Linux Engineer Contracts in Cambridge
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 38 - 29
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 1 0 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.305% - 3.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.341% - 3.137%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £310 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £500 £350
% change year-on-year
-32.50% +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +15.10%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 293 398 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 89.33% 94.31% 97.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 195 136
Average daily rate £350 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £198 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 58 45
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £10.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £52.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Engineer
Cambridgeshire

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Linux Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Linux Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited 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 Linux Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) RHCE
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) Nagios
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) LAMP
3 1 (33.33%) Device Driver
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) RHCA
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (33.33%) CPLD
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
3 1 (33.33%) Postfix
3 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
3 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Python

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited 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 Linux Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) LAMP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Device Driver
1 1 (33.33%) CPLD
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 1 (33.33%) RHCA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Postfix
1 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Nagios
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
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