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

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support 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 Support in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support
Rank - 218 247
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.052% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.057% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-14.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £31.88
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 6370 7058 9203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.39% 91.51% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4711 5127 6701
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 £320
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 154 174 214
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £43.95 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Support
London

Linux Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Linux Support Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Linux Support Daily Rate Trend

Linux Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Linux Support Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Support 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 Support in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) IBM
3 4 (66.67%) Citrix
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (50.00%) SAN
4 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
4 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (50.00%) EMC
5 2 (33.33%) Service Management
5 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
5 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (33.33%) DHCP
5 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) VBScript
5 2 (33.33%) VB
5 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (33.33%) IT Governance
5 2 (33.33%) COBIT
5 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (33.33%) ITIL
6 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi

Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Linux Support 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 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
1 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) IT Governance
1 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
1 2 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 3 (50.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
1 4 (66.67%) Citrix
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) EMC
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
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