Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Linux skills within the Hampshire 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.

LinkLinux
Location
3 months to
8 Jan 2009
Same period last year
Rank1227
Rank change on same period last yearUp+15
Matching permanent IT job ads401387
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.347 %0.197 %
As % of the category below33.17 %21.93 %
Salaries quoted374356
Average minimum salary£30,211£32,244
Average salary£32,988£35,043
% change on same period last year-5.86 %
Average maximum salary£35,766£37,843
UK excluding London average salary£36,187£35,747
% change on same period last year+1.22 %
Hampshire IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
Hampshire
Matching permanent IT job ads12091765
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.045 %0.901 %
Salaries quoted10071420
Average minimum salary£31,760£32,474
Average salary£34,570£34,764
% change on same period last year-0.55 %
Average maximum salary£37,380£37,053
UK excluding London average salary£34,281£34,122
% change on same period last year+0.46 %
Linux South EastLinux
South East

Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Hampshire Linux Demand Trend

Linux
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux across the Hampshire region.

Hampshire Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
SouthamptonUp+20111£29,709-10.66 %
FarnboroughUp+1459£37,500+4.46 %
BasingstokeUp+1330£34,750-5.30 %
PortsmouthUp+617£33,733+11.78 %
EastleighDown-58£26,750-18.93 %
FarehamUp+17£29,500-27.90 %
WinchesterNew entry-4£27,500-
RingwoodNew entry-3£35,000-
AndoverUp+123£45,000+20.00 %
AldershotNew entry-3£28,000-
EmsworthNew entry-1£35,000-
Linux South EastLinux
South East

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1317 (39.63 %)UNIX
2295 (36.88 %)Windows
3217 (27.13 %)C++
4174 (21.75 %)MySQL
5149 (18.63 %)Degree
6147 (18.38 %)C
7122 (15.25 %)Firewall
8121 (15.13 %)TCP/IP
9111 (13.88 %)Cisco
10110 (13.75 %)Telecoms
11104 (13.00 %)Microsoft
1298 (12.25 %)Java
1395 (11.88 %)HTML
1491 (11.38 %)Red Hat Linux
1589 (11.13 %)C#
1589 (11.13 %)Perl
1687 (10.88 %)SQL
1786 (10.75 %).NET
1885 (10.63 %)Solaris
1885 (10.63 %)DNS
1983 (10.38 %)OO
1983 (10.38 %)XML
2081 (10.13 %)Red Hat
2180 (10.00 %)Oracle
2276 (9.500 %)Pensions
2375 (9.375 %)JavaScript
2375 (9.375 %)Security Cleared
2472 (9.000 %)Apache
2571 (8.875 %)PHP
2665 (8.125 %)Software Engineering

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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.

