The first table below looks at the demand for Samba 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 Samba 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 System Software 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
Samba
Rank 366 391 408
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +17
Contract jobs citing Samba 15 11 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.069% 0.041% 0.085%
As % of the System Software category 0.901% 0.529% 1.408%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 16
Average daily rate £550 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £285 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £373 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1664 2081 1846
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.670% 7.750% 6.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 1191 964
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 178 196
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £36.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
Samba
England

Samba
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Samba Jobs Demand Trend

Samba
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Samba Daily Rate Trend

Samba
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Samba across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Samba Daily Rate Histogram

Samba
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Samba Hourly Rate Trend

Samba
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 44 (100.00%) Linux
2 31 (70.45%) Apache
2 31 (70.45%) SAN
3 30 (68.18%) NAS
4 26 (59.09%) Puppet
5 24 (54.55%) Perl
6 23 (52.27%) Oracle
6 23 (52.27%) UNIX
7 22 (50.00%) DNS
8 21 (47.73%) PHP
9 20 (45.45%) Nagios
10 19 (43.18%) Red Hat
10 19 (43.18%) Tomcat
10 19 (43.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (40.91%) MySQL
12 17 (38.64%) OpenView
12 17 (38.64%) NoSQL
12 17 (38.64%) Rackspace
13 16 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (36.36%) Amazon AWS
13 16 (36.36%) Java
13 16 (36.36%) Penetration Testing
13 16 (36.36%) Firewall
13 16 (36.36%) Git (software)
14 15 (34.09%) Network Security
14 15 (34.09%) RTSP
14 15 (34.09%) SOAP
14 15 (34.09%) JBoss
14 15 (34.09%) SSL
14 15 (34.09%) HTTP

Samba
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (34.09%) SOAP
1 15 (34.09%) REST
2 14 (31.82%) J2EE
3 12 (27.27%) DHTML
3 12 (27.27%) HTML
3 12 (27.27%) .NET
3 12 (27.27%) XML
3 12 (27.27%) Flash
3 12 (27.27%) Ajax
3 12 (27.27%) Java EE
3 12 (27.27%) WSRP
3 12 (27.27%) JSR 168
3 12 (27.27%) HTML5
4 10 (22.73%) LAMP
5 5 (11.36%) WebSphere
6 2 (4.545%) Memcached
7 1 (2.273%) Regular Expression
7 1 (2.273%) ASP
7 1 (2.273%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 31 (70.45%) Apache
2 19 (43.18%) Tomcat
3 16 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (36.36%) Amazon AWS
4 4 (9.091%) Rackspace Cloud
5 1 (2.273%) LiveSite
5 1 (2.273%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (70.45%) SAN
2 30 (68.18%) NAS
3 22 (50.00%) DNS
4 16 (36.36%) Firewall
5 15 (34.09%) RTP
5 15 (34.09%) RTSP
5 15 (34.09%) Network Security
5 15 (34.09%) SSL
5 15 (34.09%) HTTP
6 9 (20.45%) TCP/IP
7 8 (18.18%) Gigabit Ethernet
8 5 (11.36%) DHCP
8 5 (11.36%) Ethernet
9 3 (6.818%) Internet
10 2 (4.545%) SSH
10 2 (4.545%) iSCSI
11 1 (2.273%) VoIP
11 1 (2.273%) SMTP
11 1 (2.273%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.91%) MySQL
2 17 (38.64%) NoSQL
3 15 (34.09%) Redis
3 15 (34.09%) CouchDB
3 15 (34.09%) MongoDB
4 13 (29.55%) SQL Server
4 13 (29.55%) Oracle 8/8i
5 12 (27.27%) RDBMS
6 3 (6.818%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.818%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 16 (36.36%) Git (software)
2 14 (31.82%) Hudson
2 14 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 14 (31.82%) Maven
2 14 (31.82%) JIRA
2 14 (31.82%) Selenium
General
1 6 (13.64%) Finance
2 4 (9.091%) Banking
2 4 (9.091%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (40.91%) Linux Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Systems Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Administrator
4 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Web Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Linux Administrator
5 6 (13.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 5 (11.36%) UNIX Administrator
6 5 (11.36%) Systems Administrator
6 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (9.091%) Senior Web Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) Junior Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.545%) Storage Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.545%) Junior
8 2 (4.545%) Network Engineer
9 1 (2.273%) DBA
9 1 (2.273%) Oracle DBA
9 1 (2.273%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 1 (2.273%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Taxonomies
1 12 (27.27%) Ontologies
2 7 (15.91%) Open Source
3 6 (13.64%) LPAR
3 6 (13.64%) HACMP
4 5 (11.36%) Clustering
5 1 (2.273%) Digital Media
5 1 (2.273%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (100.00%) Linux
2 23 (52.27%) UNIX
3 19 (43.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (25.00%) AIX
5 9 (20.45%) Solaris
6 5 (11.36%) VMS
7 3 (6.818%) Ubuntu
8 2 (4.545%) SUSE
9 1 (2.273%) Debian
9 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (2.273%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (2.273%) CentOS
9 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (2.273%) Windows XP
9 1 (2.273%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Penetration Testing
2 12 (27.27%) Load Balancing
2 12 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (27.27%) Information Architecture
2 12 (27.27%) SOA
2 12 (27.27%) DRM
3 9 (20.45%) E-Commerce
4 6 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (13.64%) ITIL
5 5 (11.36%) Validation
6 2 (4.545%) Project Management
7 1 (2.273%) Service Management
7 1 (2.273%) Information Security
7 1 (2.273%) SSADM
7 1 (2.273%) ETL
7 1 (2.273%) PRINCE
7 1 (2.273%) Business Analysis
7 1 (2.273%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) Perl
2 21 (47.73%) PHP
3 16 (36.36%) Java
4 13 (29.55%) JavaScript
5 12 (27.27%) Bash shell
6 9 (20.45%) Python
6 9 (20.45%) Shell Script
7 6 (13.64%) AWK
7 6 (13.64%) sed
8 1 (2.273%) C#
8 1 (2.273%) C-shell
8 1 (2.273%) SQL
8 1 (2.273%) VBScript
8 1 (2.273%) VB
8 1 (2.273%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) RHCE
2 6 (13.64%) RHCT
2 6 (13.64%) DV Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.091%) CCNA
3 4 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.273%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (27.27%) NFS
2 8 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 8 (18.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 7 (15.91%) VMware ESX
3 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (11.36%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (11.36%) SRDF
5 3 (6.818%) Sendmail
6 1 (2.273%) VMware Server
6 1 (2.273%) Postfix
6 1 (2.273%) Snort
Systems Management
1 26 (59.09%) Puppet
2 20 (45.45%) Nagios
3 17 (38.64%) OpenView
4 13 (29.55%) ZABBIX
5 8 (18.18%) Cobbler
6 6 (13.64%) HP Data Protector
7 5 (11.36%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (4.545%) Ganglia
8 2 (4.545%) Splunk
Vendors
1 23 (52.27%) Oracle
2 19 (43.18%) Red Hat
3 17 (38.64%) Rackspace
4 15 (34.09%) JBoss
5 9 (20.45%) Veritas
6 8 (18.18%) RightScale
6 8 (18.18%) VMware
6 8 (18.18%) EMC
7 6 (13.64%) Intel
7 6 (13.64%) Cisco
7 6 (13.64%) IBM
7 6 (13.64%) HP
8 4 (9.091%) Sun
9 2 (4.545%) Tripwire
10 1 (2.273%) Sybase
10 1 (2.273%) NetApp
10 1 (2.273%) StorageTek