The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 289 276 300
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +24
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 28 50 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.240% 0.380% 0.235%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.941% 1.514% 0.979%
Number of salaries quoted 28 49 36
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -
90% offered a salary of more than £36,750 £34,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £62,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
2974 3303 3679
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 25.48% 25.12% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2653 3062 3259
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £29,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
London

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ubuntu across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Ubuntu Salary Histogram

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 82 (92.13%) Linux
2 44 (49.44%) Puppet
3 42 (47.19%) Red Hat
4 35 (39.33%) Debian
4 35 (39.33%) Apache
5 31 (34.83%) Python
5 31 (34.83%) CentOS
6 29 (32.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 28 (31.46%) UNIX
8 26 (29.21%) Bash shell
9 24 (26.97%) Windows
10 23 (25.84%) Perl
10 23 (25.84%) VMware
11 22 (24.72%) Configuration Management
12 21 (23.60%) MySQL
13 20 (22.47%) Java
14 19 (21.35%) Nagios
15 17 (19.10%) Ruby
15 17 (19.10%) Continuous Integration
16 16 (17.98%) PHP
17 15 (16.85%) Web Services
17 15 (16.85%) Scrum
17 15 (16.85%) Open Source
18 14 (15.73%) vSphere
18 14 (15.73%) Redis
18 14 (15.73%) PostgreSQL
18 14 (15.73%) Solaris
19 13 (14.61%) nginx
20 12 (13.48%) Git (software)
20 12 (13.48%) Load Balancing

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 15 (16.85%) Web Services
2 8 (8.989%) Java EE
2 8 (8.989%) Django
3 6 (6.742%) HTML
3 6 (6.742%) .NET
4 5 (5.618%) CSS
4 5 (5.618%) LAMP
5 4 (4.494%) REST
5 4 (4.494%) Memcached
6 3 (3.371%) Node.js
6 3 (3.371%) Google Maps API
6 3 (3.371%) OAuth
6 3 (3.371%) Ajax
7 2 (2.247%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (2.247%) XML
7 2 (2.247%) MapReduce
8 1 (1.124%) Backbone.js
8 1 (1.124%) KnockoutJS
8 1 (1.124%) Resque
8 1 (1.124%) PostGIS
Application Platforms
1 35 (39.33%) Apache
2 13 (14.61%) nginx
3 11 (12.36%) Tomcat
4 10 (11.24%) Amazon AWS
5 9 (10.11%) IIS
6 8 (8.989%) iPlanet
6 8 (8.989%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (8.989%) GlassFish
7 7 (7.865%) Amazon S3
8 5 (5.618%) ESB
8 5 (5.618%) Gunicorn
9 4 (4.494%) Facebook Platform
9 4 (4.494%) Apache Solr
10 3 (3.371%) Confluence
10 3 (3.371%) Drupal
10 3 (3.371%) Amazon ELB
11 2 (2.247%) Pressflow
12 1 (1.124%) WordPress
12 1 (1.124%) Joomla!
12 1 (1.124%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.247%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.48%) TCP/IP
2 10 (11.24%) DNS
2 10 (11.24%) Firewall
3 5 (5.618%) LDAP
4 3 (3.371%) VPN
4 3 (3.371%) SMS
4 3 (3.371%) Internet
4 3 (3.371%) NetScaler
5 2 (2.247%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.247%) SAN
5 2 (2.247%) BGP
5 2 (2.247%) DAB
5 2 (2.247%) WAN
5 2 (2.247%) LAN
6 1 (1.124%) DHCP
6 1 (1.124%) HTTP
6 1 (1.124%) IPsec
6 1 (1.124%) VLAN
6 1 (1.124%) MPLS
6 1 (1.124%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.60%) MySQL
2 14 (15.73%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (15.73%) Redis
3 11 (12.36%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.989%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.989%) RDBMS
5 5 (5.618%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (4.494%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.247%) CouchDB
7 2 (2.247%) HBase
8 1 (1.124%) Big Data
8 1 (1.124%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (1.124%) GIS
8 1 (1.124%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.124%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 12 (13.48%) Git (software)
2 10 (11.24%) Ant
2 10 (11.24%) Maven
3 9 (10.11%) Subversion
4 5 (5.618%) GitHub
4 5 (5.618%) JIRA
5 3 (3.371%) Mercurial
6 2 (2.247%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.124%) Hudson
7 1 (1.124%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.124%) RSpec
7 1 (1.124%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.124%) CruiseControl
General
1 10 (11.24%) Finance
1 10 (11.24%) Banking
2 6 (6.742%) Music
3 4 (4.494%) Music Industry
3 4 (4.494%) Law
4 2 (2.247%) Publishing
5 1 (1.124%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 37 (41.57%) Administrator
2 33 (37.08%) Systems Administrator
3 21 (23.60%) Linux Administrator
4 18 (20.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 17 (19.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 9 (10.11%) Architect
7 8 (8.989%) Developer
8 7 (7.865%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (7.865%) Infrastructure Architect
8 7 (7.865%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.618%) Senior Linux Administrator
10 4 (4.494%) Python Developer
11 3 (3.371%) Django Developer
12 2 (2.247%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
12 2 (2.247%) Development Engineer
12 2 (2.247%) Operations Engineer
12 2 (2.247%) UNIX Administrator
12 2 (2.247%) UNIX Engineer
12 2 (2.247%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.85%) Open Source
2 11 (12.36%) Clustering
3 7 (7.865%) Replication
4 6 (6.742%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.494%) Computer Science
6 3 (3.371%) Digital Media
6 3 (3.371%) IaaS
6 3 (3.371%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.124%) Streaming Music
7 1 (1.124%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 82 (92.13%) Linux
2 35 (39.33%) Debian
3 31 (34.83%) CentOS
4 29 (32.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (31.46%) UNIX
6 24 (26.97%) Windows
7 14 (15.73%) Solaris
8 11 (12.36%) Fedora
9 10 (11.24%) VMS
10 4 (4.494%) Mac OS
10 4 (4.494%) Windows 7
10 4 (4.494%) SUSE
11 2 (2.247%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (2.247%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (2.247%) AIX
11 2 (2.247%) FreeBSD
12 1 (1.124%) Mac OS X
12 1 (1.124%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.72%) Configuration Management
2 17 (19.10%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (16.85%) Scrum
4 12 (13.48%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (13.48%) Load Balancing
5 10 (11.24%) Load Testing
6 8 (8.989%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (8.989%) E-Commerce
7 7 (7.865%) Network Design
8 5 (5.618%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (4.494%) TDD
10 3 (3.371%) Software Engineering
10 3 (3.371%) Web Development
10 3 (3.371%) Infrastructure Management
11 2 (2.247%) BDD
11 2 (2.247%) Migration
11 2 (2.247%) Incident Management
11 2 (2.247%) Data Analysis
11 2 (2.247%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (2.247%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.83%) Python
2 26 (29.21%) Bash shell
3 23 (25.84%) Perl
4 20 (22.47%) Java
5 17 (19.10%) Ruby
6 16 (17.98%) PHP
7 8 (8.989%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.742%) SQL
9 4 (4.494%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.494%) C
10 3 (3.371%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.124%) C#
11 1 (1.124%) C++
11 1 (1.124%) C-shell
11 1 (1.124%) PHP5
11 1 (1.124%) PHP4
11 1 (1.124%) CoffeeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.865%) RHCE
1 7 (7.865%) Degree
2 2 (2.247%) RHCT
2 2 (2.247%) CCNP
2 2 (2.247%) CCNA
2 2 (2.247%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.124%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (1.124%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.371%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.247%) QA
System Software
1 14 (15.73%) vSphere
2 9 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.865%) NFS
4 6 (6.742%) Active Directory
5 4 (4.494%) Samba
6 3 (3.371%) Xen
7 2 (2.247%) VMware ESX
7 2 (2.247%) XenServer
8 1 (1.124%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (1.124%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (49.44%) Puppet
2 19 (21.35%) Nagios
3 11 (12.36%) ZABBIX
4 8 (8.989%) NetBackup
4 8 (8.989%) Zenoss
5 1 (1.124%) Plesk
5 1 (1.124%) Sysprep
5 1 (1.124%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 1 (1.124%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.124%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 42 (47.19%) Red Hat
2 23 (25.84%) VMware
3 10 (11.24%) Oracle
3 10 (11.24%) Cisco
4 9 (10.11%) EMC
5 6 (6.742%) Google
6 5 (5.618%) Percona
7 4 (4.494%) Facebook
8 2 (2.247%) Vertica
8 2 (2.247%) Zend
8 2 (2.247%) Juniper
8 2 (2.247%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.247%) Sun
9 1 (1.124%) NetApp
9 1 (1.124%) Veritas
9 1 (1.124%) Citrix
9 1 (1.124%) Atlassian
City of London
Linux systems administrator urgently required by the leading Online Music Download organisation!!... The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so any...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 25 April 2013
City of London
Senior Linux systems administrator urgently required by the leading Online Music Download organisation!!... The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
The focus of this division is Linux, however they also utilise Debian and Ubuntu so any experience with either of these two flavours would be seen as VERY...
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
45-60kLinux Systems Administrator (Redhat, Ubuntu) required by the Worlds most recognised .COM... The particular flavours of Linux currently deployed include Ubuntu and Redhat... What will be real...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
City of London
This is a development opportunity where you will be given training to progress to the next level within the infrastructure team for a Financial Services firm based in...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £18000.00 - £25000.00 per annum + BENEFITS + TRAINING
Posted: 26 April 2013
City, London
The successful Senior Systems Engineer (Java, Puppet, Chef, BDD, Unix) will have: - Great Systems Engineer/ Application Support experience - Good Java (J2EE, JSEE) skills and experience with open source...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus and Great Package
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
The ideal PHP developer is going to be a passionate individual with strong skills in object-orientated PHP development skills with a solid knowledge of front end development...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Senior PHP developer - London - Media - Up to £40K (PHP5, OOP, JAVASCRIPT, HTML, CSS, ZEND, MYSQL, LINUX, AWS, NGINX, UBUNTU) A ground-breaking opportunity has arisen for a PHP...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The successful Senior Support Engineer (Application, Java, Puppet, BDD, Unix) will have: - Great Application Support experience (in a Java environment) - Good Java (J2EE, JSEE) skills and experience with...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Experience required includes: Desktop, laptop hardware, Windows, Windows Server, MS Office, Active Directory, LAN/WAN... Intranet and Internet technical administration... - Technical and problem solving ability - Desktop, laptop hardware -...
Intelligent Recruitment
Salary: £22,000 per annum Superb base with excellent benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013