The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 23 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 48 62 59
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -3
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 10 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.908% 0.162% 0.342%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.333% 0.746% 1.550%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 2
Average salary £100,000 £45,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+122.22% +80.00%
UK excluding London average salary £36,250 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
120 134 129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 22.90% 21.72% 22.05%
Number of salaries quoted 104 113 102
Average salary £35,000 £31,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -5.97%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,950 £18,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £100,000 £47,500 £37,700
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
South Yorkshire

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 12 (66.67%) Project Management
2 12 (66.67%) TDD
2 12 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (55.56%) QA
4 6 (33.33%) J2EE
4 6 (33.33%) MySQL
4 6 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (33.33%) PHP
5 5 (27.78%) UNIX
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon AWS
6 4 (22.22%) Web Application Development
6 4 (22.22%) Apache
6 4 (22.22%) Web Services
7 3 (16.67%) Python
7 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (16.67%) VMware
7 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
7 3 (16.67%) Digital Media
7 3 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (11.11%) Puppet
8 2 (11.11%) Bash shell
8 2 (11.11%) Debian
8 2 (11.11%) SLA
8 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
8 2 (11.11%) Perl
9 1 (5.556%) SQL
9 1 (5.556%) MOM
9 1 (5.556%) Nagios

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 6 (33.33%) J2EE
2 4 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (5.556%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon AWS
1 4 (22.22%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 1 (5.556%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Developer
2 10 (55.56%) Lead Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 6 (33.33%) PHP Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Lead PHP Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Lead Java Developer
5 4 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (16.67%) UNIX Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 1 (5.556%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (5.556%) Administrator
8 1 (5.556%) Linux Administrator
8 1 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (5.556%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 1 (5.556%) Data Administrator
8 1 (5.556%) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.556%) BBC
2 1 (5.556%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) Mac OS X
3 5 (27.78%) UNIX
4 2 (11.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Project Management
1 12 (66.67%) TDD
1 12 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (22.22%) Web Application Development
3 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 3 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.556%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Java
1 6 (33.33%) PHP
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Bash shell
3 2 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (5.556%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (55.56%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (5.556%) MOM
2 1 (5.556%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) VMware
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat