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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 150 149 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 3 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.095% 0.174% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.363% 0.705% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £40,995 £23,250 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+76.32% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
826 851 843
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 26.25% 24.63% 24.20%
Number of salaries quoted 487 583 591
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Dundee - 3 £40,995 -
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) Informatics
2 3 (75.00%) Biotechnology
2 3 (75.00%) Life Science
2 3 (75.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (75.00%) JBoss
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Debian
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (25.00%) C

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Ethernet
2 3 (75.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Informatics
1 3 (75.00%) Biotechnology
1 3 (75.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Debian
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) C
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) JBoss