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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 203 186 162
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -24
Permanent jobs citing Ubuntu 4 3 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.081% 0.067% 0.193%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.355% 0.285% 0.911%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 7
Average salary £33,500 £31,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.06% -31.11%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All Operating Systems
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1127 1052 878
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 22.70% 23.36% 21.15%
Number of salaries quoted 970 945 779
Average salary £37,000 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.44% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,225 £22,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +9 3 £34,500 +12.19%
Shropshire - 1 £32,500 -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (53.85%) Red Hat
3 6 (46.15%) VPN
3 6 (46.15%) Java
3 6 (46.15%) Windows XP
3 6 (46.15%) Windows 7
4 5 (38.46%) Change Control
4 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
4 5 (38.46%) Dell
4 5 (38.46%) NetApp
4 5 (38.46%) Project Management
4 5 (38.46%) VMware
5 4 (30.77%) LANDesk
5 4 (30.77%) HP
5 4 (30.77%) IBM
5 4 (30.77%) Sun
5 4 (30.77%) MS Excel
5 4 (30.77%) Acronis
5 4 (30.77%) SCCM
5 4 (30.77%) Time Management
5 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (23.08%) Debian
6 3 (23.08%) Puppet
6 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
6 3 (23.08%) JBoss
6 3 (23.08%) DNS
6 3 (23.08%) HTTP
7 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 2 (15.38%) XML
1 2 (15.38%) XSL
2 1 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (7.692%) Symfony
2 1 (7.692%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) nginx
2 1 (7.692%) IIS
2 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Excel
2 2 (15.38%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 3 (23.08%) HTTP
3 3 (23.08%) DNS
4 2 (15.38%) LAN
4 2 (15.38%) WAN
4 2 (15.38%) DHCP
5 1 (7.692%) SAN
5 1 (7.692%) VLAN
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 1 (7.692%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git (software)
2 1 (7.692%) RSpec
2 1 (7.692%) PHPUnit
2 1 (7.692%) Capistrano
2 1 (7.692%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.692%) Phing
2 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.692%) Subversion
2 1 (7.692%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) IT Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Configuration Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Junior Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Support
3 2 (15.38%) Junior
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.692%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) Windows XP
3 6 (46.15%) Windows 7
4 3 (23.08%) Debian
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Vista
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (15.38%) CentOS
5 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (7.692%) Mac OS X
6 1 (7.692%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Project Management
1 5 (38.46%) Change Control
2 4 (30.77%) Time Management
3 2 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (7.692%) Active Record
4 1 (7.692%) OOP
4 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
4 1 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (7.692%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) PHP
3 1 (7.692%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.692%) Ruby
3 1 (7.692%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) ISA Server
2 1 (7.692%) VMware ESX
2 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.692%) Shibboleth
2 1 (7.692%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) SCCM
2 3 (23.08%) Puppet
3 2 (15.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
1 7 (53.85%) Red Hat
2 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Dell
2 5 (38.46%) NetApp
3 4 (30.77%) Sun
3 4 (30.77%) HP
3 4 (30.77%) LANDesk
3 4 (30.77%) IBM
3 4 (30.77%) Acronis
4 3 (23.08%) JBoss
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco
5 1 (7.692%) Altiris
5 1 (7.692%) Zend