The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 17 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 341 378 368
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -10
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 95 65 53
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.431% 0.274% 0.233%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.489% 0.957% 0.861%
Number of salaries quoted 87 64 48
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,250 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
6381 6790 6155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 28.98% 28.58% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5458 5904 5311
Average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ubuntu across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 17 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
East Sussex +24 34 £35,000 -15.66%
Berkshire +23 28 £40,750 +25.38%
Hampshire +10 20 £35,000 -
Surrey +12 9 £55,000 +22.22%
Oxfordshire -16 4 £35,000 +25.92%
Buckinghamshire -14 2 £40,000 +33.33%
Middlesex - 2 £37,500 -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 247 (98.80%) Linux
2 153 (61.20%) Windows
3 119 (47.60%) CentOS
4 110 (44.00%) Red Hat
5 105 (42.00%) MySQL
6 103 (41.20%) VMware
7 75 (30.00%) Debian
8 74 (29.60%) Apache
9 68 (27.20%) SQL Server
10 67 (26.80%) PHP
11 66 (26.40%) SQL
12 65 (26.00%) VMware Infrastructure
13 55 (22.00%) VMware ESXi
14 54 (21.60%) Firewall
15 49 (19.60%) Windows Server 2008
16 47 (18.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 43 (17.20%) Windows 7
17 43 (17.20%) TCP/IP
18 42 (16.80%) ITIL
19 40 (16.00%) Perl
20 39 (15.60%) LDAP
21 38 (15.20%) Ruby
22 37 (14.80%) Python
22 37 (14.80%) Mac OS X
23 36 (14.40%) MS Excel
24 35 (14.00%) UNIX
25 34 (13.60%) Bash shell
26 33 (13.20%) HTML
27 31 (12.40%) Java
28 30 (12.00%) JavaScript

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 33 (13.20%) HTML
2 29 (11.60%) CSS
3 26 (10.40%) Ruby on Rails
4 25 (10.00%) Web Services
5 24 (9.600%) jQuery
6 19 (7.600%) HTML5
7 14 (5.600%) Ajax
7 14 (5.600%) XML
8 13 (5.200%) XHTML
8 13 (5.200%) LAMP
8 13 (5.200%) CSS3
9 11 (4.400%) Node.js
9 11 (4.400%) J2EE
10 10 (4.000%) RESTful
10 10 (4.000%) CakePHP
11 8 (3.200%) Zend Framework
12 6 (2.400%) Hibernate
12 6 (2.400%) Spring
13 5 (2.000%) COM
13 5 (2.000%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 74 (29.60%) Apache
2 21 (8.400%) Tomcat
3 15 (6.000%) nginx
4 14 (5.600%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 11 (4.400%) Amazon AWS
6 10 (4.000%) IIS
7 5 (2.000%) Drupal
7 5 (2.000%) Jetty
7 5 (2.000%) Alfresco
8 4 (1.600%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.600%) CMS
9 3 (1.200%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.200%) WordPress
9 3 (1.200%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (0.400%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.400%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.400%) MS Exchange
10 1 (0.400%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.400%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 36 (14.40%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.600%) Google Apps
3 3 (1.200%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.400%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 54 (21.60%) Firewall
2 43 (17.20%) TCP/IP
3 39 (15.60%) LDAP
4 26 (10.40%) Asterisk PBX
5 25 (10.00%) VoIP
6 23 (9.200%) VPN
7 20 (8.000%) SSL
8 18 (7.200%) Internet
9 17 (6.800%) SSH
9 17 (6.800%) DNS
10 12 (4.800%) SAN
11 9 (3.600%) HTTP
12 8 (3.200%) IPsec
13 6 (2.400%) VLAN
13 6 (2.400%) SMTP
13 6 (2.400%) Network Security
13 6 (2.400%) iSCSI
14 5 (2.000%) Intrusion Detection
15 4 (1.600%) BGP
15 4 (1.600%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (42.00%) MySQL
2 68 (27.20%) SQL Server
3 29 (11.60%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (7.200%) Redis
5 10 (4.000%) Hadoop
6 9 (3.600%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.800%) SQL Server 2005
8 4 (1.600%) SQL Server 2000
9 3 (1.200%) OLTP
9 3 (1.200%) OLAP
9 3 (1.200%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (1.200%) Pentaho
10 2 (0.800%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.800%) Big Data
10 2 (0.800%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.400%) Jackrabbit
11 1 (0.400%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.400%) DB2
11 1 (0.400%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.400%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (7.600%) Subversion
2 17 (6.800%) Git (software)
3 13 (5.200%) RSpec
3 13 (5.200%) Cucumber
4 8 (3.200%) Phing
4 8 (3.200%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.200%) Capistrano
4 8 (3.200%) PHPUnit
4 8 (3.200%) JUnit
5 7 (2.800%) Selenium
5 7 (2.800%) WebDriver
5 7 (2.800%) Ant
5 7 (2.800%) TestNG
6 5 (2.000%) Mercurial
6 5 (2.000%) NetBeans
7 4 (1.600%) CruiseControl
7 4 (1.600%) Hudson
8 2 (0.800%) JIRA
9 1 (0.400%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.400%) JMeter
General
1 13 (5.200%) Finance
2 10 (4.000%) Billing
3 6 (2.400%) Games
3 6 (2.400%) Retail
3 6 (2.400%) Law
4 5 (2.000%) Marketing
5 2 (0.800%) German Language
5 2 (0.800%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.400%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.400%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 119 (47.60%) Administrator
2 117 (46.80%) Systems Administrator
3 109 (43.60%) Linux Administrator
4 92 (36.80%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 37 (14.80%) Linux Engineer
5 37 (14.80%) Developer
6 32 (12.80%) Linux Support
7 26 (10.40%) Support Engineer
8 25 (10.00%) Windows Administrator
9 23 (9.200%) Windows Systems Administrator
9 23 (9.200%) Desktop Administrator
10 21 (8.400%) Linux Support Engineer
11 19 (7.600%) Systems Engineer
12 16 (6.400%) Senior Linux Administrator
12 16 (6.400%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
12 16 (6.400%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 14 (5.600%) Web Developer
14 11 (4.400%) Operations Manager
14 11 (4.400%) PHP Developer
15 10 (4.000%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.00%) Clustering
2 19 (7.600%) Open Source
3 15 (6.000%) Replication
4 13 (5.200%) Web 2.0
5 11 (4.400%) PaaS
5 11 (4.400%) EqualLogic
5 11 (4.400%) Social Media
6 6 (2.400%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.000%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.600%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.200%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.200%) Mathematics
9 3 (1.200%) Physics
9 3 (1.200%) Computer Science
10 1 (0.400%) Online Games
10 1 (0.400%) Telematics
10 1 (0.400%) IaaS
10 1 (0.400%) SaaS
10 1 (0.400%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 247 (98.80%) Linux
2 153 (61.20%) Windows
3 119 (47.60%) CentOS
4 75 (30.00%) Debian
5 49 (19.60%) Windows Server 2008
6 47 (18.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 43 (17.20%) Windows 7
8 37 (14.80%) Mac OS X
9 35 (14.00%) UNIX
10 22 (8.800%) Mac OS X Server
11 20 (8.000%) Mac OS
12 19 (7.600%) SUSE
13 11 (4.400%) Fedora
14 8 (3.200%) Gentoo
15 7 (2.800%) Windows 8
16 6 (2.400%) Solaris
17 5 (2.000%) VMS
17 5 (2.000%) OpenBSD
18 4 (1.600%) AIX
18 4 (1.600%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (16.80%) ITIL
2 23 (9.200%) Continuous Integration
3 22 (8.800%) Configuration Management
3 22 (8.800%) Agile Software Development
3 22 (8.800%) Project Planning
4 20 (8.000%) Project Management
5 19 (7.600%) Web Development
5 19 (7.600%) Information Security
6 18 (7.200%) TDD
7 16 (6.400%) Scrum
8 15 (6.000%) Information Security Management
8 15 (6.000%) Security Management
9 14 (5.600%) MVC
10 13 (5.200%) OOP
11 12 (4.800%) Load Balancing
12 11 (4.400%) Operations Management
13 10 (4.000%) OO
13 10 (4.000%) Service Delivery
14 9 (3.600%) BCP
14 9 (3.600%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 67 (26.80%) PHP
2 66 (26.40%) SQL
3 40 (16.00%) Perl
4 38 (15.20%) Ruby
5 37 (14.80%) Python
6 34 (13.60%) Bash shell
7 31 (12.40%) Java
8 30 (12.00%) JavaScript
9 24 (9.600%) Shell Script
10 11 (4.400%) PowerShell
11 10 (4.000%) Korn
12 8 (3.200%) PHP5
13 7 (2.800%) C#
14 6 (2.400%) Groovy
15 5 (2.000%) C++
16 2 (0.800%) XAML
Qualifications
1 11 (4.400%) Degree
2 9 (3.600%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 8 (3.200%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (2.800%) ISEB
5 5 (2.000%) CCNA
5 5 (2.000%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.600%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.600%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.000%) SLA
3 9 (3.600%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.600%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.200%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (26.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 55 (22.00%) VMware ESXi
3 27 (10.80%) Samba
4 15 (6.000%) Active Directory
5 14 (5.600%) VMware ESX
5 14 (5.600%) Postfix
5 14 (5.600%) vSphere
6 10 (4.000%) Sendmail
7 4 (1.600%) NFS
8 3 (1.200%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.800%) Nmap
9 2 (0.800%) Squid
9 2 (0.800%) Xen
10 1 (0.400%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (12.00%) Puppet
2 17 (6.800%) Nagios
3 11 (4.400%) FortiGate
4 6 (2.400%) Ganglia
5 5 (2.000%) Plesk
5 5 (2.000%) ZABBIX
5 5 (2.000%) Splunk
6 2 (0.800%) AppManager
6 2 (0.800%) Opalis
6 2 (0.800%) SCCM
7 1 (0.400%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.400%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 110 (44.00%) Red Hat
2 103 (41.20%) VMware
3 18 (7.200%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.000%) Cisco
5 11 (4.400%) Veeam
5 11 (4.400%) FalconStor
6 9 (3.600%) JBoss
6 9 (3.600%) Google
6 9 (3.600%) Zend
7 8 (3.200%) Juniper
8 6 (2.400%) Percona
9 5 (2.000%) Twitter
9 5 (2.000%) Rackspace
9 5 (2.000%) NetApp
9 5 (2.000%) Dell
10 4 (1.600%) Oracle
11 3 (1.200%) HP
12 2 (0.800%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.800%) Intel
12 2 (0.800%) NetIQ
Middlesex, South East
They operate a dual Linux & Windows environment; however this particular role is going to focus primarily on the Linux side of things. The particular flavours of Linux currently...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
They are looking for a Systems Administrator that has a good all round experience of the Linux flavours; Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat and CentOS , with the ability to develop...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Surrey
The right candidate will have basic experience within a Linux support environment, providing technical support across CentOS, Redhat, Ubuntu & Debian flavours. The organisation is going through vast change...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £25000 - £28000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Linux Systems Administrator from a Redhat, RHEL, Ubuntu or CentOS background with some Ruby, Python or Perl experience required by a leading edge Technology Solutions Provider based in...
Zorba Consulting Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
In addition you will require the following: -DNS, SMTP, HTTP -Scripting: Either Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python -PostgreSQL or MySQL Working in a Java environment Additional experience of Puppet,...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £32000 Per Annum £32,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Linux, Systems Administrator, Systems Administration, Redhat, Ubuntu, Ruby on Rails, RoR, Ruby, CentOS, RHEL, Python, Perl, Apache, Nagios, Solarwinds, PHP, Linux, Graduate... ~ Nagios, Solarwinds, SCCM, NetIQ AppManager, Opalis,...
Peopleworks
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
Required skills *Expert knowledge of Unix / Linux operating systems (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, RedHat, SuSe, Ubuntu) *Ability to troubleshoot in a live Unix / Linux environment *Knowledge of how...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Surrey
Solid understanding in HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), AJAX and web 2.0 patterns... - Linux (Ubuntu) system administration experience, command line, (Apache, MySQL, RoR Passenger)... - LDAP and Active Directory.
Testing Circle Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013