The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 24 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 Wales region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 89 93 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 3 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 0.243% 0.172% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.020% 0.581% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £29,500 £25,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.68% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
294 344 263
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 23.81% 29.50% 25.19%
Number of salaries quoted 278 277 249
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -1.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £20,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales Ubuntu Salary Trend

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 Wales region over the 3 months to 24 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
South Wales +4 3 £29,500 +15.68%
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (33.33%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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.

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft