The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 20 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 Leeds 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 4 18 33
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +15
Contract jobs citing Linux 118 66 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 15.86% 7.350% 3.764%
As % of the Operating Systems category 57.00% 34.74% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 44 13
Average daily rate £275 £323 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.72% +7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £225 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £379 £375 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.85% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £34.00 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+142.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
207 190 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 27.82% 21.16% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 91 41
Average daily rate £278 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £147 £155 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £375 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 31 25
Average hourly rate £19.00 £12.00 £17.11
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.33% -29.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.16 £10.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £17.00 £24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Linux
West Yorkshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Leeds Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Leeds Linux Hourly Rate Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 79 (52.67%) Oracle
1 79 (52.67%) Apache
2 70 (46.67%) PHP
3 66 (44.00%) MySQL
4 56 (37.33%) Web Services
5 54 (36.00%) Bash shell
6 52 (34.67%) DNS
7 47 (31.33%) Configuration Management
7 47 (31.33%) Python
8 46 (30.67%) UNIX
8 46 (30.67%) Java
8 46 (30.67%) Amazon AWS
9 44 (29.33%) Ruby
10 43 (28.67%) C++
10 43 (28.67%) Internet
11 40 (26.67%) Windows
11 40 (26.67%) MongoDB
11 40 (26.67%) Node.js
11 40 (26.67%) nginx
12 39 (26.00%) Kanban
12 39 (26.00%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (26.00%) Amazon S3
12 39 (26.00%) Redis
12 39 (26.00%) Route 53
12 39 (26.00%) Amazon RDS
13 36 (24.00%) Perl
14 34 (22.67%) Puppet
15 32 (21.33%) Tomcat
15 32 (21.33%) Red Hat
16 30 (20.00%) HTTP

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 56 (37.33%) Web Services
2 40 (26.67%) Node.js
3 20 (13.33%) WebSphere
4 17 (11.33%) J2EE
5 16 (10.67%) POSIX
6 14 (9.333%) CSS
7 10 (6.667%) jQuery
8 9 (6.000%) REST
8 9 (6.000%) SOAP
8 9 (6.000%) LAMP
9 8 (5.333%) Hibernate
9 8 (5.333%) Spring
9 8 (5.333%) XML
9 8 (5.333%) HTML5
10 7 (4.667%) CSS3
11 6 (4.000%) X-Windows
12 5 (3.333%) Middleware
12 5 (3.333%) XSLT
12 5 (3.333%) XHTML
12 5 (3.333%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 79 (52.67%) Apache
2 46 (30.67%) Amazon AWS
3 40 (26.67%) nginx
4 39 (26.00%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (26.00%) Amazon S3
4 39 (26.00%) Route 53
5 32 (21.33%) Tomcat
6 10 (6.667%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (6.000%) WebLogic
8 7 (4.667%) Apache Solr
8 7 (4.667%) Adobe CQ
9 6 (4.000%) IBM HTTP Server
9 6 (4.000%) IIS
10 5 (3.333%) ESB
11 4 (2.667%) MQSeries
12 3 (2.000%) Documentum
12 3 (2.000%) WebSphere MQ
12 3 (2.000%) ATG Dynamo
12 3 (2.000%) WebSphere Process Server
13 2 (1.333%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 5 (3.333%) MS Office
2 4 (2.667%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.333%) MS Excel
4 1 (0.667%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (8.667%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.000%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (0.667%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 52 (34.67%) DNS
2 43 (28.67%) Internet
3 30 (20.00%) HTTP
4 28 (18.67%) SSL
5 27 (18.00%) DHCP
6 26 (17.33%) TCP/IP
7 24 (16.00%) Firewall
8 12 (8.000%) Intrusion Detection
9 8 (5.333%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (4.667%) BIG-IP
11 6 (4.000%) SAN
12 5 (3.333%) FTP
13 4 (2.667%) VPN
13 4 (2.667%) SSH
14 3 (2.000%) NAS
15 1 (0.667%) WAAS
15 1 (0.667%) Unified Communications
15 1 (0.667%) FCoE
15 1 (0.667%) Fibre Channel
15 1 (0.667%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (44.00%) MySQL
2 40 (26.67%) MongoDB
3 39 (26.00%) Redis
3 39 (26.00%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 19 (12.67%) NoSQL
6 17 (11.33%) RDBMS
7 16 (10.67%) Couchbase
7 16 (10.67%) SimpleDB
8 9 (6.000%) Oracle OWB
8 9 (6.000%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (4.667%) Oracle 10g
9 7 (4.667%) DB2
10 4 (2.667%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (2.667%) Oracle 11g
11 2 (1.333%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (1.333%) Oracle 9i
12 1 (0.667%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.667%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.667%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (9.333%) Maven
2 10 (6.667%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.333%) Git (software)
4 7 (4.667%) Subversion
5 6 (4.000%) Ant
6 5 (3.333%) CruiseControl
7 3 (2.000%) Hudson
8 2 (1.333%) Build Forge
8 2 (1.333%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.667%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.667%) JUnit
9 1 (0.667%) Talend Open Studio
9 1 (0.667%) Capistrano
9 1 (0.667%) PhoneGap
General
1 25 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 16 (10.67%) Finance
3 10 (6.667%) Banking
4 9 (6.000%) Retail
4 9 (6.000%) Investment Banking
5 8 (5.333%) Games
6 4 (2.667%) Online Betting
7 2 (1.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (18.67%) Developer
2 21 (14.00%) Architect
3 20 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 15 (10.00%) Analyst
5 11 (7.333%) Support Analyst
5 11 (7.333%) Operations Engineer
6 10 (6.667%) Infrastructure Architect
7 8 (5.333%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.333%) Oracle Developer
8 7 (4.667%) Administrator
8 7 (4.667%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.000%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 6 (4.000%) Operations Analyst
9 6 (4.000%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
9 6 (4.000%) Configuration Engineer
9 6 (4.000%) Operations Support Analyst
10 5 (3.333%) Release Engineer
10 5 (3.333%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (3.333%) PHP Developer
10 5 (3.333%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.33%) Client/Server
2 11 (7.333%) Open Source
3 5 (3.333%) RIA
4 4 (2.667%) Clustering
5 3 (2.000%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.000%) Data Integration
5 3 (2.000%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.333%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.667%) iPhone
7 1 (0.667%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.667%) iPad
7 1 (0.667%) Heroku
7 1 (0.667%) Beowulf
7 1 (0.667%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.667%) Firmware
7 1 (0.667%) Handset
7 1 (0.667%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 46 (30.67%) UNIX
2 40 (26.67%) Windows
3 30 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (11.33%) Solaris
5 13 (8.667%) AIX
6 12 (8.000%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (6.000%) HPUX
8 8 (5.333%) CentOS
9 6 (4.000%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.333%) SUSE
11 1 (0.667%) Debian
11 1 (0.667%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.667%) Android
11 1 (0.667%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.667%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.667%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.33%) Configuration Management
2 39 (26.00%) Kanban
3 27 (18.00%) Test Automation
4 26 (17.33%) TDD
5 25 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 23 (15.33%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (14.00%) Scrum
8 19 (12.67%) Security Testing
9 17 (11.33%) E-Commerce
10 16 (10.67%) Incident Management
10 16 (10.67%) Capacity Management
11 12 (8.000%) SOA
12 9 (6.000%) Agile Software Development
12 9 (6.000%) Kimball Methodology
13 8 (5.333%) BDD
13 8 (5.333%) Performance Testing
14 7 (4.667%) Software Engineering
14 7 (4.667%) Project Management
15 6 (4.000%) Dimensional Modelling
16 5 (3.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 70 (46.67%) PHP
2 54 (36.00%) Bash shell
3 47 (31.33%) Python
4 46 (30.67%) Java
5 44 (29.33%) Ruby
6 43 (28.67%) C++
7 36 (24.00%) Perl
8 30 (20.00%) SQL
9 17 (11.33%) JavaScript
10 9 (6.000%) PL/SQL
11 8 (5.333%) Shell Script
12 5 (3.333%) AWK
13 3 (2.000%) C
14 1 (0.667%) VB
14 1 (0.667%) Jython
14 1 (0.667%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.667%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 5 (3.333%) Degree
2 4 (2.667%) ISEB
2 4 (2.667%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (1.333%) MCSE
4 2 (1.333%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.333%) PMP
4 2 (1.333%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.333%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.333%) VCP4
4 2 (1.333%) VCP5
5 1 (0.667%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.667%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.333%) QA
2 1 (0.667%) SLA
2 1 (0.667%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (11.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.667%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.000%) VMware ESX
3 3 (2.000%) vSphere
4 2 (1.333%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.333%) vCloud
4 2 (1.333%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.667%) NFS
5 1 (0.667%) Squid
5 1 (0.667%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 34 (22.67%) Puppet
2 2 (1.333%) CA Wily
2 2 (1.333%) OpenView
3 1 (0.667%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.667%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 1 (0.667%) Nagios
3 1 (0.667%) ZENworks
3 1 (0.667%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.667%) Business Desktop Deployment
3 1 (0.667%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 79 (52.67%) Oracle
2 32 (21.33%) Red Hat
3 22 (14.67%) VMware
4 17 (11.33%) Percona
5 13 (8.667%) IBM
6 10 (6.667%) Microsoft
6 10 (6.667%) Cisco
7 9 (6.000%) Adobe
8 7 (4.667%) HP
8 7 (4.667%) hybris
8 7 (4.667%) F5
9 6 (4.000%) Perforce
9 6 (4.000%) JBoss
10 5 (3.333%) Zend
11 3 (2.000%) ATG
11 3 (2.000%) CheckPoint
11 3 (2.000%) Siebel
12 2 (1.333%) Apple
13 1 (0.667%) Sun
13 1 (0.667%) EMC
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