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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank - 83 -
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 0 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton - 0.535% -
As % of the Operating Systems category - 1.524% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 0
Average salary - £35,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
293 328 193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 35.09% 35.08% 31.48%
Number of salaries quoted 271 311 180
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £22,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £46,150 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
Hampshire

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (60.00%) Debian
3 3 (60.00%) MySQL
3 3 (60.00%) HTML
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (40.00%) CSS
4 2 (40.00%) MapReduce
4 2 (40.00%) Retail
4 2 (40.00%) Ruby
4 2 (40.00%) CakePHP
4 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (40.00%) DOM
4 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 2 (40.00%) Perl
4 2 (40.00%) Apache
4 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (40.00%) Fedora
4 2 (40.00%) XAML
4 2 (40.00%) LAMP
4 2 (40.00%) SUSE
4 2 (40.00%) HTTPS
4 2 (40.00%) SSL

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 3 (60.00%) XML
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (40.00%) CakePHP
2 2 (40.00%) DOM
2 2 (40.00%) XSLT
2 2 (40.00%) LAMP
2 2 (40.00%) MapReduce
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) XHTML
3 1 (20.00%) Grails
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) PHP Developer
2 2 (40.00%) LAMP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Debian
3 2 (40.00%) Fedora
3 2 (40.00%) SUSE
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) OOD
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) XAML
3 2 (40.00%) Ruby
4 1 (20.00%) Groovy
4 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat