The first table below looks at the demand for Debian 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 Debian over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 109 126 122
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -4
Contract jobs citing Debian 11 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.505% 0.170% 0.155%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.926% 0.694% 0.617%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 0
Average daily rate £325 £330 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £175
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +85.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -18.18%
All Operating Systems
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
571 720 648
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 26.19% 24.51% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 295 239
Average daily rate £305 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £113 £170 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 124 159
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.18% +30.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £35.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Debian
England

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Debian Daily Rate Trend

Debian
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Debian Hourly Rate Trend

Debian
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Cambridgeshire +13 8 £320 -3.03%
Hertfordshire - 3 £325 -
Debian
England

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 17 (89.47%) Linux
2 14 (73.68%) Red Hat
3 12 (63.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (57.89%) RHCE
5 10 (52.63%) Git (software)
6 9 (47.37%) Puppet
6 9 (47.37%) Subversion
6 9 (47.37%) Nagios
7 8 (42.11%) Apache
7 8 (42.11%) Python
7 8 (42.11%) Postfix
8 7 (36.84%) Windows
9 6 (31.58%) WAN
9 6 (31.58%) Perl
9 6 (31.58%) MySQL
9 6 (31.58%) Kerberos
9 6 (31.58%) LAMP
9 6 (31.58%) Sendmail
9 6 (31.58%) Bash shell
9 6 (31.58%) Hyper-V
9 6 (31.58%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (26.32%) UNIX
11 4 (21.05%) JBoss
11 4 (21.05%) Tomcat
11 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
11 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
11 4 (21.05%) RHCT
12 3 (15.79%) PHP
12 3 (15.79%) Java
13 2 (10.53%) JavaScript

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (31.58%) LAMP
2 2 (10.53%) Django
2 2 (10.53%) Gearman
2 2 (10.53%) Memcached
3 1 (5.263%) .NET
3 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (42.11%) Apache
2 4 (21.05%) Tomcat
3 2 (10.53%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) WAN
1 6 (31.58%) Kerberos
2 2 (10.53%) SMTP
2 2 (10.53%) FTP
2 2 (10.53%) SNMP
3 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Git (software)
2 9 (47.37%) Subversion
3 2 (10.53%) Bazaar
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Administrator
2 7 (36.84%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (31.58%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (15.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Django Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Linux
2 12 (63.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (36.84%) Windows
4 5 (26.32%) UNIX
5 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
6 2 (10.53%) VMS
6 2 (10.53%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (10.53%) Android
7 1 (5.263%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Configuration Management
2 1 (5.263%) Incident Management
2 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
2 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.263%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) Perl
2 6 (31.58%) Bash shell
3 3 (15.79%) PHP
3 3 (15.79%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) C
4 2 (10.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) RHCE
2 4 (21.05%) RHCT
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Postfix
2 6 (31.58%) Sendmail
2 6 (31.58%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.53%) NFS
3 2 (10.53%) Samba
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Puppet
1 9 (47.37%) Nagios
2 6 (31.58%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Red Hat
2 4 (21.05%) JBoss
3 2 (10.53%) NetApp
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.263%) Percona
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