The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the County Antrim region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux Engineer 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 County Antrim 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 Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £500 £350
% change year-on-year
-32.50% +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +15.10%
All Job Titles
County Antrim
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
136 155 313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 70.10% 93.37% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 48 103
Average daily rate £325 £335 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 19
Average hourly rate £12.42 £12.50 £19.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.64% -35.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Engineer
Northern Ireland

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim region that cited Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GStreamer

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim region that cited Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) GStreamer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared