The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Harrow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 Harrow 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 3 3 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing Linux 4 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Harrow 19.05% 23.53% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.14% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
Average daily rate £319 £311 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.40% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-4.05% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
Harrow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
7 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Harrow 33.33% 23.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
Average daily rate £320 £310 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
London

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Harrow 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 Harrow region.

Harrow Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Harrow 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 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) NUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Hudson
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) SCSA
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
2 1 (25.00%) Informix
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) RHCE
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Veritas
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Harrow 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 3 (75.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Informix
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) NUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Hudson
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SCSA
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) EMC
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat