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This section looks at the demand for Linux skills across the UK 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkLinux
Location
3 months to
20 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank2321
Rank change on same period last yearDown-2
Matching permanent IT job ads1202415429
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled6.473 %6.431 %
As % of the category below26.50 %25.56 %
Salaries quoted1013812148
Average minimum salary£38,171£39,817
Average salary£41,521£43,610
% change on same period last year-4.79 %
Average maximum salary£44,870£47,403
UK excluding London average salary£36,512£36,686
% change on same period last year-0.47 %
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads4537060361
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled24.42 %25.16 %
Salaries quoted3811447564
Average minimum salary£35,756£37,196
Average salary£38,630£40,204
% change on same period last year-3.91 %
Average maximum salary£41,503£43,211
UK excluding London average salary£33,991£34,646
% change on same period last year-1.88 %

Linux
Demand Trend

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

Linux Demand Trend

Linux
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Linux within the UK.

Linux Salary Trend

Linux
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Linux over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 within the UK.

Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the UK over the 3 months to 20 August 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-311569£41,704-4.93 %
LondonUp+35165£48,829-5.29 %
South EastDown-42464£38,593-2.97 %
City of LondonUp+21373£52,205-8.89 %
East of EnglandUp+41181£38,050+8.02 %
YorkshireUp+3757£34,229+5.68 %
BerkshireDown-3728£40,090-2.15 %
CambridgeshireUp+1659£37,078+7.23 %
South WestDown-9595£35,936+2.12 %
CambridgeUp+3564£37,349+7.53 %
North WestUp+11541£30,836-4.71 %
West MidlandsUp+4522£33,173+3.10 %
SurreyDown-13445£40,352-4.65 %
HampshireUp+1392£33,874-9.14 %
OxfordshireUp+3335£35,736+6.09 %
HertfordshireUp+3319£37,573-1.48 %
ManchesterUp+18316£31,472+0.37 %
West YorkshireNo change0272£34,426+12.17 %
BuckinghamshireDown-3268£41,857+5.55 %
ScotlandUp+2253£32,177+4.73 %
South YorkshireUp+4248£33,419+2.40 %
ReadingDown-4246£38,164-1.66 %
East MidlandsUp+12242£33,473+5.64 %
LeedsDown-1196£34,355+13.12 %
North YorkshireUp+6186£34,974-0.47 %
OxfordUp+3181£36,834+7.59 %
WarwickshireUp+4164£32,209+4.98 %
WalesUp+31139£36,020-3.69 %
SheffieldDown-6138£33,038+1.44 %
BristolDown-23137£38,496+6.88 %

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs within the UK 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.

112503 (49.41 %)UNIX
29675 (38.23 %)Windows
36211 (24.54 %)Java
46134 (24.24 %)SQL
55611 (22.17 %)Oracle
65067 (20.02 %)Solaris
74641 (18.34 %)Perl
84430 (17.51 %)Finance
94389 (17.34 %)C++
104313 (17.04 %)Apache
114240 (16.76 %)MySQL
123367 (13.31 %)Red Hat Linux
133354 (13.25 %)PHP
143258 (12.87 %)Red Hat
153157 (12.48 %)SQL Server
163079 (12.17 %)C
172988 (11.81 %)Degree
182878 (11.37 %)TCP/IP
192804 (11.08 %)XML
202545 (10.06 %)Microsoft
212504 (9.895 %)Windows Server 2003
222405 (9.504 %)JavaScript
232266 (8.955 %)HTML
242258 (8.923 %)Cisco
252250 (8.892 %)OO
262172 (8.583 %)Firewall
272134 (8.433 %)Internet
282097 (8.287 %)J2EE
292068 (8.172 %)Shell Script
301900 (7.508 %)Banking

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12804 (11.08 %)XML
22266 (8.955 %)HTML
32097 (8.287 %)J2EE
41681 (6.643 %)CSS
51524 (6.023 %).NET
61061 (4.193 %)AJAX
71018 (4.023 %)Spring
8983 (3.885 %)JSP
9971 (3.837 %)WebServices
10964 (3.810 %)LAMP
11857 (3.387 %)XHTML
12795 (3.142 %)WebSphere
13713 (2.818 %)Hibernate
14577 (2.280 %)Servlets
15572 (2.260 %)Middleware
16570 (2.253 %)JDBC
17483 (1.909 %)JMS
18459 (1.814 %)SOAP
19437 (1.727 %)EJB
20428 (1.691 %)Struts
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
14313 (17.04 %)Apache
21493 (5.900 %)Tomcat
31036 (4.094 %)MS Exchange
4998 (3.944 %)IIS
5853 (3.371 %)WebLogic
6814 (3.217 %)JBoss
7629 (2.486 %)Exchange Server 2003
8309 (1.221 %)SharePoint
9254 (1.004 %)CMS
10201 (0.794 %)WebSphere Application Server
11181 (0.715 %)Oracle Application Server
12178 (0.703 %)ColdFusion
13154 (0.609 %)Exchange Server 2007
14142 (0.561 %)MQSeries
15133 (0.526 %)Oracle 10gAS
16116 (0.458 %)Lotus Notes
17101 (0.399 %)WebSphere MQ
17101 (0.399 %)Exchange Server 2000
1873 (0.288 %)Lotus Domino
1965 (0.257 %)Rendezvous
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11475 (5.829 %)MS Excel
2540 (2.134 %)MS Office
3203 (0.802 %)MS Visio
4180 (0.711 %)Photoshop
593 (0.368 %)MATLAB
654 (0.213 %)MS Project
736 (0.142 %)ImageReady
823 (0.091 %)MS PowerPoint
917 (0.067 %)Adobe Illustrator
917 (0.067 %)SPSS
1016 (0.063 %)Fireworks
1111 (0.043 %)Maya
1210 (0.040 %)FrameMaker
1210 (0.040 %)Spreadsheet
139 (0.036 %)3ds Max
147 (0.028 %)QuarkXPress
147 (0.028 %)Quicktime
155 (0.020 %)InfoPath
164 (0.016 %)CATIA
164 (0.016 %)Acrobat
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
1267 (1.055 %)Oracle Applications
2210 (0.830 %)Oracle 11i
3204 (0.806 %)Oracle EBS
456 (0.221 %)RMDS
526 (0.103 %)Oracle Financials
622 (0.087 %)Dynamics CRM
717 (0.067 %)Summit
717 (0.067 %)WebTrends
811 (0.043 %)Oracle General Ledger
99 (0.036 %)SAP Business One
99 (0.036 %)Axapta
99 (0.036 %)SalesLogix
108 (0.032 %)SoftGrid
117 (0.028 %)Remedy ITSM
117 (0.028 %)Google Analytics
126 (0.024 %)Remedy AR System
126 (0.024 %)Tesseract
135 (0.020 %)SAP Retail
135 (0.020 %)Bond Adapt
135 (0.020 %)Oracle ERP
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
12878 (11.37 %)TCP/IP
22172 (8.583 %)Firewall
32134 (8.433 %)Internet
41766 (6.979 %)SAN
51735 (6.856 %)DNS
61104 (4.363 %)WAN
61104 (4.363 %)LAN
7861 (3.402 %)VPN
8504 (1.992 %)LDAP
9493 (1.948 %)DHCP
10482 (1.905 %)HTTP
11424 (1.676 %)SMTP
12419 (1.656 %)VoIP
13360 (1.423 %)FTP
14349 (1.379 %)Wireless
15322 (1.272 %)Cisco PIX
16292 (1.154 %)SNMP
17269 (1.063 %)Network Security
18234 (0.925 %)VLAN
19226 (0.893 %)SSH
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
14240 (16.76 %)MySQL
23157 (12.48 %)SQL Server
31420 (5.612 %)Oracle 10g
41026 (4.055 %)RDBMS
5819 (3.237 %)Oracle 9i
6668 (2.640 %)DB2
7603 (2.383 %)SQL Server 2005
8488 (1.928 %)SQL Server 2000
9398 (1.573 %)Oracle 8/8i
10302 (1.193 %)PostgreSQL
11230 (0.909 %)Oracle Reports
12214 (0.846 %)Informix
13200 (0.790 %)Datawarehouse
14160 (0.632 %)Oracle 11g
15103 (0.407 %)TOAD
1693 (0.368 %)Oracle Discoverer
1766 (0.261 %)GIS
1864 (0.253 %)ETL
1963 (0.249 %)Crystal Reports
2046 (0.182 %)BusinessObjects
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1631 (2.494 %)Subversion
2573 (2.264 %)Eclipse
3534 (2.110 %)Ant
4370 (1.462 %)JUnit
