Linux Contracts in Kingston Upon Thames
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kingston Upon Thames region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux 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 Kingston Upon Thames 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
Linux
Rank 7 - 13
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 3.846% - 5.263%
As % of the Operating Systems category 50.00% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £375 - £165
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 £37.00 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
- +7.24%
Search 2 Linux jobs in Kingston Upon Thames
All Operating Systems
Kingston Upon Thames
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 2 9 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 7.692% 56.25% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
Average daily rate £360 £162 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+122.91% -56.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £158 £120
10% offered a daily rate of more than £372 £294 £388
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 £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
London

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 5 (83.33%) Apache
1 5 (83.33%) Tomcat
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
1 5 (83.33%) Puppet
2 4 (66.67%) NAS
2 4 (66.67%) iSCSI
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) SAN
3 3 (50.00%) SNMP
3 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (50.00%) Perl
3 3 (50.00%) MySQL
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) SAP
3 3 (50.00%) LDAP
3 3 (50.00%) SMTP
3 3 (50.00%) DHCP
3 3 (50.00%) HTTP
3 3 (50.00%) NFS
3 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (50.00%) Nagios
3 3 (50.00%) EMC
3 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (50.00%) NetApp
3 3 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 3 (50.00%) Postfix
3 3 (50.00%) Squid
3 3 (50.00%) Liferay
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) Apache
1 5 (83.33%) Tomcat
2 3 (50.00%) Liferay
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) NAS
1 4 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) SNMP
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) LDAP
2 3 (50.00%) SMTP
2 3 (50.00%) DHCP
2 3 (50.00%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 3 (50.00%) Hudson
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) SUSE
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Management
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Perl
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (50.00%) Bash shell
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) NFS
1 3 (50.00%) Postfix
1 3 (50.00%) Squid
2 1 (16.67%) NDS
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Puppet
2 3 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) SAP
3 3 (50.00%) EMC
3 3 (50.00%) NetApp
4 1 (16.67%) Novell
4 1 (16.67%) Hitachi
4 1 (16.67%) Brocade
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