The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills 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 over the 3 months to 18 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 25 11 16
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 8 31 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 3.704% 9.688% 5.587%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.39% 54.39% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 4
Average daily rate £450 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £275 £348
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £375 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £347 £340
% change year-on-year
+0.79% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £14.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -44.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Operating Systems
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
46 57 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 21.30% 17.81% 32.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 25
Average daily rate £275 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £250 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £413 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 18
Average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £12.50 £10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.00 £21.50 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
Linux
Oxfordshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 10 (58.82%) UNIX
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 8 (47.06%) Degree
3 6 (35.29%) WebSphere
3 6 (35.29%) WebLogic
3 6 (35.29%) SOA
3 6 (35.29%) IBM
3 6 (35.29%) Middleware
3 6 (35.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
4 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
5 4 (23.53%) Web Services
5 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
5 4 (23.53%) VMware
6 3 (17.65%) Publishing
6 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
7 2 (11.76%) NFS
7 2 (11.76%) Veritas
7 2 (11.76%) Mac OS X
7 2 (11.76%) Six Sigma
7 2 (11.76%) ITIL
7 2 (11.76%) Solaris
7 2 (11.76%) Perl
7 2 (11.76%) Bash shell
7 2 (11.76%) Release Management
7 2 (11.76%) Compatibility Testing

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 6 (35.29%) Middleware
1 6 (35.29%) WebSphere
2 4 (23.53%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) WebLogic
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.882%) DNS
2 1 (5.882%) SAN
2 1 (5.882%) BGP
2 1 (5.882%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (5.882%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MarkLogic
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Bugzilla
General
1 3 (17.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Middleware Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) UNIX Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Test Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (5.882%) Middleware Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Web Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) UNIX
1 10 (58.82%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Solaris
3 2 (11.76%) Mac OS X
4 1 (5.882%) Debian
4 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) SOA
2 4 (23.53%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.76%) ITIL
3 2 (11.76%) Six Sigma
3 2 (11.76%) Release Management
3 2 (11.76%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Test Management
4 1 (5.882%) Migration
4 1 (5.882%) IC Design
4 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.882%) Lean Six Sigma
4 1 (5.882%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Perl
1 2 (11.76%) Bash shell
2 1 (5.882%) C++
2 1 (5.882%) Korn
2 1 (5.882%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) NFS
3 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
3 1 (5.882%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 6 (35.29%) IBM
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
4 4 (23.53%) VMware
5 2 (11.76%) Veritas
6 1 (5.882%) Cadence
6 1 (5.882%) Reuters
6 1 (5.882%) Cisco
6 1 (5.882%) HP
6 1 (5.882%) Dell
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