The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 23 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank - 101 86
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 0 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.068% 0.516%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 0.317% 2.473%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 6
Average salary - £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
404 315 283
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 23.98% 21.46% 20.85%
Number of salaries quoted 349 296 248
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £51,750 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
West Midlands

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Gentoo
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) RSpec
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Capistrano
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 Development
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) RSpec
1 1 (50.00%) PHPUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Capistrano
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Phing
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Support
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Gentoo
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Active Record
1 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Zend