Linux Contracts in Glasgow
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Glasgow 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 26 29 43
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +14
Contract jobs citing Linux 71 29 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 7.505% 3.752% 2.825%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.42% 18.83% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 11
Average daily rate £425 £320 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.81% -12.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £308 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £355 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £26.71 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +33.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +7.24%
All Operating Systems
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 219 154 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 23.15% 19.92% 21.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 46 63
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £105 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £390 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 6
Average hourly rate £14.00 £26.00 £107.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.15% -75.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
Scotland

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Glasgow Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Linux 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 Linux.

1 84 (77.06%) UNIX
2 69 (63.30%) SQL
3 60 (55.05%) Java
4 44 (40.37%) Sybase
5 41 (37.61%) Finance
6 29 (26.61%) Spring
7 26 (23.85%) DB2
7 26 (23.85%) C#
7 26 (23.85%) Perl
8 24 (22.02%) JUnit
9 21 (19.27%) J2SE
10 20 (18.35%) Windows
11 18 (16.51%) JMS
11 18 (16.51%) Shell Script
12 17 (15.60%) Solaris
12 17 (15.60%) Banking
13 16 (14.68%) Oracle
14 15 (13.76%) OO
15 14 (12.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 13 (11.93%) Python
16 13 (11.93%) SQL Server
17 12 (11.01%) C++
17 12 (11.01%) XML
18 11 (10.09%) AIX
18 11 (10.09%) .NET
19 10 (9.174%) Windows Server 2008
19 10 (9.174%) Derivative
19 10 (9.174%) Equity Derivative
19 10 (9.174%) RDBMS
19 10 (9.174%) Risk Management

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Linux 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 Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (26.61%) Spring
2 21 (19.27%) J2SE
3 18 (16.51%) JMS
4 12 (11.01%) XML
5 11 (10.09%) .NET
6 9 (8.257%) HTML
7 8 (7.339%) SOAP
8 7 (6.422%) CSS
9 6 (5.505%) Middleware
9 6 (5.505%) WebSphere
10 5 (4.587%) WPF
10 5 (4.587%) WinForms
11 4 (3.670%) J2EE
11 4 (3.670%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.670%) Hibernate
11 4 (3.670%) FIX Protocol
12 3 (2.752%) Smart GWT
13 2 (1.835%) JDBC
13 2 (1.835%) STL
13 2 (1.835%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (6.422%) Tomcat
2 6 (5.505%) Apache
2 6 (5.505%) MQSeries
2 6 (5.505%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (2.752%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
3 3 (2.752%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (2.752%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (0.917%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.917%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 9 (8.257%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.835%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.917%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.917%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.917%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.752%) SAN
2 2 (1.835%) Intranet
2 2 (1.835%) Internet
2 2 (1.835%) FTP
2 2 (1.835%) HTTP
2 2 (1.835%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.917%) LDAP
3 1 (0.917%) SNMP
3 1 (0.917%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.85%) DB2
2 13 (11.93%) SQL Server
3 10 (9.174%) RDBMS
4 7 (6.422%) MySQL
5 6 (5.505%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (3.670%) Data Mining
6 4 (3.670%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (2.752%) KDB
7 3 (2.752%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (1.835%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.835%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.835%) MS Access
9 1 (0.917%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.917%) SQL Server 2005
9 1 (0.917%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (0.917%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.917%) Oracle 9i
9 1 (0.917%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.917%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.917%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 24 (22.02%) JUnit
2 5 (4.587%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.752%) Maven
3 3 (2.752%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (1.835%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (1.835%) Subversion
4 2 (1.835%) JIRA
4 2 (1.835%) Git (software)
5 1 (0.917%) Talend Open Studio
5 1 (0.917%) TestComplete
5 1 (0.917%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.917%) Selenium
5 1 (0.917%) NUnit
5 1 (0.917%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.917%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.917%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.917%) MSTest
5 1 (0.917%) Hudson
General
1 41 (37.61%) Finance
2 17 (15.60%) Banking
3 9 (8.257%) Front Office
3 9 (8.257%) Investment Banking
4 2 (1.835%) Marketing
5 1 (0.917%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (54.13%) Developer
2 32 (29.36%) Java Developer
3 11 (10.09%) C# Developer
4 9 (8.257%) Administrator
5 8 (7.339%) UNIX Administrator
5 8 (7.339%) Analyst
6 5 (4.587%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (3.670%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (3.670%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.670%) Consultant
7 4 (3.670%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (3.670%) .NET Developer
7 4 (3.670%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 4 (3.670%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.670%) Systems Integration Engineer
8 3 (2.752%) Designer
8 3 (2.752%) Infrastructure Designer
8 3 (2.752%) WebSphere Developer
8 3 (2.752%) Sybase Developer
8 3 (2.752%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.174%) Derivative
1 10 (9.174%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (3.670%) Mathematics
2 4 (3.670%) Computer Science
3 3 (2.752%) Market Risk
3 3 (2.752%) Equities
4 2 (1.835%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.835%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.917%) Telematics
5 1 (0.917%) Open Source
5 1 (0.917%) Ergonomics
5 1 (0.917%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.917%) Grid Computing
5 1 (0.917%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.917%) NHS
5 1 (0.917%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.917%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.917%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 84 (77.06%) UNIX
2 20 (18.35%) Windows
3 17 (15.60%) Solaris
4 14 (12.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (10.09%) AIX
6 10 (9.174%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (6.422%) Windows XP
8 5 (4.587%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (2.752%) Windows 7
9 3 (2.752%) Tru64
10 2 (1.835%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.917%) Windows 2000 Server
11 1 (0.917%) Android
11 1 (0.917%) Windows NT
11 1 (0.917%) Windows 2000
11 1 (0.917%) Windows Phone
11 1 (0.917%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (13.76%) OO
2 10 (9.174%) Risk Management
3 9 (8.257%) Multithreading
4 8 (7.339%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (6.422%) Regression Testing
6 6 (5.505%) Unit Testing
7 5 (4.587%) Test Automation
7 5 (4.587%) Manual Testing
7 5 (4.587%) Software Testing
7 5 (4.587%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (3.670%) Data Modelling
8 4 (3.670%) ITIL
8 4 (3.670%) Business Analysis
8 4 (3.670%) Release Management
9 3 (2.752%) Time Management
9 3 (2.752%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (2.752%) Software Engineering
9 3 (2.752%) MVC
10 2 (1.835%) Web Application Development
10 2 (1.835%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 69 (63.30%) SQL
2 60 (55.05%) Java
3 26 (23.85%) C#
3 26 (23.85%) Perl
4 18 (16.51%) Shell Script
5 13 (11.93%) Python
6 12 (11.01%) C++
7 9 (8.257%) JavaScript
8 8 (7.339%) VB
8 8 (7.339%) VBA
9 6 (5.505%) Korn
9 6 (5.505%) Scala
10 5 (4.587%) T-SQL
10 5 (4.587%) Bash shell
11 4 (3.670%) Jython
12 2 (1.835%) Bourne shell
12 2 (1.835%) VBScript
12 2 (1.835%) PHP
12 2 (1.835%) Ruby
13 1 (0.917%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (1.835%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.917%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.917%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.917%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.339%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.752%) XenDesktop
1 3 (2.752%) VMware ESX
2 2 (1.835%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.917%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (0.917%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.917%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.917%) MetaFrame
3 1 (0.917%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.917%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (3.670%) Control-M
2 1 (0.917%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.917%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 1 (0.917%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.917%) OpenView
2 1 (0.917%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.917%) Netcool
2 1 (0.917%) HP UCMDB
2 1 (0.917%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 44 (40.37%) Sybase
2 16 (14.68%) Oracle
3 9 (8.257%) Red Hat
3 9 (8.257%) Sun
3 9 (8.257%) JBoss
4 8 (7.339%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.422%) HP
5 7 (6.422%) EMC
5 7 (6.422%) IBM
6 5 (4.587%) Citrix
7 3 (2.752%) VMware
7 3 (2.752%) Dell
7 3 (2.752%) Symantec
8 2 (1.835%) Peregrine
8 2 (1.835%) Informatica
8 2 (1.835%) InterSystems
9 1 (0.917%) Cisco
9 1 (0.917%) Veritas
9 1 (0.917%) Talend
9 1 (0.917%) Lumension
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