The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Guildford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 20 9 19
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +10
Contract jobs citing Linux 14 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 7.071% 9.677% 4.895%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.82% 32.43% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £400 £285 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.35% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
- +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 3
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Operating Systems
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
44 37 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 22.22% 29.84% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 15
Average daily rate £300 £283 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.19% -13.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £104 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 8
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Linux
Surrey

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 13 (61.90%) C++
2 12 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 12 (57.14%) STL
2 12 (57.14%) GSM
2 12 (57.14%) UMTS
2 12 (57.14%) LTE
3 11 (52.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 11 (52.38%) Asterisk PBX
3 11 (52.38%) GCC
3 11 (52.38%) GDB
3 11 (52.38%) Subversion
3 11 (52.38%) Trac
3 11 (52.38%) VoIP
3 11 (52.38%) PBX
3 11 (52.38%) OO
3 11 (52.38%) OOD
3 11 (52.38%) Cisco
4 7 (33.33%) RTP
4 7 (33.33%) RANAP
5 5 (23.81%) Windows
5 5 (23.81%) SQL
6 4 (19.05%) Apache
6 4 (19.05%) GGSN
6 4 (19.05%) SGSN
7 3 (14.29%) MySQL
7 3 (14.29%) Oracle
7 3 (14.29%) HTML
7 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
7 3 (14.29%) PHP
8 2 (9.524%) PL/SQL

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 12 (57.14%) STL
2 11 (52.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 3 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (4.762%) jQuery
4 1 (4.762%) Spring
4 1 (4.762%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (4.762%) Java EE
4 1 (4.762%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.762%) CSS3
4 1 (4.762%) HTML5
4 1 (4.762%) CSS
4 1 (4.762%) JSP
4 1 (4.762%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) Apache
2 1 (4.762%) CMS
2 1 (4.762%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (4.762%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.762%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) GSM
1 12 (57.14%) UMTS
1 12 (57.14%) LTE
2 11 (52.38%) Asterisk PBX
2 11 (52.38%) VoIP
2 11 (52.38%) PBX
3 7 (33.33%) RTP
3 7 (33.33%) RANAP
4 4 (19.05%) GGSN
4 4 (19.05%) SGSN
5 2 (9.524%) Broadband
5 2 (9.524%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.762%) IP Telephony
6 1 (4.762%) 2G
6 1 (4.762%) 3G
6 1 (4.762%) DNS
6 1 (4.762%) LAN
6 1 (4.762%) WAN
6 1 (4.762%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) MySQL
2 2 (9.524%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle OWB
3 1 (4.762%) TOAD
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) GCC
1 11 (52.38%) GDB
1 11 (52.38%) Subversion
1 11 (52.38%) Trac
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (4.762%) TestNG
General
1 12 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.762%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Software Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.524%) Support Engineer
5 2 (9.524%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (9.524%) PHP Developer
6 1 (4.762%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Systems Support Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.762%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.762%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) DBA
6 1 (4.762%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) iPhone
1 1 (4.762%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 2 (9.524%) CentOS
2 2 (9.524%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.762%) Android
3 1 (4.762%) Solaris
3 1 (4.762%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) OO
1 11 (52.38%) OOD
2 1 (4.762%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (4.762%) Data Analysis
2 1 (4.762%) Web Development
2 1 (4.762%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (4.762%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (4.762%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (4.762%) MVC
2 1 (4.762%) Data Modelling
2 1 (4.762%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) C++
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) PHP
4 2 (9.524%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.524%) Java
5 1 (4.762%) Ruby
5 1 (4.762%) Bash shell
5 1 (4.762%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.762%) C
5 1 (4.762%) C#
5 1 (4.762%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) SLA
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Cisco
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.524%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.762%) EnterpriseDB
4 1 (4.762%) FatWire
4 1 (4.762%) VMware
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