The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
85 58 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 34.00% 28.29% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 82 54 25
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £36,875
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +8.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
Bedfordshire

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Ubuntu across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Bedford Ubuntu Jobs Demand Trend

Ubuntu
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Ubuntu across the Bedford region.

Bedford Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu.

1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Xen
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Xen
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware