North Wales Linux Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Linux skills within the North Wales region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Dartford Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kendal Kent Knaresborough Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Reigate Ruislip Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	8	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	66.67 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£245	-
Average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£255	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£340
% change on same period last year	-0.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.09	£31.73
% change on same period last year	-2.00 %
Operating Systems North Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	12	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£247	£400
Average daily rate	£250	£413
% change on same period last year	-39.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£253	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£10.80
% change on same period last year	+200.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£11.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.91	£21.94
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Linux across the North Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the North Wales region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the North Wales region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 North Wales region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Flintshire	-	3	£250	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 4 (50.00 %) Java 1 4 (50.00 %) C++ 1 4 (50.00 %) UNIX 2 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 2 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (37.50 %) SAN 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (37.50 %) MCP 2 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 2 3 (37.50 %) Migration 2 3 (37.50 %) Samba 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 2 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange

2 3 (37.50 %) UMTS 2 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 2 (25.00 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Chemicals 4 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 4 1 (12.50 %) RNC 4 1 (12.50 %) Internet 4 1 (12.50 %) WebTrends 4 1 (12.50 %) Service Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Electronics 4 1 (12.50 %) SLA 4 1 (12.50 %) Apache 4 1 (12.50 %) Tomcat 4 1 (12.50 %) OO

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 1 (12.50 %) HTML 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) CSS 1 1 (12.50 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (12.50 %) IIS 2 1 (12.50 %) Apache 2 1 (12.50 %) Tomcat
Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) WebTrends	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) UMTS 1 3 (37.50 %) SAN 2 1 (12.50 %) Internet 2 1 (12.50 %) RNC
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 2 1 (12.50 %) Chemicals 2 1 (12.50 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) Software Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Java Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Computer Science 1 1 (12.50 %) Life Science	Operating Systems 1 4 (50.00 %) UNIX 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Migration 2 2 (25.00 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Service Management 3 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 3 1 (12.50 %) OO 3 1 (12.50 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) C++ 1 4 (50.00 %) Java 2 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 2 1 (12.50 %) PHP 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) MCP 1 3 (37.50 %) MCSE 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) SLA
System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 1 3 (37.50 %) Samba	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle