Linux Contracts in Gloucester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Gloucester 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
Rank 11 14 17
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +3
Contract jobs citing Linux 6 36 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 8.571% 12.95% 2.273%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.58% 35.29% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 27 2
Average daily rate £330 £500 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.00% +53.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.73% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 19 102 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 27.14% 36.69% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 56 9
Average daily rate £200 £500 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +150.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £115 £374 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £500 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
Average hourly rate £11.00 - £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 - £15.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 - £24.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Linux
Gloucestershire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucester Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 8 (88.89%) MySQL
2 6 (66.67%) UNIX
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (55.56%) PHP
4 4 (44.44%) Solaris
4 4 (44.44%) VMware
5 3 (33.33%) Content Management
5 3 (33.33%) Information Management
5 3 (33.33%) NetBackup
5 3 (33.33%) Replication
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) LAMP
5 3 (33.33%) Database Tuning
5 3 (33.33%) Git (software)
5 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (33.33%) ITIL
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 3 (33.33%) Mercator
5 3 (33.33%) Puppet
5 3 (33.33%) Hudson
5 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (22.22%) Project Management
6 2 (22.22%) IIS
6 2 (22.22%) C#
6 2 (22.22%) Delphi
6 2 (22.22%) OO
6 2 (22.22%) Apache

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 3 (33.33%) LAMP
2 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (11.11%) GlassFish
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) MPLS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) MySQL
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git (software)
1 3 (33.33%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Administrator
1 4 (44.44%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) DBA
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 2 (22.22%) MySQL DBA
3 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) UNIX
2 4 (44.44%) Solaris
3 1 (11.11%) SUSE
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
1 3 (33.33%) Content Management
1 3 (33.33%) Information Management
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) Database Tuning
1 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) OO
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PHP
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) NetBackup
1 3 (33.33%) Puppet
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) Mercator
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Sun
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
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