The first table below looks at the demand for OpenStack 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 OpenStack 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 of the Application Platforms 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenStack
Rank 374 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.075% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £375 -
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4012 4358 5145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.53% 16.18% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2559 2703 3152
Average daily rate £400 £385 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.89% -9.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 128 175
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London OpenStack Jobs Demand Trend

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend

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

London OpenStack Daily Rate Trend

OpenStack
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenStack across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London OpenStack Daily Rate Histogram

OpenStack
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London - 3 £350 -
OpenStack
England

OpenStack
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing OpenStack 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 OpenStack.

1 10 (76.92%) Java
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Apache
2 8 (61.54%) Web Services
2 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 8 (61.54%) Amazon AWS
2 8 (61.54%) NoSQL
3 7 (53.85%) Ubuntu
3 7 (53.85%) CentOS
3 7 (53.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (53.85%) Open Source
3 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
3 7 (53.85%) PHP
4 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (46.15%) IaaS
5 5 (38.46%) LAMP
5 5 (38.46%) J2EE
5 5 (38.46%) J2SE
6 4 (30.77%) Python
6 4 (30.77%) VMware
6 4 (30.77%) Puppet
7 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (23.08%) BladeLogic
7 3 (23.08%) Xen
7 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
7 3 (23.08%) NAS
7 3 (23.08%) Tivoli
7 3 (23.08%) SAN
7 3 (23.08%) Windows
7 3 (23.08%) Cisco

OpenStack
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing OpenStack 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 OpenStack. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (61.54%) Web Services
2 5 (38.46%) LAMP
2 5 (38.46%) J2EE
2 5 (38.46%) J2SE
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 2 (15.38%) CGI
3 2 (15.38%) Regular Expression
4 1 (7.692%) MapReduce
4 1 (7.692%) JSON
4 1 (7.692%) HTML5
4 1 (7.692%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) Apache
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (7.692%) Apache Pig
2 1 (7.692%) CloudStack
2 1 (7.692%) Kafka
2 1 (7.692%) Rackspace Cloud
2 1 (7.692%) Drupal
2 1 (7.692%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.692%) Windows Azure
2 1 (7.692%) Magento
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) NAS
1 3 (23.08%) SAN
2 1 (7.692%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.692%) Firewall
2 1 (7.692%) BGP
2 1 (7.692%) OSPF
2 1 (7.692%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (15.38%) Big Data
3 1 (7.692%) Hypertable
3 1 (7.692%) HBase
3 1 (7.692%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.692%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git (software)
1 2 (15.38%) Subversion
2 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.692%) Maven
2 1 (7.692%) Mercurial
General
1 2 (15.38%) Marketing
1 2 (15.38%) German Language
2 1 (7.692%) Front Office
2 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (53.85%) Linux Administrator
2 7 (53.85%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 6 (46.15%) Administrator
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
5 2 (15.38%) VMware Architect
6 1 (7.692%) Data Centre Architect
6 1 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.692%) Web Administrator
6 1 (7.692%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Open Source
2 6 (46.15%) IaaS
3 2 (15.38%) EFT
3 2 (15.38%) EFTPOS
3 2 (15.38%) Smartcard
3 2 (15.38%) Replication
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (7.692%) SaaS
4 1 (7.692%) PaaS
4 1 (7.692%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
2 7 (53.85%) Ubuntu
2 7 (53.85%) CentOS
2 7 (53.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 2 (15.38%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
2 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile Commerce
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) ITSM
4 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
4 1 (7.692%) MVC
4 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.692%) ERP
4 1 (7.692%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) PHP
3 4 (30.77%) Python
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) Perl
4 3 (23.08%) C++
5 2 (15.38%) C
5 2 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) VB
5 2 (15.38%) Ruby
6 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) VCP5
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.692%) CCIE
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (23.08%) Xen
1 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.692%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (7.692%) Varnish
2 1 (7.692%) vSphere
2 1 (7.692%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Puppet
2 3 (23.08%) BladeLogic
2 3 (23.08%) Tivoli
3 2 (15.38%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 2 (15.38%) Ionix
4 1 (7.692%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) HP
4 2 (15.38%) Citrix
4 2 (15.38%) BMC
4 2 (15.38%) CA
4 2 (15.38%) NetApp
4 2 (15.38%) Symantec
4 2 (15.38%) Opsware
5 1 (7.692%) Rackspace
5 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle
5 1 (7.692%) SAP
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