Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Linux skills within the London 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
Rank2022
Rank change on same period last yearUp+2
Matching permanent IT job ads33295907
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled2.877 %3.015 %
As % of the category below29.17 %26.83 %
Salaries quoted27584694
Average minimum salary£44,176£45,742
Average salary£48,228£49,953
% change on same period last year-3.45 %
Average maximum salary£52,280£54,163
UK excluding London average salary£36,187£35,747
% change on same period last year+1.22 %
London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
London
Matching permanent IT job ads1141122014
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled9.863 %11.23 %
Salaries quoted958717503
Average minimum salary£41,524£41,938
Average salary£44,892£45,315
% change on same period last year-0.93 %
Average maximum salary£48,260£48,693
UK excluding London average salary£34,281£34,122
% change on same period last year+0.46 %
Linux EnglandLinux
England

Linux
Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

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

London 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 London 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
City of LondonUp+71013£52,720-6.18 %
Docklands, LondonNo change067£53,318+2.85 %
Canary WharfUp+1159£56,881-1.94 %
CroydonDown-222£43,614-1.77 %
LutonDown-320£29,100-11.26 %
HammersmithDown-817£50,000+2.42 %
EalingDown-117£40,588-23.53 %
SouthwarkNo change011£35,000-53.33 %
Kingston Upon ThamesUp+1211£30,000-16.85 %
UxbridgeDown-510£41,500+6.28 %
BarnetNew entry-9£26,833-
ClaphamNew entry-7£30,643-
WestminsterNew entry-5£43,750-
HounslowNo change03£35,000-15.15 %
MitchamDown-93£34,167+0.49 %
South CroydonNo change02£47,500+6.54 %
HarrowDown-52£36,000-14.76 %
BrentfordDown-152£50,000+212.50 %
OsterleyNew entry-2--
WimbledonUp+162--
TwickenhamDown-61£40,000+40.35 %
West DraytonDown-11£40,000-5.88 %
Linux EnglandLinux
England

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

14240 (50.66 %)UNIX
23012 (35.99 %)Windows
32538 (30.33 %)SQL
42486 (29.70 %)Finance
52106 (25.16 %)Solaris
62039 (24.36 %)Oracle
71961 (23.43 %)Java
81809 (21.62 %)Perl
91623 (19.39 %)Apache
101577 (18.84 %)Red Hat Linux
111564 (18.69 %)MySQL
121563 (18.68 %)Red Hat
131346 (16.08 %)PHP
141194 (14.27 %)Banking
151148 (13.72 %)C++
161041 (12.44 %)SQL Server
17895 (10.69 %)Degree
18824 (9.846 %)XML
19815 (9.738 %)JavaScript
20793 (9.475 %)Shell Script
21788 (9.416 %)OO
22783 (9.356 %)Python
23775 (9.260 %)Windows Server 2003
24771 (9.213 %)HTML
25757 (9.045 %)TCP/IP
26716 (8.555 %)J2EE
27715 (8.543 %)Cisco
28678 (8.101 %)Firewall
29671 (8.018 %)SAN
30650 (7.767 %)Tomcat

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1824 (9.846 %)XML
2771 (9.213 %)HTML
3716 (8.555 %)J2EE
4618 (7.384 %)CSS
5475 (5.676 %)LAMP
6461 (5.508 %).NET
7399 (4.768 %)XHTML
8362 (4.325 %)AJAX
9361 (4.314 %)WebServices
10323 (3.859 %)Spring
11279 (3.334 %)JSP
12264 (3.154 %)WebSphere
13229 (2.736 %)Middleware
14198 (2.366 %)J2SE
15192 (2.294 %)STL
16188 (2.246 %)Hibernate
17187 (2.234 %)JMS
18170 (2.031 %)Servlets
19157 (1.876 %)JDBC
20131 (1.565 %)ASP.NET
London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11623 (19.39 %)Apache
2650 (7.767 %)Tomcat
3385 (4.600 %)WebLogic
4361 (4.314 %)MS Exchange
5332 (3.967 %)IIS
6266 (3.178 %)JBoss
7194 (2.318 %)Exchange Server 2003
8121 (1.446 %)CMS
998 (1.171 %)ColdFusion
1077 (0.920 %)Drupal
1173 (0.872 %)SharePoint
1268 (0.813 %)Exchange Server 2007
1363 (0.753 %)MQSeries
1444 (0.526 %)WebSphere Application Server
1444 (0.526 %)Lotus Notes
1542 (0.502 %)TIBCO EMS
1638 (0.454 %)Rendezvous
1737 (0.442 %)Oracle Application Server
1830 (0.358 %)SAS
1927 (0.323 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1432 (5.162 %)MS Excel
2115 (1.374 %)MS Office
396 (1.147 %)MS Visio
458 (0.693 %)Photoshop
523 (0.275 %)MS Project
617 (0.203 %)MATLAB
716 (0.191 %)Spreadsheet
812 (0.143 %)MS PowerPoint
812 (0.143 %)Quicktime
910 (0.119 %)Fireworks
108 (0.096 %)CA Clarity
117 (0.084 %)Adobe Illustrator
126 (0.072 %)ImageReady
131 (0.012 %)Acrobat
131 (0.012 %)QuarkXPress
131 (0.012 %)Maya
London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
153 (0.633 %)Oracle EBS
239 (0.466 %)RMDS
332 (0.382 %)Oracle Applications
424 (0.287 %)Oracle 11i
517 (0.203 %)Summit
611 (0.131 %)Oracle Financials
79 (0.108 %)PeopleSoft Financials
79 (0.108 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
85 (0.060 %)MFGPRO
85 (0.060 %)SalesLogix
85 (0.060 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
94 (0.048 %)Oracle EBS R12
94 (0.048 %)Murex MxG2000
103 (0.036 %)Beauchamp
112 (0.024 %)FLEXCUBE
121 (0.012 %)FRONT ARENA
121 (0.012 %)Thomson PORTIA
121 (0.012 %)Line 50
121 (0.012 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
121 (0.012 %)WebTrends
London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1757 (9.045 %)TCP/IP
2678 (8.101 %)Firewall
3671 (8.018 %)SAN
4549 (6.560 %)Internet
5505 (6.034 %)DNS
6387 (4.624 %)LAN
7373 (4.457 %)WAN
8246 (2.939 %)VPN
9170 (2.031 %)LDAP
10153 (1.828 %)DHCP
11136 (1.625 %)Network Security
12122 (1.458 %)HTTP
13114 (1.362 %)SNMP
13114 (1.362 %)VoIP
14109 (1.302 %)SSH
1588 (1.051 %)SSL
1674 (0.884 %)Intranet
1771 (0.848 %)VLAN
1869 (0.824 %)SMTP
1968 (0.813 %)Wireless
London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11564 (18.69 %)MySQL
21041 (12.44 %)SQL Server
3490 (5.855 %)Oracle 10g
4297 (3.549 %)SQL Server 2005
5251 (2.999 %)RDBMS
6248 (2.963 %)SQL Server 2000
7229 (2.736 %)Oracle 9i
8127 (1.518 %)PostgreSQL
994 (1.123 %)Oracle 8/8i
1082 (0.980 %)Oracle 11g
1180 (0.956 %)DB2
1270 (0.836 %)Datawarehouse
1349 (0.585 %)ETL
1445 (0.538 %)Oracle Reports
1534 (0.406 %)Informix
1632 (0.382 %)KDB
1731 (0.370 %)Sybase ASE
1823 (0.275 %)BusinessObjects
1922 (0.263 %)Oracle Discoverer
2019 (0.227 %)OLTP
London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1226 (2.700 %)Subversion
2193 (2.306 %)Eclipse
3158 (1.888 %)Ant
4125 (1.494 %)JUnit
589 (1.063 %)ClearCase
657 (0.681 %)Visual Studio
753 (0.633 %)Log4j
841 (0.490 %)Selenium
939 (0.466 %)Oracle Forms
1037 (0.442 %)JIRA
1128 (0.335 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1216 (0.191 %)NUnit
1216 (0.191 %)Bugzilla
1312 (0.143 %)PVCS
1411 (0.131 %)ClearQuest
1510 (0.119 %)jMock
166 (0.072 %)CFUnit
166 (0.072 %)CfcUnit
166 (0.072 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
166 (0.072 %)TestDirector
London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12486 (29.70 %)Finance
21194 (14.27 %)Banking
3645 (7.707 %)Investment Banking
4418 (4.995 %)Front Office
5299 (3.573 %)Games
6250 (2.987 %)Telecoms
7233 (2.784 %)Marketing
8221 (2.641 %)Health
9192 (2.294 %)Insurance
10182 (2.175 %)Education
11162 (1.936 %)Publishing
12151 (1.804 %)Financial Institution
13133 (1.589 %)Pensions
14122 (1.458 %)Back Office
1592 (1.099 %)Retail
1689 (1.063 %)Advertising
1773 (0.872 %)Government
1867 (0.801 %)Online Games
1947 (0.562 %)Multimedia
2046 (0.550 %)Legal
London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12376 (28.39 %)Developer
21621 (19.37 %)Administrator
31155 (13.80 %)Systems Administrator
4859 (10.26 %)Analyst
5605 (7.229 %)Java Developer
6508 (6.070 %)Linux Administrator
7494 (5.903 %)UNIX Administrator
8453 (5.413 %)Support Analyst
9449 (5.365 %)DBA
10419 (5.007 %)Linux Systems Administrator
11390 (4.660 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
12371 (4.433 %)C++ Developer
12371 (4.433 %)Applications Support
13370 (4.421 %)Senior Developer
14350 (4.182 %)PHP Developer
15331 (3.955 %)Oracle DBA
16303 (3.621 %)Systems Engineer
17252 (3.011 %)Support Engineer
18220 (2.629 %)Web Developer
19217 (2.593 %)Linux Engineer
London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1410 (4.899 %)Derivative
2307 (3.668 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3286 (3.417 %)Computer Science
4262 (3.131 %)Equities
5219 (2.617 %)Clustering
6204 (2.438 %)Multithreading
7177 (2.115 %)Replication
8145 (1.733 %)Fixed Income
9122 (1.458 %)Mathematics
1086 (1.028 %)Equity Derivative
1173 (0.872 %)Blackberry
1258 (0.693 %)Credit Derivative
1258 (0.693 %)Social Network
1355 (0.657 %)Mainframe
1454 (0.645 %)Web 2.0
1550 (0.597 %)Grid Computing
1649 (0.585 %)W3C
1748 (0.574 %)Client/Server
1841 (0.490 %)N-Tier
1938 (0.454 %)AS400
London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
14240 (50.66 %)UNIX
23012 (35.99 %)Windows
32106 (25.16 %)Solaris
41577 (18.84 %)Red Hat Linux
5775 (9.260 %)Windows Server 2003
6305 (3.644 %)AIX
7280 (3.346 %)HPUX
8273 (3.262 %)Windows XP
9231 (2.760 %)Windows 2000
10212 (2.533 %)SUSE
11188 (2.246 %)Debian
12143 (1.709 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13141 (1.685 %)Windows 2000 Server
14108 (1.290 %)Ubuntu
15101 (1.207 %)CentOS
1696 (1.147 %)Mac OS X
1777 (0.920 %)Windows Vista
1855 (0.657 %)Fedora
1954 (0.645 %)VMS
2053 (0.633 %)Windows NT
London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1788 (9.416 %)OO
2430 (5.138 %)E-Commerce
3295 (3.525 %)ITIL
4290 (3.465 %)Algorithmic Trading
5277 (3.310 %)Electronic Trading
6270 (3.226 %)Project Management
7248 (2.963 %)Web Development
8238 (2.844 %)UML
9224 (2.677 %)Agile Software Development
10189 (2.258 %)OOP
11171 (2.043 %)Disaster Recovery
12143 (1.709 %)OOD
13142 (1.697 %)Load Balancing
14131 (1.565 %)SOA
15108 (1.290 %)Unit Testing
16100 (1.195 %)Content Management
1789 (1.063 %)Software Engineering
1887 (1.040 %)Risk Management
1980 (0.956 %)Scrum
2078 (0.932 %)Migration
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12538 (30.33 %)SQL
21961 (23.43 %)Java
31809 (21.62 %)Perl
41346 (16.08 %)PHP
51148 (13.72 %)C++
6815 (9.738 %)JavaScript
7793 (9.475 %)Shell Script
8783 (9.356 %)Python
9506 (6.046 %)C
10463 (5.532 %)C#
11336 (4.015 %)PL/SQL
12232 (2.772 %)PHP5
13209 (2.497 %)Ruby
14186 (2.222 %)Transact-SQL
15185 (2.211 %)VB
16125 (1.494 %)Korn
1797 (1.159 %)VBA
1870 (0.836 %)VBScript
1957 (0.681 %)VC++
2053 (0.633 %)PHP4
London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1895 (10.69 %)Degree
2214 (2.557 %)Microsoft Certification
3187 (2.234 %)Cisco Certification
4181 (2.163 %)MCSE
5136 (1.625 %)CCNA
6118 (1.410 %)RHCE
797 (1.159 %)CCNP
858 (0.693 %)RHCT
948 (0.574 %)Security Cleared
1042 (0.502 %)Oracle Certification
1137 (0.442 %)MCP
1232 (0.382 %)SC Cleared
1331 (0.370 %)OCP
1429 (0.347 %)PhD
1528 (0.335 %)MCSA
1626 (0.311 %)CCSP
1724 (0.287 %)ITIL Certification
1821 (0.251 %)CISSP
1919 (0.227 %)CCIE
2015 (0.179 %)ISEB
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1181 (2.163 %)QA
2125 (1.494 %)SLA
316 (0.191 %)WAI
412 (0.143 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
511 (0.131 %)ISO9001
64 (0.048 %)HIPAA
73 (0.036 %)ISO17799
73 (0.036 %)BS7799
82 (0.024 %)ISO27001
82 (0.024 %)JTAG
91 (0.012 %)PCI DSS
91 (0.012 %)COBIT
London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1498 (5.951 %)Active Directory
2218 (2.605 %)Oracle RAC
3213 (2.545 %)VMware Infrastructure
4212 (2.533 %)Oracle RMAN
5161 (1.924 %)NFS
6125 (1.494 %)NetBackup
7117 (1.398 %)VMware ESX
852 (0.621 %)Samba
943 (0.514 %)Backup Exec
1031 (0.370 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1126 (0.311 %)Squid
1224 (0.287 %)Xen
1321 (0.251 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1418 (0.215 %)Terminal Server
1516 (0.191 %)Terminal Services
1516 (0.191 %)ISA Server
1614 (0.167 %)Cronacle
1712 (0.143 %)VMware GSX
188 (0.096 %)VMware Server
197 (0.084 %)MetaFrame
London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1142 (1.697 %)Nagios
2123 (1.470 %)Data Guard
3115 (1.374 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
467 (0.801 %)Tivoli
547 (0.562 %)MOM
642 (0.502 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
736 (0.430 %)OpenView
827 (0.323 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
926 (0.311 %)AutoSys
1024 (0.287 %)Legato
1123 (0.275 %)EMC NetWorker
1222 (0.263 %)BMC PATROL
1316 (0.191 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1316 (0.191 %)SCOM
1414 (0.167 %)CONTROL-M
1513 (0.155 %)BMC Performance Manager
1513 (0.155 %)WSUS
1513 (0.155 %)HP Data Protector
1612 (0.143 %)NNM
1612 (0.143 %)OVPM
London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
12039 (24.36 %)Oracle
21563 (18.68 %)Red Hat
3715 (8.543 %)Cisco
4631 (7.540 %)Microsoft
5493 (5.891 %)VMware
6489 (5.843 %)Sybase
7456 (5.449 %)HP
8448 (5.353 %)Sun
9350 (4.182 %)VERITAS
10286 (3.417 %)IBM
11241 (2.880 %)Citrix
12205 (2.450 %)EMC
13198 (2.366 %)Reuters
14152 (1.816 %)Bloomberg
15144 (1.721 %)CheckPoint
16142 (1.697 %)TIBCO
1794 (1.123 %)Symantec
1893 (1.111 %)NetApp
1991 (1.087 %)Zend
2072 (0.860 %)BEA