Linux Contracts in Oxfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux 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 Linux 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
Linux
Rank 40 16 13
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -3
Contract jobs citing Linux 9 50 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.083% 7.813% 10.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.184% 45.05% 31.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 21 13
Average daily rate £325 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £257 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £337 £373 £396
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.75 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.63% -35.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.73% +4.28%
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%
Linux
South East

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 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
Abingdon 0 1 - -
Oxford -20 1 - -
Linux
South East

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 13 (43.33%) Windows
2 11 (36.67%) UNIX
3 10 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 10 (33.33%) Perl
3 10 (33.33%) Oracle
3 10 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 10 (33.33%) VMware
4 9 (30.00%) Bash shell
4 9 (30.00%) SQL
5 7 (23.33%) Solaris
5 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (23.33%) Debian
5 7 (23.33%) Degree
6 6 (20.00%) Migration
6 6 (20.00%) Spring
6 6 (20.00%) Hibernate
6 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 6 (20.00%) HTML
6 6 (20.00%) Java
6 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (20.00%) CSS
7 5 (16.67%) JSP
7 5 (16.67%) Struts
7 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 5 (16.67%) J2EE
7 5 (16.67%) Apache
7 5 (16.67%) Tomcat
7 5 (16.67%) MVC
7 5 (16.67%) Test Scripting
7 5 (16.67%) Oracle 11g

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (20.00%) HTML
1 6 (20.00%) CSS
1 6 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 6 (20.00%) Spring
2 5 (16.67%) Ajax
2 5 (16.67%) jQuery
2 5 (16.67%) JSP
2 5 (16.67%) J2EE
2 5 (16.67%) Struts
3 3 (10.00%) CGI
3 3 (10.00%) Servlets
3 3 (10.00%) Spring MVC
4 2 (6.667%) JPA
4 2 (6.667%) Struts2
4 2 (6.667%) Java EE
4 2 (6.667%) EJB
4 2 (6.667%) JAXB
4 2 (6.667%) Web Services
4 2 (6.667%) XML
5 1 (3.333%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) Apache
1 5 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (6.667%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.333%) Jetty
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle HTTP Server
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.00%) SMTP
3 2 (6.667%) DNS
3 2 (6.667%) SAN
4 1 (3.333%) BGP
4 1 (3.333%) Firewall
4 1 (3.333%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (3.333%) HTTP
4 1 (3.333%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (13.33%) MarkLogic
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.00%) Ingres
4 2 (6.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Subversion
2 4 (13.33%) Maven
2 4 (13.33%) Eclipse
3 3 (10.00%) JUnit
3 3 (10.00%) Git (software)
4 1 (3.333%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.333%) JIRA
General
1 2 (6.667%) Finance
2 1 (3.333%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Administrator
4 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Programmer
4 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (10.00%) Java Programmer
5 2 (6.667%) UNIX Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Database Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Consultant
5 2 (6.667%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Clustering
2 2 (6.667%) Wiki
3 1 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Windows
2 11 (36.67%) UNIX
3 7 (23.33%) Solaris
3 7 (23.33%) Debian
4 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.667%) Mac OS X
5 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (6.667%) AIX
6 1 (3.333%) CentOS
6 1 (3.333%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) Migration
1 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 5 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 5 (16.67%) MVC
3 4 (13.33%) ITIL
3 4 (13.33%) Web Development
3 4 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (10.00%) TDD
4 3 (10.00%) Six Sigma
4 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (10.00%) Scrum
5 2 (6.667%) OO
5 2 (6.667%) E-business
5 2 (6.667%) Lean Six Sigma
5 2 (6.667%) Problem Management
5 2 (6.667%) Compatibility Testing
5 2 (6.667%) Data Protection
5 2 (6.667%) Change Control
6 1 (3.333%) Web Application Development
6 1 (3.333%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Perl
2 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) Bash shell
3 6 (20.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.667%) C
4 2 (6.667%) Korn
4 2 (6.667%) C-shell
5 1 (3.333%) COBOL
5 1 (3.333%) Python
5 1 (3.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) Sun Certification
2 1 (3.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) SLA
1 2 (6.667%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.33%) NFS
3 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.667%) vSphere
5 1 (3.333%) vCloud
5 1 (3.333%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Oracle
1 10 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 10 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (13.33%) Veritas
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 3 (10.00%) HP
3 3 (10.00%) JBoss
3 3 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (6.667%) Dell
4 2 (6.667%) Citrix
5 1 (3.333%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (3.333%) Cadence
Systems Administrator
Didcot, Oxfordshire
In addition to the support of services, there are opportunities to work with other "big data" projects and to participate in research in scientific data management... You should...
The Scientific Computing The Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Rate: From £27,792 to £29,566 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Embedded Software Development Oxford £42/hour
Oxfordshire, South East
The successful candidate should have the following skills: - Embedded C - Strong High Level development experience - Experience of using TCP/IP and other communication protocols - RECOGNISED SAFETLY CRITICAL STANDARDS...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £38 - £42 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
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