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Linux Engineer Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 53 Linux Engineer job vacancies in England

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 417 388 467
Rank change year-on-year
-29 +79
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 118 165 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.270% 0.311% 0.196%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.291% 0.336% 0.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 94 57
Average daily rate £425 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.84% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £309 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £450 £350
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 10
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +15.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £33.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £52.50 £40.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+31.25% +15.94%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 40481 49067 52965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.55% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23980 27814 29579
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1993 2429 2822
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.30 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Linux Engineer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Linux Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Linux Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Linux Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Linux Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

Linux Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
London 0 78 £450 +22.44% 23
South East +15 13 £319 -1.92% 12
South West -1 10 £450 -10.00% 4
Yorkshire 0 6 £275 -19.70% 2
North West +14 3 - -
East of England +11 2 £388 +21.56% 11
East Midlands -8 2 - -
North East +19 1 - -
West Midlands +7 1 £205 -36.92% 1
Linux Engineer
UK

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Linux Engineer in their job title 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 with Linux Engineer in their job title.

1 250 (100.00%) Linux
2 161 (64.40%) Red Hat
3 125 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 112 (44.80%) Perl
5 102 (40.80%) UNIX
6 77 (30.80%) Puppet
7 67 (26.80%) Python
8 61 (24.40%) Windows
9 56 (22.40%) Shell Script
10 53 (21.20%) DNS
10 53 (21.20%) Clustering
11 52 (20.80%) Security Cleared
12 51 (20.40%) VMware
12 51 (20.40%) Apache
13 41 (16.40%) Solaris
13 41 (16.40%) MySQL
14 40 (16.00%) Bash shell
15 39 (15.60%) TCP/IP
16 38 (15.20%) SAN
16 38 (15.20%) VMware Infrastructure
17 37 (14.80%) C
17 37 (14.80%) Finance
18 35 (14.00%) DHCP
18 35 (14.00%) RHCE
19 32 (12.80%) Oracle
19 32 (12.80%) Firewall
20 30 (12.00%) Tomcat
21 29 (11.60%) Migration
22 28 (11.20%) SC Cleared
22 28 (11.20%) Nagios

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Linux Engineer in their job title 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 with Linux Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (8.800%) LAMP
2 17 (6.800%) Web Services
3 15 (6.000%) Rendezvous
4 11 (4.400%) WebSphere
5 3 (1.200%) J2EE
6 2 (0.800%) EJB
6 2 (0.800%) SOAP
6 2 (0.800%) XML
6 2 (0.800%) Qt
6 2 (0.800%) REST
7 1 (0.400%) WSGI
7 1 (0.400%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (0.400%) HTML5
7 1 (0.400%) Node.js
7 1 (0.400%) Django
7 1 (0.400%) Middleware
7 1 (0.400%) J2SE
7 1 (0.400%) WSH
7 1 (0.400%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (0.400%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 51 (20.40%) Apache
2 30 (12.00%) Tomcat
3 16 (6.400%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (4.800%) Amazon AWS
5 11 (4.400%) IIS
6 5 (2.000%) Confluence
6 5 (2.000%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.600%) MS Exchange
7 4 (1.600%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.200%) Jetty
8 3 (1.200%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.800%) nginx
9 2 (0.800%) lighttpd
10 1 (0.400%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.400%) Route 53
10 1 (0.400%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.400%) Gunicorn
10 1 (0.400%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.400%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.400%) Rackspace Cloud
Applications
1 5 (2.000%) MS Office
2 4 (1.600%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 53 (21.20%) DNS
2 39 (15.60%) TCP/IP
3 38 (15.20%) SAN
4 35 (14.00%) DHCP
5 32 (12.80%) Firewall
6 23 (9.200%) NAS
7 14 (5.600%) LDAP
7 14 (5.600%) WAN
8 12 (4.800%) Gigabit Ethernet
9 11 (4.400%) Internet
10 9 (3.600%) LAN
10 9 (3.600%) Ethernet
11 8 (3.200%) SMTP
12 7 (2.800%) HTTP
12 7 (2.800%) Kerberos
13 6 (2.400%) OSPF
13 6 (2.400%) BGP
13 6 (2.400%) SSL
13 6 (2.400%) NetScaler
14 5 (2.000%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (16.40%) MySQL
2 9 (3.600%) Hadoop
3 8 (3.200%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.200%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.800%) Amazon DynamoDB
5 5 (2.000%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.000%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.000%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.200%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (0.800%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.800%) Redis
8 1 (0.400%) MarkLogic
8 1 (0.400%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.400%) HBase
8 1 (0.400%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.400%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 21 (8.400%) Git (software)
2 19 (7.600%) Subversion
3 10 (4.000%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.600%) Maven
4 9 (3.600%) JIRA
5 7 (2.800%) Gerrit
6 4 (1.600%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.800%) Redmine
8 1 (0.400%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.400%) Hudson
8 1 (0.400%) CruiseControl
General
1 37 (14.80%) Finance
2 23 (9.200%) Banking
3 16 (6.400%) Publishing
4 12 (4.800%) Investment Banking
5 8 (3.200%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.000%) Retail
7 3 (1.200%) Marketing
7 3 (1.200%) Front Office
7 3 (1.200%) Electronics
7 3 (1.200%) Games
8 2 (0.800%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.400%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 53 (21.20%) Clustering
2 17 (6.800%) Fixed Income
3 9 (3.600%) Open Source
4 6 (2.400%) Computer Science
4 6 (2.400%) Digital Media
5 5 (2.000%) Firmware
6 3 (1.200%) Device Driver
6 3 (1.200%) Replication
6 3 (1.200%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.200%) Online Games
7 2 (0.800%) STB
7 2 (0.800%) HACMP
7 2 (0.800%) DTV
7 2 (0.800%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.800%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.400%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.400%) EFT
8 1 (0.400%) EFTPOS
8 1 (0.400%) NHS
8 1 (0.400%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 250 (100.00%) Linux
2 125 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 102 (40.80%) UNIX
4 61 (24.40%) Windows
5 41 (16.40%) Solaris
6 24 (9.600%) CentOS
7 18 (7.200%) AIX
8 13 (5.200%) VMS
9 11 (4.400%) Embedded Linux
9 11 (4.400%) HPUX
9 11 (4.400%) Windows Server 2008
10 10 (4.000%) Debian
11 7 (2.800%) Windows XP
12 6 (2.400%) SUSE
13 5 (2.000%) Ubuntu
14 4 (1.600%) Windows 2000
14 4 (1.600%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.800%) Windows 2000 Server
15 2 (0.800%) Android
15 2 (0.800%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (11.60%) Migration
2 22 (8.800%) Change Management
2 22 (8.800%) ITIL
3 20 (8.000%) Capacity Management
4 16 (6.400%) Project Management
5 15 (6.000%) Electronic Trading
6 12 (4.800%) Configuration Management
6 12 (4.800%) E-Commerce
7 11 (4.400%) Load Balancing
8 10 (4.000%) Validation
9 9 (3.600%) Information Security
9 9 (3.600%) Capacity Planning
10 7 (2.800%) High Availability
11 5 (2.000%) Change Control
11 5 (2.000%) Build Automation
12 4 (1.600%) OO
12 4 (1.600%) Service Management
13 3 (1.200%) OOD
13 3 (1.200%) Agile Software Development
13 3 (1.200%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 112 (44.80%) Perl
2 67 (26.80%) Python
3 56 (22.40%) Shell Script
4 40 (16.00%) Bash shell
5 37 (14.80%) C
6 21 (8.400%) SQL
7 18 (7.200%) PHP
8 17 (6.800%) C++
8 17 (6.800%) Java
9 15 (6.000%) Ruby
10 3 (1.200%) Korn
10 3 (1.200%) AWK
10 3 (1.200%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.200%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.800%) C-shell
12 1 (0.400%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.400%) Tcl
12 1 (0.400%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 52 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.00%) RHCE
3 28 (11.20%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.800%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.400%) Degree
6 5 (2.000%) RHCT
7 2 (0.800%) MCSE
7 2 (0.800%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.400%) OCA
8 1 (0.400%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.400%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.400%) RHCA
8 1 (0.400%) MCP
8 1 (0.400%) VCP4
8 1 (0.400%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.000%) SLA
2 5 (2.000%) QA
3 1 (0.400%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (15.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (6.800%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 17 (6.800%) NFS
3 14 (5.600%) Samba
4 13 (5.200%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 10 (4.000%) Oracle RAC
6 9 (3.600%) VMware ESX
6 9 (3.600%) SRDF
7 7 (2.800%) vSphere
7 7 (2.800%) Hyper-V
7 7 (2.800%) Postfix
7 7 (2.800%) Sendmail
8 6 (2.400%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (2.000%) ProxySG
9 5 (2.000%) Active Directory
10 2 (0.800%) Squid
10 2 (0.800%) Xen
10 2 (0.800%) XenServer
11 1 (0.400%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.400%) Snort
Systems Management
1 77 (30.80%) Puppet
2 28 (11.20%) Nagios
3 13 (5.200%) Cobbler
4 9 (3.600%) Red Hat Satellite
4 9 (3.600%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (3.200%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 5 (2.000%) BladeLogic
7 4 (1.600%) ZABBIX
8 3 (1.200%) NetBackup
8 3 (1.200%) Netcool
8 3 (1.200%) YUM
9 1 (0.400%) PureDisk
9 1 (0.400%) Splunk
9 1 (0.400%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.400%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.400%) Cacti
9 1 (0.400%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.400%) SCCM
9 1 (0.400%) SCOM
Vendors
1 161 (64.40%) Red Hat
2 51 (20.40%) VMware
3 32 (12.80%) Oracle
4 27 (10.80%) EMC
5 22 (8.800%) Veritas
6 21 (8.400%) HP
7 17 (6.800%) Remedy
8 15 (6.000%) TIBCO
8 15 (6.000%) Reuters
8 15 (6.000%) eSpeed
8 15 (6.000%) MarketAxess
8 15 (6.000%) Cisco
9 10 (4.000%) Citrix
9 10 (4.000%) Akamai
10 8 (3.200%) Microsoft
11 6 (2.400%) Infoblox
12 5 (2.000%) Blue Coat
12 5 (2.000%) NetApp
13 4 (1.600%) Juniper
13 4 (1.600%) F5
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