The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Linux 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 Oracle Linux 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
Rank 363 392 440
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +48
Contract jobs citing Oracle Linux 14 23 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.065% 0.085% 0.006%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.318% 0.419% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 2
Average daily rate £375 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -15.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £270
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
4404 5489 6317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.34% 20.38% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2870 3259 3802
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 £215 £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 233 320 343
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Oracle Linux
England

Oracle Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Oracle Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Oracle Linux Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Oracle Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle Linux
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Linux 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 +10 8 £375 -11.76%
Oracle Linux
England

Oracle Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 22 (100.00%) Oracle
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 14 (63.64%) Oracle 8/8i
3 10 (45.45%) Oracle 11g
4 9 (40.91%) HP
4 9 (40.91%) Middleware
4 9 (40.91%) Finance
5 8 (36.36%) SOA
5 8 (36.36%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (31.82%) IBM
7 6 (27.27%) Red Hat
7 6 (27.27%) OO
7 6 (27.27%) Windows
7 6 (27.27%) DB2
7 6 (27.27%) Java
7 6 (27.27%) J2EE
7 6 (27.27%) Waterfall
7 6 (27.27%) Multithreading
7 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
8 5 (22.73%) UNIX
8 5 (22.73%) Change Management
9 4 (18.18%) BMC
9 4 (18.18%) Migration
9 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
9 4 (18.18%) Legal
9 4 (18.18%) EMC

Oracle Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (40.91%) Middleware
2 8 (36.36%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (27.27%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) IIS
1 2 (9.091%) Apache
1 2 (9.091%) Tomcat
1 2 (9.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.545%) ESB
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle 10gAS
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (4.545%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) Firewall
2 1 (4.545%) NAS
2 1 (4.545%) LDAP
2 1 (4.545%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (63.64%) Oracle 8/8i
2 10 (45.45%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (27.27%) DB2
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (9.091%) Siebel EIM
5 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.545%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.545%) MySQL
6 1 (4.545%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (4.545%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) JIRA
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Legal
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 1 (4.545%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.545%) Publishing
4 1 (4.545%) Retail
4 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Administrator
2 4 (18.18%) Server Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) DBA
4 2 (9.091%) Architect
4 2 (9.091%) Siebel Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (9.091%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Java Architect
5 1 (4.545%) Java/J2EE Architect
5 1 (4.545%) Middleware Administrator
5 1 (4.545%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (4.545%) Siebel Consultant
5 1 (4.545%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.545%) UNIX Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Consultant
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.545%) Reference Data
1 1 (4.545%) Digital Media
1 1 (4.545%) Equities
1 1 (4.545%) Streaming Media
1 1 (4.545%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (22.73%) UNIX
4 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (9.091%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.545%) OpenVMS
6 1 (4.545%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) SOA
2 7 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (27.27%) OO
3 6 (27.27%) Waterfall
3 6 (27.27%) Multithreading
4 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
4 5 (22.73%) Change Management
5 4 (18.18%) Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
5 4 (18.18%) Performance Management
5 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
7 2 (9.091%) EAI
7 2 (9.091%) Release Management
7 2 (9.091%) Load Balancing
8 1 (4.545%) Electronic Trading
8 1 (4.545%) Data Migration
8 1 (4.545%) Resource Management
8 1 (4.545%) ETL
8 1 (4.545%) BPEL
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) Perl
3 2 (9.091%) SQL
3 2 (9.091%) Python
3 2 (9.091%) Bash shell
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) XenApp
1 4 (18.18%) XenDesktop
1 4 (18.18%) vSphere
2 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Data Guard
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (40.91%) HP
3 7 (31.82%) IBM
4 6 (27.27%) Red Hat
5 4 (18.18%) BMC
5 4 (18.18%) EMC
5 4 (18.18%) Citrix
6 2 (9.091%) VMware
6 2 (9.091%) JBoss
6 2 (9.091%) Siebel
7 1 (4.545%) Sun
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