Linux Contracts in Cardiff
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 22 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 Cardiff 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 27 11 23
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +12
Contract jobs citing Linux 1 22 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 0.538% 9.692% 5.439%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.326% 31.43% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 7
Average daily rate £200 £200 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -50.61%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.35% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 43 70 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 23.12% 30.84% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 27
Average daily rate £290 £225 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.88% -40.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £105 £102
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £425 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
Average hourly rate £11.00 £14.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.13% +20.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
South Wales

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cardiff Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) RUP
3 3 (42.86%) NHS
3 3 (42.86%) ISEB
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) MS Project
3 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SAP
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (28.57%) Informix
5 1 (14.29%) Apache
5 1 (14.29%) EMC
5 1 (14.29%) Flash
5 1 (14.29%) MS Excel

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) Flash
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) jQuery
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Project
2 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (28.57%) Informix
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
1 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Junior Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) HACMP
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) LPAR
2 1 (14.29%) DLPAR
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) AIX
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) RUP
1 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
1 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) ISEB
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) EMC
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
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