The first table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Debian over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridgeshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 45 61 49
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -12
Contract jobs citing Debian 8 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.476% 0.731% 0.196%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.571% 2.604% 0.613%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
Average daily rate £320 £330 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -
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
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
175 192 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 32.29% 28.07% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 86 68
Average daily rate £310 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £163 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 42 43
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% +83.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £54.10 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Debian
East of England

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Debian Hourly Rate Trend

Debian
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Cambridge +14 6 £320 +13.77%
Debian
East of England

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 15 (100.00%) Linux
1 15 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 12 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (73.33%) RHCE
4 9 (60.00%) Git (software)
5 7 (46.67%) Nagios
5 7 (46.67%) Subversion
6 6 (40.00%) LAMP
6 6 (40.00%) Kerberos
6 6 (40.00%) Python
6 6 (40.00%) WAN
6 6 (40.00%) Perl
6 6 (40.00%) Windows
6 6 (40.00%) Postfix
6 6 (40.00%) Sendmail
6 6 (40.00%) Bash shell
6 6 (40.00%) Hyper-V
6 6 (40.00%) Puppet
6 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (33.33%) UNIX
8 4 (26.67%) MySQL
8 4 (26.67%) JBoss
8 4 (26.67%) Apache
8 4 (26.67%) Tomcat
8 4 (26.67%) RHCT
9 3 (20.00%) Android
9 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
9 3 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (20.00%) C
9 3 (20.00%) C++

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 6 (40.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) WAN
1 6 (40.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Git (software)
2 7 (46.67%) Subversion
3 3 (20.00%) Bazaar
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Administrator
1 6 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
1 6 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (40.00%) Windows
4 5 (33.33%) UNIX
5 3 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 3 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (20.00%) Android
6 2 (13.33%) VMS
7 1 (6.667%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Perl
1 6 (40.00%) Python
1 6 (40.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (20.00%) C
2 3 (20.00%) C++
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) RHCE
2 4 (26.67%) RHCT
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (40.00%) Postfix
1 6 (40.00%) Sendmail
2 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Nagios
2 6 (40.00%) Puppet
2 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 4 (26.67%) JBoss
3 1 (6.667%) NetApp
3 1 (6.667%) VMware