Hemel Hempstead Linux Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Linux skills within the Hemel Hempstead region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kendal Kent Knaresborough Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Reigate Ruislip Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	9
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	19.05 %
Daily rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum daily rate	-	£258
Average daily rate	-	£282
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£307
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£340
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.31	£32.07
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
Operating Systems Hemel Hempstead
Matching contract IT job ads	10	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.046 %
Daily rates quoted	2	8
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£289
Average daily rate	£300	£307
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£316	£319
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.89	£12.23
Average hourly rate	£31.67	£13.96
% change on same period last year	+126.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.44	£15.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.97	£21.93
% change on same period last year	+0.17 %
Linux Herefordshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Linux across the Hemel Hempstead region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Linux across the Hemel Hempstead region.

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, 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 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) DNS 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (66.67 %) Firewall 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 1 (33.33 %) LAMP 2 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP5 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP4 2 1 (33.33 %) Apache 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP 2 1 (33.33 %) MySQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, 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 1 (33.33 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) DNS 1 2 (66.67 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) MySQL
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Administrator 1 2 (66.67 %) Server Administrator 2 1 (33.33 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Web Developer	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP5 1 1 (33.33 %) PHP4
System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft