Linux Support Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Support role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux Support in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Support
Rank 376 403 431
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Support 1 12 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.045% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.048% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 8
Average daily rate - £473 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +38.97%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.50% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 - £31.88
Search 5 Linux Support jobs in London
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Support
England

Linux Support
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Linux Support across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Linux Support Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Support
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Linux Support Daily Rate Trend

Linux Support
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Linux Support Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Support
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Linux Support in their job title 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 with Linux Support in their job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (86.96%) Windows
3 15 (65.22%) Citrix
4 13 (56.52%) Banking
5 11 (47.83%) VMware
5 11 (47.83%) Red Hat
6 10 (43.48%) TCP/IP
7 9 (39.13%) DNS
7 9 (39.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (34.78%) Python
8 8 (34.78%) PHP
8 8 (34.78%) MySQL
8 8 (34.78%) NetApp
9 7 (30.43%) Apache
9 7 (30.43%) Cisco
9 7 (30.43%) HP
9 7 (30.43%) NFS
9 7 (30.43%) Bash shell
10 4 (17.39%) Investment Banking
10 4 (17.39%) IBM
10 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
10 4 (17.39%) MS Office
10 4 (17.39%) Windows 7
10 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
11 3 (13.04%) EMC
11 3 (13.04%) Windows XP
11 3 (13.04%) MS Exchange
11 3 (13.04%) SAN
11 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003

Linux Support
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Linux Support in their job title 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 with Linux Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.348%) XML
1 1 (4.348%) XML Messaging
Application Platforms
1 7 (30.43%) Apache
2 3 (13.04%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) MS Office
2 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) TCP/IP
2 9 (39.13%) DNS
3 3 (13.04%) SAN
4 2 (8.696%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) MySQL
General
1 13 (56.52%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Investment Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Front Office
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 1 (4.348%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Hedge funds
1 1 (4.348%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Linux
2 20 (86.96%) Windows
3 9 (39.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (17.39%) Windows 7
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (13.04%) Windows XP
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (8.696%) UNIX
7 1 (4.348%) CentOS
7 1 (4.348%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (8.696%) Service Management
1 2 (8.696%) Service Delivery
1 2 (8.696%) ITIL
1 2 (8.696%) IT Governance
1 2 (8.696%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (4.348%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
1 8 (34.78%) PHP
2 7 (30.43%) Bash shell
3 2 (8.696%) VBScript
3 2 (8.696%) VB
4 1 (4.348%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.348%) Perl
4 1 (4.348%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.348%) DV Cleared
1 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.348%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.696%) COBIT
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) NFS
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.696%) VMware ESX
4 1 (4.348%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Tivoli
1 3 (13.04%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 3 (13.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (4.348%) ZABBIX
2 1 (4.348%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Citrix
2 11 (47.83%) VMware
2 11 (47.83%) Red Hat
3 8 (34.78%) NetApp
4 7 (30.43%) Cisco
4 7 (30.43%) HP
5 4 (17.39%) IBM
5 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
6 3 (13.04%) EMC
7 1 (4.348%) Oracle
7 1 (4.348%) Fidessa
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