The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 21 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 Surrey region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 202 209 211
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 9 14 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.170% 0.233% 0.095%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.614% 0.782% 0.310%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 2
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +63.63%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1465 1791 1615
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 27.71% 29.81% 30.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1323 1550 1393
Average salary £40,000 £43,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
South East

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Ubuntu Salary Trend

Ubuntu
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Ubuntu across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Surrey Ubuntu Salary Histogram

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (54.17%) MySQL
2 13 (54.17%) Redis
3 11 (45.83%) RSpec
3 11 (45.83%) Cucumber
3 11 (45.83%) Ruby
3 11 (45.83%) Ruby on Rails
4 10 (41.67%) Configuration Management
4 10 (41.67%) Open Source
4 10 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (37.50%) PHP
6 8 (33.33%) Apache
6 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
7 7 (29.17%) Zend
7 7 (29.17%) nginx
8 6 (25.00%) PHPUnit
8 6 (25.00%) Capistrano
8 6 (25.00%) Static Code Analysis
8 6 (25.00%) Active Record
8 6 (25.00%) Node.js
8 6 (25.00%) Puppet
8 6 (25.00%) Phing
8 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
8 6 (25.00%) Zend Framework
8 6 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (25.00%) Gentoo
8 6 (25.00%) Mac OS X
8 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
9 5 (20.83%) Python
9 5 (20.83%) C++

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 11 (45.83%) Ruby on Rails
2 6 (25.00%) Node.js
2 6 (25.00%) Zend Framework
3 5 (20.83%) Resque
3 5 (20.83%) PostGIS
4 4 (16.67%) Backbone.js
4 4 (16.67%) KnockoutJS
5 3 (12.50%) CSS
5 3 (12.50%) Web Services
5 3 (12.50%) jQuery
5 3 (12.50%) CakePHP
6 2 (8.333%) LAMP
6 2 (8.333%) XHTML
7 1 (4.167%) .NET
7 1 (4.167%) Symfony
7 1 (4.167%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) Apache
2 7 (29.17%) nginx
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
1 2 (8.333%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) MySQL
1 13 (54.17%) Redis
2 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.83%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.333%) Big Data
3 2 (8.333%) Couchbase
3 2 (8.333%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (8.333%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.167%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) RSpec
1 11 (45.83%) Cucumber
2 6 (25.00%) PHPUnit
2 6 (25.00%) Capistrano
2 6 (25.00%) Phing
2 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 4 (16.67%) Hudson
3 4 (16.67%) CruiseControl
General
1 2 (8.333%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.167%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Developer
2 8 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) PHP Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Administrator
6 2 (8.333%) Linux Consultant
6 2 (8.333%) Network Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) Consultant
7 1 (4.167%) Support Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.167%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (4.167%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Linux Support
7 1 (4.167%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Trainee
7 1 (4.167%) Linux Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Open Source
2 2 (8.333%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.167%) Telematics
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Gentoo
2 6 (25.00%) Mac OS X
3 5 (20.83%) SUSE
3 5 (20.83%) CentOS
3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Windows
5 1 (4.167%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Configuration Management
1 10 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (25.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 6 (25.00%) Active Record
2 6 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (20.83%) TDD
4 4 (16.67%) BDD
5 2 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.333%) Change Management
6 1 (4.167%) OO
6 1 (4.167%) MVC
6 1 (4.167%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Ruby
2 9 (37.50%) PHP
3 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (20.83%) Python
4 5 (20.83%) C++
5 4 (16.67%) Bash shell
5 4 (16.67%) Perl
6 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) CCNA
1 2 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.333%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Puppet
2 4 (16.67%) Splunk
3 2 (8.333%) Ganglia
3 2 (8.333%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 7 (29.17%) Zend
3 5 (20.83%) VMware
4 2 (8.333%) Percona
4 2 (8.333%) Cisco
4 2 (8.333%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.167%) BT
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
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