The first table below looks at the demand for Cygwin 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 Cygwin 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 System Software 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cygwin
Rank 512 - 566
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cygwin 1 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.002% - 0.009%
As % of the System Software category 0.025% - 0.124%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.50
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3981 4264 4033
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.575% 7.994% 7.178%
Number of daily rates quoted 1941 2071 1786
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 595 619
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Cygwin
UK

Cygwin
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Cygwin Jobs Demand Trend

Cygwin
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Cygwin Daily Rate Trend

Cygwin
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Cygwin Hourly Rate Trend

Cygwin
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cygwin within the 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
East of England - 1 £250 -
Cygwin
UK

Cygwin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 2 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Redmine
2 1 (50.00%) Avionics
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Bugzilla
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle

Cygwin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 2 (100.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (50.00%) Redmine
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Bugzilla
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Avionics
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
SYS UML) - Software process oriented... Cygwin, UML, HOOD) - Embedded C, Java, pearl, bash (or scripting languages) - Proficient in the use of debuggers (gdb,….) - Desirable: - Previous experience developing satellite...
s-com
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
2 years professional experience); C coding; Linux scripting skills... Configuration management using ClearCase, CVS or similar. Change tracking with ClearQuest, Bugzilla or similar... Microsoft Windows 7; Linux Red...
s-com
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013