Linux Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Edinburgh 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
Rank 18 27 27
Rank change year-on-year
+9 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 50 38 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 6.090% 3.496% 4.170%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.26% 23.31% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 18
Average daily rate £375 £350 £346
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +1.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £313 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £400 £498
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £26.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +7.24%
All Operating Systems
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 155 163 224
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.88% 15.00% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 70 54
Average daily rate £375 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £215 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 14
Average hourly rate - £23.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +58.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
Scotland

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 45 (48.91%) Windows
2 36 (39.13%) UNIX
3 25 (27.17%) Oracle
4 18 (19.57%) SQL
5 17 (18.48%) Solaris
5 17 (18.48%) Red Hat
5 17 (18.48%) VMware
6 16 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (17.39%) MySQL
7 15 (16.30%) Java
8 13 (14.13%) AIX
8 13 (14.13%) VMware Infrastructure
8 13 (14.13%) Banking
8 13 (14.13%) WebSphere
9 12 (13.04%) Apache
9 12 (13.04%) Active Directory
10 11 (11.96%) IBM
10 11 (11.96%) Finance
11 10 (10.87%) JBoss
11 10 (10.87%) ITIL
12 9 (9.783%) WebLogic
12 9 (9.783%) DNS
12 9 (9.783%) vSphere
13 8 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (8.696%) Management Information System
13 8 (8.696%) TCP/IP
13 8 (8.696%) MS Exchange
13 8 (8.696%) DB2
13 8 (8.696%) HPUX
14 7 (7.609%) Web Services

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 13 (14.13%) WebSphere
2 7 (7.609%) Web Services
2 7 (7.609%) J2EE
3 5 (5.435%) HTML5
3 5 (5.435%) Middleware
4 4 (4.348%) CSS
4 4 (4.348%) JSR 286
5 3 (3.261%) TopLink
5 3 (3.261%) CSS3
5 3 (3.261%) JPA
5 3 (3.261%) JDBC
6 2 (2.174%) CGI
6 2 (2.174%) JavaBeans
6 2 (2.174%) HTML
6 2 (2.174%) .NET
6 2 (2.174%) XML
6 2 (2.174%) Grails
6 2 (2.174%) JAX-WS
6 2 (2.174%) JSF
7 1 (1.087%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 12 (13.04%) Apache
2 9 (9.783%) WebLogic
3 8 (8.696%) MS Exchange
4 6 (6.522%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (5.435%) WebSphere Portal
5 5 (5.435%) Tomcat
6 4 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (3.261%) GlassFish
7 3 (3.261%) IIS
7 3 (3.261%) PowerExchange
8 2 (2.174%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (2.174%) Drupal
8 2 (2.174%) FileNet
8 2 (2.174%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (1.087%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
9 1 (1.087%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 1 (1.087%) MQSeries
9 1 (1.087%) CMS
9 1 (1.087%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 5 (5.435%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.087%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.261%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (3.261%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.174%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.783%) DNS
2 8 (8.696%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.609%) DHCP
4 6 (6.522%) Firewall
4 6 (6.522%) LDAP
5 5 (5.435%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (5.435%) Unified Communications
5 5 (5.435%) SAN
6 3 (3.261%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.174%) HTTP
7 2 (2.174%) Network Security
8 1 (1.087%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.087%) NAS
8 1 (1.087%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.087%) Internet
8 1 (1.087%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.39%) MySQL
2 8 (8.696%) DB2
3 6 (6.522%) Essbase
4 5 (5.435%) Oracle Exadata
4 5 (5.435%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.348%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (4.348%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (4.348%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (3.261%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (2.174%) SQLPlus
7 2 (2.174%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.174%) BusinessObjects XI
8 1 (1.087%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (1.087%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.087%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (1.087%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (1.087%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.087%) Oracle 9i
8 1 (1.087%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 4 (4.348%) Subversion
2 2 (2.174%) ClearCase
2 2 (2.174%) Rational Application Developer
3 1 (1.087%) Maven
3 1 (1.087%) TortoiseSVN
3 1 (1.087%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.087%) Eclipse
General
1 13 (14.13%) Banking
2 11 (11.96%) Finance
3 1 (1.087%) Back Office
3 1 (1.087%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 19 (20.65%) Developer
2 17 (18.48%) Architect
3 15 (16.30%) Administrator
4 10 (10.87%) Consultant
5 9 (9.783%) Systems Administrator
5 9 (9.783%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.435%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (5.435%) Analyst
7 4 (4.348%) Software Engineer
7 4 (4.348%) Security Consultant
7 4 (4.348%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (4.348%) UNIX Consultant
8 3 (3.261%) WebSphere Architect
8 3 (3.261%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (3.261%) Java Software Engineer
8 3 (3.261%) PHP Developer
8 3 (3.261%) WebSphere Developer
8 3 (3.261%) WebSphere Portal Architect
8 3 (3.261%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 3 (3.261%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.696%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.435%) Clustering
3 2 (2.174%) Blackberry
3 2 (2.174%) Handset
4 1 (1.087%) CLARiiON
4 1 (1.087%) Symmetrix
4 1 (1.087%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (1.087%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.087%) iSeries
4 1 (1.087%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.087%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.087%) Firmware
4 1 (1.087%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 45 (48.91%) Windows
2 36 (39.13%) UNIX
3 17 (18.48%) Solaris
4 16 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (14.13%) AIX
6 8 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (8.696%) HPUX
7 7 (7.609%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (3.261%) zOS
9 1 (1.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (10.87%) ITIL
2 6 (6.522%) SOA
2 6 (6.522%) Risk Analysis
2 6 (6.522%) Information Security
3 5 (5.435%) High Availability
4 4 (4.348%) SIEM
4 4 (4.348%) Problem Management
4 4 (4.348%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (4.348%) Zachman Framework
4 4 (4.348%) TOGAF
5 3 (3.261%) MVC
5 3 (3.261%) Capacity Management
5 3 (3.261%) ETL
5 3 (3.261%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (3.261%) Service Management
5 3 (3.261%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (2.174%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (2.174%) Change Management
6 2 (2.174%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (2.174%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.57%) SQL
2 15 (16.30%) Java
3 7 (7.609%) Perl
4 6 (6.522%) PHP
5 4 (4.348%) Shell Script
5 4 (4.348%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.261%) Groovy
6 3 (3.261%) Bash shell
6 3 (3.261%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.174%) Korn
8 1 (1.087%) Ruby
8 1 (1.087%) PHP5
8 1 (1.087%) C
8 1 (1.087%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (6.522%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (6.522%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (4.348%) MCSE
3 3 (3.261%) CISSP
4 2 (2.174%) MCSA
4 2 (2.174%) Degree
4 2 (2.174%) MCITP
5 1 (1.087%) CISA
5 1 (1.087%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.348%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (3.261%) QA
3 1 (1.087%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 13 (14.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.783%) vSphere
4 3 (3.261%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (3.261%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.261%) Samba
5 2 (2.174%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 1 (1.087%) VMware ESX
6 1 (1.087%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (5.435%) Tivoli
2 4 (4.348%) WSUS
2 4 (4.348%) Backup Exec
3 3 (3.261%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 2 (2.174%) Netcool
4 2 (2.174%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (2.174%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 25 (27.17%) Oracle
2 17 (18.48%) Red Hat
2 17 (18.48%) VMware
3 11 (11.96%) IBM
4 10 (10.87%) JBoss
5 7 (7.609%) Microsoft
6 5 (5.435%) Informatica
7 4 (4.348%) TIBCO
7 4 (4.348%) NetApp
7 4 (4.348%) HP
7 4 (4.348%) Veeam
8 3 (3.261%) ArcSight
8 3 (3.261%) Sun
8 3 (3.261%) CheckPoint
9 2 (2.174%) Lotus
9 2 (2.174%) Hyperion
9 2 (2.174%) Nortel
9 2 (2.174%) Cisco
9 2 (2.174%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (2.174%) Brocade
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