The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bath 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 Bath 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 6 10 13
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 4 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bath 10.26% 4.255% 4.082%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 16.67% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £350 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +27.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +7.24%
All Operating Systems
Bath
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
12 12 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bath 30.77% 25.53% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
Average daily rate £200 £350 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +27.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 7
Average hourly rate £19.00 £12.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.33% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
Somerset

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath 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 Bath region.

Bath 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 Bath region.

Bath Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bath 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 4 (80.00%) MySQL
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) Apache
3 2 (40.00%) FreeBSD
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) Solaris
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X Server
3 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (40.00%) nginx
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Puppet
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL V2
4 1 (20.00%) XenApp
4 1 (20.00%) WordPress
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bath 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 (60.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Apache
2 2 (40.00%) nginx
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (20.00%) WordPress
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Joomla!
3 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (20.00%) Drupal
3 1 (20.00%) CMS
3 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) FreeBSD
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL V2
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) VB
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) XenApp
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Zend
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
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