The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £275 £338
% change year-on-year
+13.63% -18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
103 113 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 22.74% 17.94% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 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 £397 £378 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 35
Average hourly rate £14.63 £16.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.36% +13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £11.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.75 £23.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Ubuntu
South East

Ubuntu
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu.

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%) Jetty
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu. 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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
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