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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 180 171 162
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -9
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 12 2 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.293% 0.055% 0.202%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.161% 0.203% 0.976%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 8
Average salary £30,000 £31,500 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +43.18%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1034 987 820
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 25.25% 27.24% 20.74%
Number of salaries quoted 911 837 760
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +6.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £44,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
North West

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram

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

Manchester Ubuntu Salary Histogram

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 15 (78.95%) UNIX
2 12 (63.16%) Oracle
3 11 (57.89%) Apache
3 11 (57.89%) Linux
3 11 (57.89%) Bash shell
4 9 (47.37%) CentOS
4 9 (47.37%) DNS
4 9 (47.37%) VMware
5 8 (42.11%) Ruby
5 8 (42.11%) Load Balancing
5 8 (42.11%) Red Hat
5 8 (42.11%) E-business
5 8 (42.11%) Firewall
5 8 (42.11%) J2EE
5 8 (42.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (42.11%) Postfix
5 8 (42.11%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (42.11%) Amazon AWS
5 8 (42.11%) Puppet
5 8 (42.11%) MongoDB
5 8 (42.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (42.11%) NoSQL
5 8 (42.11%) VirtualBox
5 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (42.11%) Hudson
5 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
5 8 (42.11%) Amazon ELB
5 8 (42.11%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (42.11%) Open Source
6 6 (31.58%) Shell Script

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (42.11%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 11 (57.89%) Apache
2 8 (42.11%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (42.11%) Amazon AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (5.263%) RabbitMQ
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) DNS
2 8 (42.11%) Firewall
3 3 (15.79%) FTP
3 3 (15.79%) HTTP
4 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.263%) LDAP
4 1 (5.263%) SMS
4 1 (5.263%) SMTP
4 1 (5.263%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) MongoDB
1 8 (42.11%) Apache Cassandra
1 8 (42.11%) NoSQL
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (15.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Hudson
1 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Linux Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) Technical Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) Consultant
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Support
4 3 (15.79%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (15.79%) Administrator
4 3 (15.79%) Data Centre Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Linux Support
5 2 (10.53%) Linux Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Linux Support
5 2 (10.53%) UNIX Support
5 2 (10.53%) Senior UNIX Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior UNIX Support
5 2 (10.53%) Senior UNIX Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Enterprise Software
1 8 (42.11%) Open Source
2 2 (10.53%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) UNIX
2 11 (57.89%) Linux
3 9 (47.37%) CentOS
4 8 (42.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (26.32%) AIX
6 4 (21.05%) Solaris
6 4 (21.05%) Debian
7 3 (15.79%) Fedora
8 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000
8 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (5.263%) HPUX
8 1 (5.263%) Windows
8 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Load Balancing
1 8 (42.11%) E-business
2 1 (5.263%) ITIL
2 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (5.263%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Bash shell
2 8 (42.11%) Ruby
3 6 (31.58%) Shell Script
4 5 (26.32%) SQL
5 3 (15.79%) Java
5 3 (15.79%) PHP
6 1 (5.263%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Postfix
1 8 (42.11%) VirtualBox
1 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.79%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Puppet
2 3 (15.79%) Plesk
3 1 (5.263%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Oracle
2 9 (47.37%) VMware
3 8 (42.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.263%) TIBCO
4 1 (5.263%) SolarWinds