The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 23 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 North West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank - - 125
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - - 0.064%
As % of the Operating Systems category - - 0.290%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £275 £338
% change year-on-year
+13.63% -18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All Operating Systems
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
544 692 689
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.21% 22.17% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 273 364
Average daily rate £290 £318 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.66% +5.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £169 £175 £187
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 70 74
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +34.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £30.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Ubuntu Jobs Demand Trend

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Ubuntu Daily Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Debian
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Riverbed
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Debian
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Riverbed