The first table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Debian over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 47 56 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Debian 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.463% 0.313% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.041% 1.802% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £325 £363 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £325 £175
% change year-on-year
-1.53% +85.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -18.18%
All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
98 111 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 22.69% 17.34% 34.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 62
Average daily rate £305 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £225 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 34
Average hourly rate £14.81 £16.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.22% +17.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £11.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.25 £23.00 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Debian
South East

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire Debian Daily Rate Trend

Debian
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Oxford - 1 - -
Debian
South East

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Perl
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
3 3 (42.86%) Bash shell
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) CGI
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (28.57%) Dell
4 2 (28.57%) SAN
4 2 (28.57%) Ingres
4 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (28.57%) Web Development
4 2 (28.57%) Subversion
4 2 (28.57%) Wiki
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) AIX
4 2 (28.57%) vSphere
5 1 (14.29%) CentOS
5 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (14.29%) Jetty
5 1 (14.29%) vCloud
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 1 (14.29%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (14.29%) SMTP
2 1 (14.29%) SNMP
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Ingres
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Database Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) AIX
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
1 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
1 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Perl
2 3 (42.86%) Bash shell
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) vCloud
2 1 (14.29%) NFS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Dell