The first table below looks at the demand for Cygwin 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 Cygwin over the 3 months to 23 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 System Software 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cygwin
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cygwin 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.157% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.563% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.50
All System Software
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
64 58 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 10.05% 5.973% 9.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 30
Average daily rate £325 £325 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £178 £171 £151
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 14
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £11.19 £11.86
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £34.25 £35.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Cygwin
East of England

Cygwin
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cygwin across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Hertfordshire Cygwin Jobs Demand Trend

Cygwin
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Cygwin across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Cygwin Hourly Rate Trend

Cygwin
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cygwin within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Stevenage - 1 £250 -
Cygwin
East of England

Cygwin
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Cygwin 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 Cygwin.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Redmine

Cygwin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Cygwin 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 Cygwin. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Redmine
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
SYS UML) - Software process oriented... Cygwin, UML, HOOD) - Embedded C, Java, pearl, bash (or scripting languages) - Proficient in the use of debuggers (gdb,….) - Desirable: - Previous experience developing satellite...
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Posted: 21 May 2013
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
2 years professional experience); C coding; Linux scripting skills... Configuration management using ClearCase, CVS or similar. Change tracking with ClearQuest, Bugzilla or similar... Microsoft Windows 7; Linux Red...
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Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013