The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CentOS 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 Gloucestershire 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
CentOS Linux
Rank - - 44
Contract jobs citing CentOS 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - - 0.688%
As % of the Operating Systems category - - 2.326%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £284 £350
% change year-on-year
+0.44% -18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £41.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.57% +50.00%
All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
92 197 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 33.95% 30.59% 29.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 107 54
Average daily rate £450 £500 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +60.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £400 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 11
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% +13.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £12.00 £15.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £31.50 £21.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
CentOS
South West

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire CentOS Daily Rate Trend

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) Python

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (50.00%) ClearQuest
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
1 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) Perforce