The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux 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 Aberdeen region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 15 24 27
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 11 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 6.918% 1.571% 0.529%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.74% 7.692% 2.564%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £338 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-4.05% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
27 39 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 16.98% 20.42% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 13
Average daily rate £350 £150 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+133.33% -29.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £322 £115 £105
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £355 £323
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 9
Average hourly rate £12.99 £17.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.58% +6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £17.00 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
Scotland

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Linux across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Linux across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Linux 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Linux.

1 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 17 (62.96%) Oracle
3 14 (51.85%) UNIX
4 10 (37.04%) ITIL
5 8 (29.63%) Incident Management
5 8 (29.63%) Problem Management
6 7 (25.93%) Fat Client
6 7 (25.93%) Thin Client
6 7 (25.93%) Finance
6 7 (25.93%) HP
6 7 (25.93%) NetApp
7 6 (22.22%) Oracle 10g
7 6 (22.22%) Project Management
7 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
7 6 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
8 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
8 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
9 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
9 4 (14.81%) Change Management
10 3 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
10 3 (11.11%) DNS
11 2 (7.407%) Solaris
11 2 (7.407%) MS Exchange
11 2 (7.407%) Citrix
11 2 (7.407%) Telecoms
11 2 (7.407%) Aerospace
11 2 (7.407%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (7.407%) VMware
11 2 (7.407%) Windows 7

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Linux also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.704%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.407%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.704%) GroupWise
3 1 (3.704%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 3 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle 10g
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.704%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (3.704%) Xcelsius
2 1 (3.704%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.704%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (3.704%) MS Access
2 1 (3.704%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.704%) Crystal Reports
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 2 (7.407%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.407%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Analyst
2 6 (22.22%) Administrator
2 6 (22.22%) Technical Leader
3 5 (18.52%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (18.52%) DBA
4 4 (14.81%) Database Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (7.407%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (7.407%) Applications Support
6 2 (7.407%) Support Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Technical Support
6 2 (7.407%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.407%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) UNIX Administrator
6 2 (7.407%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.704%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (3.704%) Oracle Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Fat Client
1 7 (25.93%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 14 (51.85%) UNIX
3 2 (7.407%) Solaris
3 2 (7.407%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) ITIL
2 8 (29.63%) Incident Management
2 8 (29.63%) Problem Management
3 6 (22.22%) Project Management
4 4 (14.81%) Change Management
5 2 (7.407%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (7.407%) Security Testing
5 2 (7.407%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.704%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.704%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.704%) SLA
Vendors
1 17 (62.96%) Oracle
2 7 (25.93%) HP
2 7 (25.93%) NetApp
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.407%) Citrix
4 2 (7.407%) VMware
4 2 (7.407%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.704%) Novell
5 1 (3.704%) Business Objects