Linux Specialist Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London 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 Specialist
Rank 201 - 235
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Specialist 2 0 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% - 0.102%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% - 0.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £425 - £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £338 £340
% change year-on-year
+14.81% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.40%
Search 2 Linux Specialist jobs in the City of London
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Specialist
London

Linux Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Linux Specialist across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Linux Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Linux Specialist across the City of London region.

City of London Linux Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Linux Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Specialist in their job title 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 with Linux Specialist in their job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
3 6 (75.00%) IBM
4 4 (50.00%) SAN
4 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (37.50%) UNIX
5 3 (37.50%) Banking
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (37.50%) Tivoli
5 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
5 3 (37.50%) EMC
5 3 (37.50%) Citrix
6 2 (25.00%) ISO 9001
6 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
6 2 (25.00%) AS400
6 2 (25.00%) Migration
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
7 1 (12.50%) Veritas
7 1 (12.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 1 (12.50%) NAS
7 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (12.50%) vSphere
7 1 (12.50%) Sun

Linux Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Specialist in their job title 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 with Linux Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (25.00%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Tivoli
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) IBM
3 3 (37.50%) EMC
3 3 (37.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Veritas
4 1 (12.50%) Sun
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) HP
Linux Server Specialist (contract) - Central London - £450 p/d
City of London
Key skills: Linux support, Linux build-out, Linux administration (ideally redhat) ideally with some Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server support experience. Other products include: VMWare, EMC San,...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
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