Linux Support Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support 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 in their job title 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support
Rank 503 538 545
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support 7 20 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.017% 0.037% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.040% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 15
Average daily rate £323 £443 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.11% +26.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £263 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £484 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 - £31.88
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £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 2002 2393 2764
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 £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Linux Support
UK

Linux Support
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Linux Support Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Linux Support Daily Rate Trend

Linux Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Linux Support Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Support
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 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
Yorkshire - 3 £350 -
South East +24 2 £295 -28.48%
London +9 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
Linux Support
UK

Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Linux Support 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 in their job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (71.43%) Windows
3 17 (48.57%) Red Hat
4 16 (45.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (45.71%) Citrix
5 15 (42.86%) VMware
6 13 (37.14%) Banking
7 12 (34.29%) TCP/IP
8 11 (31.43%) MySQL
9 10 (28.57%) DNS
9 10 (28.57%) Python
9 10 (28.57%) Bash shell
10 9 (25.71%) Cisco
10 9 (25.71%) Apache
10 9 (25.71%) PHP
10 9 (25.71%) UNIX
10 9 (25.71%) NetApp
11 8 (22.86%) HP
11 8 (22.86%) NFS
12 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
13 6 (17.14%) SAN
14 5 (14.29%) IBM
14 5 (14.29%) ITIL
14 5 (14.29%) MS Office
15 4 (11.43%) Oracle
15 4 (11.43%) Windows XP
15 4 (11.43%) Tivoli
15 4 (11.43%) VMware ESX
15 4 (11.43%) Investment Banking
15 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2008

Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Linux Support 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 in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.857%) XML
1 1 (2.857%) XML Messaging
Application Platforms
1 9 (25.71%) Apache
2 3 (8.571%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) MS Office
2 3 (8.571%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.857%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) TCP/IP
2 10 (28.57%) DNS
3 6 (17.14%) SAN
4 2 (5.714%) LAN
4 2 (5.714%) WAN
4 2 (5.714%) DHCP
5 1 (2.857%) IPv4
5 1 (2.857%) DVB
5 1 (2.857%) Firewall
5 1 (2.857%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) MySQL
General
1 13 (37.14%) Banking
2 4 (11.43%) Investment Banking
3 3 (8.571%) Front Office
3 3 (8.571%) Finance
4 2 (5.714%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.857%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.857%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.857%) Retail
5 1 (2.857%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.857%) MPEG
1 1 (2.857%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.857%) Grid Computing
1 1 (2.857%) Beowulf
1 1 (2.857%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (2.857%) Open Source
1 1 (2.857%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 35 (100.00%) Linux
2 25 (71.43%) Windows
3 16 (45.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (25.71%) UNIX
5 4 (11.43%) Windows 7
5 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (11.43%) Windows XP
6 3 (8.571%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (8.571%) Solaris
7 2 (5.714%) SUSE
8 1 (2.857%) Mac OS X
8 1 (2.857%) Windows 2000
8 1 (2.857%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.29%) ITIL
2 3 (8.571%) Service Management
3 2 (5.714%) Service Delivery
3 2 (5.714%) IT Governance
3 2 (5.714%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (2.857%) Capacity Management
4 1 (2.857%) SOA
4 1 (2.857%) Scrum
4 1 (2.857%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) Python
1 10 (28.57%) Bash shell
2 9 (25.71%) PHP
3 3 (8.571%) Perl
4 2 (5.714%) SQL
4 2 (5.714%) VBScript
4 2 (5.714%) VB
4 2 (5.714%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.857%) Java
5 1 (2.857%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (5.714%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.857%) RHCE
2 1 (2.857%) Degree
2 1 (2.857%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.857%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) COBIT
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) NFS
2 4 (11.43%) VMware ESX
3 3 (8.571%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.714%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.857%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.857%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Tivoli
2 3 (8.571%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 3 (8.571%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (5.714%) Nagios
4 1 (2.857%) ZABBIX
4 1 (2.857%) Netcool
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) Red Hat
2 16 (45.71%) Citrix
3 15 (42.86%) VMware
4 9 (25.71%) NetApp
4 9 (25.71%) Cisco
5 8 (22.86%) HP
6 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 5 (14.29%) IBM
8 4 (11.43%) Oracle
9 3 (8.571%) EMC
10 2 (5.714%) Apple
11 1 (2.857%) Remedy
11 1 (2.857%) Sun
11 1 (2.857%) Fidessa
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