The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the London 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 362 400 464
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +64
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 239 250 187
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.547% 0.466% 0.322%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.014% 1.742% 1.312%
Number of salaries quoted 224 223 186
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +9.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,150 £34,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £63,700 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
11868 14355 14253
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 27.14% 26.76% 24.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10137 12519 11946
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ubuntu across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Ubuntu Salary Histogram

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 London 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
City of London -16 32 £50,000 +17.64%
Ealing - 2 £50,000 -
Paddington - 1 £30,000 -
Beckenham - 1 £21,500 -
Croydon - 1 £30,000 -
Feltham - 1 £36,500 -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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.

1 441 (89.45%) Linux
2 256 (51.93%) MySQL
3 251 (50.91%) Puppet
4 215 (43.61%) Debian
5 213 (43.20%) Apache
6 194 (39.35%) Red Hat
7 192 (38.95%) CentOS
8 168 (34.08%) PHP
8 168 (34.08%) Bash shell
9 162 (32.86%) Python
10 154 (31.24%) Perl
11 143 (29.01%) Open Source
12 121 (24.54%) Ruby
13 119 (24.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 116 (23.53%) Java
15 104 (21.10%) Amazon AWS
16 103 (20.89%) LAMP
17 101 (20.49%) UNIX
17 101 (20.49%) Nagios
18 98 (19.88%) VMware
19 97 (19.68%) nginx
20 90 (18.26%) Windows
21 85 (17.24%) Web Services
21 85 (17.24%) Redis
22 77 (15.62%) NoSQL
23 76 (15.42%) Amazon EC2
24 75 (15.21%) Cisco
25 74 (15.01%) Firewall
26 72 (14.60%) JavaScript
27 71 (14.40%) Tomcat

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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
1 103 (20.89%) LAMP
2 85 (17.24%) Web Services
3 56 (11.36%) HTML
4 54 (10.95%) CSS
5 41 (8.316%) J2EE
5 41 (8.316%) Ajax
6 39 (7.911%) Ruby on Rails
7 37 (7.505%) XML
8 36 (7.302%) .NET
9 32 (6.491%) Memcached
10 28 (5.680%) jQuery
11 27 (5.477%) Spring
11 27 (5.477%) Hibernate
12 26 (5.274%) JSON
12 26 (5.274%) Django
13 20 (4.057%) Node.js
13 20 (4.057%) XSLT
14 19 (3.854%) JDBC
15 14 (2.840%) REST
16 12 (2.434%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 213 (43.20%) Apache
2 104 (21.10%) Amazon AWS
3 97 (19.68%) nginx
4 76 (15.42%) Amazon EC2
5 71 (14.40%) Tomcat
6 44 (8.925%) CMS
7 32 (6.491%) Amazon S3
8 30 (6.085%) Apache Solr
9 24 (4.868%) IIS
10 17 (3.448%) Rackspace Cloud
11 12 (2.434%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 11 (2.231%) Drupal
13 10 (2.028%) Mule
14 9 (1.826%) Gunicorn
14 9 (1.826%) ActiveMQ
15 8 (1.623%) Confluence
16 7 (1.420%) MS Exchange
16 7 (1.420%) Liferay
17 6 (1.217%) WordPress
17 6 (1.217%) GlassFish
Applications
1 10 (2.028%) Google Apps
2 7 (1.420%) MS Office
2 7 (1.420%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.406%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.203%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 74 (15.01%) Firewall
2 70 (14.20%) TCP/IP
3 60 (12.17%) DNS
4 42 (8.519%) SAN
5 37 (7.505%) HTTP
6 32 (6.491%) Internet
7 21 (4.260%) NAS
8 19 (3.854%) iSCSI
9 17 (3.448%) BIG-IP
10 15 (3.043%) WAN
10 15 (3.043%) LAN
11 14 (2.840%) VPN
11 14 (2.840%) Wireless
12 12 (2.434%) Cisco ASA
13 10 (2.028%) Network Security
14 9 (1.826%) LDAP
15 7 (1.420%) VLAN
15 7 (1.420%) Cisco PIX
16 6 (1.217%) OpenLDAP
16 6 (1.217%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (51.93%) MySQL
2 85 (17.24%) Redis
3 77 (15.62%) NoSQL
4 71 (14.40%) MongoDB
5 63 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (7.911%) Hadoop
7 32 (6.491%) Big Data
8 31 (6.288%) Apache Cassandra
9 28 (5.680%) SQL Server
10 15 (3.043%) RDBMS
11 12 (2.434%) Jackrabbit
12 9 (1.826%) SQL Server 2008
13 8 (1.623%) Oracle 8/8i
14 7 (1.420%) Couchbase
14 7 (1.420%) Crystal Reports
15 6 (1.217%) Informix
16 5 (1.014%) CouchDB
17 4 (0.811%) SQL Server 2005
17 4 (0.811%) SQL Server 2012
18 3 (0.609%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 63 (12.78%) Git (software)
2 58 (11.76%) Subversion
3 26 (5.274%) JIRA
4 22 (4.462%) Maven
5 21 (4.260%) Selenium
6 18 (3.651%) Ant
7 17 (3.448%) Jenkins
8 12 (2.434%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (2.434%) JMeter
9 11 (2.231%) JUnit
10 10 (2.028%) Eclipse
10 10 (2.028%) GitHub
11 9 (1.826%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.826%) Talend Open Studio
12 8 (1.623%) RSpec
13 6 (1.217%) Capistrano
14 4 (0.811%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.609%) CMake
15 3 (0.609%) ClearCase
15 3 (0.609%) ClearQuest
General
1 32 (6.491%) Finance
2 24 (4.868%) Back Office
3 15 (3.043%) Music
4 11 (2.231%) Marketing
5 10 (2.028%) Games
6 7 (1.420%) Law
6 7 (1.420%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.217%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.217%) Advertising
7 6 (1.217%) Banking
8 5 (1.014%) Retail
9 4 (0.811%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.406%) Music Industry
10 2 (0.406%) Publishing
10 2 (0.406%) Billing
11 1 (0.203%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 231 (46.86%) Administrator
2 201 (40.77%) Systems Administrator
3 173 (35.09%) Linux Administrator
4 163 (33.06%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 74 (15.01%) Linux Engineer
6 51 (10.34%) Developer
7 45 (9.128%) Systems Engineer
8 42 (8.519%) DevOps Engineer
9 38 (7.708%) Support Analyst
9 38 (7.708%) Analyst
10 36 (7.302%) Applications Support
11 34 (6.897%) Applications Support Analyst
12 33 (6.694%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 27 (5.477%) Senior Linux Administrator
13 27 (5.477%) Junior
14 21 (4.260%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
15 16 (3.245%) Support Engineer
15 16 (3.245%) Senior Developer
16 15 (3.043%) Java Developer
17 13 (2.637%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 143 (29.01%) Open Source
2 51 (10.34%) Replication
3 48 (9.736%) Clustering
4 24 (4.868%) Mobile App
5 15 (3.043%) Cloud Computing
6 13 (2.637%) Computer Science
7 12 (2.434%) Web 2.0
8 9 (1.826%) Digital Media
8 9 (1.826%) SaaS
9 8 (1.623%) Streaming Music
10 7 (1.420%) IaaS
11 6 (1.217%) PaaS
12 5 (1.014%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.014%) Blackberry
12 5 (1.014%) Online Games
13 4 (0.811%) iPhone
13 4 (0.811%) Heroku
13 4 (0.811%) Wiki
13 4 (0.811%) Taxonomies
13 4 (0.811%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 441 (89.45%) Linux
2 215 (43.61%) Debian
3 192 (38.95%) CentOS
4 119 (24.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 101 (20.49%) UNIX
6 90 (18.26%) Windows
7 62 (12.58%) Solaris
8 29 (5.882%) Fedora
9 25 (5.071%) Windows Server 2003
10 21 (4.260%) Windows Server 2008
11 19 (3.854%) FreeBSD
12 17 (3.448%) AIX
13 16 (3.245%) Windows 7
14 14 (2.840%) OpenBSD
15 10 (2.028%) Mac OS X
15 10 (2.028%) VMS
15 10 (2.028%) SUSE
16 8 (1.623%) Android
17 6 (1.217%) Apple iOS
17 6 (1.217%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (14.40%) E-Commerce
2 44 (8.925%) Configuration Management
3 43 (8.722%) Agile Software Development
4 41 (8.316%) Scrum
5 31 (6.288%) TDD
6 28 (5.680%) Continuous Integration
7 26 (5.274%) Load Balancing
8 20 (4.057%) ITIL
9 19 (3.854%) High Availability
10 17 (3.448%) OOP
11 16 (3.245%) MVC
12 15 (3.043%) Project Management
13 14 (2.840%) Change Management
14 13 (2.637%) Content Management
15 11 (2.231%) Problem Management
16 10 (2.028%) Load Testing
17 9 (1.826%) BDD
18 8 (1.623%) Time Management
18 8 (1.623%) Web Development
18 8 (1.623%) OO
Programming Languages
1 168 (34.08%) PHP
1 168 (34.08%) Bash shell
2 162 (32.86%) Python
3 154 (31.24%) Perl
4 121 (24.54%) Ruby
5 116 (23.53%) Java
6 72 (14.60%) JavaScript
7 55 (11.16%) Shell Script
8 45 (9.128%) SQL
9 23 (4.665%) sed
9 23 (4.665%) AWK
10 14 (2.840%) Groovy
11 13 (2.637%) PowerShell
12 12 (2.434%) PHP5
13 11 (2.231%) Erlang
14 9 (1.826%) C#
15 3 (0.609%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.406%) C++
16 2 (0.406%) C
17 1 (0.203%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 31 (6.288%) Cisco Certification
1 31 (6.288%) CCNA
2 28 (5.680%) Degree
3 7 (1.420%) RHCE
4 5 (1.014%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (0.609%) IBM Certification
5 3 (0.609%) Sun Certification
5 3 (0.609%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.406%) RHCT
6 2 (0.406%) CCNP
7 1 (0.203%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.203%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.231%) QA
2 3 (0.609%) SLA
2 3 (0.609%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.203%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 46 (9.331%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (5.071%) Xen
2 25 (5.071%) vSphere
3 24 (4.868%) Varnish
4 23 (4.665%) NFS
5 18 (3.651%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (3.651%) Samba
6 17 (3.448%) Gluster
7 16 (3.245%) Active Directory
8 9 (1.826%) VMware ESX
9 6 (1.217%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.217%) Squid
10 3 (0.609%) Postfix
11 2 (0.406%) XenServer
11 2 (0.406%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.406%) OpenSSO
11 2 (0.406%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.203%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.203%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 251 (50.91%) Puppet
2 101 (20.49%) Nagios
3 52 (10.55%) ZABBIX
4 35 (7.099%) Cacti
5 27 (5.477%) CFEngine
6 21 (4.260%) Munin
7 14 (2.840%) Ganglia
8 10 (2.028%) Splunk
9 9 (1.826%) Zenoss
10 5 (1.014%) Sysprep
11 4 (0.811%) NetBackup
11 4 (0.811%) OpenView
12 3 (0.609%) Backup Exec
12 3 (0.609%) Plesk
13 1 (0.203%) SCCM
13 1 (0.203%) Red Hat Spacewalk
13 1 (0.203%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 194 (39.35%) Red Hat
2 98 (19.88%) VMware
3 75 (15.21%) Cisco
4 37 (7.505%) Oracle
5 26 (5.274%) Percona
6 25 (5.071%) JBoss
7 22 (4.462%) Vertica
8 21 (4.260%) Zend
9 17 (3.448%) HP
9 17 (3.448%) EMC
10 16 (3.245%) F5
10 16 (3.245%) NetApp
10 16 (3.245%) Microsoft
11 14 (2.840%) Google
12 12 (2.434%) Joyent
13 11 (2.231%) Rackspace
13 11 (2.231%) Juniper
14 9 (1.826%) Talend
15 8 (1.623%) Adobe
15 8 (1.623%) Facebook
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