The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 24 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 133 115 129
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +14
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 1 11 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.049% 0.574% 0.285%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.170% 2.064% 1.053%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 6
Average salary £37,500 £30,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -36.84%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
587 533 570
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 28.86% 27.80% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 523 463 512
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
South East

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Amersham - 1 £37,500 -
Ubuntu
South East

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) Firewall
3 8 (80.00%) Debian
4 5 (50.00%) VMware
4 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (50.00%) Windows
4 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (50.00%) Java
4 5 (50.00%) MySQL
4 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (40.00%) Perl
5 4 (40.00%) PHP
5 4 (40.00%) Apache
5 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (40.00%) AIX
5 4 (40.00%) Solaris
5 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (40.00%) Internet
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2000
5 4 (40.00%) CISSP
5 4 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (40.00%) Network Security
5 4 (40.00%) Network Management
5 4 (40.00%) SIEM
5 4 (40.00%) UNIX
5 4 (40.00%) Information Security
5 4 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (40.00%) Load Balancing

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 (10.00%) Grails
1 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) IIS
3 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (40.00%) Internet
2 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 4 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (10.00%) IPv4
4 1 (10.00%) DHCP
4 1 (10.00%) HTTP
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) Wireless
4 1 (10.00%) 802.11
4 1 (10.00%) VLAN
4 1 (10.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Sales Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) IT Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Debian
3 5 (50.00%) Windows
4 4 (40.00%) AIX
4 4 (40.00%) Solaris
4 4 (40.00%) UNIX
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (10.00%) CentOS
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Network Management
1 4 (40.00%) SIEM
1 4 (40.00%) Information Security
1 4 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (10.00%) TDD
2 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Dell