The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CentOS over the 3 months to 19 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 London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 332 364 406
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +42
Contract jobs citing CentOS 52 46 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.228% 0.173% 0.118%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.096% 0.822% 0.567%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 31 21
Average daily rate £370 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.84% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £250 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £425 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £284 £275
% change year-on-year
+23.34% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £48.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.25 £41.25 £23.75
% change year-on-year
-19.39% +73.68%
All Operating Systems
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
4746 5597 6528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.81% 21.05% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3122 3306 3943
Average daily rate £400 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 325 324
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.35 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.95 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
CentOS
England

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CentOS across the London region.

London CentOS Daily Rate Trend

CentOS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CentOS across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London CentOS Daily Rate Histogram

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London CentOS Hourly Rate Trend

CentOS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -1 9 £334 -13.93% 12
Hammersmith - 3 - -
Paddington - - - -
Beckenham - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Harrow - - - -
Ruislip - - - -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 93 (75.00%) Linux
2 82 (66.13%) Red Hat
3 57 (45.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (40.32%) Windows
5 47 (37.90%) Apache
6 40 (32.26%) MySQL
7 38 (30.65%) VMware
8 36 (29.03%) Puppet
9 33 (26.61%) Java
9 33 (26.61%) UNIX
10 29 (23.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 29 (23.39%) PHP
11 28 (22.58%) Python
11 28 (22.58%) DNS
12 27 (21.77%) Nagios
13 24 (19.35%) Open Source
14 21 (16.94%) Web Services
15 20 (16.13%) Ubuntu
15 20 (16.13%) Bash shell
16 19 (15.32%) vSphere
16 19 (15.32%) Perl
17 18 (14.52%) Active Directory
18 17 (13.71%) Amazon AWS
19 16 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
19 16 (12.90%) Scrum
20 15 (12.10%) Cisco
20 15 (12.10%) Solaris
21 14 (11.29%) NFS
21 14 (11.29%) Tomcat
21 14 (11.29%) Windows Server 2003

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (16.94%) Web Services
2 9 (7.258%) HTML
3 8 (6.452%) LAMP
4 6 (4.839%) RESTful
4 6 (4.839%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 6 (4.839%) CSS
4 6 (4.839%) XML
4 6 (4.839%) J2EE
4 6 (4.839%) Threading Building Blocks
5 5 (4.032%) HTML5
5 5 (4.032%) jQuery
6 4 (3.226%) XML Schema
6 4 (3.226%) J2SE
6 4 (3.226%) Struts
6 4 (3.226%) SQLAlchemy
6 4 (3.226%) Twisted
7 3 (2.419%) CSS3
7 3 (2.419%) .NET
7 3 (2.419%) SOAP
7 3 (2.419%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 47 (37.90%) Apache
2 17 (13.71%) Amazon AWS
3 14 (11.29%) Tomcat
4 9 (7.258%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (6.452%) MS Exchange
5 8 (6.452%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (5.645%) SharePoint
7 6 (4.839%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.839%) IIS
7 6 (4.839%) OpenStack
7 6 (4.839%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (1.613%) Jetty
8 2 (1.613%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (1.613%) Apache Solr
8 2 (1.613%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (1.613%) CMS
8 2 (1.613%) Lync
8 2 (1.613%) ElasticSearch
8 2 (1.613%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.806%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (4.839%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 28 (22.58%) DNS
2 13 (10.48%) Firewall
3 11 (8.871%) SNMP
4 9 (7.258%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.258%) VPN
4 9 (7.258%) SAN
5 7 (5.645%) LDAP
5 7 (5.645%) IPsec
5 7 (5.645%) iSCSI
6 6 (4.839%) VLAN
6 6 (4.839%) Internet
7 5 (4.032%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (4.032%) SSL
7 5 (4.032%) VoIP
7 5 (4.032%) SMTP
8 4 (3.226%) NAS
9 3 (2.419%) LAN
9 3 (2.419%) FTP
9 3 (2.419%) HTTP
9 3 (2.419%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (32.26%) MySQL
2 14 (11.29%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.065%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.645%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.032%) Hadoop
6 4 (3.226%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.226%) Big Data
7 2 (1.613%) Sqoop
7 2 (1.613%) Redis
8 1 (0.806%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.806%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.806%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.806%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.806%) Jackrabbit
Development Applications
1 13 (10.48%) Maven
2 11 (8.871%) Git (software)
3 10 (8.065%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.452%) Subversion
5 7 (5.645%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.419%) Jasmine
6 3 (2.419%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.419%) Hudson
6 3 (2.419%) JIRA
6 3 (2.419%) Selenium
7 2 (1.613%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.806%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.806%) Trac
8 1 (0.806%) Behat
General
1 8 (6.452%) Publishing
2 7 (5.645%) Finance
3 6 (4.839%) Investment Banking
3 6 (4.839%) Banking
4 5 (4.032%) Retail
5 4 (3.226%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.226%) Games
6 2 (1.613%) Dutch Language
6 2 (1.613%) German Language
7 1 (0.806%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.806%) French Language
Job Titles
1 37 (29.84%) Administrator
2 32 (25.81%) Linux Administrator
3 29 (23.39%) Systems Administrator
4 24 (19.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 16 (12.90%) Developer
6 15 (12.10%) Linux Engineer
7 13 (10.48%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (9.677%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.452%) Architect
10 7 (5.645%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.839%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.839%) C++ Developer
12 5 (4.032%) Senior Linux Administrator
13 4 (3.226%) UNIX Systems Administrator
13 4 (3.226%) UNIX Administrator
13 4 (3.226%) Infrastructure Architect
13 4 (3.226%) Technical Architect
13 4 (3.226%) Consultant
14 3 (2.419%) Scala Developer
14 3 (2.419%) Windows Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.35%) Open Source
2 7 (5.645%) IaaS
3 5 (4.032%) Blackberry
4 4 (3.226%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.419%) Clustering
5 3 (2.419%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.419%) SaaS
5 3 (2.419%) Online Games
6 2 (1.613%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.613%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.613%) PaaS
6 2 (1.613%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.806%) Social Media
7 1 (0.806%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.806%) Replication
7 1 (0.806%) EFT
7 1 (0.806%) EFTPOS
7 1 (0.806%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.806%) PKI
7 1 (0.806%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 93 (75.00%) Linux
2 57 (45.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 50 (40.32%) Windows
4 33 (26.61%) UNIX
5 29 (23.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 20 (16.13%) Ubuntu
7 15 (12.10%) Solaris
8 14 (11.29%) Windows Server 2003
9 13 (10.48%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (6.452%) Gentoo
10 8 (6.452%) Fedora
11 6 (4.839%) Debian
12 5 (4.032%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.806%) HPUX
13 1 (0.806%) openSUSE
13 1 (0.806%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (12.90%) Scrum
2 13 (10.48%) Configuration Management
3 12 (9.677%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (9.677%) E-Commerce
4 9 (7.258%) ITIL
5 8 (6.452%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (5.645%) SOA
6 7 (5.645%) Workflow
7 6 (4.839%) Kanban
7 6 (4.839%) Load Balancing
8 5 (4.032%) BDD
8 5 (4.032%) TDD
9 4 (3.226%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (2.419%) Analytics
10 3 (2.419%) Unit Testing
11 2 (1.613%) Time Management
11 2 (1.613%) Problem Management
11 2 (1.613%) Refactoring
11 2 (1.613%) Automated Testing
11 2 (1.613%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (26.61%) Java
2 29 (23.39%) PHP
3 28 (22.58%) Python
4 20 (16.13%) Bash shell
5 19 (15.32%) Perl
6 13 (10.48%) Ruby
7 12 (9.677%) Shell Script
7 12 (9.677%) SQL
8 8 (6.452%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.839%) C++
10 4 (3.226%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.419%) C#
12 2 (1.613%) C
12 2 (1.613%) Clojure
13 1 (0.806%) XQuery
13 1 (0.806%) XPath
13 1 (0.806%) Groovy
13 1 (0.806%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (9.677%) RHCE
2 10 (8.065%) Degree
3 6 (4.839%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.839%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (4.839%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.839%) MCSE
4 3 (2.419%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.806%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.613%) QA
2 1 (0.806%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (15.32%) vSphere
2 18 (14.52%) Active Directory
3 16 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (11.29%) NFS
5 9 (7.258%) VMware ESX
6 7 (5.645%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (4.839%) Hyper-V
7 6 (4.839%) Xen
8 5 (4.032%) Postfix
9 2 (1.613%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.806%) Varnish
10 1 (0.806%) Samba
10 1 (0.806%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 36 (29.03%) Puppet
2 27 (21.77%) Nagios
3 10 (8.065%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 9 (7.258%) Splunk
5 7 (5.645%) Cobbler
5 7 (5.645%) ZABBIX
5 7 (5.645%) Cacti
6 6 (4.839%) SCCM
6 6 (4.839%) SCOM
7 3 (2.419%) YUM
8 2 (1.613%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.613%) CFEngine
9 1 (0.806%) OpenView
9 1 (0.806%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 82 (66.13%) Red Hat
2 38 (30.65%) VMware
3 15 (12.10%) Cisco
4 12 (9.677%) Oracle
5 9 (7.258%) F5
5 9 (7.258%) JBoss
5 9 (7.258%) HP
5 9 (7.258%) NetApp
6 6 (4.839%) Veeam
6 6 (4.839%) Infoblox
6 6 (4.839%) Veritas
6 6 (4.839%) Dell
6 6 (4.839%) Intel
7 5 (4.032%) Microsoft
7 5 (4.032%) Juniper
7 5 (4.032%) Zend
8 3 (2.419%) Sun
9 2 (1.613%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.613%) CommVault
10 1 (0.806%) Rackspace
London
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Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
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Vertical IT
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
strong distributed systems experience and practical, deep exposure to Amazon Web Services** ESSENTIAL SKILLS: - experience of python/ Twisted/ SQL*Alchemy for writing robust, scalable systems - practical, deep exposure...
Personnel IT
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
West London
MS Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (MCSE Preferred) SCOM/SCCM 2007 R2 Hyper-V... PHP/Perl knowledge GIT Python NFS, especially via NetApp Filers. Nagios (Opsview) Splunk. SharePoint...
Experis IT
Rate: £350 - £385 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
West London
MS Windows Server 2003 and 2008 (MCSE Preferred) SCOM/SCCM 2007 R2 Hyper-V... PHP/Perl knowledge GIT Python NFS, especially via NetApp Filers. Nagios (Opsview) Splunk. SharePoint...
Experis IT
Rate: £325 - £385 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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