The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 38 66 47
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -19
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.365% 0.144% 0.466%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.075% 0.490% 1.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £450 £450 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.11% +16.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £275 £325
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
93 204 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 33.94% 29.39% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 110 52
Average daily rate £450 £500 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +58.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £400 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 17
Average hourly rate £18.90 £31.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +65.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £20.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £31.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Ubuntu
South West

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Ubuntu Daily Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Ruby
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Solaris
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) Middleware
4 1 (25.00%) ClearQuest
4 1 (25.00%) Symantec
4 1 (25.00%) MPLS
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (25.00%) Sun

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (25.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (25.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Solaris
4 1 (25.00%) SUSE
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
1 2 (50.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Sun
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) Perforce
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds