The first table below looks at the demand for Cobbler skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cobbler 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 Systems Management category for the 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
Cobbler
Rank 497 528 533
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +5
Contract jobs citing Cobbler 13 30 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.031% 0.056% 0.069%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.466% 0.913% 1.187%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 26 33
Average daily rate £550 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.77% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £325 £348
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £381 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate - £355 £450
% change year-on-year
- -21.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
2788 3286 3286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.707% 6.159% 5.823%
Number of daily rates quoted 1600 1704 1596
Average daily rate £375 £359 £371
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.60% -3.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £228 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 151 210
Average hourly rate £22.12 £20.00 £23.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.61% -14.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.68 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Cobbler
UK

Cobbler
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Cobbler Jobs Demand Trend

Cobbler
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Cobbler Daily Rate Trend

Cobbler
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cobbler across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Cobbler Daily Rate Histogram

Cobbler
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cobbler within the 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
London +9 13 £550 +51.72%
Cobbler
UK

Cobbler
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 22 (100.00%) Puppet
2 18 (81.82%) Linux
3 16 (72.73%) Red Hat
4 13 (59.09%) Perl
4 13 (59.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (54.55%) Python
6 11 (50.00%) Bash shell
7 10 (45.45%) Apache
7 10 (45.45%) SAN
8 9 (40.91%) Veritas
9 8 (36.36%) Shell Script
9 8 (36.36%) Samba
9 8 (36.36%) ITIL
9 8 (36.36%) TCP/IP
9 8 (36.36%) EMC
9 8 (36.36%) NAS
9 8 (36.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 8 (36.36%) Gigabit Ethernet
10 7 (31.82%) UNIX
10 7 (31.82%) Tomcat
10 7 (31.82%) Finance
11 6 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
12 5 (22.73%) SRDF
12 5 (22.73%) WebSphere
12 5 (22.73%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (22.73%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (22.73%) Validation
12 5 (22.73%) LAMP
12 5 (22.73%) Clustering
12 5 (22.73%) RHCE

Cobbler
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (22.73%) LAMP
1 5 (22.73%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 10 (45.45%) Apache
2 7 (31.82%) Tomcat
3 3 (13.64%) LiveSite
4 2 (9.091%) IIS
5 1 (4.545%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (4.545%) SharePoint
5 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) MS Office
2 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) SAN
2 8 (36.36%) Gigabit Ethernet
2 8 (36.36%) NAS
2 8 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 5 (22.73%) DHCP
3 5 (22.73%) Ethernet
4 4 (18.18%) SNMP
4 4 (18.18%) Internet
5 3 (13.64%) DNS
6 1 (4.545%) Firewall
6 1 (4.545%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.091%) Subversion
3 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
3 1 (4.545%) Hudson
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Administrator
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (9.091%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Clustering
2 4 (18.18%) Open Source
2 4 (18.18%) Digital Media
3 2 (9.091%) Video on Demand
3 2 (9.091%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.091%) Streaming Media
3 2 (9.091%) IPTV
4 1 (4.545%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.545%) Replication
4 1 (4.545%) iDTV
Operating Systems
1 18 (81.82%) Linux
2 13 (59.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (31.82%) UNIX
4 5 (22.73%) AIX
4 5 (22.73%) Solaris
4 5 (22.73%) VMS
5 4 (18.18%) Windows
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (9.091%) CentOS
7 2 (9.091%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) ITIL
2 6 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (22.73%) Validation
4 4 (18.18%) Scrum
5 1 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.545%) Kanban
5 1 (4.545%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.545%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.545%) Configuration Management
5 1 (4.545%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Perl
2 12 (54.55%) Python
3 11 (50.00%) Bash shell
4 8 (36.36%) Shell Script
5 4 (18.18%) Ruby
6 3 (13.64%) PHP
7 2 (9.091%) Java
7 2 (9.091%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) RHCE
2 2 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.545%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Samba
1 8 (36.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (22.73%) SRDF
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.545%) Xen
4 1 (4.545%) NFS
4 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (100.00%) Puppet
2 5 (22.73%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (18.18%) Zenoss
4 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 3 (13.64%) ZABBIX
5 2 (9.091%) Nagios
6 1 (4.545%) SCCM
6 1 (4.545%) SCOM
6 1 (4.545%) Splunk
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Red Hat
2 9 (40.91%) Veritas
3 8 (36.36%) EMC
4 5 (22.73%) Oracle
5 4 (18.18%) Cisco
5 4 (18.18%) Intel
5 4 (18.18%) HP
6 3 (13.64%) VMware
6 3 (13.64%) RightScale
6 3 (13.64%) Juniper
6 3 (13.64%) JBoss
7 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
8 1 (4.545%) NetApp
8 1 (4.545%) Infoblox
8 1 (4.545%) Dell
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