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The table below looks at the demand for Linux skills within the East Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 19 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkLinux
Location
3 months to
19 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank11-
Rank change on same period last yearNew entry-
Matching contract IT job ads10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.002 %0.000 %
As % of the category below6.667 %0.000 %
Daily rates quoted00
Average minimum daily rate--
Average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate--
UK excluding London average daily rate£338£333
% change on same period last year+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted10
Average minimum hourly rate£12.00-
Average hourly rate£15.00-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate£18.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.87£32.38
% change on same period last year-1.58 %
East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
East Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads158
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.023 %0.009 %
Daily rates quoted01
Average minimum daily rate-£200
Average daily rate-£210
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate-£220
UK excluding London average daily rate£318£321
% change on same period last year-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted21
Average minimum hourly rate£13.12£16.00
Average hourly rate£14.62£18.00
% change on same period last year-18.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate£16.12£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.22£22.14
% change on same period last year+0.39 %
Linux YorkshireLinux
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

East Yorkshire Linux Demand Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

East Yorkshire Linux Daily Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

East Yorkshire Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Yorkshire 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.

14 (66.67 %)UNIX
14 (66.67 %)Solaris
23 (50.00 %)MySQL
23 (50.00 %)Red Hat
23 (50.00 %)Sun
23 (50.00 %)Data Management
23 (50.00 %)Red Hat Linux
32 (33.33 %)Oracle
32 (33.33 %)Java
32 (33.33 %)JavaScript
32 (33.33 %)PHP
32 (33.33 %)Oracle 8/8i
41 (16.67 %)J2SE
41 (16.67 %)E-Commerce
41 (16.67 %)RDBMS
41 (16.67 %)UML
41 (16.67 %)OOA/OOD
41 (16.67 %)OO
41 (16.67 %)Lotus Domino
41 (16.67 %)J2EE
41 (16.67 %)JUnit
41 (16.67 %)JSP
41 (16.67 %)Servlets
41 (16.67 %)XML
41 (16.67 %)Publishing
41 (16.67 %)CMS
41 (16.67 %)Lotus
41 (16.67 %)Content Management
41 (16.67 %)AJAX
41 (16.67 %)Marketing

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Yorkshire 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.

East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (16.67 %)HTML
11 (16.67 %)J2EE
11 (16.67 %)JSP
11 (16.67 %)Servlets
11 (16.67 %)XML
11 (16.67 %)J2SE
11 (16.67 %)AJAX
East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (16.67 %)Lotus Domino
11 (16.67 %)CMS
East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (50.00 %)MySQL
22 (33.33 %)Oracle 8/8i
31 (16.67 %)RDBMS
East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (16.67 %)JUnit
East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (16.67 %)Publishing
11 (16.67 %)Marketing
East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
13 (50.00 %)Developer
13 (50.00 %)Systems Administrator
13 (50.00 %)Administrator
22 (33.33 %)DBA
22 (33.33 %)Oracle DBA
22 (33.33 %)PHP Developer
31 (16.67 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
31 (16.67 %)UNIX Administrator
31 (16.67 %)Java Developer
East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
14 (66.67 %)UNIX
14 (66.67 %)Solaris
23 (50.00 %)Red Hat Linux
East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
13 (50.00 %)Data Management
21 (16.67 %)Content Management
21 (16.67 %)Use Case
21 (16.67 %)UML
21 (16.67 %)OOA/OOD
21 (16.67 %)OO
21 (16.67 %)E-Commerce
East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (33.33 %)Java
12 (33.33 %)JavaScript
12 (33.33 %)PHP
East Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
13 (50.00 %)Sun
13 (50.00 %)Red Hat
22 (33.33 %)Oracle
31 (16.67 %)Lotus