Linux Contracts in Cambridgeshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux 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 Linux 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 3 14 12
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 77 66 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 14.26% 9.607% 9.851%
As % of the Operating Systems category 44.51% 34.02% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 23
Average daily rate £323 £325 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% +10.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £398 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 10
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +88.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £30.50 £12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.60 £60.00 £35.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +7.24%
All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 173 194 178
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 32.04% 28.24% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 86 75
Average daily rate £310 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £151 £162 £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 44 47 47
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% +76.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £52.50 £28.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
East of England

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Linux Hourly Rate Histogram

Linux
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 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 +5 56 £315 -3.07%
Peterborough - 4 £275 -
Linux
East of England

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 58 (36.25%) Python
2 54 (33.75%) Red Hat
3 48 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (28.75%) Oracle
5 43 (26.88%) C
6 41 (25.63%) Apache
6 41 (25.63%) Windows
7 40 (25.00%) Perl
8 38 (23.75%) HTML
8 38 (23.75%) UNIX
9 37 (23.13%) Java
10 29 (18.13%) VMware
11 27 (16.88%) DNS
11 27 (16.88%) Active Directory
12 26 (16.25%) SQL
13 25 (15.63%) MySQL
13 25 (15.63%) Microsoft
14 24 (15.00%) DHCP
15 23 (14.38%) C++
16 22 (13.75%) VMware Infrastructure
17 20 (12.50%) ITIL
18 19 (11.88%) PHP
18 19 (11.88%) Oracle EBS
18 19 (11.88%) Subversion
18 19 (11.88%) Software Testing
18 19 (11.88%) Git (software)
19 18 (11.25%) RHCE
20 16 (10.00%) Tomcat
20 16 (10.00%) Android
21 15 (9.375%) Degree

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 38 (23.75%) HTML
2 15 (9.375%) CSS
3 14 (8.750%) JSON
4 12 (7.500%) OpenCL
5 11 (6.875%) LAMP
6 10 (6.250%) Web Services
6 10 (6.250%) jQuery
6 10 (6.250%) Symfony
7 9 (5.625%) XML
8 8 (5.000%) Memcached
8 8 (5.000%) RESTful
9 4 (2.500%) Node.js
9 4 (2.500%) J2EE
9 4 (2.500%) SOAP
9 4 (2.500%) Swing
9 4 (2.500%) Middleware
9 4 (2.500%) Ruby on Rails
9 4 (2.500%) Ajax
9 4 (2.500%) Spring
9 4 (2.500%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 41 (25.63%) Apache
2 16 (10.00%) Tomcat
3 13 (8.125%) MS Exchange
3 13 (8.125%) Exchange Server 2010
4 10 (6.250%) IIS
5 7 (4.375%) Drupal
5 7 (4.375%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (3.125%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (2.500%) concrete5
7 4 (2.500%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.500%) CMS
7 4 (2.500%) WordPress
8 3 (1.875%) nginx
8 3 (1.875%) Amazon AWS
8 3 (1.875%) Lync
9 1 (0.625%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.625%) Magento
9 1 (0.625%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.625%) Confluence
9 1 (0.625%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (0.625%) Simulink
1 1 (0.625%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (11.88%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.88%) DNS
2 24 (15.00%) DHCP
3 11 (6.875%) TCP/IP
4 10 (6.250%) Ethernet
5 7 (4.375%) BIG-IP
5 7 (4.375%) WAN
6 6 (3.750%) Kerberos
7 5 (3.125%) SAN
7 5 (3.125%) NetScaler
8 4 (2.500%) NAS
9 3 (1.875%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.875%) Wireless
9 3 (1.875%) HTTP
9 3 (1.875%) Broadband
9 3 (1.875%) xDSL
10 2 (1.250%) Bluetooth
10 2 (1.250%) LDAP
10 2 (1.250%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.625%) VLAN
11 1 (0.625%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.63%) MySQL
2 11 (6.875%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.375%) Redis
4 4 (2.500%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.500%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (0.625%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.625%) GIS
5 1 (0.625%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.625%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (11.88%) Subversion
1 19 (11.88%) Git (software)
2 4 (2.500%) Maven
2 4 (2.500%) JIRA
3 2 (1.250%) Bazaar
4 1 (0.625%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.625%) NUnit
4 1 (0.625%) JMeter
4 1 (0.625%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.625%) LLVM
4 1 (0.625%) GCC
4 1 (0.625%) GDB
4 1 (0.625%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (2.500%) Telecoms
1 4 (2.500%) Games
2 1 (0.625%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (32.50%) Administrator
2 46 (28.75%) Systems Administrator
3 32 (20.00%) Developer
4 20 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 15 (9.375%) Linux Administrator
6 12 (7.500%) Software Engineer
7 11 (6.875%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.250%) PHP Developer
9 9 (5.625%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 8 (5.000%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (3.125%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.125%) Senior Programmer
11 5 (3.125%) Tester
11 5 (3.125%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (3.125%) Programmer
12 4 (2.500%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.500%) Architect
12 4 (2.500%) Senior Developer
13 3 (1.875%) Drupal Developer
13 3 (1.875%) PHP Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.375%) PKI
2 14 (8.750%) Device Driver
3 12 (7.500%) Biology
4 11 (6.875%) Blackberry
5 9 (5.625%) Computer Science
6 6 (3.750%) VHDL
6 6 (3.750%) Verilog
6 6 (3.750%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (3.125%) Clustering
8 4 (2.500%) Streaming Media
8 4 (2.500%) Informatics
9 3 (1.875%) Open Source
10 2 (1.250%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.250%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.250%) LIMS
10 2 (1.250%) Handset
11 1 (0.625%) CPLD
11 1 (0.625%) Visualisation
11 1 (0.625%) iPhone
11 1 (0.625%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 48 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 41 (25.63%) Windows
3 38 (23.75%) UNIX
4 16 (10.00%) Android
5 14 (8.750%) Debian
6 10 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (6.250%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (5.625%) Windows 7
8 7 (4.375%) Windows Mobile
8 7 (4.375%) HPUX
9 5 (3.125%) Mac OS X
9 5 (3.125%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (3.125%) Windows XP
10 4 (2.500%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.875%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.875%) Windows CE
11 3 (1.875%) VMS
12 2 (1.250%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.625%) CentOS
13 1 (0.625%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (12.50%) ITIL
2 19 (11.88%) Software Testing
3 12 (7.500%) OO
4 10 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (6.250%) Bioinformatics
5 9 (5.625%) Unit Testing
5 9 (5.625%) TDD
5 9 (5.625%) ERP
6 8 (5.000%) MVC
6 8 (5.000%) Test Automation
7 7 (4.375%) Software Engineering
7 7 (4.375%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (3.750%) Migration
8 6 (3.750%) Data Analysis
8 6 (3.750%) Electronic Design Automation
9 5 (3.125%) Regression Testing
9 5 (3.125%) Benchmarking
9 5 (3.125%) OOP
10 4 (2.500%) Configuration Management
10 4 (2.500%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 58 (36.25%) Python
2 43 (26.88%) C
3 40 (25.00%) Perl
4 37 (23.13%) Java
5 26 (16.25%) SQL
6 23 (14.38%) C++
7 19 (11.88%) PHP
8 14 (8.750%) JavaScript
8 14 (8.750%) Embedded C
9 13 (8.125%) Ruby
10 10 (6.250%) Shell Script
11 9 (5.625%) C#
12 8 (5.000%) Bash shell
13 6 (3.750%) T-SQL
13 6 (3.750%) PHP5
14 5 (3.125%) Objective-C
15 4 (2.500%) Lisp
16 2 (1.250%) Assembly Language
17 1 (0.625%) MATLAB
17 1 (0.625%) VC++
Qualifications
1 18 (11.25%) RHCE
2 15 (9.375%) Degree
3 14 (8.750%) PhD
4 6 (3.750%) OCP
4 6 (3.750%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.500%) RHCT
6 2 (1.250%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.250%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.625%) RHCA
7 1 (0.625%) CISSP
7 1 (0.625%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.625%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.750%) QA
1 6 (3.750%) JTAG
2 2 (1.250%) GAMP
2 2 (1.250%) GxP
3 1 (0.625%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (16.88%) Active Directory
2 22 (13.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.875%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (5.000%) VMware ESX
5 7 (4.375%) vSphere
6 6 (3.750%) Xen
6 6 (3.750%) XenApp
6 6 (3.750%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.750%) Postfix
6 6 (3.750%) Sendmail
7 4 (2.500%) NFS
8 3 (1.875%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.625%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.625%) Samba
9 1 (0.625%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.625%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 11 (6.875%) SCOM
2 10 (6.250%) WSUS
3 9 (5.625%) EMC NetWorker
3 9 (5.625%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 9 (5.625%) Puppet
4 7 (4.375%) Nagios
5 6 (3.750%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 6 (3.750%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (3.750%) Backup Exec
6 4 (2.500%) SCCM
7 1 (0.625%) AppManager
7 1 (0.625%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 54 (33.75%) Red Hat
2 46 (28.75%) Oracle
3 29 (18.13%) VMware
4 25 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 12 (7.500%) Cisco
6 11 (6.875%) JBoss
7 10 (6.250%) EMC
8 9 (5.625%) Citrix
8 9 (5.625%) NetApp
8 9 (5.625%) SAP
9 7 (4.375%) Zend
10 6 (3.750%) Symantec
11 4 (2.500%) Perforce
12 3 (1.875%) Adobe
12 3 (1.875%) Akamai
13 2 (1.250%) Symbian
13 2 (1.250%) QNX
14 1 (0.625%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.625%) Cadence
14 1 (0.625%) CommVault
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Cambridge, East Anglia
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Rate: £10.00 - £12 per hour
Posted: 22 May 2013
**Embedded Software Engineer - Linux Power, C/C++, Android**
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