The first table below looks at the demand for Samba 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 Samba 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 System Software 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Samba
Rank - 215 237
Contract jobs citing Samba 0 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.038% 0.082%
As % of the System Software category - 0.493% 1.507%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
Average daily rate - £388 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +14.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £373 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.46% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
510 609 531
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.995% 7.743% 5.421%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 359 314
Average daily rate £400 £355 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.67% -5.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £225 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 63 78
Average hourly rate £21.00 £21.25 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.17% +3.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Samba
London

Samba
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Samba across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

City of London Samba Jobs Demand Trend

Samba
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Samba Daily Rate Trend

Samba
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Samba 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 Samba.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
2 2 (66.67%) LAMP
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Rackspace Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Rackspace
2 2 (66.67%) ZABBIX
3 1 (33.33%) LPAR
3 1 (33.33%) sed
3 1 (33.33%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) AWK
3 1 (33.33%) RHCT
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) NFS
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) OpenView
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) RHCE
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) HACMP

Samba
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Samba 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 Samba. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Rackspace Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) LPAR
1 1 (33.33%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) AIX
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) sed
1 1 (33.33%) AWK
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) RHCT
1 1 (33.33%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Nagios
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) ZABBIX
2 1 (33.33%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (33.33%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Rackspace
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Intel
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat