The first table below looks at the demand for Fedora 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 Fedora 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fedora Linux
Rank 513 554 558
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +4
Contract jobs citing Fedora 5 8 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.015% 0.026%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.056% 0.073% 0.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 7
Average daily rate £275 £200 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -46.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £163 £312
10% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £319 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £200 £325
% change year-on-year
+52.50% -38.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Operating Systems
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
8997 10983 12046
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 21.67% 20.57% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4873 5590 6035
Average daily rate £368 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £200 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 1120 1200
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Fedora
UK

Fedora
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Fedora Jobs Demand Trend

Fedora
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Fedora Daily Rate Trend

Fedora
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Fedora Hourly Rate Trend

Fedora
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fedora within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +31 3 £275 +57.14%
Yorkshire - 1 £335 -
North West - 1 £275 -
Fedora
UK

Fedora
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Fedora 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 Fedora.

1 15 (93.75%) Linux
2 13 (81.25%) Red Hat
3 12 (75.00%) CentOS
4 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (43.75%) Intel
5 7 (43.75%) C++
5 7 (43.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 7 (43.75%) Threading Building Blocks
6 6 (37.50%) Python
7 5 (31.25%) Hedge funds
7 5 (31.25%) Investment Banking
7 5 (31.25%) Banking
8 4 (25.00%) MySQL
8 4 (25.00%) Finance
8 4 (25.00%) VMware
9 3 (18.75%) Debian
9 3 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (18.75%) Java
9 3 (18.75%) Degree
9 3 (18.75%) Ubuntu
10 2 (12.50%) SUSE
10 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
10 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (12.50%) Puppet
10 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
10 2 (12.50%) Oracle
10 2 (12.50%) Web Services
10 2 (12.50%) UNIX

Fedora
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Fedora 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 Fedora. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (43.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 7 (43.75%) Threading Building Blocks
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (6.250%) LAMP
3 1 (6.250%) XHTML
3 1 (6.250%) XML
3 1 (6.250%) XSD
3 1 (6.250%) XSLT
3 1 (6.250%) CSS
3 1 (6.250%) SOAP
3 1 (6.250%) HTML
3 1 (6.250%) Memcached
3 1 (6.250%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (6.250%) Jetty
2 1 (6.250%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.250%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (6.250%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (6.250%) Internet
2 1 (6.250%) VRRP
2 1 (6.250%) IPsec
2 1 (6.250%) SSL
2 1 (6.250%) SMTP
2 1 (6.250%) DHCP
2 1 (6.250%) HTTP
2 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.250%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.250%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (31.25%) Investment Banking
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Back Office
3 1 (6.250%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) C++ Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.250%) UNIX Support Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) UNIX Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) UNIX Support
5 1 (6.250%) Senior UNIX Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Linux Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Hedge funds
2 3 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.250%) Online Games
4 1 (6.250%) Open Source
4 1 (6.250%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.250%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Linux
2 12 (75.00%) CentOS
3 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (18.75%) Debian
4 3 (18.75%) Ubuntu
5 2 (12.50%) SUSE
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
5 2 (12.50%) UNIX
5 2 (12.50%) Windows
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (6.250%) OpenBSD
6 1 (6.250%) FreeBSD
6 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
6 1 (6.250%) VMS
6 1 (6.250%) AIX
6 1 (6.250%) HPUX
6 1 (6.250%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
2 1 (6.250%) Project Management
2 1 (6.250%) ITSM
2 1 (6.250%) Change Management
2 1 (6.250%) Web Application Development
2 1 (6.250%) Load Balancing
2 1 (6.250%) Metaprogramming
2 1 (6.250%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) C++
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) PHP
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) C
5 1 (6.250%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.250%) Perl
5 1 (6.250%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.250%) VMware ESX
2 1 (6.250%) vSphere
2 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.250%) Squid
2 1 (6.250%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (6.250%) OpenView
2 1 (6.250%) HP SIM
2 1 (6.250%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Red Hat
2 7 (43.75%) Intel
3 4 (25.00%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) HP
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.250%) JBoss
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