The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the Oxford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank - 38 -
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - 0.590% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.612% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £338 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £330 £323
% change year-on-year
-6.06% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +54.54%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
226 327 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 97.00% 96.46% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 185 80
Average daily rate £340 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £457 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 42 20
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Administrator
Oxfordshire

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Linux Administrator across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oxford Linux Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Linux Administrator across the Oxford region.

Oxford Linux Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Linux Administrator
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Linux Administrator 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 Administrator in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Jetty
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Linux Administrator 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 Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware