OpenStack Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OpenStack 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 OpenStack over the 3 months to 22 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 Application Platforms 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenStack
Rank 503 567 -
Rank change year-on-year
+64 -
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 11 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.026% 0.006% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.143% 0.034% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £375 -
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 7707 8923 9320
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 18.26% 16.45% 16.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4417 5031 5035
Average daily rate £363 £350 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 414 520
Average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
OpenStack
UK

OpenStack
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England OpenStack Jobs Demand Trend

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend

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

England OpenStack Daily Rate Trend

OpenStack
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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 +5 6 £425 -
South East - 2 - -
London - 2 £330 -
OpenStack
UK

OpenStack
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OpenStack 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 OpenStack.

1 22 (62.86%) Linux
1 22 (62.86%) VMware
2 21 (60.00%) Open Source
3 20 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (54.29%) Red Hat
4 19 (54.29%) IaaS
5 13 (37.14%) Java
6 12 (34.29%) Web Services
6 12 (34.29%) Apache
6 12 (34.29%) Amazon AWS
7 11 (31.43%) SaaS
7 11 (31.43%) CentOS
7 11 (31.43%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (31.43%) Hyper-V
7 11 (31.43%) Xen
7 11 (31.43%) PHP
7 11 (31.43%) Configuration Management
7 11 (31.43%) NoSQL
8 10 (28.57%) Citrix
8 10 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (25.71%) PaaS
9 9 (25.71%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (25.71%) Windows Azure
9 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
10 8 (22.86%) Google
10 8 (22.86%) SCOM
10 8 (22.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (22.86%) CloudStack
10 8 (22.86%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared

OpenStack
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OpenStack 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 OpenStack. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (34.29%) Web Services
2 5 (14.29%) J2SE
2 5 (14.29%) J2EE
2 5 (14.29%) LAMP
3 2 (5.714%) HTML
3 2 (5.714%) SOAP
3 2 (5.714%) XML
3 2 (5.714%) CGI
3 2 (5.714%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.857%) MapReduce
4 1 (2.857%) RESTful
4 1 (2.857%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 12 (34.29%) Apache
1 12 (34.29%) Amazon AWS
2 9 (25.71%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (25.71%) Windows Azure
3 8 (22.86%) CloudStack
4 4 (11.43%) MS Exchange
5 1 (2.857%) Rackspace Cloud
5 1 (2.857%) Kafka
5 1 (2.857%) Apache Pig
5 1 (2.857%) Drupal
5 1 (2.857%) Magento
Applications
1 1 (2.857%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.571%) SAN
1 3 (8.571%) NAS
2 1 (2.857%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.857%) LAN
2 1 (2.857%) WAN
2 1 (2.857%) Firewall
2 1 (2.857%) BGP
2 1 (2.857%) DVB
2 1 (2.857%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.857%) OSPF
2 1 (2.857%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.714%) MySQL
3 1 (2.857%) HBase
3 1 (2.857%) Big Data
3 1 (2.857%) Hypertable
3 1 (2.857%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.857%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.857%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.857%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Subversion
2 2 (5.714%) Git (software)
3 1 (2.857%) Mercurial
General
1 3 (8.571%) Telecoms
1 3 (8.571%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.714%) Marketing
2 2 (5.714%) German Language
3 1 (2.857%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Architect
2 10 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 9 (25.71%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (25.71%) Linux Administrator
3 9 (25.71%) Administrator
4 8 (22.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 7 (20.00%) Technical Architect
6 5 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (11.43%) Senior Architect
8 3 (8.571%) Developer
8 3 (8.571%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (5.714%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (5.714%) Web Administrator
9 2 (5.714%) VMware Architect
9 2 (5.714%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (5.714%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.714%) Senior Developer
10 1 (2.857%) Cloud Developer
10 1 (2.857%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 21 (60.00%) Open Source
2 19 (54.29%) IaaS
3 11 (31.43%) SaaS
3 11 (31.43%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (25.71%) PaaS
5 8 (22.86%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (5.714%) Replication
6 2 (5.714%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.714%) Eucalyptus
6 2 (5.714%) Smartcard
6 2 (5.714%) EFT
6 2 (5.714%) EFTPOS
6 2 (5.714%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.857%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 22 (62.86%) Linux
2 11 (31.43%) CentOS
3 8 (22.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 4 (11.43%) Windows
6 3 (8.571%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Configuration Management
2 10 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (8.571%) ERP
4 2 (5.714%) Migration
4 2 (5.714%) ITSM
4 2 (5.714%) Mobile Commerce
4 2 (5.714%) ITIL
4 2 (5.714%) E-Commerce
5 1 (2.857%) SOA
5 1 (2.857%) UML
5 1 (2.857%) RDF
5 1 (2.857%) Data Migration
5 1 (2.857%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.857%) Software Engineering
5 1 (2.857%) Scrum
5 1 (2.857%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Java
2 11 (31.43%) PHP
3 7 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (8.571%) Perl
4 3 (8.571%) C++
5 2 (5.714%) C
5 2 (5.714%) C#
5 2 (5.714%) SQL
5 2 (5.714%) VB
5 2 (5.714%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.857%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.857%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.857%) Ruby
6 1 (2.857%) Korn
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) MCTS
2 4 (11.43%) MCITP
3 1 (2.857%) VCP5
3 1 (2.857%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.857%) CCIE
3 1 (2.857%) Degree
3 1 (2.857%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 20 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (31.43%) Hyper-V
2 11 (31.43%) Xen
3 4 (11.43%) UAG
4 1 (2.857%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (2.857%) Varnish
4 1 (2.857%) vSphere
4 1 (2.857%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) SCOM
2 4 (11.43%) Puppet
3 3 (8.571%) BladeLogic
4 2 (5.714%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 2 (5.714%) Tivoli
4 2 (5.714%) Ionix
5 1 (2.857%) Nagios
Vendors
1 22 (62.86%) VMware
2 19 (54.29%) Red Hat
3 10 (28.57%) Citrix
4 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
5 8 (22.86%) Google
6 3 (8.571%) Cisco
6 3 (8.571%) BMC
7 2 (5.714%) HP
7 2 (5.714%) Opsware
7 2 (5.714%) CA
7 2 (5.714%) NetApp
7 2 (5.714%) Symantec
7 2 (5.714%) Oracle
8 1 (2.857%) Rackspace
8 1 (2.857%) SAP
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