The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Linux Engineer
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Linux Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.040% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £550 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2254 2850 2643
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.26% 91.35% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 915 1009 1009
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 122 184
Average hourly rate £24.50 £19.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.94% -41.53%
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%
Senior Linux Engineer
South East

Senior Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Senior Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Senior Linux Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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 - 1 £550 -
Senior Linux Engineer
South East

Senior Linux Engineer
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi

Senior Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Linux Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware