The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Linux 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 Oracle 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
Rank 120 137 124
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -13
Contract jobs citing Oracle Linux 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.124% 0.066% 0.034%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.605% 0.389% 0.157%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £270
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +20.37%
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
496 514 637
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 20.50% 16.86% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 200 213
Average daily rate £325 £325 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £476 £435 £442
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 39
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.00 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -12.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.30 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £44.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Oracle Linux
South East

Oracle Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Oracle Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Linux
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Linux within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bracknell - 3 - -
Oracle Linux
South East

Oracle Linux
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Oracle 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 Oracle Linux.

1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) SQL

Oracle Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Oracle 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 Oracle Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Technical Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft