The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CentOS over the 3 months to 20 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 of England 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 116 130 123
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -7
Contract jobs citing CentOS 2 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.089% 0.168% 0.179%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.338% 0.628% 0.690%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £363 £338 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.40% -6.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £338 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £338 £373
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £284 £275
% change year-on-year
+23.34% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £41.25 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.25 £41.25 £23.75
% change year-on-year
-19.39% +73.68%
All Operating Systems
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
591 796 725
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 26.31% 26.70% 25.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 335 251
Average daily rate £300 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £124 £170 £138
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 126 166
Average hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.62% +32.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.80 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £35.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
CentOS
England

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CentOS across the East of England region.

East of England CentOS Daily Rate Trend

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England CentOS Hourly Rate Trend

CentOS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 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
Cambridgeshire +1 1 £350 +3.70% 1
Hertfordshire - 1 £375 - 5
Suffolk - - - -
Essex - - - -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Debian
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Administrator
2 3 (75.00%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Debian
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
MS Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (MCSE Preferred) SCOM/SCCM 2007 R2 Hyper-V... PHP/Perl knowledge GIT Python NFS, especially via NetApp Filers. Nagios (Opsview) Splunk. SharePoint...
Experis IT
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
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