The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 20 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 56 56 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 9 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 1.424% 0.223% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.618% 1.587% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
Average salary £50,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
136 63 83
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 21.52% 14.03% 17.55%
Number of salaries quoted 126 59 82
Average salary £32,000 £29,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.47% -13.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £25,000 £21,300
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
South West

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ubuntu across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 20 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
Bridgwater - 9 £50,000 -
Ubuntu
South West

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 10 (100.00%) MySQL
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) XHTML
2 9 (90.00%) Internet
2 9 (90.00%) PHP
2 9 (90.00%) OO
2 9 (90.00%) CSS
2 9 (90.00%) SOAP
2 9 (90.00%) XML
2 9 (90.00%) HTML
2 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (90.00%) MVC
2 9 (90.00%) XML-RPC
2 9 (90.00%) Ruby
2 9 (90.00%) Web Development
2 9 (90.00%) JSON
2 9 (90.00%) CakePHP
2 9 (90.00%) jQuery
2 9 (90.00%) Symfony
2 9 (90.00%) Zend
2 9 (90.00%) Git (software)
3 8 (80.00%) Open Source
3 8 (80.00%) SAP LE
3 8 (80.00%) Subversion
3 8 (80.00%) Java
3 8 (80.00%) ECMAScript
3 8 (80.00%) CNA
3 8 (80.00%) Novell Certification
4 5 (50.00%) Risk Management

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 9 (90.00%) HTML
1 9 (90.00%) CSS
1 9 (90.00%) SOAP
1 9 (90.00%) XML
1 9 (90.00%) XHTML
1 9 (90.00%) XML-RPC
1 9 (90.00%) JSON
1 9 (90.00%) Symfony
1 9 (90.00%) CakePHP
1 9 (90.00%) jQuery
2 5 (50.00%) Zend Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Ajax
3 1 (10.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) SugarCRM
Business Applications
1 8 (80.00%) SAP LE
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) IPsec
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git (software)
2 8 (80.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
1 9 (90.00%) PHP Developer
2 8 (80.00%) Web Developer
2 8 (80.00%) PHP Web Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Applications Developer
3 5 (50.00%) Web Applications Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Graduate Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Junior Web Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Junior
4 3 (30.00%) Junior Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Graduate
4 3 (30.00%) Trainee Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Trainee Web Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Trainee
4 3 (30.00%) Junior PHP Web Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Junior PHP Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Graduate Web Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Graduate PHP Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) OO
1 9 (90.00%) MVC
1 9 (90.00%) Web Development
2 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) Ruby
2 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (90.00%) PHP
3 8 (80.00%) Java
3 8 (80.00%) ECMAScript
4 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) CNA
1 8 (80.00%) Novell Certification
2 1 (10.00%) RHCE
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Zend
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
Bath, Avon
Experience with PHP/MySQL - especially Magento and CakePHP... Good knowledge of Javascript - especially jQuery... Experience with Python - preferably with Django. Ability to hand code (X)HTML and CSS...
MediaClash Ltd
Posted: 26 April 2013
Bridgwater, Somerset
Good knowledge of front end development using HTML, XHTML, XML, JavaScript, ECMAScript, CSS, etc., is also preferential... Zend, CakePHP, Symfony, etc) Version control (i.e. Git) JavaScript frameworks (...
Emponics Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013