The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 29 38 27
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -11
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 1.946% 0.831% 2.616%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.51% 5.172% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 9
Average daily rate £175 £525 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-66.66% +31.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £143 £485 £395
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £565 £426
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
- +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Operating Systems
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
37 58 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 14.40% 16.07% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 36 26
Average daily rate £250 £320 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.87% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £125 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 10
Average hourly rate £11.50 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.81% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.10 £9.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.10 £14.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton +4 3 £135 -73.00% 3
Kettering - - - -
Linux
East Midlands

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 5 (62.50%) UNIX
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (37.50%) Apache
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 3 (37.50%) SAN
3 3 (37.50%) Open Source
3 3 (37.50%) IaaS
4 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (25.00%) LAN
4 2 (25.00%) SaaS
4 2 (25.00%) Marketing
4 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
4 2 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Papyrus
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) MySQL
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (25.00%) MS Office
4 2 (25.00%) Struts
4 2 (25.00%) C++
4 2 (25.00%) OO
4 2 (25.00%) SharePoint

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 (25.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (25.00%) Struts
2 1 (12.50%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (12.50%) JSF
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (37.50%) Apache
3 2 (25.00%) Papyrus
3 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
1 3 (37.50%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Designer
1 3 (37.50%) Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Open Source
1 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) UNIX
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Web Development
1 2 (25.00%) Project Management
1 2 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (12.50%) ERP
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Xen
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) hybris