The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead 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 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 19.15% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 52.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £258 - -
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
Hemel Hempstead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
17 17 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 36.17% 18.28% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 1
Average daily rate £350 £350 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +84.21%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
Average hourly rate £11.50 £12.00 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% +14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
Hertfordshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 9 (81.82%) Apache
2 7 (63.64%) PHP
3 6 (54.55%) MySQL
4 5 (45.45%) ITIL
4 5 (45.45%) Subversion
5 4 (36.36%) CSS
5 4 (36.36%) HTML
5 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
6 3 (27.27%) Perl
6 3 (27.27%) UNIX
6 3 (27.27%) Veritas
6 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
6 3 (27.27%) Nagios
6 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
6 3 (27.27%) DNS
6 3 (27.27%) LAMP
6 3 (27.27%) Clustering
6 3 (27.27%) Postfix
6 3 (27.27%) Memcached
6 3 (27.27%) Varnish
6 3 (27.27%) Puppet
6 3 (27.27%) Gearman
7 2 (18.18%) Retail
7 2 (18.18%) Data Mapping
7 2 (18.18%) Billing
7 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
7 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
7 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
7 2 (18.18%) Marketing
7 2 (18.18%) Samba

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 4 (36.36%) CSS
1 4 (36.36%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) LAMP
2 3 (27.27%) Memcached
2 3 (27.27%) Gearman
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
3 2 (18.18%) XML
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
3 2 (18.18%) XHTML
4 1 (9.091%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 9 (81.82%) Apache
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) SMTP
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) FTP
2 2 (18.18%) SNMP
3 1 (9.091%) ADSL
3 1 (9.091%) WLAN
3 1 (9.091%) WEP
3 1 (9.091%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (9.091%) Wireless
3 1 (9.091%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MySQL
2 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
2 1 (9.091%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Subversion
2 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (18.18%) Retail
1 2 (18.18%) Billing
1 2 (18.18%) Marketing
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Administrator
2 4 (36.36%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) LAMP Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Network Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Systems Designer
5 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (9.091%) Lead Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Wireless Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Network Support
5 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.091%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) UNIX
2 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
2 2 (18.18%) Debian
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Data Mapping
2 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
2 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
2 2 (18.18%) UML
2 2 (18.18%) CRM
2 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
3 1 (9.091%) Data Modelling
3 1 (9.091%) Migration
3 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.091%) SEO
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
3 1 (9.091%) Pay per click
3 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.091%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) Asset Management
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Management
3 1 (9.091%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PHP
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.091%) C++
5 1 (9.091%) Korn
5 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Postfix
1 3 (27.27%) Varnish
2 2 (18.18%) Samba
2 2 (18.18%) NFS
3 1 (9.091%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Nagios
1 3 (27.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Veritas
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.091%) NetApp
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