The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support Engineer
Rank 510 548 559
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support Engineer 3 11 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.007% 0.021% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.022% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 6
Average daily rate - £473 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +36.95%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £356 £350
% change year-on-year
- +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £31.88
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Support Engineer
UK

Linux Support Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Linux Support Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Linux Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Linux Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Linux Support Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Support 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 Support Engineer 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
North West - 2 - -
South East +15 1 - -
Linux Support Engineer
UK

Linux Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (68.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 11 (68.75%) Red Hat
3 8 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 8 (50.00%) MySQL
3 8 (50.00%) Apache
4 7 (43.75%) Python
4 7 (43.75%) NFS
4 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
4 7 (43.75%) DNS
4 7 (43.75%) Cisco
4 7 (43.75%) HP
4 7 (43.75%) Citrix
4 7 (43.75%) NetApp
4 7 (43.75%) PHP
4 7 (43.75%) VMware
5 4 (25.00%) Banking
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
6 3 (18.75%) MS Office
6 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
7 2 (12.50%) ITIL
7 2 (12.50%) UNIX
7 2 (12.50%) Java
7 2 (12.50%) Perl
7 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
7 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
7 2 (12.50%) Netcool
7 2 (12.50%) Nagios

Linux Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Linux Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Office
2 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
1 7 (43.75%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Front Office
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.250%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 11 (68.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (68.75%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
3 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
4 2 (12.50%) UNIX
5 1 (6.250%) SUSE
5 1 (6.250%) Windows 2000
5 1 (6.250%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 7 (43.75%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) PHP
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) NFS
2 1 (6.250%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Netcool
1 2 (12.50%) Nagios
2 1 (6.250%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Red Hat
2 7 (43.75%) Cisco
2 7 (43.75%) HP
2 7 (43.75%) Citrix
2 7 (43.75%) NetApp
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.250%) Remedy
4 1 (6.250%) IBM
4 1 (6.250%) Oracle