The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 111 122 123
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +1
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 3 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.140% 0.338% 0.151%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.529% 1.372% 0.596%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
Average daily rate - £338 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +17.39%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £356
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -22.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All Operating Systems
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
567 729 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 26.51% 24.67% 25.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 299 243
Average daily rate £310 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £110 £170 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £424
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 124 164
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +37.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £35.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Ubuntu Jobs Demand Trend

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Ubuntu Daily Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Ubuntu Hourly Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +9 3 - -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu.

1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Debian
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (40.00%) Nagios
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Android
3 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (40.00%) Postfix
3 2 (40.00%) Memcached
3 2 (40.00%) Varnish
3 2 (40.00%) Bazaar
3 2 (40.00%) Puppet
3 2 (40.00%) Gearman
3 2 (40.00%) Apache
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) PHP
3 2 (40.00%) FTP
3 2 (40.00%) NFS
3 2 (40.00%) SNMP
3 2 (40.00%) SMTP
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Samba
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) Memcached
1 2 (40.00%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) FTP
1 2 (40.00%) SNMP
1 2 (40.00%) SMTP
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (40.00%) Bazaar
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Debian
2 2 (40.00%) Android
2 2 (40.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) C++
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Postfix
1 2 (40.00%) Varnish
1 2 (40.00%) NFS
1 2 (40.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Nagios
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Veritas
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