Linux Contracts in Canary Wharf
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first 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 17 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 Canary Wharf 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 22 25 26
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 33 23 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 8.571% 6.216% 6.400%
As % of the Operating Systems category 55.00% 31.08% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 27
Average daily rate £600 £513 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.07% -6.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £357 £450 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £900 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.73% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 60 74 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 15.58% 20.00% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 41 43
Average daily rate £600 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £185 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £610 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Linux
London

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

1 23 (47.92%) Java
2 18 (37.50%) SQL
2 18 (37.50%) Windows
2 18 (37.50%) Multithreading
3 17 (35.42%) UNIX
4 16 (33.33%) Front Office
5 15 (31.25%) Finance
5 15 (31.25%) Oracle
6 14 (29.17%) C++
6 14 (29.17%) Banking
7 13 (27.08%) Mathematics
8 11 (22.92%) Spring
8 11 (22.92%) Degree
8 11 (22.92%) XML
8 11 (22.92%) Oracle Coherence
9 10 (20.83%) Computer Science
9 10 (20.83%) Perl
9 10 (20.83%) Solaris
9 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
9 10 (20.83%) RMDS
9 10 (20.83%) Investment Banking
9 10 (20.83%) Software Engineering
9 10 (20.83%) Risk Management
9 10 (20.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (18.75%) Shell Script
10 9 (18.75%) Python
11 8 (16.67%) VC++
11 8 (16.67%) Maven
12 7 (14.58%) Agile Software Development
12 7 (14.58%) TDD

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 11 (22.92%) XML
1 11 (22.92%) Spring
2 6 (12.50%) Java SE
2 6 (12.50%) JMS
3 5 (10.42%) HTML
4 4 (8.333%) XSLT
4 4 (8.333%) WebSphere
4 4 (8.333%) Middleware
4 4 (8.333%) Web Services
4 4 (8.333%) Node.js
5 3 (6.250%) LAMP
5 3 (6.250%) Hibernate
5 3 (6.250%) Java EE
5 3 (6.250%) Murex Flex
6 2 (4.167%) Swing
6 2 (4.167%) WSH
6 2 (4.167%) J2EE
6 2 (4.167%) CSS
7 1 (2.083%) JDBC
7 1 (2.083%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 11 (22.92%) Oracle Coherence
2 5 (10.42%) WebLogic
2 5 (10.42%) Apache
3 3 (6.250%) IIS
4 2 (4.167%) Confluence
4 2 (4.167%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.167%) MQSeries
4 2 (4.167%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 3 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (20.83%) RMDS
2 3 (6.250%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (2.083%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (2.083%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.250%) Firewall
2 2 (4.167%) SAN
3 1 (2.083%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.083%) BIG-IP
3 1 (2.083%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.333%) MySQL
3 3 (6.250%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (4.167%) DB2
4 2 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.083%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Maven
2 5 (10.42%) LLVM
3 4 (8.333%) Hudson
3 4 (8.333%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.250%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (4.167%) JIRA
6 1 (2.083%) Ant
General
1 16 (33.33%) Front Office
2 15 (31.25%) Finance
3 14 (29.17%) Banking
4 10 (20.83%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.250%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (58.33%) Developer
2 12 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.67%) C++ Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Quantitative Developer
4 5 (10.42%) C++ Quantitative Developer
5 4 (8.333%) Java Team Leader
5 4 (8.333%) Team Leader
5 4 (8.333%) Analyst
6 3 (6.250%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.250%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (6.250%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Perl Developer
7 2 (4.167%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (4.167%) UNIX Developer
7 2 (4.167%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.083%) Java/J2EE Architect
8 1 (2.083%) Java Architect
8 1 (2.083%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Mathematics
2 10 (20.83%) Computer Science
2 10 (20.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (14.58%) Physics
4 4 (8.333%) Grid Computing
5 2 (4.167%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.083%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Windows
2 17 (35.42%) UNIX
3 10 (20.83%) Solaris
4 5 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.167%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.083%) SUSE
6 1 (2.083%) Fedora
6 1 (2.083%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (37.50%) Multithreading
2 10 (20.83%) Risk Management
2 10 (20.83%) Software Engineering
3 7 (14.58%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (14.58%) TDD
3 7 (14.58%) OO
3 7 (14.58%) E-Commerce
4 6 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 4 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (8.333%) Algorithmic Trading
5 4 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (6.250%) Scrum
6 3 (6.250%) ITIL
6 3 (6.250%) RDF
6 3 (6.250%) Benchmarking
6 3 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (6.250%) Incident Management
6 3 (6.250%) Problem Management
6 3 (6.250%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (4.167%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) Java
2 18 (37.50%) SQL
3 14 (29.17%) C++
4 10 (20.83%) Perl
5 9 (18.75%) Python
5 9 (18.75%) Shell Script
6 8 (16.67%) VC++
7 6 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 5 (10.42%) Bash shell
9 4 (8.333%) Ruby
9 4 (8.333%) C
9 4 (8.333%) C#
10 2 (4.167%) PowerShell
10 2 (4.167%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Degree
2 5 (10.42%) PhD
3 3 (6.250%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.250%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.083%) Xen
3 1 (2.083%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (2.083%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 3 (6.250%) Zenoss
2 2 (4.167%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 2 (4.167%) Puppet
2 2 (4.167%) BladeLogic
3 1 (2.083%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) Oracle
2 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.58%) 29West
4 5 (10.42%) Sybase
5 4 (8.333%) DataSynapse
6 3 (6.250%) Kalahari
6 3 (6.250%) Adobe
6 3 (6.250%) Murex
6 3 (6.250%) TIBCO
6 3 (6.250%) Reuters
6 3 (6.250%) Bloomberg
6 3 (6.250%) Caplin
7 2 (4.167%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.167%) BMC
7 2 (4.167%) NetIQ
7 2 (4.167%) VMware
7 2 (4.167%) HP
7 2 (4.167%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.083%) EMC
8 1 (2.083%) JBoss
Java Developer - Stock Loan Trading - Contract - Java, Spring, Unix
Canary Wharf, London
The team is also piloting Scala for certain projects.The successful candidate needs to understand design patterns, have a strong command of core java concepts like multi-threading,...
Rate: £Competitive
Posted: 19 May 2013
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