The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank - - 17
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester - - 1.149%
As % of the Operating Systems category - - 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £275 £338
% change year-on-year
+13.63% -18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All Operating Systems
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
19 100 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 27.14% 37.04% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 53 10
Average daily rate £200 £500 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +156.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £115 £366 £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 1 3
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -36.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £12.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £12.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Ubuntu
Gloucestershire

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester Ubuntu Daily Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon AWS

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) VMware