The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 16 24 32
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +8
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 6.536% 1.205% 0.472%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.03% 4.444% 1.754%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
Average daily rate £344 £363 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +85.89%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
- +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Operating Systems
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
37 45 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 24.18% 27.11% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 24
Average daily rate £330 £355 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.04% -5.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £93 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £400 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 5
Average hourly rate £20.50 £13.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.69% +4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.75 £9.50 £8.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £19.90 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
York - 7 £388 - 8
Harrogate - 1 - - 1
Knaresborough - - - -
Middlesbrough - - - -
Ripon - - - -
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 9 (81.82%) Cisco
2 7 (63.64%) Apache
3 6 (54.55%) IIS
3 6 (54.55%) CheckPoint
3 6 (54.55%) Firewall
3 6 (54.55%) BIG-IP
3 6 (54.55%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (54.55%) F5
4 5 (45.45%) VMware
4 5 (45.45%) Juniper
4 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
4 5 (45.45%) HP
4 5 (45.45%) Windows
5 4 (36.36%) Tomcat
5 4 (36.36%) ITIL
5 4 (36.36%) Oracle
5 4 (36.36%) Nagios
5 4 (36.36%) Clustering
5 4 (36.36%) Debian
5 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
5 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (36.36%) CentOS
5 4 (36.36%) vSphere
5 4 (36.36%) Puppet
5 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (27.27%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (27.27%) iSCSI
6 3 (27.27%) Cacti
6 3 (27.27%) NAS
6 3 (27.27%) Project Management

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 2 (18.18%) XML
1 2 (18.18%) J2EE
2 1 (9.091%) JSF
2 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.091%) LAMP
2 1 (9.091%) EJB
2 1 (9.091%) CSS
2 1 (9.091%) JDBC
2 1 (9.091%) JSP
2 1 (9.091%) Servlets
2 1 (9.091%) Struts
2 1 (9.091%) XSLT
2 1 (9.091%) XHTML
2 1 (9.091%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) Apache
2 6 (54.55%) IIS
3 4 (36.36%) Tomcat
4 1 (9.091%) MQSeries
4 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
1 6 (54.55%) BIG-IP
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (27.27%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (27.27%) iSCSI
2 3 (27.27%) NAS
3 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) OSPF
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (9.091%) IPsec
4 1 (9.091%) FWSM
4 1 (9.091%) DMVPN
4 1 (9.091%) NetScaler
4 1 (9.091%) NetScreen
4 1 (9.091%) MPLS
4 1 (9.091%) Internet
4 1 (9.091%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
1 1 (9.091%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Maven
1 1 (9.091%) CruiseControl
1 1 (9.091%) JUnit
1 1 (9.091%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (9.091%) Retail
1 1 (9.091%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Build Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Network Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.091%) LAMP Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) Fat Client
2 1 (9.091%) Thin Client
2 1 (9.091%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Debian
2 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (36.36%) CentOS
3 3 (27.27%) UNIX
4 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
4 1 (9.091%) HPUX
4 1 (9.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.091%) Time Management
4 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
4 1 (9.091%) Load Balancing
4 1 (9.091%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.091%) System Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) Network Architecture
4 1 (9.091%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) PHP
2 1 (9.091%) C
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.091%) CCSE
2 1 (9.091%) CCIE
2 1 (9.091%) CCNP
2 1 (9.091%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.091%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) vSphere
1 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (9.091%) ProxySG
3 1 (9.091%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Nagios
1 4 (36.36%) Puppet
2 3 (27.27%) Cacti
3 1 (9.091%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (9.091%) CA Wily
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (9.091%) MOM
3 1 (9.091%) OpenView
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
2 6 (54.55%) CheckPoint
2 6 (54.55%) F5
3 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 5 (45.45%) Juniper
3 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 5 (45.45%) HP
4 4 (36.36%) Oracle
5 3 (27.27%) EMC
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) Citrix
7 1 (9.091%) Blue Coat
7 1 (9.091%) Tangosol
7 1 (9.091%) SolarWinds
7 1 (9.091%) Infoblox
7 1 (9.091%) Imperva
7 1 (9.091%) Nokia
7 1 (9.091%) Dell
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