The first table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Debian over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridge 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 31 47 33
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -14
Contract jobs citing Debian 6 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.786% 0.467% 0.398%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.607% 1.471% 1.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £320 £281 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.77% -
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
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
107 136 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 31.85% 31.78% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 60 33
Average daily rate £291 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £160 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 33 19
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.83 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Debian
Cambridgeshire

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Debian Daily Rate Trend

Debian
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Debian Hourly Rate Trend

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (77.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (66.67%) RHCE
4 5 (55.56%) UNIX
5 4 (44.44%) JBoss
5 4 (44.44%) Apache
5 4 (44.44%) Tomcat
5 4 (44.44%) MySQL
6 3 (33.33%) Git (software)
7 2 (22.22%) Bazaar
7 2 (22.22%) C
7 2 (22.22%) C++
7 2 (22.22%) Java
7 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
7 2 (22.22%) Subversion
7 2 (22.22%) Nagios
7 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
7 2 (22.22%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (22.22%) Android
8 1 (11.11%) CentOS
8 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (11.11%) RHCT
8 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
8 1 (11.11%) LAMP
8 1 (11.11%) VMware
8 1 (11.11%) Perl
8 1 (11.11%) Windows
8 1 (11.11%) NetApp

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 Development
1 1 (11.11%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Apache
1 4 (44.44%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 2 (22.22%) Bazaar
2 2 (22.22%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 6 (66.67%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (55.56%) UNIX
4 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
4 2 (22.22%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (22.22%) Android
5 1 (11.11%) CentOS
5 1 (11.11%) Windows
5 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C
1 2 (22.22%) C++
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) RHCE
2 1 (11.11%) RHCT
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) Postfix
1 1 (11.11%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (44.44%) JBoss
3 1 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) NetApp