Hampshire IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
195 (11.88 %)HTML
286 (10.75 %).NET
383 (10.38 %)XML
457 (7.125 %)CSS
542 (5.250 %)STL
634 (4.250 %)LAMP
731 (3.875 %)SOAP
830 (3.750 %)J2EE
927 (3.375 %)WinForms
1026 (3.250 %)AJAX
1123 (2.875 %)Hibernate
1123 (2.875 %)Spring
1123 (2.875 %)MFC
1123 (2.875 %)Struts
1123 (2.875 %)Swing
1221 (2.625 %)XHTML
1221 (2.625 %)CGI
1221 (2.625 %)Ruby on Rails
1316 (2.000 %)ODBC
1316 (2.000 %)ADO
Hampshire IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
172 (9.000 %)Apache
230 (3.750 %)MS Exchange
322 (2.750 %)Exchange Server 2003
420 (2.500 %)SharePoint
57 (0.875 %)GlassFish
66 (0.750 %)Exchange Server 2007
66 (0.750 %)JBoss
75 (0.625 %)IIS
75 (0.625 %)Tomcat
75 (0.625 %)Oracle Spatial
83 (0.375 %)WebSphere Application Server
83 (0.375 %)WebLogic
91 (0.125 %)WebSphere MQ
Hampshire IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
159 (7.375 %)MS Excel
215 (1.875 %)MS Office
38 (1.000 %)Photoshop
42 (0.250 %)MS Project
42 (0.250 %)MATLAB
51 (0.125 %)3ds Max
51 (0.125 %)MS PowerPoint
Hampshire IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (0.250 %)Compiere
21 (0.125 %)Dynamics CRM
Hampshire IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1122 (15.25 %)Firewall
2121 (15.13 %)TCP/IP
385 (10.63 %)DNS
463 (7.875 %)GSM
562 (7.750 %)Internet
651 (6.375 %)CTI
750 (6.250 %)VPN
841 (5.125 %)SAN
939 (4.875 %)SMTP
1034 (4.250 %)UMTS
1131 (3.875 %)Network Security
1230 (3.750 %)LAN
1329 (3.625 %)VLAN
1428 (3.500 %)Wireless
1524 (3.000 %)WAN
1621 (2.625 %)DVB
1716 (2.000 %)3G
1814 (1.750 %)DHCP
1911 (1.375 %)BGP
2010 (1.250 %)Cisco PIX
Hampshire IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1174 (21.75 %)MySQL
233 (4.125 %)SQL Server
329 (3.625 %)Oracle 10g
418 (2.250 %)Oracle 9i
517 (2.125 %)PostgreSQL
614 (1.750 %)Oracle 8/8i
712 (1.500 %)RDBMS
810 (1.250 %)GIS
98 (1.000 %)Data Mining
98 (1.000 %)ETL
98 (1.000 %)Datawarehouse
98 (1.000 %)OLAP
98 (1.000 %)Oracle OLAP
105 (0.625 %)DB2
113 (0.375 %)Oracle Reports
122 (0.250 %)Crystal Reports
122 (0.250 %)SQL Server 2005
122 (0.250 %)Oracle 11g
131 (0.125 %)SQLite
131 (0.125 %)BusinessObjects
Hampshire IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
149 (6.125 %)Visual Studio
221 (2.625 %)Telelogic Synergy
312 (1.500 %)Subversion
410 (1.250 %)WinRunner
58 (1.000 %)Git
67 (0.875 %)Dreamweaver
76 (0.750 %)Eclipse
85 (0.625 %)LoadRunner
94 (0.500 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
103 (0.375 %)ClearCase
103 (0.375 %)Ant
112 (0.250 %)TestDirector
112 (0.250 %)LabVIEW
112 (0.250 %)Bugzilla
121 (0.125 %)JUnit
Hampshire IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1110 (13.75 %)Telecoms
276 (9.500 %)Pensions
350 (6.250 %)Health
436 (4.500 %)Electronics
531 (3.875 %)Multimedia
625 (3.125 %)Insurance
723 (2.875 %)Government
822 (2.750 %)Finance
822 (2.750 %)Retail
916 (2.000 %)Military
1014 (1.750 %)Education
1113 (1.625 %)Law
1212 (1.500 %)3D Graphics
139 (1.125 %)Games
146 (0.750 %)Billing
154 (0.500 %)Manufacturing
154 (0.500 %)Electric
163 (0.375 %)Aerospace
163 (0.375 %)Police
163 (0.375 %)Music
Hampshire IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1172 (21.50 %)Software Engineer
2158 (19.75 %)Developer
397 (12.13 %)Administrator
477 (9.625 %)Systems Administrator
568 (8.500 %)Support Engineer
658 (7.250 %)Graduate
755 (6.875 %)Analyst
842 (5.250 %)Linux Administrator
941 (5.125 %)Junior
1039 (4.875 %)C++ Software Engineer
1137 (4.625 %)Linux Systems Administrator
1236 (4.500 %)Systems Engineer
1333 (4.125 %)Embedded Software Engineer
1333 (4.125 %)PHP Developer
1432 (4.000 %)Software Developer
1529 (3.625 %)Consultant
1628 (3.500 %)C++ Developer
1723 (2.875 %)Web Developer
1723 (2.875 %)UNIX Administrator
1723 (2.875 %)IT Support Engineer
Hampshire IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
152 (6.500 %)Computer Science
239 (4.875 %)Device Driver
336 (4.500 %)Handset
429 (3.625 %)Multithreading
524 (3.000 %)Clustering
620 (2.500 %)MPEG
719 (2.375 %)Replication
812 (1.500 %)Mathematics
910 (1.250 %)STB
910 (1.250 %)DTV
108 (1.000 %)Physics
117 (0.875 %)EPoS
126 (0.750 %)German Language
135 (0.625 %)Cryptography
144 (0.500 %)Speech Recognition
144 (0.500 %)iDTV
153 (0.375 %)Management Information System
153 (0.375 %)Artificial Intelligence
153 (0.375 %)Neural Network
153 (0.375 %)CESG
Hampshire IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1317 (39.63 %)UNIX
2295 (36.88 %)Windows
391 (11.38 %)Red Hat Linux
485 (10.63 %)Solaris
531 (3.875 %)Windows Server 2003
623 (2.875 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
721 (2.625 %)Ubuntu
820 (2.500 %)SUSE
918 (2.250 %)Debian
918 (2.250 %)AIX
1017 (2.125 %)Windows XP
1115 (1.875 %)HPUX
1211 (1.375 %)Windows 2000
136 (0.750 %)Embedded Linux
136 (0.750 %)Windows 2000 Server
145 (0.625 %)Nucleus RTOS
154 (0.500 %)Windows Vista
163 (0.375 %)IRIX
163 (0.375 %)NetWare
172 (0.250 %)Windows NT
Hampshire IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
183 (10.38 %)OO
265 (8.125 %)Software Engineering
359 (7.375 %)UML
437 (4.625 %)ITIL
437 (4.625 %)Load Balancing
529 (3.625 %)Agile Software Development
627 (3.375 %)Disaster Recovery
627 (3.375 %)OOD
725 (3.125 %)Configuration Management
818 (2.250 %)Software Testing
915 (1.875 %)Web Development
915 (1.875 %)OOP
1013 (1.625 %)Test Scripting
1112 (1.500 %)System Testing
1112 (1.500 %)Risk Management
1211 (1.375 %)Business Development
1310 (1.250 %)Time Management
1310 (1.250 %)Service Delivery
1310 (1.250 %)PRINCE2
1310 (1.250 %)Project Management
Hampshire IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1217 (27.13 %)C++
2147 (18.38 %)C
398 (12.25 %)Java
489 (11.13 %)Perl
489 (11.13 %)C#
587 (10.88 %)SQL
675 (9.375 %)JavaScript
771 (8.875 %)PHP
841 (5.125 %)Shell Script
937 (4.625 %)Embedded C
1036 (4.500 %)Python
1126 (3.250 %)Ruby
1220 (2.500 %)PL/SQL
1319 (2.375 %)VC++
1416 (2.000 %)PHP5
1512 (1.500 %)Embedded C++
1611 (1.375 %)Assembly Language
1710 (1.250 %)PHP4
187 (0.875 %)Tcl
195 (0.625 %)Korn
Hampshire IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1149 (18.63 %)Degree
275 (9.375 %)Security Cleared
351 (6.375 %)Cisco Certification
446 (5.750 %)CCNA
527 (3.375 %)ISEB
626 (3.250 %)Microsoft Certification
725 (3.125 %)CCNP
823 (2.875 %)MCSE
921 (2.625 %)CISSP
1013 (1.625 %)SC Cleared
1112 (1.500 %)CCVP
1112 (1.500 %)RHCE
1112 (1.500 %)HND
1210 (1.250 %)CCSP
139 (1.125 %)MCSA
139 (1.125 %)PhD
148 (1.000 %)Oracle Certification
157 (0.875 %)MCP
164 (0.500 %)PRINCE2 Certification
164 (0.500 %)ISTQB
Hampshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
144 (5.500 %)SLA
230 (3.750 %)QA
313 (1.625 %)ISO9001
48 (1.000 %)ISO27001
48 (1.000 %)WCAG
Hampshire IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
140 (5.000 %)Active Directory
210 (1.250 %)VMware Infrastructure
39 (1.125 %)Oracle RAC
39 (1.125 %)NFS
46 (0.750 %)Samba
54 (0.500 %)NetBackup
63 (0.375 %)Backup Exec
72 (0.250 %)Squid
81 (0.125 %)Oracle RMAN
81 (0.125 %)NDS
81 (0.125 %)ISA Server
Hampshire IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
121 (2.625 %)Nagios
29 (1.125 %)Data Guard
33 (0.375 %)MOM
33 (0.375 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
42 (0.250 %)OpenView
42 (0.250 %)CiscoWorks
51 (0.125 %)Tivoli
51 (0.125 %)CONTROL-M
51 (0.125 %)ARCserve
Hampshire IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
1111 (13.88 %)Cisco
2104 (13.00 %)Microsoft
381 (10.13 %)Red Hat
480 (10.00 %)Oracle
548 (6.000 %)Sun
647 (5.875 %)Juniper
739 (4.875 %)VMware
821 (2.625 %)CheckPoint
821 (2.625 %)Telelogic
917 (2.125 %)Intel
917 (2.125 %)NetApp
1013 (1.625 %)IBM
1112 (1.500 %)VERITAS
1210 (1.250 %)HP
139 (1.125 %)Nokia
147 (0.875 %)Remedy
156 (0.750 %)Zend
156 (0.750 %)Novell
164 (0.500 %)Apple
173 (0.375 %)Finjan