The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 17 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 Crawley 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 18 29 11
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -18
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 6 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 4.000% 2.281% 11.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.00% 24.00% 42.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Average daily rate £378 £200 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+88.75% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.73% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
25 25 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 16.67% 9.506% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 6
Average daily rate £400 £388 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -20.10%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £15.50 £14.13 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.73% -32.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Linux
West Sussex

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Crawley Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Crawley Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing 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 Linux.

1 7 (77.78%) Windows
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (66.67%) Cisco
3 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
3 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 5 (55.56%) DNS
3 5 (55.56%) DHCP
3 5 (55.56%) Firewall
4 4 (44.44%) XenApp
4 4 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (44.44%) Citrix
4 4 (44.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (44.44%) MS Exchange
4 4 (44.44%) Oracle
5 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 3 (33.33%) MS Office
5 3 (33.33%) LAN
5 3 (33.33%) WAN
5 3 (33.33%) AIX
5 3 (33.33%) Apache
5 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 3 (33.33%) Avaya
5 3 (33.33%) Juniper
5 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 3 (33.33%) UNIX
5 3 (33.33%) SSL
5 3 (33.33%) CheckPoint

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing 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 Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) OpenGL
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) MS Exchange
1 4 (44.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (33.33%) Apache
3 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (22.22%) IIS
3 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (22.22%) Zimbra
3 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Office
1 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (11.11%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DHCP
1 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
1 5 (55.56%) VPN
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) IPsec
2 3 (33.33%) SSL
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) ADSL
3 2 (22.22%) Broadband
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 2 (22.22%) IP Telephony
4 1 (11.11%) VPLS
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless Security
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (11.11%) tcpdump
4 1 (11.11%) Junos
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (22.22%) MySQL
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (11.11%) DB2
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Support Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) IVR
1 1 (11.11%) SecurID
1 1 (11.11%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (33.33%) AIX
4 3 (33.33%) UNIX
5 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
5 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
2 2 (22.22%) Data Security
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Management
3 1 (11.11%) Matrix Management
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Management
3 1 (11.11%) Budget Control
3 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
3 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) VB
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) XenApp
2 3 (33.33%) vSphere
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 2 (22.22%) Postfix
4 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
1 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Control-M
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 6 (66.67%) Cisco
3 4 (44.44%) Oracle
3 4 (44.44%) Citrix
4 3 (33.33%) Avaya
4 3 (33.33%) Juniper
4 3 (33.33%) CheckPoint
5 2 (22.22%) Sophos
5 2 (22.22%) CommVault
5 2 (22.22%) HP
5 2 (22.22%) EMC
5 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
6 1 (11.11%) Nortel
6 1 (11.11%) CA
6 1 (11.11%) NetApp
6 1 (11.11%) Novell
6 1 (11.11%) TOWER Software
6 1 (11.11%) Verint
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