Poole Linux Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Linux skills within the Poole region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Dartford Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Ruislip Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	17
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	8.197 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£317
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£337
% change on same period last year	+3.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£32.59
% change on same period last year	-0.50 %
Operating Systems Poole
Matching contract IT job ads	25	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.062 %
Daily rates quoted	9	20
Average minimum daily rate	£211	£288
Average daily rate	£220	£310
% change on same period last year	-29.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£229	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.67	£15.60
Average hourly rate	£18.17	£17.74
% change on same period last year	+2.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.67	£19.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Linux Dorset

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Linux
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Linux across the Poole region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Linux across the Poole region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Linux across the Poole region.