The first table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Debian 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Birmingham 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
Debian Linux
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Debian 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £175
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +85.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -18.18%
All Operating Systems
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
93 107 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.67% 17.20% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 34 33
Average daily rate £325 £301 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% +0.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £161 £150 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 17
Average hourly rate £18.46 £14.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.31% +16.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.20 £9.85 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £32.70 £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Debian
West Midlands

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Debian Daily Rate Trend

Debian
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) X.25
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Junos
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) X.25
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Junos
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware