27 (0.145 %) WAI 6 27 (0.145 %) BS7799 7 16 (0.086 %) ISO9000 8 14 (0.075 %) PCI DSS 8 14 (0.075 %) JTAG 9 8 (0.043 %) WCAG 10 4 (0.021 %) HIPAA 11 3 (0.016 %) ISO17799 12 2 (0.011 %) COBIT 12 2 (0.011 %) HL7 13 1 (0.005 %) GAMP	System Software 1 1094 (5.866 %) Active Directory 2 492 (2.638 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 447 (2.397 %) Oracle RAC 4 382 (2.048 %) Oracle RMAN 5 358 (1.919 %) NFS 6 249 (1.335 %) NetBackup 7 218 (1.169 %) VMware ESX 8 101 (0.542 %) Samba 9 90 (0.483 %) Terminal Services 10 74 (0.397 %) Backup Exec 11 60 (0.322 %) Citrix Presentation Server 12 54 (0.290 %) Squid 13 50 (0.268 %) ISA Server 14 37 (0.198 %) Xen 15 28 (0.150 %) Terminal Server 16 25 (0.134 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 17 23 (0.123 %) VMware Server 18 18 (0.097 %) Nmap 19 14 (0.075 %) Cronacle 20 13 (0.070 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 284 (1.523 %) Data Guard 2 273 (1.464 %) Nagios 3 166 (0.890 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 147 (0.788 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 143 (0.767 %) Tivoli 6 98 (0.525 %) Legato 7 80 (0.429 %) MOM 8 65 (0.349 %) OpenView 9 63 (0.338 %) EMC NetWorker 10 53 (0.284 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 11 42 (0.225 %) SCOM 12 40 (0.214 %) HP Data Protector 12 40 (0.214 %) Nessus 13 39 (0.209 %) BMC PATROL 14 33 (0.177 %) ZENworks 15 29 (0.155 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 16 26 (0.139 %) AutoSys 17 20 (0.107 %) CiscoWorks 18 18 (0.097 %) WSUS 19 17 (0.091 %) CONTROL-M	Vendors 1 3806 (20.41 %) Oracle 2 2635 (14.13 %) Red Hat 3 1689 (9.056 %) Microsoft 4 1501 (8.048 %) Cisco 5 1184 (6.348 %) VMware 6 1018 (5.458 %) HP 7 967 (5.185 %) Sun 8 880 (4.718 %) IBM 9 601 (3.222 %) Sybase 10 544 (2.917 %) VERITAS 11 527 (2.826 %) Citrix 12 328 (1.759 %) EMC 13 289 (1.550 %) NetApp 14 279 (1.496 %) CheckPoint 15 214 (1.147 %) Reuters 16 202 (1.083 %) Zend 17 193 (1.035 %) Juniper 18 173 (0.928 %) Symantec 19 164 (0.879 %) Symbian 20 162 (0.869 %) Lotus