The first table below looks at the demand for Fedora 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 Fedora 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fedora Linux
Rank 380 397 429
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +32
Contract jobs citing Fedora 1 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.019% 0.016%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.023% 0.092% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
Average daily rate £275 £175 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -65.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £200 £300
% change year-on-year
+52.50% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Operating Systems
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
4411 5461 6185
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.33% 20.34% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2891 3279 3724
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 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 310 334
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £18.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +10.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.90 £13.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Fedora
England

Fedora
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Fedora Jobs Demand Trend

Fedora
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Fedora Daily Rate Trend

Fedora
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Fedora Hourly Rate Trend

Fedora
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Fedora 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 Fedora.

1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 10 (100.00%) CentOS
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (70.00%) Intel
3 7 (70.00%) C++
3 7 (70.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 7 (70.00%) Threading Building Blocks
4 5 (50.00%) Hedge funds
4 5 (50.00%) Python
4 5 (50.00%) Banking
4 5 (50.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (40.00%) Finance
6 3 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (20.00%) MySQL
7 2 (20.00%) Degree
7 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 1 (10.00%) Online Games
8 1 (10.00%) Puppet
8 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (10.00%) Metaprogramming
8 1 (10.00%) vSphere
8 1 (10.00%) Ruby
8 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
8 1 (10.00%) Xen
8 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
8 1 (10.00%) LAMP

Fedora
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (70.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 7 (70.00%) Threading Building Blocks
2 1 (10.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
1 5 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
1 7 (70.00%) C++ Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 3 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Online Games
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) CentOS
2 8 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Debian
3 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (10.00%) Metaprogramming
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C++
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Xen
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
1 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (70.00%) Intel
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) VMware