The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 22 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 Croydon 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 12 6 11
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 3 21 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 5.556% 15.33% 13.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.08% 63.64% 37.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 7
Average daily rate £425 £503 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.42% +12.92%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.35% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
13 33 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 24.07% 24.09% 35.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 35
Average daily rate £215 £425 £435
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-49.41% -2.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
London

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 3 (60.00%) UNIX
1 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (40.00%) XenApp
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (20.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) IPsec
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Support Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Support Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Manager
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Junior PHP Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Programmer
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle