Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below 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 5 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkLinux
Location
3 months to
5 Jan 2009
Same period last year
Rank2222
Rank change on same period last yearNo change0
Matching permanent IT job ads825712433
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled7.002 %6.296 %
As % of the category below29.07 %25.23 %
Salaries quoted717610072
Average minimum salary£37,290£38,544
Average salary£40,611£42,130
% change on same period last year-3.60 %
Average maximum salary£43,933£45,717
UK excluding London average salary£36,127£35,670
% change on same period last year+1.27 %
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads2840149275
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled24.08 %24.95 %
Salaries quoted2442440141
Average minimum salary£35,484£36,003
Average salary£38,271£38,919
% change on same period last year-1.66 %
Average maximum salary£41,059£41,834
UK excluding London average salary£34,270£34,174
% change on same period last year+0.27 %

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 5 January 2009 within the UK.

Linux Salary Histogram

Linux
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 5 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
EnglandUp+18004£40,771-3.89 %
LondonUp+13401£48,318-3.23 %
South EastUp+11763£36,275-5.10 %
City of LondonUp+71035£52,885-6.19 %
East of EnglandUp+9888£39,428+6.98 %
South WestUp+6574£35,692+6.05 %
BerkshireUp+4566£39,966-4.24 %
YorkshireUp+8465£34,525+5.53 %
CambridgeshireUp+6433£39,580+4.83 %
HampshireUp+15410£32,894-5.36 %
CambridgeUp+3361£39,529+3.89 %
North WestDown-8325£33,931+10.98 %
West MidlandsDown-10325£34,480+5.03 %
SurreyDown-1295£35,598-11.62 %
HertfordshireUp+14250£41,467+10.81 %
West YorkshireUp+1240£33,595+1.85 %
East MidlandsUp+6208£32,226-1.49 %
SloughUp+15167£35,937-15.16 %
GloucestershireUp+14157£35,846-1.56 %
LeedsUp+2153£32,960-4.49 %
BristolDown-6152£36,052+2.86 %
ManchesterDown-16144£32,673+4.80 %
ScotlandDown-7144£30,603-3.60 %
OxfordshireDown-3140£35,188-0.29 %
BuckinghamshireDown-5126£33,716-8.46 %
ReadingDown-4124£37,285-10.77 %
South YorkshireUp+4119£33,912+9.99 %
SouthamptonUp+18111£29,735-8.38 %
North YorkshireUp+13106£36,192+0.57 %
West SussexDown-198£33,649+6.85 %

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 January 2009, 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.

19269 (47.58 %)UNIX
27186 (36.89 %)Windows
34813 (24.71 %)SQL
44177 (21.44 %)Java
54077 (20.93 %)Oracle
63813 (19.57 %)Solaris
73744 (19.22 %)MySQL
83533 (18.14 %)Perl
93498 (17.96 %)Apache
103324 (17.06 %)C++
113275 (16.81 %)Finance
123178 (16.31 %)PHP
132796 (14.35 %)Red Hat Linux
142763 (14.18 %)Red Hat
152310 (11.86 %)C
162305 (11.83 %)Degree
172223 (11.41 %)SQL Server
182167 (11.12 %)TCP/IP
192127 (10.92 %)XML
202078 (10.67 %)JavaScript
211920 (9.856 %)HTML
221735 (8.907 %)Microsoft
231685 (8.650 %)OO
241671 (8.578 %)Windows Server 2003
251604 (8.234 %)SAN
261593 (8.178 %)Firewall
271568 (8.049 %)CSS
281560 (8.008 %)Cisco
281560 (8.008 %)Shell Script
291469 (7.541 %)Internet

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 January 2009, 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
12127 (10.92 %)XML
21920 (9.856 %)HTML
31568 (8.049 %)CSS
41433 (7.356 %)J2EE
51129 (5.796 %).NET
6975 (5.005 %)LAMP
7949 (4.872 %)AJAX
8862 (4.425 %)XHTML
9830 (4.261 %)WebServices
10638 (3.275 %)JSP
11577 (2.962 %)WebSphere
12558 (2.864 %)Spring
13455 (2.336 %)Middleware
14443 (2.274 %)Hibernate
15377 (1.935 %)SOAP
16365 (1.874 %)Servlets
17309 (1.586 %)ASP.NET
18306 (1.571 %)STL
19297 (1.525 %)Flash
20293 (1.504 %)J2SE
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
13498 (17.96 %)Apache
21144 (5.873 %)Tomcat
3752 (3.860 %)MS Exchange
4669 (3.434 %)IIS
5555 (2.849 %)JBoss
6544 (2.793 %)WebLogic
7409 (2.100 %)Exchange Server 2003
8240 (1.232 %)CMS
9233 (1.196 %)SharePoint
10151 (0.775 %)WebSphere Application Server
11147 (0.755 %)ColdFusion
12126 (0.647 %)Drupal
13123 (0.631 %)Lotus Notes
14122 (0.626 %)Exchange Server 2007
15119 (0.611 %)Oracle Application Server
1685 (0.436 %)MQSeries
1685 (0.436 %)WebSphere MQ
1768 (0.349 %)Exchange Server 2000
1863 (0.323 %)Oracle 10gAS
1957 (0.293 %)SAS
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1995 (5.108 %)MS Excel
2305 (1.566 %)MS Office
3159 (0.816 %)MS Visio
4128 (0.657 %)Photoshop
541 (0.210 %)MATLAB
638 (0.195 %)MS Project
729 (0.149 %)Fireworks
821 (0.108 %)MS PowerPoint
919 (0.098 %)Adobe Illustrator
1015 (0.077 %)Spreadsheet
1112 (0.062 %)Quicktime
129 (0.046 %)AutoCAD
129 (0.046 %)CA Clarity
137 (0.036 %)InDesign
137 (0.036 %)CATIA
137 (0.036 %)Acrobat
146 (0.031 %)ImageReady
155 (0.026 %)Shockwave
155 (0.026 %)NASTRAN
155 (0.026 %)Abaqus
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
1176 (0.903 %)Oracle Applications
2174 (0.893 %)Oracle EBS
3139 (0.714 %)Oracle 11i
436 (0.185 %)RMDS
528 (0.144 %)Oracle EBS R12
625 (0.128 %)Oracle Financials
721 (0.108 %)Summit
815 (0.077 %)WebTrends
99 (0.046 %)PeopleSoft Financials
99 (0.046 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
99 (0.046 %)SAP Retail
107 (0.036 %)MFGPRO
115 (0.026 %)Murex MxG2000
115 (0.026 %)SalesLogix
115 (0.026 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
123 (0.015 %)Dynamics CRM
123 (0.015 %)Beauchamp
123 (0.015 %)Academy Housing
123 (0.015 %)Oracle Manufacturing
132 (0.010 %)SoftGrid
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
12167 (11.12 %)TCP/IP
21604 (8.234 %)SAN
31593 (8.178 %)Firewall
41469 (7.541 %)Internet
51381 (7.089 %)DNS
6933 (4.790 %)LAN
7883 (4.533 %)WAN
8664 (3.409 %)VPN
9414 (2.125 %)DHCP
10409 (2.100 %)HTTP
11403 (2.069 %)SMTP
12362 (1.858 %)Wireless
13338 (1.735 %)LDAP
14322 (1.653 %)VoIP
15268 (1.376 %)Network Security
16266 (1.366 %)FTP
17249 (1.278 %)SSL
18235 (1.206 %)Intranet
19205 (1.052 %)SNMP
20185 (0.950 %)VLAN
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
13744 (19.22 %)MySQL
22223 (11.41 %)SQL Server
3969 (4.974 %)Oracle 10g
4684 (3.511 %)RDBMS
5497 (2.551 %)Oracle 9i
6457 (2.346 %)SQL Server 2005
7362 (1.858 %)DB2
8355 (1.822 %)SQL Server 2000
9293 (1.504 %)PostgreSQL
10283 (1.453 %)Oracle 8/8i
11152 (0.780 %)Oracle Reports
12151 (0.775 %)Oracle 11g
13146 (0.749 %)Datawarehouse
1496 (0.493 %)Informix
1587 (0.447 %)GIS
1684 (0.431 %)Oracle Discoverer
1774 (0.380 %)ETL
1859 (0.303 %)TOAD
1952 (0.267 %)Data Mining
2049 (0.252 %)BusinessObjects
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1516 (2.649 %)Subversion
2405 (2.079 %)Eclipse
3339 (1.740 %)Ant
4260 (1.335 %)JUnit
5163 (0.837 %)Visual Studio
6134 (0.688 %)ClearCase
798 (0.503 %)Oracle Forms
879 (0.406 %)Dreamweaver
962 (0.318 %)Selenium
1056 (0.287 %)Log4j
1148 (0.246 %)JIRA
1246 (0.236 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1344 (0.226 %)LoadRunner
1443 (0.221 %)PVCS
1534 (0.175 %)ClearQuest
1631 (0.159 %)Bugzilla
1727 (0.139 %)NUnit
1824 (0.123 %)WinRunner
1824 (0.123 %)Telelogic Synergy
1922 (0.113 %)CruiseControl
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
13275 (16.81 %)Finance
21288 (6.612 %)Banking
3826 (4.240 %)Telecoms
4775 (3.978 %)Pensions
5673 (3.455 %)Investment Banking
6613 (3.147 %)Health
7496 (2.546 %)Marketing
8483 (2.479 %)Insurance
9441 (2.264 %)Games
10422 (2.166 %)Front Office
11389 (1.997 %)Education
12270 (1.386 %)Retail
13240 (1.232 %)Electronics
14237 (1.217 %)Publishing
15219 (1.124 %)Government
16177 (0.909 %)Financial Institution
17161 (0.826 %)Multimedia
18154 (0.791 %)Back Office
19119 (0.611 %)Advertising
20108 (0.554 %)Online Games
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
15183 (26.61 %)Developer
23013 (15.47 %)Administrator
32130 (10.93 %)Systems Administrator
41717 (8.814 %)Analyst
51338 (6.869 %)Software Engineer
61198 (6.150 %)Java Developer
71006 (5.164 %)DBA
81004 (5.154 %)Linux Administrator
9958 (4.918 %)PHP Developer
10877 (4.502 %)UNIX Administrator
11863 (4.430 %)Support Engineer
12859 (4.410 %)Senior Developer
13833 (4.276 %)Linux Systems Administrator
14786 (4.035 %)Oracle DBA
15779 (3.999 %)Support Analyst
16727 (3.732 %)Consultant
17706 (3.624 %)Web Developer
18696 (3.573 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
19668 (3.429 %)C++ Developer
20630 (3.234 %)Systems Engineer
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1943 (4.841 %)Computer Science
2463 (2.377 %)Clustering
3421 (2.161 %)Derivative
4306 (1.571 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5294 (1.509 %)Mathematics
6282 (1.448 %)Device Driver
7266 (1.366 %)Multithreading
8264 (1.355 %)Equities
9250 (1.283 %)Replication
10186 (0.955 %)Client/Server
11178 (0.914 %)Blackberry
12154 (0.791 %)IPTV
13151 (0.775 %)Web 2.0
14147 (0.755 %)Fixed Income
15137 (0.703 %)French Language
16135 (0.693 %)MPEG
17131 (0.672 %)iSeries
18129 (0.662 %)W3C
18129 (0.662 %)HACMP
19127 (0.652 %)STB
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
19269 (47.58 %)UNIX
27186 (36.89 %)Windows
33813 (19.57 %)Solaris
42796 (14.35 %)Red Hat Linux
51671 (8.578 %)Windows Server 2003
61066 (5.472 %)AIX
7764 (3.922 %)Windows XP
8734 (3.768 %)HPUX
9640 (3.285 %)Windows 2000
10497 (2.551 %)SUSE
11436 (2.238 %)Debian
12409 (2.100 %)Embedded Linux
13362 (1.858 %)Windows 2000 Server
14317 (1.627 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15236 (1.211 %)Windows Vista
16203 (1.042 %)CentOS
17192 (0.986 %)Ubuntu
18171 (0.878 %)Fedora
19165 (0.847 %)Mac OS X
20146 (0.749 %)Windows NT
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11685 (8.650 %)OO
2804 (4.127 %)E-Commerce
3723 (3.711 %)ITIL
4722 (3.706 %)Web Development
5621 (3.188 %)Project Management
6603 (3.095 %)UML
7531 (2.726 %)Software Engineering
8520 (2.669 %)Agile Software Development
9463 (2.377 %)OOP
10398 (2.043 %)Disaster Recovery
11362 (1.858 %)OOD
12298 (1.530 %)Algorithmic Trading
13286 (1.468 %)Electronic Trading
14273 (1.401 %)SOA
15270 (1.386 %)Migration
16235 (1.206 %)Load Balancing
17229 (1.176 %)Content Management
18215 (1.104 %)Configuration Management
19214 (1.099 %)Service Delivery
20206 (1.057 %)Unit Testing
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
14813 (24.71 %)SQL
24177 (21.44 %)Java
33533 (18.14 %)Perl
43324 (17.06 %)C++
53178 (16.31 %)PHP
62310 (11.86 %)C
72078 (10.67 %)JavaScript
81560 (8.008 %)Shell Script
91391 (7.141 %)Python
101024 (5.257 %)C#
11767 (3.937 %)PL/SQL
12516 (2.649 %)PHP5
13474 (2.433 %)Ruby
14366 (1.879 %)Embedded C
15303 (1.555 %)VB
16257 (1.319 %)Korn
17230 (1.181 %)Transact-SQL
18175 (0.898 %)VBScript
19171 (0.878 %)Embedded C++
19171 (0.878 %)PHP4
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
12305 (11.83 %)Degree
2673 (3.455 %)Microsoft Certification
3530 (2.721 %)Cisco Certification
4525 (2.695 %)MCSE
5460 (2.361 %)Security Cleared
6401 (2.059 %)CCNA
7229 (1.176 %)RHCE
8205 (1.052 %)CCNP
9158 (0.811 %)Oracle Certification
10157 (0.806 %)MCP
11145 (0.744 %)SC Cleared
12115 (0.590 %)MCSA
13109 (0.560 %)OCP
14104 (0.534 %)PhD
1595 (0.488 %)CISSP
1691 (0.467 %)ISEB
1785 (0.436 %)HND
1785 (0.436 %)RHCT
1878 (0.400 %)ITIL Certification
1972 (0.370 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1449 (2.305 %)QA
2344 (1.766 %)SLA
353 (0.272 %)ISO27001
445 (0.231 %)ISO9001
531 (0.159 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
628 (0.144 %)WAI
628 (0.144 %)BS7799
718 (0.092 %)ISO9000
815 (0.077 %)PCI DSS
914 (0.072 %)JTAG
108 (0.041 %)WCAG
114 (0.021 %)HIPAA
123 (0.015 %)ISO17799
132 (0.010 %)COBIT
132 (0.010 %)HL7
141 (0.005 %)GAMP
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11127 (5.785 %)Active Directory
2500 (2.567 %)VMware Infrastructure
3485 (2.490 %)Oracle RAC
4416 (2.136 %)Oracle RMAN
5375 (1.925 %)NFS
6262 (1.345 %)NetBackup
7222 (1.140 %)VMware ESX
8142 (0.729 %)Samba
993 (0.477 %)Terminal Services
1075 (0.385 %)Backup Exec
1161 (0.313 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1256 (0.287 %)Squid
1351 (0.262 %)ISA Server
1438 (0.195 %)Xen
1528 (0.144 %)Terminal Server
1626 (0.133 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1725 (0.128 %)VMware Server
1820 (0.103 %)AquaLogic
1919 (0.098 %)Nmap
2015 (0.077 %)NDS
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1307 (1.576 %)Data Guard
2276 (1.417 %)Nagios
3171 (0.878 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
4154 (0.791 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
5142 (0.729 %)Tivoli
6100 (0.513 %)Legato
786 (0.441 %)MOM
870 (0.359 %)OpenView
963 (0.323 %)EMC NetWorker
1052 (0.267 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1142 (0.216 %)BMC PATROL
1241 (0.210 %)Nessus
1241 (0.210 %)SCOM
1241 (0.210 %)HP Data Protector
1333 (0.169 %)ZENworks
1431 (0.159 %)AutoSys
1528 (0.144 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
1620 (0.103 %)CiscoWorks
1717 (0.087 %)Unicenter
1717 (0.087 %)WSUS
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
14077 (20.93 %)Oracle
22763 (14.18 %)Red Hat
31735 (8.907 %)Microsoft
41560 (8.008 %)Cisco
51203 (6.176 %)VMware
61058 (5.431 %)HP
7997 (5.118 %)Sun
8897 (4.605 %)IBM
9629 (3.229 %)Sybase
10576 (2.957 %)VERITAS
11532 (2.731 %)Citrix
12335 (1.720 %)EMC
13297 (1.525 %)NetApp
14284 (1.458 %)CheckPoint
15216 (1.109 %)Reuters
16199 (1.022 %)Zend
17195 (1.001 %)Juniper
18181 (0.929 %)Symbian
19175 (0.898 %)Symantec
20159 (0.816 %)Bloomberg