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Linux Contracts in Leicester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Leicester 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 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 17 16 9
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux 3 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 3.093% 1.000% 11.49%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.00% 6.667% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 5
Average daily rate - £313 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -30.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
- +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Operating Systems
Leicester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 20 15 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 20.62% 15.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 7
Average daily rate £250 £200 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -48.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £313 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 3
Average hourly rate £12.50 £8.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.05% -29.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Linux
Leicestershire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicester Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 (55.56%) SQL
1 5 (55.56%) UNIX
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) ISO 9001
2 4 (44.44%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 4 (44.44%) ISEB
2 4 (44.44%) TickIT
2 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Subversion
3 3 (33.33%) Logistics
3 3 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
3 3 (33.33%) jQuery
3 3 (33.33%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
3 3 (33.33%) MySQL
3 3 (33.33%) Git (software)
3 3 (33.33%) HTML5
3 3 (33.33%) CSS3
4 1 (11.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Sun
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) AIX
4 1 (11.11%) HPUX
4 1 (11.11%) Solaris
4 1 (11.11%) Clustering
4 1 (11.11%) SAN

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 3 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
1 3 (33.33%) jQuery
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) HTML5
1 3 (33.33%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (33.33%) Subversion
2 3 (33.33%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Test Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) UNIX
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) HPUX
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) ISO 9001
1 4 (44.44%) TickIT
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Sun
1 1 (11.11%) HP
1 1 (11.11%) NetApp
1 1 (11.11%) Veritas
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
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