The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basildon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Basildon 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank - 10 3
Contract jobs citing Linux 0 4 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basildon - 11.43% 32.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 21.05% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 9
Average daily rate - £356 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +67.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £29.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +7.24%
All Operating Systems
Basildon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
3 19 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basildon 7.317% 54.29% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 9
Average daily rate - £265 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +24.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £21.50 £27.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.37% -10.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
Essex

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon 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 Basildon region.

Basildon 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 Basildon region.

Basildon Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basildon 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Ant
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) JSP
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) RAD
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basildon 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) JSP
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Ant
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) RAD
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM