The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 19 June 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 East Midlands 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 47 44 31
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -13
Contract jobs citing Linux 38 38 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 2.969% 2.844% 4.318%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.57% 17.04% 19.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 32
Average daily rate £363 £435 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +8.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £213 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £535 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
- +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 £43.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.04% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Operating Systems
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
280 223 325
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 21.88% 16.69% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 94 117
Average daily rate £290 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £175 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 49 46
Average hourly rate £12.50 £13.77 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.22% -19.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £8.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £55.00 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Linux
England

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East Midlands Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Nottinghamshire +3 23 £363 -16.66% 16
Leicestershire -5 7 £438 +103.48% 3
Northamptonshire +9 5 £175 -66.66% 4
Derbyshire - - - - 5
Lincolnshire - - - - 3
Rutland - - - -
Linux
England

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 53 (48.62%) UNIX
2 52 (47.71%) Windows
3 32 (29.36%) VMware
4 26 (23.85%) SQL
4 26 (23.85%) SQL Server
5 24 (22.02%) IBM
6 22 (20.18%) HP
6 22 (20.18%) Oracle
7 20 (18.35%) Citrix
7 20 (18.35%) SAN
8 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
9 18 (16.51%) Web Services
9 18 (16.51%) Windows Server 2008
9 18 (16.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (15.60%) Windows Server 2003
11 16 (14.68%) Java
11 16 (14.68%) Cisco
11 16 (14.68%) Telecoms
12 15 (13.76%) Finance
12 15 (13.76%) Apache
12 15 (13.76%) Red Hat
13 14 (12.84%) C
13 14 (12.84%) C++
13 14 (12.84%) VMware Infrastructure
14 13 (11.93%) Validation
14 13 (11.93%) Tivoli
15 12 (11.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 12 (11.01%) Service Delivery
15 12 (11.01%) Bluetooth
15 12 (11.01%) Device Driver

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 18 (16.51%) Web Services
2 12 (11.01%) JNI
3 10 (9.174%) .NET
4 9 (8.257%) WPF
4 9 (8.257%) REST
5 7 (6.422%) CodeIgniter
5 7 (6.422%) CSS
6 6 (5.505%) ASP.NET
6 6 (5.505%) WebSphere
7 5 (4.587%) Middleware
8 4 (3.670%) HTML
8 4 (3.670%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 3 (2.752%) CSS3
9 3 (2.752%) HTML5
9 3 (2.752%) jQuery
10 2 (1.835%) Struts
10 2 (1.835%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (1.835%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (1.835%) WinForms
11 1 (0.917%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 15 (13.76%) Apache
2 6 (5.505%) IIS
3 5 (4.587%) WebLogic
4 4 (3.670%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.752%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (1.835%) MS Exchange
6 2 (1.835%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.835%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 2 (1.835%) Papyrus
7 1 (0.917%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.917%) WebSphere Portal
7 1 (0.917%) Lotus Domino
7 1 (0.917%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.917%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (4.587%) Spreadsheet
1 5 (4.587%) MS Office
2 4 (3.670%) MS Excel
3 3 (2.752%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.917%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 2 (1.835%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.917%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.917%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.35%) SAN
2 12 (11.01%) Bluetooth
2 12 (11.01%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (7.339%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.505%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (4.587%) Network Security
5 5 (4.587%) LAN
5 5 (4.587%) WAN
6 3 (2.752%) VoIP
7 2 (1.835%) Intranet
7 2 (1.835%) Internet
7 2 (1.835%) NAS
8 1 (0.917%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.917%) VLAN
8 1 (0.917%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.917%) Firewall
8 1 (0.917%) MPLS
8 1 (0.917%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.917%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.85%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.09%) MySQL
3 10 (9.174%) SQL Server 2000
3 10 (9.174%) SQL Server 2008
4 8 (7.339%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (4.587%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.587%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (2.752%) DB2
7 2 (1.835%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.835%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.917%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.917%) VLDB
8 1 (0.917%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.917%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.917%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 9 (8.257%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 4 (3.670%) Subversion
2 4 (3.670%) PHPUnit
3 3 (2.752%) Git (software)
4 2 (1.835%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.917%) Ant
General
1 16 (14.68%) Telecoms
2 15 (13.76%) Finance
3 3 (2.752%) Retail
4 2 (1.835%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (1.835%) Marketing
4 2 (1.835%) Banking
5 1 (0.917%) Games
5 1 (0.917%) Advertising
5 1 (0.917%) Danish Language
5 1 (0.917%) French Language
5 1 (0.917%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (29.36%) Developer
2 17 (15.60%) Systems Engineer
3 12 (11.01%) Android Developer
4 9 (8.257%) Test Engineer
5 6 (5.505%) Administrator
5 6 (5.505%) Analyst
5 6 (5.505%) Project Manager
5 6 (5.505%) SQL Developer
5 6 (5.505%) SQL Server Developer
5 6 (5.505%) .NET Developer
5 6 (5.505%) C# Developer
5 6 (5.505%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (4.587%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (4.587%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (4.587%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (4.587%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.670%) Consultant
7 4 (3.670%) DBA
7 4 (3.670%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 4 (3.670%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Device Driver
1 12 (11.01%) Streaming Video
2 5 (4.587%) Clustering
3 3 (2.752%) IaaS
3 3 (2.752%) Open Source
3 3 (2.752%) Blackberry
3 3 (2.752%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.835%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.835%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.835%) SaaS
5 1 (0.917%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.917%) EMC Centera
5 1 (0.917%) Life Science
5 1 (0.917%) Statistics
5 1 (0.917%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 53 (48.62%) UNIX
2 52 (47.71%) Windows
3 18 (16.51%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (16.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (15.60%) Windows Server 2003
5 12 (11.01%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (11.01%) Android
6 9 (8.257%) Windows 2000
7 8 (7.339%) HPUX
8 3 (2.752%) AIX
9 1 (0.917%) SUSE
9 1 (0.917%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (0.917%) MVS
9 1 (0.917%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (11.93%) Validation
2 12 (11.01%) Service Delivery
3 10 (9.174%) Configuration Management
4 9 (8.257%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (8.257%) Multithreading
5 8 (7.339%) Migration
5 8 (7.339%) Logistics
6 6 (5.505%) ITIL
6 6 (5.505%) OO
6 6 (5.505%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (5.505%) TDD
7 5 (4.587%) Project Management
8 4 (3.670%) OOP
8 4 (3.670%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (3.670%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (2.752%) Scrum
9 3 (2.752%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (2.752%) SOA
10 2 (1.835%) E-Commerce
10 2 (1.835%) UML
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.85%) SQL
2 16 (14.68%) Java
3 14 (12.84%) C
3 14 (12.84%) C++
4 11 (10.09%) C#
5 10 (9.174%) Perl
6 9 (8.257%) JavaScript
7 8 (7.339%) PHP
8 5 (4.587%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.670%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.752%) Bash shell
10 3 (2.752%) Python
11 2 (1.835%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.835%) Ruby
12 1 (0.917%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.917%) REXX
12 1 (0.917%) JCL
12 1 (0.917%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.505%) ISEB
2 5 (4.587%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (4.587%) Citrix Certification
2 5 (4.587%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (4.587%) MCSE
3 4 (3.670%) CCA
3 4 (3.670%) Degree
3 4 (3.670%) MCITP
4 3 (2.752%) RHCE
5 2 (1.835%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.835%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.917%) VCP4
6 1 (0.917%) RHCA
6 1 (0.917%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.917%) CISSP
6 1 (0.917%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.917%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.257%) ISO 9001
2 8 (7.339%) TickIT
3 3 (2.752%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (12.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (10.09%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.505%) MetaFrame
4 5 (4.587%) vSphere
4 5 (4.587%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 5 (4.587%) XenApp
5 2 (1.835%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.835%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.917%) Xen
6 1 (0.917%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.917%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 13 (11.93%) Tivoli
2 12 (11.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (2.752%) Control-M
3 3 (2.752%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 2 (1.835%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (1.835%) HP SIM
5 1 (0.917%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (0.917%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (29.36%) VMware
2 24 (22.02%) IBM
3 22 (20.18%) HP
3 22 (20.18%) Oracle
4 20 (18.35%) Citrix
5 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
6 16 (14.68%) Cisco
7 15 (13.76%) Red Hat
8 8 (7.339%) EMC
9 6 (5.505%) Twitter
10 5 (4.587%) PlateSpin
11 4 (3.670%) NetApp
11 4 (3.670%) Novell
11 4 (3.670%) Zend
12 3 (2.752%) F5
13 2 (1.835%) Primavera
13 2 (1.835%) SolarWinds
14 1 (0.917%) Isilon
14 1 (0.917%) hybris
14 1 (0.917%) Altiris
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