The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Berkshire 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 Engineer
Rank 118 - 125
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 3 0 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.125% - 0.330%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.137% - 0.367%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
Average daily rate £413 - £315
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 - £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £500 £350
% change year-on-year
-32.50% +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +15.10%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2185 2877 2728
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.00% 91.30% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1030 1038
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 126 188
Average hourly rate £24.50 £19.00 £30.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.94% -37.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Engineer
South East

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Linux Engineer across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Berkshire Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Linux Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Berkshire Linux Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Linux Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 3 £413 -
Linux Engineer
South East

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Linux Engineer in their job title 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 with Linux Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) Solaris
4 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 2 (40.00%) HPUX
4 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (40.00%) HP
4 2 (40.00%) EMC
4 2 (40.00%) SAN
4 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Brocade
4 2 (40.00%) Marketing
4 2 (40.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 1 (20.00%) vSphere
5 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
5 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security
5 1 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (20.00%) VLAN

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Linux Engineer in their job title 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 with Linux Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) Solaris
4 2 (40.00%) UNIX
4 2 (40.00%) HPUX
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (20.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) EMC
3 2 (40.00%) Brocade
4 1 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle