Ubuntu Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu 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 of the Operating Systems 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 474 500 525
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +25
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 39 59 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.094% 0.111% 0.082%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.432% 0.539% 0.388%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 22
Average daily rate £369 £344 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.27% +3.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £227 £275 £276
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £525 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £356
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -22.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% +4.65%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
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Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 9027 10937 11856
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 21.71% 20.50% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4889 5558 5946
Average daily rate £366 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £200 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 924 1122 1185
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Ubuntu Jobs Demand Trend

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Ubuntu Daily Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ubuntu across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Ubuntu Daily Rate Histogram

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Ubuntu Hourly Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu 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
London +25 26 £428 +17.12%
Yorkshire - 6 £125 -
East of England +11 3 - -
North East - 3 £300 -
South East +9 1 £325 +28.71%
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu.

1 85 (90.43%) Linux
2 62 (65.96%) Red Hat
3 44 (46.81%) Apache
4 39 (41.49%) MySQL
4 39 (41.49%) CentOS
5 37 (39.36%) Debian
6 35 (37.23%) Windows
7 31 (32.98%) Java
7 31 (32.98%) Puppet
8 30 (31.91%) VMware
9 28 (29.79%) Nagios
10 27 (28.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 24 (25.53%) UNIX
11 24 (25.53%) Python
12 22 (23.40%) IIS
12 22 (23.40%) PHP
12 22 (23.40%) Amazon AWS
13 21 (22.34%) Open Source
14 20 (21.28%) Bash shell
15 18 (19.15%) Windows Server 2008
16 15 (15.96%) Oracle
17 14 (14.89%) NoSQL
18 13 (13.83%) VMware ESXi
18 13 (13.83%) Perl
18 13 (13.83%) Windows Server 2003
18 13 (13.83%) Cisco
18 13 (13.83%) Continuous Integration
19 12 (12.77%) Ruby
19 12 (12.77%) Agile Software Development
19 12 (12.77%) Web Services

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (12.77%) Web Services
2 10 (10.64%) LAMP
3 9 (9.574%) .NET
4 8 (8.511%) J2EE
5 6 (6.383%) CSS
6 5 (5.319%) CSS3
6 5 (5.319%) HTML5
6 5 (5.319%) J2SE
7 4 (4.255%) Django
7 4 (4.255%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (4.255%) Middleware
7 4 (4.255%) HTML
7 4 (4.255%) Resque
7 4 (4.255%) RESTful
8 3 (3.191%) WSGI
8 3 (3.191%) Gearman
8 3 (3.191%) Memcached
8 3 (3.191%) jQuery
9 2 (2.128%) Symfony
9 2 (2.128%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 44 (46.81%) Apache
2 22 (23.40%) IIS
2 22 (23.40%) Amazon AWS
3 10 (10.64%) Tomcat
4 9 (9.574%) nginx
4 9 (9.574%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (9.574%) Amazon S3
5 7 (7.447%) OpenStack
6 5 (5.319%) Apache Solr
7 3 (3.191%) Gunicorn
7 3 (3.191%) Drupal
8 2 (2.128%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.128%) Apache Pig
8 2 (2.128%) Route 53
8 2 (2.128%) CloudFront
9 1 (1.064%) Rackspace Cloud
9 1 (1.064%) Windows Azure
9 1 (1.064%) Confluence
9 1 (1.064%) WebLogic
9 1 (1.064%) GlassFish
Applications
1 4 (4.255%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.064%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.77%) SMTP
1 12 (12.77%) DNS
2 11 (11.70%) SNMP
2 11 (11.70%) Firewall
3 10 (10.64%) iSCSI
4 9 (9.574%) Fibre Channel
5 8 (8.511%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (8.511%) SAN
6 6 (6.383%) VLAN
6 6 (6.383%) Internet
6 6 (6.383%) DHCP
7 5 (5.319%) NAS
8 4 (4.255%) BIG-IP
8 4 (4.255%) LAN
8 4 (4.255%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.255%) VPN
9 3 (3.191%) Junos
9 3 (3.191%) WAN
9 3 (3.191%) HTTP
9 3 (3.191%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (41.49%) MySQL
2 14 (14.89%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.64%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.511%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.511%) Redis
5 6 (6.383%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.319%) Big Data
7 3 (3.191%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (3.191%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (2.128%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.128%) Sqoop
8 2 (2.128%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (2.128%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.064%) CouchDB
9 1 (1.064%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (1.064%) Jackrabbit
9 1 (1.064%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (1.064%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Git (software)
2 5 (5.319%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.191%) Jasmine
3 3 (3.191%) Capistrano
3 3 (3.191%) Selenium
3 3 (3.191%) Subversion
4 2 (2.128%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.128%) WebDriver
4 2 (2.128%) Bazaar
4 2 (2.128%) Hudson
5 1 (1.064%) Phing
5 1 (1.064%) PHPUnit
5 1 (1.064%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.064%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.064%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (1.064%) JIRA
5 1 (1.064%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.064%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.064%) TestComplete
5 1 (1.064%) CruiseControl
General
1 4 (4.255%) Telecoms
2 3 (3.191%) Publishing
3 2 (2.128%) Law
3 2 (2.128%) Retail
3 2 (2.128%) Dutch Language
3 2 (2.128%) German Language
4 1 (1.064%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.064%) Advertising
4 1 (1.064%) Finance
4 1 (1.064%) Electronics
4 1 (1.064%) Games
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) Administrator
2 24 (25.53%) Systems Administrator
3 22 (23.40%) Linux Administrator
4 20 (21.28%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 18 (19.15%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.574%) Developer
8 8 (8.511%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.319%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.255%) Infrastructure Architect
10 4 (4.255%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.255%) Consultant
10 4 (4.255%) Support Engineer
10 4 (4.255%) Architect
10 4 (4.255%) Build Engineer
11 3 (3.191%) UNIX Administrator
11 3 (3.191%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 3 (3.191%) 2nd Line Support
12 2 (2.128%) Network Engineer
12 2 (2.128%) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.34%) Open Source
2 9 (9.574%) IaaS
3 5 (5.319%) Replication
3 5 (5.319%) Clustering
4 4 (4.255%) Mathematics
4 4 (4.255%) SaaS
4 4 (4.255%) Digital Media
5 3 (3.191%) PaaS
5 3 (3.191%) Computer Science
5 3 (3.191%) Cryptography
6 2 (2.128%) IVR
6 2 (2.128%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.128%) EFT
6 2 (2.128%) EFTPOS
6 2 (2.128%) Smartcard
7 1 (1.064%) Social Media
7 1 (1.064%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.064%) Online Games
7 1 (1.064%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.064%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 85 (90.43%) Linux
2 39 (41.49%) CentOS
3 37 (39.36%) Debian
4 35 (37.23%) Windows
5 27 (28.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 24 (25.53%) UNIX
7 18 (19.15%) Windows Server 2008
8 13 (13.83%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (9.574%) Solaris
10 8 (8.511%) Gentoo
10 8 (8.511%) SUSE
11 7 (7.447%) FreeBSD
12 4 (4.255%) Windows 7
13 3 (3.191%) AIX
13 3 (3.191%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (3.191%) Android
13 3 (3.191%) Fedora
14 2 (2.128%) Windows 2000 Server
14 2 (2.128%) Mac OS X
14 2 (2.128%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (13.83%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (12.77%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (11.70%) Configuration Management
4 9 (9.574%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (7.447%) TDD
6 6 (6.383%) OO
7 5 (5.319%) E-Commerce
7 5 (5.319%) Project Management
7 5 (5.319%) Load Balancing
7 5 (5.319%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (4.255%) Migration
8 4 (4.255%) Automated Testing
8 4 (4.255%) Information Security
8 4 (4.255%) Product Management
9 3 (3.191%) BDD
9 3 (3.191%) Memory Management
9 3 (3.191%) Analytics
9 3 (3.191%) ITIL
9 3 (3.191%) SOA
9 3 (3.191%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.98%) Java
2 24 (25.53%) Python
3 22 (23.40%) PHP
4 20 (21.28%) Bash shell
5 13 (13.83%) Perl
6 12 (12.77%) Ruby
7 9 (9.574%) JavaScript
8 8 (8.511%) PowerShell
8 8 (8.511%) SQL
9 7 (7.447%) C++
10 6 (6.383%) C
11 4 (4.255%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.128%) Korn
12 2 (2.128%) C#
12 2 (2.128%) VBScript
12 2 (2.128%) VB.NET
13 1 (1.064%) VB
13 1 (1.064%) Groovy
13 1 (1.064%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 9 (9.574%) Degree
2 7 (7.447%) RHCE
3 6 (6.383%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (5.319%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.319%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.255%) CCNP
6 2 (2.128%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (2.128%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.128%) CCNA
6 2 (2.128%) IBM Certification
6 2 (2.128%) Sun Certification
7 1 (1.064%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.064%) CCIE
7 1 (1.064%) ISEB
7 1 (1.064%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.128%) QA
2 1 (1.064%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (13.83%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (12.77%) vSphere
3 11 (11.70%) Active Directory
4 10 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (10.64%) NFS
5 9 (9.574%) VMware ESX
6 8 (8.511%) Postfix
7 6 (6.383%) Varnish
8 3 (3.191%) Samba
9 2 (2.128%) Squid
10 1 (1.064%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (1.064%) Xen
10 1 (1.064%) Snort
Systems Management
1 31 (32.98%) Puppet
2 28 (29.79%) Nagios
3 10 (10.64%) Cacti
4 7 (7.447%) Zenoss
5 2 (2.128%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.064%) CFEngine
6 1 (1.064%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.064%) CA Wily
6 1 (1.064%) WSUS
6 1 (1.064%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.064%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 62 (65.96%) Red Hat
2 30 (31.91%) VMware
3 15 (15.96%) Oracle
4 13 (13.83%) Cisco
5 11 (11.70%) HP
6 5 (5.319%) Microsoft
7 4 (4.255%) Juniper
7 4 (4.255%) CheckPoint
7 4 (4.255%) F5
8 3 (3.191%) NetApp
8 3 (3.191%) Sun
8 3 (3.191%) EMC
9 2 (2.128%) IBM
9 2 (2.128%) Apple
9 2 (2.128%) JBoss
9 2 (2.128%) Riverbed
9 2 (2.128%) Rackspace
9 2 (2.128%) Percona
10 1 (1.064%) Tableau
10 1 (1.064%) Akamai
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