The first table below looks at the demand for OpenBSD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenBSD 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 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
OpenBSD
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenBSD 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
502 528 626
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 20.91% 16.76% 20.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 201 211
Average daily rate £335 £325 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.07% -1.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 52 42
Average hourly rate £20.50 £15.58 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.62% -22.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.00 £10.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
OpenBSD
South East

OpenBSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire OpenBSD Jobs Demand Trend

OpenBSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing OpenBSD 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 OpenBSD.

1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) OpenView
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP

OpenBSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing OpenBSD 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 OpenBSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SCSA
1 1 (100.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Xen
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Postfix
1 1 (100.00%) Sendmail
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (100.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) OpenView
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Egenera