Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the Canary Wharf region.

 Linux
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank292020
Rank change year-on-year
Down-9No change0
Matching contract IT job ads381328
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf6.643 %6.667 %6.542 %
As % of the Operating Systems category35.19 %28.89 %26.17 %
Daily rates quoted2765
Average daily rate£500£500£500
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£381£355
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£500£590
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£305£362
% change year-on-year
+2.450 %-15.80 %
Hourly rates quoted001
Average hourly rate--£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-7.690 %-7.140 %
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
10845107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf18.88 %23.08 %25.00 %
Daily rates quoted611326
Average daily rate£500£500£438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-+14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£363£333
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£530£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£310£335
% change year-on-year
+0.800 %-7.460 %
Hourly rates quoted011
Average hourly rate-£21.50£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+7.500 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£17.50£18.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %-2.770 %
Linux LondonLinux
London

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.

Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Linux across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Canary Wharf Linux Demand Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Canary Wharf Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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.

144 (84.62 %)UNIX
238 (73.08 %)Banking
335 (67.31 %)Investment Banking
434 (65.38 %)Java
521 (40.38 %)J2EE
619 (36.54 %)Equities
619 (36.54 %)Degree
619 (36.54 %)FIX Protocol
718 (34.62 %)SQL
817 (32.69 %)C++
914 (26.92 %)Oracle
914 (26.92 %)TIBCO
1011 (21.15 %)Rendezvous
1011 (21.15 %)Sybase
1110 (19.23 %)Reuters
1110 (19.23 %)TCP/IP
1110 (19.23 %)RMDS
1110 (19.23 %)Finance
129 (17.31 %)Windows
138 (15.38 %)Solaris
138 (15.38 %)UML
147 (13.46 %)WebLogic
147 (13.46 %)Mainframe
147 (13.46 %)Test Scripting
147 (13.46 %)QA
147 (13.46 %)Fixed Income
156 (11.54 %)Validation
156 (11.54 %)Derivative
156 (11.54 %)DB2
156 (11.54 %)Perl

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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.

Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
121 (40.38 %)J2EE
219 (36.54 %)FIX Protocol
33 (5.769 %)XML
42 (3.846 %)Oracle Coherence
42 (3.846 %)Hibernate
42 (3.846 %)Web Services
42 (3.846 %)JMS
51 (1.923 %)Middleware
51 (1.923 %).NET
51 (1.923 %)STL
51 (1.923 %)Spring
51 (1.923 %)Adobe Flex
51 (1.923 %)Oracle Streams
51 (1.923 %)Java SE
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (21.15 %)Rendezvous
27 (13.46 %)WebLogic
33 (5.769 %)MTS
42 (3.846 %)SAS
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (7.692 %)MS Excel
21 (1.923 %)Spreadsheet
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (19.23 %)RMDS
23 (5.769 %)ION MarketView
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
110 (19.23 %)TCP/IP
23 (5.769 %)SAN
32 (3.846 %)SSL
32 (3.846 %)VPN
32 (3.846 %)Firewall
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (11.54 %)DB2
25 (9.615 %)Sybase ASE
34 (7.692 %)Sybase IQ
43 (5.769 %)SQL Server
52 (3.846 %)SQL Server 2008
52 (3.846 %)SQL Server 2005
61 (1.923 %)RDBMS
61 (1.923 %)SQL Server 2000
61 (1.923 %)ETL
61 (1.923 %)SQL Server Integration Services
61 (1.923 %)KDB
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
16 (11.54 %)ClearCase
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
138 (73.08 %)Banking
235 (67.31 %)Investment Banking
310 (19.23 %)Finance
45 (9.615 %)Front Office
51 (1.923 %)Back Office
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
135 (67.31 %)Developer
229 (55.77 %)Java Developer
319 (36.54 %)Senior Developer
319 (36.54 %)Senior Java Developer
49 (17.31 %)J2EE Developer
49 (17.31 %)Java/J2EE Developer
55 (9.615 %)Applications Support
64 (7.692 %)Analyst
73 (5.769 %)Support Analyst
73 (5.769 %)C++ Developer
82 (3.846 %)UNIX Administrator
82 (3.846 %)Applications Support Analyst
82 (3.846 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
82 (3.846 %)Sybase DBA
82 (3.846 %)Administrator
82 (3.846 %)Systems Administrator
82 (3.846 %)DBA
91 (1.923 %)Systems Support
91 (1.923 %)Systems Analyst
91 (1.923 %)Architect
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
119 (36.54 %)Equities
27 (13.46 %)Mainframe
27 (13.46 %)Fixed Income
36 (11.54 %)Derivative
44 (7.692 %)Replication
53 (5.769 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
53 (5.769 %)Multithreading
62 (3.846 %)Clustering
71 (1.923 %)N-Tier
71 (1.923 %)CLARiiON
71 (1.923 %)Mathematics
71 (1.923 %)Equity Derivative
71 (1.923 %)Symmetrix DMX
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
144 (84.62 %)UNIX
29 (17.31 %)Windows
38 (15.38 %)Solaris
43 (5.769 %)Windows XP
52 (3.846 %)Red Hat Linux
61 (1.923 %)SUSE
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
18 (15.38 %)UML
27 (13.46 %)Test Scripting
36 (11.54 %)Validation
43 (5.769 %)E-Commerce
43 (5.769 %)OO
51 (1.923 %)Risk Management
51 (1.923 %)Workflow
51 (1.923 %)Project Management
51 (1.923 %)Agile Software Development
51 (1.923 %)User Acceptance Testing
51 (1.923 %)Electronic Trading
51 (1.923 %)Time Management
51 (1.923 %)Cash Management
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
134 (65.38 %)Java
218 (34.62 %)SQL
317 (32.69 %)C++
46 (11.54 %)Perl
55 (9.615 %)Shell Script
62 (3.846 %)Korn
62 (3.846 %)PL/SQL
71 (1.923 %)VC++
71 (1.923 %)VBScript
71 (1.923 %)JavaScript
71 (1.923 %)C
71 (1.923 %)C#
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
119 (36.54 %)Degree
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (13.46 %)QA
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (1.923 %)NFS
11 (1.923 %)Samba
11 (1.923 %)Veritas Volume Manager
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (1.923 %)CONTROL-M
Canary Wharf IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
114 (26.92 %)Oracle
114 (26.92 %)TIBCO
211 (21.15 %)Sybase
310 (19.23 %)Reuters
43 (5.769 %)Murex
43 (5.769 %)Veritas
43 (5.769 %)ION Trading
43 (5.769 %)Tradeweb
43 (5.769 %)MarketAxess
52 (3.846 %)Red Hat
52 (3.846 %)Radianz
61 (1.923 %)NYFIX
61 (1.923 %)HP
61 (1.923 %)EMC
61 (1.923 %)IBM
61 (1.923 %)Microsoft
61 (1.923 %)Adobe
61 (1.923 %)Sun
61 (1.923 %)BladeLogic
61 (1.923 %)Egenera