Linux Administrator Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role 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 Linux Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 103 121 102
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 13 13 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.613% 0.441% 0.747%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.657% 0.469% 0.788%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 10
Average daily rate £330 £344 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +27.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £326 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £408 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £330 £323
% change year-on-year
-6.06% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +54.54%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1980 2769 2539
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.40% 93.86% 94.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1018 1292 1115
Average daily rate £340 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 285 325
Average hourly rate £22.66 £23.59 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.92% +24.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Linux Administrator across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

East of England Linux Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Linux Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Linux Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Linux Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +8 8 £340 +0.74%
Hertfordshire - 5 £325 -
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Linux Administrator in their job title 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 with Linux Administrator in their job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (90.48%) Red Hat
3 13 (61.90%) UNIX
4 12 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (47.62%) Apache
6 9 (42.86%) VMware
7 8 (38.10%) Debian
7 8 (38.10%) DNS
7 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (33.33%) DHCP
8 7 (33.33%) ITIL
9 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
9 6 (28.57%) RHCE
10 5 (23.81%) Tomcat
10 5 (23.81%) JBoss
10 5 (23.81%) Perl
10 5 (23.81%) MySQL
11 4 (19.05%) EMC
11 4 (19.05%) NetApp
11 4 (19.05%) Veritas
11 4 (19.05%) Clustering
12 3 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
12 3 (14.29%) VMware ESX
12 3 (14.29%) Retail
12 3 (14.29%) E-business
12 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
12 3 (14.29%) Citrix
12 3 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Linux Administrator in their job title 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 with Linux Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.762%) Middleware
1 1 (4.762%) Web Services
1 1 (4.762%) Gearman
1 1 (4.762%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 10 (47.62%) Apache
2 5 (23.81%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.762%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (4.762%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) DNS
2 7 (33.33%) DHCP
3 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.762%) NAS
4 1 (4.762%) BIG-IP
4 1 (4.762%) SAN
4 1 (4.762%) Internet
4 1 (4.762%) LAN
4 1 (4.762%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Subversion
General
1 3 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (4.762%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Clustering
2 1 (4.762%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (61.90%) UNIX
3 12 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (38.10%) Debian
5 3 (14.29%) HPUX
6 2 (9.524%) CentOS
7 1 (4.762%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (14.29%) E-business
2 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 3 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (4.762%) Project Management
3 1 (4.762%) Capacity Management
3 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (4.762%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Perl
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.524%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.762%) Korn
4 1 (4.762%) Java
4 1 (4.762%) PHP
4 1 (4.762%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) RHCE
2 3 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.762%) Degree
3 1 (4.762%) RHCA
3 1 (4.762%) RHCT
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (14.29%) VMware ESX
2 3 (14.29%) vSphere
3 2 (9.524%) NFS
4 1 (4.762%) Postfix
4 1 (4.762%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (4.762%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (14.29%) Puppet
2 2 (9.524%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) Red Hat
2 9 (42.86%) VMware
3 5 (23.81%) JBoss
4 4 (19.05%) EMC
4 4 (19.05%) NetApp
4 4 (19.05%) Veritas
5 3 (14.29%) Citrix
5 3 (14.29%) Oracle
5 3 (14.29%) SAP
6 1 (4.762%) Cisco
6 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.762%) HP
6 1 (4.762%) Percona
6 1 (4.762%) Akamai
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