The first table below looks at the demand for Samba 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 Samba over the 3 months to 20 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 System Software 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Samba
Rank 485 532 543
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +11
Contract jobs citing Samba 18 34 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.043% 0.064% 0.049%
As % of the System Software category 0.455% 0.791% 0.671%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 17
Average daily rate £550 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £273 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £403 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3958 4299 4025
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.490% 8.053% 7.260%
Number of daily rates quoted 1927 2078 1791
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 586 602
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
Samba
UK

Samba
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Samba Jobs Demand Trend

Samba
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Samba Daily Rate Trend

Samba
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Samba across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England Samba Daily Rate Histogram

Samba
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Samba Hourly Rate Trend

Samba
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Samba within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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 +25 15 £550 +57.14%
East of England +22 2 - -
South East +16 1 £400 +89.57%
Samba
UK

Samba
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Samba 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 Samba.

1 53 (98.15%) Linux
2 34 (62.96%) Apache
3 33 (61.11%) SAN
4 31 (57.41%) NAS
5 28 (51.85%) Puppet
5 28 (51.85%) UNIX
6 26 (48.15%) Perl
6 26 (48.15%) DNS
7 24 (44.44%) Red Hat
8 23 (42.59%) PHP
8 23 (42.59%) Oracle
9 22 (40.74%) Nagios
10 21 (38.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 20 (37.04%) MySQL
12 19 (35.19%) Tomcat
12 19 (35.19%) Firewall
13 18 (33.33%) OpenView
14 17 (31.48%) NoSQL
14 17 (31.48%) Rackspace
15 16 (29.63%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (29.63%) Amazon AWS
15 16 (29.63%) Penetration Testing
15 16 (29.63%) Git (software)
15 16 (29.63%) Network Security
15 16 (29.63%) NFS
15 16 (29.63%) Java
16 15 (27.78%) SOAP
16 15 (27.78%) JBoss
16 15 (27.78%) SSL
16 15 (27.78%) HTTP

Samba
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (27.78%) SOAP
1 15 (27.78%) REST
2 14 (25.93%) J2EE
3 12 (22.22%) DHTML
3 12 (22.22%) HTML
3 12 (22.22%) .NET
3 12 (22.22%) XML
3 12 (22.22%) Flash
3 12 (22.22%) Ajax
3 12 (22.22%) Java EE
3 12 (22.22%) WSRP
3 12 (22.22%) JSR 168
3 12 (22.22%) HTML5
4 10 (18.52%) LAMP
5 5 (9.259%) WebSphere
6 4 (7.407%) Memcached
7 2 (3.704%) Gearman
8 1 (1.852%) Regular Expression
8 1 (1.852%) ASP
8 1 (1.852%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 34 (62.96%) Apache
2 19 (35.19%) Tomcat
3 16 (29.63%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (29.63%) Amazon AWS
4 4 (7.407%) Rackspace Cloud
5 3 (5.556%) MS Exchange
6 1 (1.852%) Exchange Server 5.5
6 1 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2000
6 1 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.852%) LiveSite
6 1 (1.852%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.852%) Lync
6 1 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.852%) IIS
6 1 (1.852%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.852%) MS Project
1 1 (1.852%) MS Office
1 1 (1.852%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.852%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 33 (61.11%) SAN
2 31 (57.41%) NAS
3 26 (48.15%) DNS
4 19 (35.19%) Firewall
5 16 (29.63%) Network Security
6 15 (27.78%) RTSP
6 15 (27.78%) RTP
6 15 (27.78%) SSL
6 15 (27.78%) HTTP
7 11 (20.37%) TCP/IP
8 8 (14.81%) Gigabit Ethernet
9 7 (12.96%) DHCP
10 5 (9.259%) Ethernet
11 4 (7.407%) SSH
12 3 (5.556%) SMTP
12 3 (5.556%) SNMP
12 3 (5.556%) Internet
13 2 (3.704%) FTP
13 2 (3.704%) LDAP
13 2 (3.704%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.04%) MySQL
2 17 (31.48%) NoSQL
3 15 (27.78%) Redis
3 15 (27.78%) CouchDB
3 15 (27.78%) MongoDB
4 14 (25.93%) SQL Server
5 13 (24.07%) Oracle 8/8i
6 12 (22.22%) RDBMS
7 3 (5.556%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.556%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 16 (29.63%) Git (software)
2 14 (25.93%) Hudson
2 14 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.93%) Maven
2 14 (25.93%) JIRA
2 14 (25.93%) Selenium
3 3 (5.556%) Subversion
General
1 8 (14.81%) Finance
2 5 (9.259%) Banking
2 5 (9.259%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.852%) Financial Institution
3 1 (1.852%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (37.04%) Linux Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
2 12 (22.22%) Administrator
3 10 (18.52%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (12.96%) Linux Administrator
5 7 (12.96%) Web Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 6 (11.11%) UNIX Administrator
7 5 (9.259%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.407%) Senior Web Engineer
9 2 (3.704%) Junior Systems Administrator
9 2 (3.704%) Storage Systems Administrator
9 2 (3.704%) Junior
9 2 (3.704%) Network Engineer
9 2 (3.704%) UNIX Systems Administrator
10 1 (1.852%) Team Leader
10 1 (1.852%) Oracle DBA
10 1 (1.852%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Taxonomies
1 12 (22.22%) Ontologies
2 7 (12.96%) HACMP
2 7 (12.96%) Open Source
3 6 (11.11%) Clustering
3 6 (11.11%) LPAR
4 1 (1.852%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.852%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.852%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 53 (98.15%) Linux
2 28 (51.85%) UNIX
3 21 (38.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (25.93%) Solaris
4 14 (25.93%) AIX
5 5 (9.259%) VMS
5 5 (9.259%) Ubuntu
6 4 (7.407%) Windows
7 3 (5.556%) Debian
8 2 (3.704%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (3.704%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (3.704%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (3.704%) SUSE
9 1 (1.852%) Windows NT
9 1 (1.852%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.852%) HPUX
9 1 (1.852%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.63%) Penetration Testing
2 12 (22.22%) SOA
2 12 (22.22%) DRM
2 12 (22.22%) Load Balancing
2 12 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (22.22%) Information Architecture
3 9 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 8 (14.81%) ITIL
5 6 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (9.259%) Validation
7 2 (3.704%) Migration
7 2 (3.704%) Project Management
7 2 (3.704%) Configuration Management
8 1 (1.852%) Test Scripting
8 1 (1.852%) Network Management
8 1 (1.852%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (1.852%) Service Management
8 1 (1.852%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.852%) PRINCE2
8 1 (1.852%) SSADM
Programming Languages
1 26 (48.15%) Perl
2 23 (42.59%) PHP
3 16 (29.63%) Java
4 14 (25.93%) Shell Script
5 13 (24.07%) Bash shell
5 13 (24.07%) JavaScript
6 9 (16.67%) Python
7 6 (11.11%) sed
7 6 (11.11%) AWK
8 2 (3.704%) Korn
8 2 (3.704%) C-shell
8 2 (3.704%) SQL
9 1 (1.852%) VBScript
9 1 (1.852%) VB
9 1 (1.852%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.852%) C#
9 1 (1.852%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) RHCE
2 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.11%) RHCT
5 5 (9.259%) CCNA
5 5 (9.259%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.704%) Degree
7 1 (1.852%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.852%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.852%) MCP
7 1 (1.852%) MCSE
7 1 (1.852%) MCTS
7 1 (1.852%) MCITP
7 1 (1.852%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (29.63%) NFS
2 10 (18.52%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.81%) VMware ESX
3 8 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (14.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (9.259%) SRDF
4 5 (9.259%) Sendmail
4 5 (9.259%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (5.556%) Postfix
6 2 (3.704%) Varnish
7 1 (1.852%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.852%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.852%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (1.852%) Snort
7 1 (1.852%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.852%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (1.852%) XenApp
7 1 (1.852%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (1.852%) Veritas File System
7 1 (1.852%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (51.85%) Puppet
2 22 (40.74%) Nagios
3 18 (33.33%) OpenView
4 13 (24.07%) ZABBIX
5 8 (14.81%) Cobbler
6 6 (11.11%) HP Data Protector
7 5 (9.259%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (3.704%) Tivoli
8 2 (3.704%) Ganglia
8 2 (3.704%) Splunk
9 1 (1.852%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (1.852%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (1.852%) Legato
9 1 (1.852%) AppManager
9 1 (1.852%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 24 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 23 (42.59%) Oracle
3 17 (31.48%) Rackspace
4 15 (27.78%) JBoss
5 10 (18.52%) Veritas
5 10 (18.52%) VMware
6 9 (16.67%) HP
6 9 (16.67%) EMC
7 8 (14.81%) Sun
7 8 (14.81%) IBM
7 8 (14.81%) RightScale
8 7 (12.96%) Cisco
9 6 (11.11%) Intel
10 3 (5.556%) NetApp
11 2 (3.704%) BMC
11 2 (3.704%) Tripwire
12 1 (1.852%) Cadence
12 1 (1.852%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.852%) CommVault
12 1 (1.852%) Microsoft
Skipton, Yorkshire
Systems Administrator - Contract - Skipton ( Linux / Samba / RedHat / Microsoft Server / SQL Server / HyperV / SQL Server ) My client is looking for a contract Systems Administrator to join their team on...
greywood
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
Skipton, North Yorkshire
You will be working within their infrastructure, supporting and troubleshooting the system. The main skills needed are: Basic Linux skills - Redhat, CentOS. Microsoft Server. Desktop - Windows 2013 and...
Greywood Associates Limited
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013