The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hammersmith region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 20 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 Hammersmith 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 13.89% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £255 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
- +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Operating Systems
Hammersmith
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
12 13 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 33.33% 33.33% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 3
Average daily rate £255 £235 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.51% +14.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.34 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Linux
London

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hammersmith 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 Hammersmith region.

Hammersmith 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 Hammersmith region.

Hammersmith Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 6 (75.00%) Oracle
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) UNIX
4 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) Solaris
4 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000
4 3 (37.50%) LDAP
4 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
4 3 (37.50%) Sun
5 2 (25.00%) Infoblox
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
5 2 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Xen
5 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (25.00%) SMTP
5 2 (25.00%) NFS
5 2 (25.00%) NetApp
5 2 (25.00%) Veritas
5 2 (25.00%) Workflow
5 2 (25.00%) LAMP
5 2 (25.00%) Clustering
5 2 (25.00%) Shell Script

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 2 (25.00%) LAMP
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (12.50%) CloudStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
2 2 (25.00%) SMTP
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) SAN
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
3 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (12.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (12.50%) Games
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Open Source
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (50.00%) UNIX
4 3 (37.50%) Solaris
4 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000
4 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
5 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (12.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) VBScript
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Xen
1 2 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (12.50%) vCloud
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
1 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) SCOM
1 1 (12.50%) BladeLogic
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
1 1 (12.50%) Cobbler
1 1 (12.50%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
1 6 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (37.50%) Sun
3 2 (25.00%) Infoblox
3 2 (25.00%) NetApp
3 2 (25.00%) Veritas
4 1 (12.50%) Symantec
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) BMC
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Brocade
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow