The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CentOS over the 3 months to 24 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 Hertfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing CentOS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £284 £350
% change year-on-year
+0.44% -18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £41.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.57% +50.00%
All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
183 217 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 28.73% 22.21% 25.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 81 74
Average daily rate £350 £350 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £163 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 56
Average hourly rate £15.00 £18.50 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.91% -1.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.80 £11.00 £11.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £35.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
CentOS
East of England

CentOS
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat