The first table below looks at the demand for Cobbler 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 Cobbler over the 3 months to 23 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 Systems Management 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cobbler
Rank 364 385 400
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +15
Contract jobs citing Cobbler 13 25 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.060% 0.093% 0.111%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.019% 1.655% 2.309%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 29
Average daily rate £550 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.77% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £375 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £355 £450
% change year-on-year
+3.87% -21.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
1276 1511 1516
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 5.897% 5.611% 4.795%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 850 864
Average daily rate £419 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £501 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 38 67
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.65 £15.40 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.25 £33.80 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Cobbler
England

Cobbler
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Cobbler Jobs Demand Trend

Cobbler
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Cobbler Daily Rate Trend

Cobbler
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cobbler across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Cobbler Daily Rate Histogram

Cobbler
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cobbler within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Cobbler
England

Cobbler
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Cobbler 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 Cobbler.

1 22 (100.00%) Puppet
2 18 (81.82%) Linux
3 16 (72.73%) Red Hat
4 13 (59.09%) Perl
4 13 (59.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (54.55%) Python
6 11 (50.00%) Bash shell
7 10 (45.45%) Apache
7 10 (45.45%) SAN
8 9 (40.91%) Veritas
9 8 (36.36%) Shell Script
9 8 (36.36%) Samba
9 8 (36.36%) ITIL
9 8 (36.36%) TCP/IP
9 8 (36.36%) EMC
9 8 (36.36%) NAS
9 8 (36.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 8 (36.36%) Gigabit Ethernet
10 7 (31.82%) UNIX
10 7 (31.82%) Tomcat
10 7 (31.82%) Finance
11 6 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
12 5 (22.73%) SRDF
12 5 (22.73%) WebSphere
12 5 (22.73%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (22.73%) EMC NetWorker
12 5 (22.73%) Validation
12 5 (22.73%) LAMP
12 5 (22.73%) Clustering
12 5 (22.73%) RHCE

Cobbler
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Cobbler 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 Cobbler. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (22.73%) WebSphere
1 5 (22.73%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 10 (45.45%) Apache
2 7 (31.82%) Tomcat
3 3 (13.64%) LiveSite
4 2 (9.091%) IIS
5 1 (4.545%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (4.545%) SharePoint
5 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) MS Office
2 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) SAN
2 8 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 8 (36.36%) NAS
2 8 (36.36%) Gigabit Ethernet
3 5 (22.73%) DHCP
3 5 (22.73%) Ethernet
4 4 (18.18%) SNMP
4 4 (18.18%) Internet
5 3 (13.64%) DNS
6 1 (4.545%) Firewall
6 1 (4.545%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.091%) Subversion
3 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
3 1 (4.545%) Hudson
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Administrator
3 4 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Clustering
2 4 (18.18%) Digital Media
2 4 (18.18%) Open Source
3 2 (9.091%) Management Information System
3 2 (9.091%) Streaming Media
3 2 (9.091%) IPTV
3 2 (9.091%) Video on Demand
4 1 (4.545%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.545%) Replication
4 1 (4.545%) iDTV
Operating Systems
1 18 (81.82%) Linux
2 13 (59.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (31.82%) UNIX
4 5 (22.73%) AIX
4 5 (22.73%) Solaris
4 5 (22.73%) VMS
5 4 (18.18%) Windows
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (9.091%) SUSE
7 2 (9.091%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) ITIL
2 6 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (22.73%) Validation
4 4 (18.18%) Scrum
5 1 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.545%) Kanban
5 1 (4.545%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.545%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.545%) Workflow
5 1 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.545%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Perl
2 12 (54.55%) Python
3 11 (50.00%) Bash shell
4 8 (36.36%) Shell Script
5 4 (18.18%) Ruby
6 3 (13.64%) PHP
7 2 (9.091%) Java
7 2 (9.091%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) RHCE
2 2 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.545%) MCSE
3 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Samba
1 8 (36.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (22.73%) SRDF
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.545%) Xen
4 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.545%) NFS
Systems Management
1 22 (100.00%) Puppet
2 5 (22.73%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (18.18%) Zenoss
4 3 (13.64%) ZABBIX
4 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 2 (9.091%) Nagios
6 1 (4.545%) SCCM
6 1 (4.545%) SCOM
6 1 (4.545%) Splunk
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Red Hat
2 9 (40.91%) Veritas
3 8 (36.36%) EMC
4 5 (22.73%) Oracle
5 4 (18.18%) Cisco
5 4 (18.18%) Intel
5 4 (18.18%) HP
6 3 (13.64%) RightScale
6 3 (13.64%) VMware
6 3 (13.64%) Juniper
6 3 (13.64%) JBoss
7 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
8 1 (4.545%) Infoblox
8 1 (4.545%) NetApp
8 1 (4.545%) Dell