The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 24 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 Peterborough 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 12 - 22
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 4 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 4.124% - 1.852%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.00% - 6.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
Average daily rate £275 - £348
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 - £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 - £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
- +7.24%
All Operating Systems
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
25 26 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 25.77% 30.23% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 14
Average daily rate £223 £315 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.36% +6.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £90 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £350 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 10
Average hourly rate £13.50 £12.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £16.00 £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
Cambridgeshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 3 (75.00%) LAMP
1 3 (75.00%) Web Development
1 3 (75.00%) Zend
1 3 (75.00%) Drupal
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Equities

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 3 (75.00%) LAMP
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Drupal
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) PHP Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Drupal Developer
2 3 (75.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Web Development
1 3 (75.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Zend
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle