Linux Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 37 35 44
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +9
Contract jobs citing Linux 37 52 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 4.048% 3.997% 2.604%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.70% 18.31% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 8
Average daily rate £280 £325 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% +116.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £259 £132
10% offered a daily rate of more than £379 £385 £379
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.50 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+77.77% +15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.73% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 163 284 153
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 17.83% 21.83% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 104 60
Average daily rate £275 £300 £268
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +12.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £175 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £429
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 38 32
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £25.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Linux
North West

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 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
Stockport -2 4 £350 -3.44%
Oldham - 4 £170 -
Cheadle - 1 £370 -
Linux
North West

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing 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 Linux.

1 43 (44.79%) SQL
2 36 (37.50%) UNIX
2 36 (37.50%) Windows
3 27 (28.13%) PHP
4 25 (26.04%) JavaScript
4 25 (26.04%) XML
5 24 (25.00%) Java
5 24 (25.00%) Oracle
6 23 (23.96%) HTML
6 23 (23.96%) MySQL
6 23 (23.96%) Red Hat
7 19 (19.79%) Apache
8 18 (18.75%) IBM
9 17 (17.71%) OO
10 16 (16.67%) Perl
10 16 (16.67%) J2EE
11 15 (15.63%) XSLT
11 15 (15.63%) Active Directory
11 15 (15.63%) Finance
12 14 (14.58%) WebSphere
13 13 (13.54%) Ajax
13 13 (13.54%) HPUX
13 13 (13.54%) Solaris
13 13 (13.54%) Windows Server 2008
14 12 (12.50%) JMS
14 12 (12.50%) ITIL
14 12 (12.50%) CSS
14 12 (12.50%) JDBC
14 12 (12.50%) Shell Script
14 12 (12.50%) Firewall

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing 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 Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (26.04%) XML
2 23 (23.96%) HTML
3 16 (16.67%) J2EE
4 15 (15.63%) XSLT
5 14 (14.58%) WebSphere
6 13 (13.54%) Ajax
7 12 (12.50%) JMS
7 12 (12.50%) CSS
7 12 (12.50%) JDBC
8 11 (11.46%) JSP
8 11 (11.46%) Servlets
8 11 (11.46%) Struts
8 11 (11.46%) Web Services
8 11 (11.46%) XHTML
9 10 (10.42%) LAMP
10 8 (8.333%) Spring
10 8 (8.333%) XMLBeans
10 8 (8.333%) EJB
10 8 (8.333%) JSTL
10 8 (8.333%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 19 (19.79%) Apache
2 9 (9.375%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (8.333%) MQSeries
4 7 (7.292%) Drupal
5 6 (6.250%) WordPress
6 4 (4.167%) TIBCO EMS
6 4 (4.167%) ESB
6 4 (4.167%) WebSphere MQ
7 3 (3.125%) SharePoint
7 3 (3.125%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (3.125%) JCAPS
8 2 (2.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (1.042%) MS Exchange
9 1 (1.042%) CMS
9 1 (1.042%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (1.042%) WebLogic
9 1 (1.042%) IIS
9 1 (1.042%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (6.250%) Photoshop
2 4 (4.167%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (8.333%) Tridion
2 4 (4.167%) BusinessWorks
2 4 (4.167%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
3 2 (2.083%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.083%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (2.083%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.042%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.50%) Firewall
2 10 (10.42%) Internet
2 10 (10.42%) LDAP
3 9 (9.375%) VPN
3 9 (9.375%) SSL
4 4 (4.167%) HTTP
5 3 (3.125%) DNS
5 3 (3.125%) SAN
6 2 (2.083%) LAN
6 2 (2.083%) DHCP
7 1 (1.042%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.042%) WAN
7 1 (1.042%) SNMP
7 1 (1.042%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.042%) DVB
7 1 (1.042%) Wireless
7 1 (1.042%) Symposium
7 1 (1.042%) VLAN
7 1 (1.042%) Cisco PIX
7 1 (1.042%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.96%) MySQL
2 9 (9.375%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.333%) DB2
3 8 (8.333%) RDBMS
3 8 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (3.125%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (2.083%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (2.083%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (2.083%) GIS
6 2 (2.083%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (1.042%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.042%) TOAD
7 1 (1.042%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.042%) Oracle OWB
7 1 (1.042%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (1.042%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (1.042%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (11.46%) Subversion
2 8 (8.333%) Ant
2 8 (8.333%) JUnit
2 8 (8.333%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 8 (8.333%) Eclipse
2 8 (8.333%) Log4j
3 6 (6.250%) Dreamweaver
4 4 (4.167%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.125%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 3 (3.125%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.125%) Gradle
5 3 (3.125%) NetBeans
6 2 (2.083%) JIRA
7 1 (1.042%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.042%) Selenium
7 1 (1.042%) Firebug
7 1 (1.042%) Hudson
7 1 (1.042%) PhoneGap
7 1 (1.042%) Robotium
7 1 (1.042%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (15.63%) Finance
2 9 (9.375%) Games
3 8 (8.333%) Retail
4 6 (6.250%) Local Government
5 4 (4.167%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.167%) Banking
6 3 (3.125%) Marketing
7 2 (2.083%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (44.79%) Developer
2 15 (15.63%) Java Developer
3 13 (13.54%) PHP Developer
4 12 (12.50%) Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) Support Engineer
6 8 (8.333%) J2EE Developer
6 8 (8.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 6 (6.250%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (5.208%) Drupal Developer
8 5 (5.208%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (5.208%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.167%) Systems Support
9 4 (4.167%) Architect
9 4 (4.167%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.167%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.167%) Systems Support Engineer
9 4 (4.167%) TIBCO Support
9 4 (4.167%) LAMP Developer
10 3 (3.125%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.125%) Junior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.375%) Web 2.0
2 5 (5.208%) iPhone
2 5 (5.208%) Computer Science
3 4 (4.167%) Wiki
3 4 (4.167%) Equities
3 4 (4.167%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.167%) Blackberry
4 3 (3.125%) NHS
4 3 (3.125%) Replication
5 2 (2.083%) CLARiiON
5 2 (2.083%) Derivative
5 2 (2.083%) Oracle Exalogic
6 1 (1.042%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.042%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.042%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.042%) Semantic Web
6 1 (1.042%) LPAR
6 1 (1.042%) iPad
6 1 (1.042%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.042%) STB
Operating Systems
1 36 (37.50%) UNIX
1 36 (37.50%) Windows
2 13 (13.54%) HPUX
2 13 (13.54%) Solaris
2 13 (13.54%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (9.375%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (9.375%) Windows 7
4 8 (8.333%) Mac OS X
5 5 (5.208%) AIX
5 5 (5.208%) Apple iOS
5 5 (5.208%) Android
6 4 (4.167%) bada
6 4 (4.167%) Maemo
6 4 (4.167%) Windows Mobile
7 2 (2.083%) SUSE
7 2 (2.083%) Debian
7 2 (2.083%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.083%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.083%) CentOS
8 1 (1.042%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (17.71%) OO
2 12 (12.50%) ITIL
3 11 (11.46%) Content Management
4 10 (10.42%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (10.42%) E-Commerce
5 9 (9.375%) RAD
5 9 (9.375%) SOA
6 8 (8.333%) UML
7 7 (7.292%) TDD
8 6 (6.250%) Pair Programming
8 6 (6.250%) MVC
9 5 (5.208%) Migration
9 5 (5.208%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (5.208%) Capacity Planning
10 4 (4.167%) Problem Management
10 4 (4.167%) EAI
10 4 (4.167%) Configuration Management
10 4 (4.167%) Service Delivery
11 3 (3.125%) Project Management
11 3 (3.125%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 43 (44.79%) SQL
2 27 (28.13%) PHP
3 25 (26.04%) JavaScript
4 24 (25.00%) Java
5 16 (16.67%) Perl
6 12 (12.50%) Shell Script
7 10 (10.42%) Bash shell
8 8 (8.333%) Ruby
8 8 (8.333%) XPath
9 5 (5.208%) C
10 4 (4.167%) C#
10 4 (4.167%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.083%) ActionScript
11 2 (2.083%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (1.042%) Assembly Language
12 1 (1.042%) Tcl
12 1 (1.042%) C++
12 1 (1.042%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.042%) Scala
12 1 (1.042%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (5.208%) Degree
2 4 (4.167%) ISTQB
2 4 (4.167%) ISEB
3 3 (3.125%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.083%) CCNA
4 2 (2.083%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.042%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.042%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.042%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.042%) ACSA
5 1 (1.042%) MCTS
5 1 (1.042%) MCITP
5 1 (1.042%) MCP
5 1 (1.042%) MCSE
5 1 (1.042%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.125%) HL7
2 1 (1.042%) ISO/IEC 17799
2 1 (1.042%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.042%) QA
System Software
1 15 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.292%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (3.125%) Postfix
3 3 (3.125%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (2.083%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (1.042%) vSphere
5 1 (1.042%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.042%) XenApp
5 1 (1.042%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.042%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.042%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.042%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (5.208%) Data Guard
2 4 (4.167%) Puppet
2 4 (4.167%) Netcool
2 4 (4.167%) Nagios
2 4 (4.167%) TIBCO Hawk
3 2 (2.083%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 24 (25.00%) Oracle
2 23 (23.96%) Red Hat
3 18 (18.75%) IBM
4 9 (9.375%) ATG
4 9 (9.375%) Blue Martini
5 8 (8.333%) Kaspersky
5 8 (8.333%) Elastic Path
5 8 (8.333%) SurfControl
5 8 (8.333%) Clearswift
5 8 (8.333%) CheckPoint
5 8 (8.333%) Microsoft
5 8 (8.333%) Interwoven
6 5 (5.208%) VMware
7 4 (4.167%) TIBCO
7 4 (4.167%) JBoss
7 4 (4.167%) Symbian
7 4 (4.167%) Cisco
8 3 (3.125%) EMC
9 2 (2.083%) HP
9 2 (2.083%) NetApp
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