The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Linux skills 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 Oracle Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
Rank 195 204 234
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +30
Contract jobs citing Oracle Linux 8 13 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.124% 0.165% 0.021%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.635% 0.831% 0.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
Average daily rate £363 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.70% -15.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £338 £270
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1259 1565 1847
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 19.59% 19.91% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 974 1231
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 96 106
Average hourly rate £30.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Oracle Linux
London

Oracle Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Oracle Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Oracle Linux Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Oracle 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 Oracle Linux.

1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) HP
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 5 (62.50%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (50.00%) BMC
4 4 (50.00%) EMC
4 4 (50.00%) Citrix
4 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (50.00%) XenApp
4 4 (50.00%) XenDesktop
4 4 (50.00%) vSphere
5 3 (37.50%) Banking
6 2 (25.00%) Finance
6 2 (25.00%) Migration
6 2 (25.00%) Perl
7 1 (12.50%) SQL
7 1 (12.50%) SAN
7 1 (12.50%) VMware
7 1 (12.50%) Equities
7 1 (12.50%) Middleware
7 1 (12.50%) Firewall
7 1 (12.50%) Python
7 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
7 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (12.50%) ETL
7 1 (12.50%) OpenVMS

Oracle Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Oracle 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 Oracle Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Publishing
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Equities
1 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) Windows
4 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (12.50%) OpenVMS
5 1 (12.50%) UNIX
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
2 1 (12.50%) Release Management
2 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) XenApp
1 4 (50.00%) XenDesktop
1 4 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) HP
2 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (50.00%) BMC
3 4 (50.00%) EMC
3 4 (50.00%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) Sun
4 1 (12.50%) JBoss
City, London
It is essential that the successful candidate has experience Linux (Oracle 5.x/6.x), with any knowledge or experience of Windows 2008/12 operating systems as an...
Experis IT
Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013