East of England Linux Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Linux skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Linux
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Andover Angus Atherstone Avon Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Conwy County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moray Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tayside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	30
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	212	181
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.280 %	0.192 %
As % of the category below	20.62 %	15.92 %
Daily rates quoted	60	37
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£264
Average daily rate	£315	£287
% change on same period last year	+9.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.36	£27.77
Average hourly rate	£30.95	£28.84
% change on same period last year	+7.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.55	£29.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.64	£32.45
% change on same period last year	-2.50 %
Operating Systems East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	1028	1137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.356 %	1.206 %
Daily rates quoted	255	291
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£326
Average daily rate	£300	£345
% change on same period last year	-13.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	182	215
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.36	£20.93
Average hourly rate	£22.73	£22.06
% change on same period last year	+3.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£23.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Linux England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Linux across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Linux
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Linux within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridgeshire	+4	89	£305	+0.06 %
Essex	+10	51	£283	-15.31 %
Hertfordshire	-4	49	£353	+33.59 %
Suffolk	+10	15	£340	-
Bedfordshire	-10	4	£450	+54.28 %
East Anglia	-15	2	-	-

Linux England

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 207 (49.64 %) Unix 2 150 (35.97 %) Windows 3 122 (29.26 %) Solaris 4 110 (26.38 %) SQL 5 99 (23.74 %) Java 6 92 (22.06 %) C 7 76 (18.23 %) Oracle 8 73 (17.51 %) J2EE 9 72 (17.27 %) C++ 10 67 (16.07 %) WebSphere 11 62 (14.87 %) Perl 12 58 (13.91 %) HPUX 13 55 (13.19 %) MySQL 13 55 (13.19 %) TCP/IP 14 53 (12.71 %) IBM

15 51 (12.23 %) Cisco 16 50 (11.99 %) Microsoft 17 48 (11.51 %) Firewall 18 46 (11.03 %) DB2 18 46 (11.03 %) XML 19 45 (10.79 %) Finance 20 43 (10.31 %) Red Hat 21 42 (10.07 %) OO 22 41 (9.832 %) Apache 23 40 (9.592 %) Telecoms 24 38 (9.113 %) Hibernate 24 38 (9.113 %) Spring 24 38 (9.113 %) PHP 25 35 (8.393 %) JavaScript 25 35 (8.393 %) WebSphere Application Server

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 73 (17.51 %) J2EE 2 67 (16.07 %) WebSphere 3 46 (11.03 %) XML 4 38 (9.113 %) Hibernate 4 38 (9.113 %) Spring 5 34 (8.153 %) HTML 6 30 (7.194 %) .NET 7 23 (5.516 %) CSS 8 19 (4.556 %) JSP 9 16 (3.837 %) Middleware 10 15 (3.597 %) Servlets 11 14 (3.357 %) WebServices 12 13 (3.118 %) ASP 13 9 (2.158 %) XHTML 13 9 (2.158 %) LAMP 13 9 (2.158 %) JRules 13 9 (2.158 %) JavaBeans 14 8 (1.918 %) Struts 15 6 (1.439 %) AJAX 16 5 (1.199 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 41 (9.832 %) Apache 2 35 (8.393 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 28 (6.715 %) WebLogic 3 28 (6.715 %) Tomcat 4 26 (6.235 %) JBoss 5 19 (4.556 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 18 (4.317 %) MS Exchange 7 16 (3.837 %) IIS 8 15 (3.597 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 11 (2.638 %) IBM HTTP Server 10 7 (1.679 %) Oracle HTTP Server 11 6 (1.439 %) WebSphere MQ 11 6 (1.439 %) MQSeries 12 5 (1.199 %) SharePoint 13 4 (0.959 %) CMS 13 4 (0.959 %) Oracle Application Server 14 3 (0.719 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 3 (0.719 %) Lotus Notes 14 3 (0.719 %) Resin 15 1 (0.240 %) Mambo
Applications 1 16 (3.837 %) MS Office 1 16 (3.837 %) MS Excel 2 8 (1.918 %) MS Project 3 2 (0.480 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.240 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (0.240 %) Doxygen 4 1 (0.240 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 1 (0.240 %) Oracle ERP 1 1 (0.240 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (0.240 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 55 (13.19 %) TCP/IP 2 48 (11.51 %) Firewall 3 34 (8.153 %) LAN 4 30 (7.194 %) DNS 5 25 (5.995 %) SAN 6 22 (5.276 %) HTTP 7 20 (4.796 %) VoIP 8 19 (4.556 %) WAN 9 18 (4.317 %) Wi-Fi 10 14 (3.357 %) Wireless 11 13 (3.118 %) MPLS 11 13 (3.118 %) VPN 12 12 (2.878 %) Internet 13 11 (2.638 %) RTP 14 10 (2.398 %) DAB 14 10 (2.398 %) Cisco IOS 14 10 (2.398 %) 3G 14 10 (2.398 %) WLAN 15 9 (2.158 %) iSCSI 15 9 (2.158 %) RTSP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 55 (13.19 %) MySQL 2 46 (11.03 %) DB2 3 26 (6.235 %) SQL Server 4 18 (4.317 %) Oracle 10g 5 13 (3.118 %) MS Access 6 9 (2.158 %) PostgreSQL 6 9 (2.158 %) Oracle 9i 7 6 (1.439 %) Oracle Reports 8 5 (1.199 %) RDBMS 9 4 (0.959 %) Crystal Reports 10 3 (0.719 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 2 (0.480 %) ETL 11 2 (0.480 %) Oracle Discoverer 12 1 (0.240 %) Informix
Development Applications 1 28 (6.715 %) Eclipse 2 27 (6.475 %) Ant 3 25 (5.995 %) JUnit 4 20 (4.796 %) IntelliJ 5 16 (3.837 %) CruiseControl 6 15 (3.597 %) Atlassian Bamboo 7 13 (3.118 %) Subversion 8 8 (1.918 %) Bugzilla 9 4 (0.959 %) TestDirector 10 3 (0.719 %) JBuilder 10 3 (0.719 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 10 3 (0.719 %) JDeveloper 11 2 (0.480 %) Visual Studio 11 2 (0.480 %) Flash 12 1 (0.240 %) WinRunner 12 1 (0.240 %) Rational Robot	General 1 45 (10.79 %) Finance 2 40 (9.592 %) Telecoms 3 13 (3.118 %) Marketing 4 8 (1.918 %) Multimedia 5 7 (1.679 %) Insurance 6 6 (1.439 %) Electronics 6 6 (1.439 %) Retail 7 5 (1.199 %) Automotive 8 3 (0.719 %) Education 8 3 (0.719 %) Games 8 3 (0.719 %) Health 9 2 (0.480 %) Legal 9 2 (0.480 %) Banking 9 2 (0.480 %) Pharmaceutical 9 2 (0.480 %) Financial Institution 10 1 (0.240 %) Back Office 10 1 (0.240 %) Government 10 1 (0.240 %) Retail Banking 10 1 (0.240 %) Manufacturing 10 1 (0.240 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 112 (26.86 %) Developer 2 46 (11.03 %) Software Engineer 3 38 (9.113 %) Administrator 4 37 (8.873 %) Java Developer 5 33 (7.914 %) Support Engineer 6 32 (7.674 %) Analyst 7 22 (5.276 %) Systems Administrator 8 19 (4.556 %) DBA 9 16 (3.837 %) Consultant 10 15 (3.597 %) Web Developer 10 15 (3.597 %) Project Manager 10 15 (3.597 %) 3rd Line Support 11 14 (3.357 %) Software Developer 11 14 (3.357 %) Server Support 12 13 (3.118 %) Architect 12 13 (3.118 %) Server Engineer 13 12 (2.878 %) Server Support Engineer 13 12 (2.878 %) DB2 DBA 13 12 (2.878 %) Network Engineer 13 12 (2.878 %) Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 15 (3.597 %) Device Driver 2 10 (2.398 %) IPTV 3 9 (2.158 %) N-Tier 4 8 (1.918 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 5 7 (1.679 %) Computer Science 5 7 (1.679 %) DTV 5 7 (1.679 %) Clustering 6 6 (1.439 %) MPEG 6 6 (1.439 %) PKI 7 5 (1.199 %) PMI 7 5 (1.199 %) EPoS 8 4 (0.959 %) STB 8 4 (0.959 %) Cryptography 8 4 (0.959 %) Client/Server 9 3 (0.719 %) Bioinformatics 9 3 (0.719 %) Biology 10 2 (0.480 %) VHDL 10 2 (0.480 %) Verilog 10 2 (0.480 %) Streaming Video 10 2 (0.480 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 207 (49.64 %) Unix 2 150 (35.97 %) Windows 3 122 (29.26 %) Solaris 4 58 (13.91 %) HPUX 5 30 (7.194 %) Windows NT 6 26 (6.235 %) Windows Server 2003 7 23 (5.516 %) AIX 8 21 (5.036 %) Embedded Linux 9 13 (3.118 %) Windows 2000 10 9 (2.158 %) Windows CE 11 7 (1.679 %) SUSE 12 6 (1.439 %) Windows XP 13 5 (1.199 %) Ubuntu 14 4 (0.959 %) i5/OS 14 4 (0.959 %) NetWare 14 4 (0.959 %) FreeBSD 15 3 (0.719 %) Tru64 16 1 (0.240 %) IRIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 42 (10.07 %) OO 2 31 (7.434 %) UML 3 25 (5.995 %) Security Cleared 4 22 (5.276 %) Project Management 5 17 (4.077 %) SOA 6 15 (3.597 %) CRM 6 15 (3.597 %) Data Management 7 12 (2.878 %) OOD 8 11 (2.638 %) ITIL 8 11 (2.638 %) Continuous Integration 9 10 (2.398 %) SC Cleared 10 9 (2.158 %) Software Engineering 10 9 (2.158 %) Load Balancing 10 9 (2.158 %) Content Management 11 8 (1.918 %) Migration 12 7 (1.679 %) Security Management 12 7 (1.679 %) Disaster Recovery 12 7 (1.679 %) Network Design 12 7 (1.679 %) Web Development 13 6 (1.439 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 110 (26.38 %) SQL 2 99 (23.74 %) Java 3 92 (22.06 %) C 4 72 (17.27 %) C++ 5 62 (14.87 %) Perl 6 38 (9.113 %) PHP 7 35 (8.393 %) JavaScript 8 22 (5.276 %) Python 9 21 (5.036 %) Shell Script 10 20 (4.796 %) Embedded C 11 17 (4.077 %) C# 12 12 (2.878 %) VB 13 11 (2.638 %) Assembly Language 13 11 (2.638 %) PL/SQL 14 9 (2.158 %) DHTML 15 8 (1.918 %) Embedded C++ 16 7 (1.679 %) Ruby 17 6 (1.439 %) VB6 17 6 (1.439 %) Tcl 18 5 (1.199 %) PHP5	Qualifications 1 29 (6.954 %) Microsoft Certification 2 26 (6.235 %) Degree 3 24 (5.755 %) Cisco Certification 4 23 (5.516 %) MCSE 5 22 (5.276 %) CCNA 6 8 (1.918 %) MCP 7 7 (1.679 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 8 6 (1.439 %) CCNP 9 4 (0.959 %) PhD 10 3 (0.719 %) CCDP 10 3 (0.719 %) ISEB 10 3 (0.719 %) CCA 10 3 (0.719 %) Citrix Certification 11 2 (0.480 %) CISSP 11 2 (0.480 %) MCSA 11 2 (0.480 %) CCIP 11 2 (0.480 %) RHCE 11 2 (0.480 %) Sun Certification 12 1 (0.240 %) ITIL Certification 12 1 (0.240 %) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (1.679 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 2 (0.480 %) SLA 3 1 (0.240 %) BS7799 3 1 (0.240 %) QA 3 1 (0.240 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 20 (4.796 %) Active Directory 2 17 (4.077 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 9 (2.158 %) NetBackup 4 7 (1.679 %) NFS 4 7 (1.679 %) ISA Server 5 4 (0.959 %) Samba 6 3 (0.719 %) VMware ESX 6 3 (0.719 %) VMware Server 7 2 (0.480 %) Oracle RMAN 8 1 (0.240 %) AquaLogic 8 1 (0.240 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 16 (3.837 %) Tivoli 2 11 (2.638 %) OpenView 3 9 (2.158 %) CiscoWorks 4 7 (1.679 %) NNM 4 7 (1.679 %) Tivoli NetView 5 2 (0.480 %) HP Data Protector 6 1 (0.240 %) Legato 6 1 (0.240 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 1 (0.240 %) Netcool 6 1 (0.240 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 6 1 (0.240 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 76 (18.23 %) Oracle 2 53 (12.71 %) IBM 3 51 (12.23 %) Cisco 4 50 (11.99 %) Microsoft 5 43 (10.31 %) Red Hat 6 33 (7.914 %) HP 7 25 (5.995 %) VMware 8 23 (5.516 %) Sun 9 13 (3.118 %) Intel 9 13 (3.118 %) NetApp 10 12 (2.878 %) Novell 11 10 (2.398 %) CheckPoint 11 10 (2.398 %) Citrix 11 10 (2.398 %) Sybase 12 9 (2.158 %) Alcatel 12 9 (2.158 %) Siemens 12 9 (2.158 %) VERITAS 12 9 (2.158 %) ILOG 13 7 (1.679 %) Nortel 13 7 (1.679 %) Dell