5304 (1.201 %)Flash
6232 (0.917 %)Visual Studio
7164 (0.648 %)ClearCase
8144 (0.569 %)Oracle Forms
999 (0.391 %)Dreamweaver
1073 (0.288 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1073 (0.288 %)JIRA
1165 (0.257 %)CruiseControl
1256 (0.221 %)TestDirector
1347 (0.186 %)ClearQuest
1446 (0.182 %)ProC
1446 (0.182 %)Log4j
1544 (0.174 %)Selenium
1643 (0.170 %)Bugzilla
1643 (0.170 %)PVCS
1741 (0.162 %)NUnit
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
14430 (17.51 %)Finance
21900 (7.508 %)Banking
31307 (5.165 %)Telecoms
41019 (4.027 %)Pensions
5913 (3.608 %)Investment Banking
6821 (3.244 %)Health
7669 (2.644 %)Front Office
8619 (2.446 %)Education
9525 (2.075 %)Retail
10509 (2.011 %)Marketing
11484 (1.913 %)Games
12482 (1.905 %)Insurance
13367 (1.450 %)Electronics
14336 (1.328 %)Government
15318 (1.257 %)Financial Institution
16227 (0.897 %)Back Office
17218 (0.861 %)Publishing
18146 (0.577 %)Multimedia
19143 (0.565 %)Advertising
20121 (0.478 %)Manufacturing
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
16829 (26.99 %)Developer
23769 (14.89 %)Administrator
32631 (10.40 %)Systems Administrator
42092 (8.267 %)Analyst
51910 (7.548 %)Java Developer
61794 (7.090 %)Software Engineer
71527 (6.034 %)DBA
81236 (4.884 %)Linux Administrator
91191 (4.707 %)Support Engineer
101091 (4.311 %)Oracle DBA
111031 (4.074 %)UNIX Administrator
121006 (3.975 %)Senior Developer
13961 (3.798 %)Linux Systems Administrator
14956 (3.778 %)C++ Developer
15955 (3.774 %)PHP Developer
16941 (3.719 %)Support Analyst
17893 (3.529 %)Web Developer
18876 (3.462 %)Consultant
19827 (3.268 %)Systems Engineer
20826 (3.264 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11118 (4.418 %)Computer Science
2706 (2.790 %)Clustering
3616 (2.434 %)Derivative
4479 (1.893 %)Equities
5431 (1.703 %)Mathematics
6363 (1.434 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
7350 (1.383 %)Device Driver
8321 (1.269 %)Client/Server
9240 (0.948 %)Multithreading
10217 (0.858 %)Fixed Income
11211 (0.834 %)Replication
12204 (0.806 %)MPEG
13182 (0.719 %)DTV
14177 (0.699 %)IPTV
15171 (0.676 %)Web 2.0
16156 (0.616 %)Physics
17131 (0.518 %)German Language
18130 (0.514 %)STB
19129 (0.510 %)Blackberry
20126 (0.498 %)Social Network
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
112503 (49.41 %)UNIX
29675 (38.23 %)Windows
35067 (20.02 %)Solaris
43367 (13.31 %)Red Hat Linux
52504 (9.895 %)Windows Server 2003
61347 (5.323 %)AIX
71060 (4.189 %)Windows 2000
81025 (4.051 %)Windows XP
9814 (3.217 %)HPUX
10655 (2.588 %)SUSE
11648 (2.561 %)Windows 2000 Server
12476 (1.881 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13466 (1.842 %)Debian
14383 (1.514 %)Embedded Linux
15275 (1.087 %)CentOS
15275 (1.087 %)Windows NT
16246 (0.972 %)Windows Vista
17222 (0.877 %)VxWorks
18219 (0.865 %)FreeBSD
19190 (0.751 %)Fedora
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12250 (8.892 %)OO
21079 (4.264 %)E-Commerce
3946 (3.738 %)ITIL
4855 (3.379 %)UML
5832 (3.288 %)Web Development
6787 (3.110 %)Project Management
7606 (2.395 %)Disaster Recovery
7606 (2.395 %)Security Cleared
8602 (2.379 %)Software Engineering
9525 (2.075 %)Agile Software Development
10504 (1.992 %)OOD
11408 (1.612 %)OOP
12376 (1.486 %)Load Balancing
13373 (1.474 %)Algorithmic Trading
14354 (1.399 %)Migration
15324 (1.280 %)Content Management
16301 (1.189 %)Service Delivery
17299 (1.182 %)Configuration Management
18276 (1.091 %)Unit Testing
19270 (1.067 %)Electronic Trading
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
16211 (24.54 %)Java
26134 (24.24 %)SQL
34641 (18.34 %)Perl
44389 (17.34 %)C++
53354 (13.25 %)PHP
63079 (12.17 %)C
72405 (9.504 %)JavaScript
82068 (8.172 %)Shell Script
91460 (5.770 %)Python
101431 (5.655 %)C#
11963 (3.806 %)PL/SQL
12592 (2.339 %)Ruby
13547 (2.162 %)PHP5
14533 (2.106 %)VB
15455 (1.798 %)Embedded C
16297 (1.174 %)DHTML
17288 (1.138 %)Korn
18250 (0.988 %)VC++
19223 (0.881 %)Embedded C++
20199 (0.786 %)VB.NET
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
12988 (11.81 %)Degree
21011 (3.995 %)Microsoft Certification
3850 (3.359 %)MCSE
4747 (2.952 %)Cisco Certification
5490 (1.936 %)CCNA
6327 (1.292 %)CCNP
7296 (1.170 %)RHCE
8287 (1.134 %)MCP
9202 (0.798 %)Oracle Certification
10182 (0.719 %)MCSA
11165 (0.652 %)PhD
12153 (0.605 %)ISEB
13142 (0.561 %)OCP
14120 (0.474 %)ITIL Certification
15116 (0.458 %)HND
16102 (0.403 %)RHCT
1779 (0.312 %)CISSP
1867 (0.265 %)CCIE
1957 (0.225 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2048 (0.190 %)Citrix Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1656 (2.592 %)QA
2363 (1.434 %)SLA
380 (0.316 %)ISO27001
439 (0.154 %)ISO9001
531 (0.123 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
531 (0.123 %)WAI
617 (0.067 %)PCI DSS
714 (0.055 %)COBIT
812 (0.047 %)ISO9000
910 (0.040 %)BS7799
107 (0.028 %)ISO17799
116 (0.024 %)JTAG
123 (0.012 %)GCP
123 (0.012 %)TickIT
123 (0.012 %)WCAG
132 (0.008 %)HL7
132 (0.008 %)DICOM
141 (0.004 %)JSP 440
141 (0.004 %)ISO8583
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11619 (6.398 %)Active Directory
2779 (3.078 %)Oracle RAC
3549 (2.170 %)VMware Infrastructure
4479 (1.893 %)Oracle RMAN
5380 (1.502 %)NetBackup
6293 (1.158 %)NFS
7200 (0.790 %)VMware ESX
8147 (0.581 %)Samba
9136 (0.537 %)Citrix Presentation Server
10127 (0.502 %)Terminal Services
11123 (0.486 %)Backup Exec
12112 (0.443 %)ISA Server
1382 (0.324 %)Squid
1476 (0.300 %)MetaFrame
1559 (0.233 %)Terminal Server
1646 (0.182 %)Xen
1741 (0.162 %)VMware Server
1741 (0.162 %)AquaLogic
1838 (0.150 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1923 (0.091 %)Cronacle
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1271 (1.071 %)Nagios
2218 (0.861 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
3214 (0.846 %)Tivoli
4133 (0.526 %)OpenView
5126 (0.498 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
6112 (0.443 %)Legato
7105 (0.415 %)MOM
899 (0.391 %)SCOM
976 (0.300 %)EMC NetWorker
1059 (0.233 %)BMC PATROL
1146 (0.182 %)Netcool
1146 (0.182 %)CiscoWorks
1146 (0.182 %)Oracle Statspack
1245 (0.178 %)Norton AntiVirus
1342 (0.166 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1440 (0.158 %)Nessus
1537 (0.146 %)AutoSys
1632 (0.126 %)Unicenter
1730 (0.119 %)CONTROL-M
1826 (0.103 %)ZENworks
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
15611 (22.17 %)Oracle
23258 (12.87 %)Red Hat
32545 (10.06 %)Microsoft
42258 (8.923 %)Cisco
51400 (5.533 %)Sun
61303 (5.149 %)VMware
71227 (4.849 %)HP
81102 (4.355 %)IBM
9757 (2.992 %)Sybase
9757 (2.992 %)Citrix
10693 (2.739 %)VERITAS
11478 (1.889 %)EMC
12362 (1.431 %)CheckPoint
13254 (1.004 %)TIBCO
14234 (0.925 %)NetApp
15232 (0.917 %)Remedy
16230 (0.909 %)BEA
17227 (0.897 %)Juniper
18208 (0.822 %)Intel
19207 (0.818 %)Reuters