Linux Contracts in Brighton
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 Brighton 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
Linux
Rank - 34 18
Contract jobs citing Linux 0 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton - 1.938% 5.385%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 16.13% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £215 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -28.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.73% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 11 31 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 7.692% 12.02% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 2
Average daily rate £210 £425 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.58% +21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £488 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.25 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.84% +23.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Linux
East Sussex

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Brighton Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Brighton Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) XQuery
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) XPath
2 2 (66.67%) Mason
2 2 (66.67%) SQLite
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) GWT
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) iPhone
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) iPad
3 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) XSLT
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Mason
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQLite
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) PhoneGap
General
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Perl Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Handset
1 1 (33.33%) iPhone
1 1 (33.33%) iPad
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) XQuery
1 2 (66.67%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
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