Middlesex Linux Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer role in IT contracts within the Middlesex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Linux Engineer
Location Aberdeen Bath Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham City of London Docklands, London Dorset East of England England Gloucestershire Hampshire Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury North West Reading Scotland Somerset South East South West Swindon Thames Valley UK West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£220	£351
% change on same period last year	-37.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.44	£36.00
% change on same period last year	+3.99 %
Job Titles Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	524	661
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.698 %	0.669 %
Daily rates quoted	132	147
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£282
Average daily rate	£338	£301
% change on same period last year	+12.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	59
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.36	£24.34
Average hourly rate	£25.55	£25.16
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.75	£25.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Linux Engineer South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Linux Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Linux Engineer across the Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Linux Engineer
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region that cited Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) Linux 2 2 (66.67 %) LDAP 2 2 (66.67 %) Log4j 2 2 (66.67 %) Hibernate 2 2 (66.67 %) Spring 2 2 (66.67 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (66.67 %) JSON 2 2 (66.67 %) Velocity 2 2 (66.67 %) Spring MVC 2 2 (66.67 %) Acegi Security 2 2 (66.67 %) DWR 2 2 (66.67 %) JUnit 2 2 (66.67 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region that cited Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) WebServices 1 2 (66.67 %) Hibernate 1 2 (66.67 %) Spring 1 2 (66.67 %) JSON 1 2 (66.67 %) Velocity 1 2 (66.67 %) Spring MVC 1 2 (66.67 %) Acegi Security 1 2 (66.67 %) DWR	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) LDAP
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) JUnit 1 2 (66.67 %) Log4j	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX