The first table below looks at the demand for Samba 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 Samba over the 3 months to 17 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 System Software 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Samba
Rank 113 128 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing Samba 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.093% 0.034% -
As % of the System Software category 0.692% 0.337% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
289 297 282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 13.42% 10.08% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 117 109
Average daily rate £293 £308 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.87% +6.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £116 £160 £90
10% offered a daily rate of more than £422 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 61 78
Average hourly rate £16.38 £17.43 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.05% +2.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.85 £11.11 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £38.50 £33.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Samba
England

Samba
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Samba Jobs Demand Trend

Samba
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Samba Daily Rate Trend

Samba
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Samba Hourly Rate Trend

Samba
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Samba within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
Samba
England

Samba
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Samba 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 Samba.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) NFS
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) Postfix
2 2 (66.67%) Varnish
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Memcached
2 2 (66.67%) Gearman
2 2 (66.67%) SNMP
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
2 2 (66.67%) FTP
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (33.33%) Cadence
3 1 (33.33%) IC Design
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery

Samba
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Samba 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 Samba. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Memcached
1 2 (66.67%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (33.33%) Lync
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SMTP
1 2 (66.67%) FTP
1 2 (66.67%) SNMP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) IC Design
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) Postfix
2 2 (66.67%) Varnish
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Terminal Services
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Nagios
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) AppManager
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Sun
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) CommVault
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Cadence