Linux Contracts in Chester
 
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 Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 24 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 Chester 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 7 12 17
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 18 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 12.95% 7.692% 4.294%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.62% 25.71% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
Average daily rate £265 £330 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.69% +10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
- +7.24%
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All Operating Systems
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 52 35 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 37.41% 29.91% 23.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 13
Average daily rate £300 £363 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.24% +18.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £200 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £371 £494 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+203.57% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
Cheshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 27 (84.38%) UNIX
2 19 (59.38%) AIX
3 14 (43.75%) Windows
4 13 (40.63%) Red Hat
4 13 (40.63%) VMware
5 11 (34.38%) Citrix
6 10 (31.25%) Project Management
6 10 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (28.13%) PRINCE2
8 8 (25.00%) Finance
8 8 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 7 (21.88%) Banking
10 6 (18.75%) Blackberry
10 6 (18.75%) ITIL
10 6 (18.75%) VB
10 6 (18.75%) Windows XP
10 6 (18.75%) MS Exchange
10 6 (18.75%) Investment Banking
10 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (18.75%) Windows 7
11 5 (15.63%) Exchange Server 2010
11 5 (15.63%) Oracle
12 4 (12.50%) MS Office
12 4 (12.50%) Service Management
13 3 (9.375%) Configuration Management
13 3 (9.375%) Tru64
13 3 (9.375%) Change Management
13 3 (9.375%) Clustering
13 3 (9.375%) Programme Management
13 3 (9.375%) VSS/SourceSafe

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) MS Exchange
2 5 (15.63%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.125%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.250%) Ethernet
1 2 (6.250%) TCP/IP
1 2 (6.250%) DNS
2 1 (3.125%) LDAP
2 1 (3.125%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.375%) DB2
2 1 (3.125%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (9.375%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (9.375%) Subversion
General
1 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (21.88%) Banking
3 6 (18.75%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.125%) Military
4 1 (3.125%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Project Manager
2 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 6 (18.75%) Build Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) UNIX Specialist
6 3 (9.375%) Programme Manager
6 3 (9.375%) Software Engineer
6 3 (9.375%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) Embedded C Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) C Software Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) Embedded C Software Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.125%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) UNIX Administrator
8 1 (3.125%) UNIX Systems Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) Senior Project Manager
8 1 (3.125%) Security Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Blackberry
2 3 (9.375%) Clustering
2 3 (9.375%) HACMP
2 3 (9.375%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (9.375%) SCADA
2 3 (9.375%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.125%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.125%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 27 (84.38%) UNIX
2 19 (59.38%) AIX
3 14 (43.75%) Windows
4 6 (18.75%) Windows XP
4 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (18.75%) Windows 7
5 3 (9.375%) Tru64
6 1 (3.125%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Project Management
1 10 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (28.13%) PRINCE2
3 6 (18.75%) ITIL
4 4 (12.50%) Service Management
5 3 (9.375%) Configuration Management
5 3 (9.375%) Change Management
5 3 (9.375%) Programme Management
6 2 (6.250%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.250%) Migration
7 1 (3.125%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.125%) Information Security
7 1 (3.125%) Service Delivery
7 1 (3.125%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 1 (3.125%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) VB
2 3 (9.375%) C
2 3 (9.375%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.250%) Embedded C
4 1 (3.125%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (9.375%) HND
3 1 (3.125%) CISSP
3 1 (3.125%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 3 (9.375%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 3 (9.375%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.250%) PowerHA
2 2 (6.250%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (9.375%) Tivoli
2 1 (3.125%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Red Hat
1 13 (40.63%) VMware
2 11 (34.38%) Citrix
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle
4 2 (6.250%) SAP
5 1 (3.125%) IBM
5 1 (3.125%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.125%) HP
5 1 (3.125%) Veritas
5 1 (3.125%) ArcSight
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