Linux Contracts in Basingstoke
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux 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 Basingstoke 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 26 20 12
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -8
Contract jobs citing Linux 17 8 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 7.981% 4.324% 8.367%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.81% 12.31% 31.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 7
Average daily rate £410 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.56% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £282 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £466 £454 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
Average hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.80% -10.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.73% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 59 65 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 27.70% 35.14% 26.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 19 23
Average daily rate £375 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £90 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 13
Average hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.80% +10.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Linux
Hampshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 12 (50.00%) Oracle
3 11 (45.83%) Java
3 11 (45.83%) Solaris
4 10 (41.67%) Finance
5 8 (33.33%) Remedy
5 8 (33.33%) BMC
5 8 (33.33%) AIX
5 8 (33.33%) ITIL
5 8 (33.33%) Web Services
5 8 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (29.17%) Apache Axis
6 7 (29.17%) VMware
6 7 (29.17%) ESB
6 7 (29.17%) Hibernate
6 7 (29.17%) TDD
6 7 (29.17%) Subversion
6 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (29.17%) XML
6 7 (29.17%) JUnit
6 7 (29.17%) OO
6 7 (29.17%) Swing
6 7 (29.17%) J2SE
6 7 (29.17%) Java RMI
6 7 (29.17%) OOD
6 7 (29.17%) Software AG
6 7 (29.17%) Eclipse
6 7 (29.17%) ATM
6 7 (29.17%) webMethods
6 7 (29.17%) Management Information System

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 8 (33.33%) Web Services
2 7 (29.17%) XML
2 7 (29.17%) Swing
2 7 (29.17%) J2SE
2 7 (29.17%) Java RMI
2 7 (29.17%) Apache Axis
2 7 (29.17%) Hibernate
3 2 (8.333%) SAML
4 1 (4.167%) WCF
4 1 (4.167%) HTML5
4 1 (4.167%) soapUI
4 1 (4.167%) WebSphere
4 1 (4.167%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) ESB
2 2 (8.333%) GlassFish
2 2 (8.333%) Apache
2 2 (8.333%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.167%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (4.167%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (4.167%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.167%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) ATM
2 3 (12.50%) FTP
2 3 (12.50%) SAN
3 2 (8.333%) LDAP
3 2 (8.333%) SSL
3 2 (8.333%) IPsec
3 2 (8.333%) LAN
3 2 (8.333%) WAN
4 1 (4.167%) DHCP
4 1 (4.167%) HTTP
4 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.167%) DNS
4 1 (4.167%) NAS
4 1 (4.167%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Subversion
1 7 (29.17%) JUnit
1 7 (29.17%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.167%) JMeter
2 1 (4.167%) WATIR
2 1 (4.167%) Selenium
2 1 (4.167%) FitNesse
2 1 (4.167%) Firebug
2 1 (4.167%) Fiddler
2 1 (4.167%) Git (software)
2 1 (4.167%) WebDriver
2 1 (4.167%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.167%) GitHub
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Consultant
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Java Swing Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (8.333%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.333%) Design Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Test Team Leader
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Administrator
6 1 (4.167%) Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Designer
6 1 (4.167%) VMware Architect
6 1 (4.167%) Team Leader
6 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Administrator
6 1 (4.167%) Linux Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Designer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Management Information System
2 5 (20.83%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 11 (45.83%) Solaris
3 8 (33.33%) AIX
4 5 (20.83%) SUSE
4 5 (20.83%) UNIX
5 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) ITIL
2 7 (29.17%) OO
2 7 (29.17%) OOD
2 7 (29.17%) TDD
2 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (12.50%) Change Control
3 3 (12.50%) B2B
3 3 (12.50%) Migration
3 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.333%) Performance Testing
4 2 (8.333%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.333%) Change Management
4 2 (8.333%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.167%) SOA
5 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.167%) Security Testing
5 1 (4.167%) Integration Testing
5 1 (4.167%) Manual Testing
5 1 (4.167%) High Availability
5 1 (4.167%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) Perl
3 3 (12.50%) Korn
4 2 (8.333%) PHP
5 1 (4.167%) SQL
5 1 (4.167%) Python
5 1 (4.167%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.167%) Jython
5 1 (4.167%) C
5 1 (4.167%) C#
5 1 (4.167%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 2 (8.333%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.333%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.333%) VMware Server
3 1 (4.167%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Oracle
2 8 (33.33%) BMC
2 8 (33.33%) Remedy
3 7 (29.17%) VMware
3 7 (29.17%) Software AG
3 7 (29.17%) webMethods
4 6 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (16.67%) IBM
5 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.333%) JBoss
Technical Architect - Microsoft/ Vmware/ Citrix
Basingstoke, Hampshire
The role is seeking individuals with Linux, Micosoft, Citrix, and VDI experience. The technical architect position is seeking an individual who has an excellent technical understanding of Microsoft...
Rullion IT Plus
Rate: £400 - £440 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Engineering Consultant/Technical Solution Designer
Basingstoke, Hampshire
The successful Engineering Consultant/Technical Solution Designer (VMWare - Microsoft Server solutions - Linux) will need to have a broad understanding of networking, change management and development tools and techniques.
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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