Linux Contracts in Leicestershire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 17 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 Leicestershire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 26 21 28
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 5 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 2.381% 2.347% 3.863%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.82% 14.71% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £363 £215 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+68.60% -33.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.73% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 39 34 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 18.57% 15.96% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 3
Average daily rate £300 £200 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -38.46%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 7
Average hourly rate £12.50 £10.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -61.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.85 £8.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £18.00 £36.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Leicester -5 2 - -
Loughborough - 1 - -
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
1 12 (46.15%) PHP
1 12 (46.15%) MySQL
2 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 10 (38.46%) CSS
4 9 (34.62%) Apache
4 9 (34.62%) UNIX
4 9 (34.62%) Windows
5 8 (30.77%) ISO 9001
6 7 (26.92%) OOP
6 7 (26.92%) OO
6 7 (26.92%) HTML
6 7 (26.92%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 7 (26.92%) TickIT
6 7 (26.92%) Logistics
6 7 (26.92%) CodeIgniter
6 7 (26.92%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (26.92%) Twitter
6 7 (26.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 6 (23.08%) TCP/IP
7 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
8 5 (19.23%) ISEB
8 5 (19.23%) TDD
9 4 (15.38%) Zend
9 4 (15.38%) PHPUnit
9 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
10 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (11.54%) UML
10 3 (11.54%) MS Excel

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 10 (38.46%) CSS
2 7 (26.92%) HTML
2 7 (26.92%) CodeIgniter
2 7 (26.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 3 (11.54%) jQuery
3 3 (11.54%) HTML5
3 3 (11.54%) CSS3
4 2 (7.692%) .NET
4 2 (7.692%) ASP.NET
4 2 (7.692%) Web Services
4 2 (7.692%) LAMP
5 1 (3.846%) WebSphere
5 1 (3.846%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.846%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 9 (34.62%) Apache
2 1 (3.846%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) MS Office
1 3 (11.54%) MS Excel
1 3 (11.54%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.692%) SAN
3 1 (3.846%) MPLS
3 1 (3.846%) iSCSI
3 1 (3.846%) LAN
3 1 (3.846%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) MySQL
2 1 (3.846%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 4 (15.38%) PHPUnit
3 3 (11.54%) Visual Studio
3 3 (11.54%) Subversion
3 3 (11.54%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (3.846%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Test Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Software Test Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (7.692%) PHP Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Development Project Manager
5 2 (7.692%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.692%) Development Manager
6 1 (3.846%) Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Network Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) IT Development Manager
6 1 (3.846%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.846%) UNIX Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Agile Coach
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.846%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) UNIX
1 9 (34.62%) Windows
2 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (7.692%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.846%) SUSE
3 1 (3.846%) AIX
3 1 (3.846%) HPUX
3 1 (3.846%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) OOP
1 7 (26.92%) OO
1 7 (26.92%) Logistics
1 7 (26.92%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (19.23%) TDD
3 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (11.54%) UML
4 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
5 2 (7.692%) Software Testing
6 1 (3.846%) Pair Programming
6 1 (3.846%) Time Management
6 1 (3.846%) Kanban
6 1 (3.846%) BDD
6 1 (3.846%) Service Management
6 1 (3.846%) Validation
6 1 (3.846%) Migration
6 1 (3.846%) Scrum
6 1 (3.846%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (3.846%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
1 12 (46.15%) PHP
2 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) C#
4 2 (7.692%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) ISEB
2 2 (7.692%) Degree
3 1 (3.846%) Chartered Engineer
3 1 (3.846%) VCP4
3 1 (3.846%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) ISO 9001
2 7 (26.92%) TickIT
System Software
1 1 (3.846%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.846%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (3.846%) vSphere
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Twitter
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 4 (15.38%) Zend
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle
5 2 (7.692%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.692%) HP
6 1 (3.846%) Dell
6 1 (3.846%) NetApp
6 1 (3.846%) Novell
6 1 (3.846%) Veritas
6 1 (3.846%) VMware
6 1 (3.846%) Sun
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