Linux Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 Reading 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 38 51 38
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -13
Contract jobs citing Linux 35 30 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 4.089% 2.715% 4.563%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.33% 11.76% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 19
Average daily rate £338 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -23.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £243 £282
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £431 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-4.05% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 202 255 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.60% 23.08% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 92 116
Average daily rate £335 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 10
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.13 £13.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.61% +15.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £20.00 £23.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
Berkshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the Reading region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reading Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 28 (43.08%) UNIX
1 28 (43.08%) Windows
2 25 (38.46%) Telecoms
3 22 (33.85%) SQL
3 22 (33.85%) Red Hat
4 20 (30.77%) Oracle
4 20 (30.77%) Perl
5 15 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (21.54%) Greenplum
6 14 (21.54%) Python
7 13 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 13 (20.00%) Shell Script
8 12 (18.46%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (16.92%) SAN
10 10 (15.38%) ITIL
10 10 (15.38%) XML
10 10 (15.38%) Finance
11 9 (13.85%) VMware
11 9 (13.85%) Degree
11 9 (13.85%) Java
11 9 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (13.85%) IBM
11 9 (13.85%) EMC
12 8 (12.31%) .NET
12 8 (12.31%) MySQL
13 7 (10.77%) HP
13 7 (10.77%) Ericsson
13 7 (10.77%) Avaya
13 7 (10.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 10 (15.38%) XML
2 8 (12.31%) .NET
3 4 (6.154%) ASP.NET
3 4 (6.154%) CSS
4 3 (4.615%) Flash
5 2 (3.077%) REST
5 2 (3.077%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.077%) jQuery
5 2 (3.077%) Middleware
5 2 (3.077%) ActiveX
5 2 (3.077%) XSLT
5 2 (3.077%) XHTML
5 2 (3.077%) J2EE
5 2 (3.077%) Web Services
6 1 (1.538%) XSD
6 1 (1.538%) Servlets
6 1 (1.538%) SOAP
6 1 (1.538%) HTML
6 1 (1.538%) WSDL
6 1 (1.538%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.154%) CMS
2 3 (4.615%) Apache
3 2 (3.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (3.077%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.538%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.538%) IIS
4 1 (1.538%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.538%) ESB
4 1 (1.538%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (1.538%) MS Office
1 1 (1.538%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.077%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.077%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 11 (16.92%) SAN
3 6 (9.231%) VLAN
3 6 (9.231%) Network Security
4 5 (7.692%) DNS
4 5 (7.692%) Kerberos
4 5 (7.692%) VoIP
5 4 (6.154%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (6.154%) 2G
5 4 (6.154%) LTE
5 4 (6.154%) SIGTRAN
5 4 (6.154%) 3G
5 4 (6.154%) SS7
5 4 (6.154%) IPv4
5 4 (6.154%) UMTS
5 4 (6.154%) ATM
5 4 (6.154%) GPRS
5 4 (6.154%) GSM
6 3 (4.615%) HTTP
6 3 (4.615%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (12.31%) MySQL
4 4 (6.154%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.154%) Big Data
5 2 (3.077%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (3.077%) BusinessObjects XI
5 2 (3.077%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.538%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.538%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Subversion
2 2 (3.077%) Selenium
3 1 (1.538%) JUnit
3 1 (1.538%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.538%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.538%) ClearCase
3 1 (1.538%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.538%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.538%) TestComplete
3 1 (1.538%) Maven
3 1 (1.538%) Gradle
General
1 25 (38.46%) Telecoms
2 10 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (4.615%) Marketing
3 3 (4.615%) Banking
4 2 (3.077%) Retail
5 1 (1.538%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Developer
2 8 (12.31%) Support Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Senior Developer
3 7 (10.77%) Network Engineer
4 6 (9.231%) Analyst
5 5 (7.692%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.692%) Architect
5 5 (7.692%) Network Support
5 5 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
5 5 (7.692%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.154%) Network Support Engineer
6 4 (6.154%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (6.154%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.154%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.615%) Administrator
7 3 (4.615%) Test Analyst
7 3 (4.615%) Team Leader
7 3 (4.615%) UNIX Engineer
7 3 (4.615%) Storage Specialist
7 3 (4.615%) Perl Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.692%) CLARiiON
2 4 (6.154%) Open Source
2 4 (6.154%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.615%) HACMP
3 3 (4.615%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.615%) Wiki
3 3 (4.615%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (4.615%) LPAR
3 3 (4.615%) DLPAR
3 3 (4.615%) Symmetrix
3 3 (4.615%) EMC Centera
3 3 (4.615%) Clustering
3 3 (4.615%) Oracle Exalogic
4 1 (1.538%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.538%) FMCG
4 1 (1.538%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.538%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.538%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (43.08%) UNIX
1 28 (43.08%) Windows
2 15 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (9.231%) HPUX
3 6 (9.231%) Solaris
4 5 (7.692%) AIX
4 5 (7.692%) SUSE
5 3 (4.615%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.077%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (3.077%) VMS
7 1 (1.538%) FreeBSD
7 1 (1.538%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.538%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.538%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.538%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (15.38%) ITIL
3 7 (10.77%) Test Scripting
4 5 (7.692%) OO
4 5 (7.692%) Network Design
5 4 (6.154%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (6.154%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (6.154%) Information Security
5 4 (6.154%) Performance Management
5 4 (6.154%) Incident Management
5 4 (6.154%) eTOM
5 4 (6.154%) Integration Testing
5 4 (6.154%) Service Delivery
6 3 (4.615%) ETL
6 3 (4.615%) Fault Management
6 3 (4.615%) WFM
6 3 (4.615%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (4.615%) Business Continuity
6 3 (4.615%) Migration
6 3 (4.615%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.85%) SQL
2 20 (30.77%) Perl
3 14 (21.54%) Python
4 13 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 9 (13.85%) Java
6 6 (9.231%) C
7 5 (7.692%) Bash shell
8 4 (6.154%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.615%) C++
10 1 (1.538%) C#
10 1 (1.538%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) Degree
2 3 (4.615%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.077%) ACSA
3 2 (3.077%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.077%) CCNA
3 2 (3.077%) MCSE
4 1 (1.538%) HNC
4 1 (1.538%) CCNP
4 1 (1.538%) RHCE
4 1 (1.538%) CCA
4 1 (1.538%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.538%) Avaya Certification
4 1 (1.538%) HPUX Certification
4 1 (1.538%) SCSA
4 1 (1.538%) JNCIS
4 1 (1.538%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.538%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.154%) SLA
2 3 (4.615%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.077%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.692%) vSphere
1 5 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (4.615%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (4.615%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.615%) SRDF
3 2 (3.077%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (3.077%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 2 (3.077%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.538%) NFS
4 1 (1.538%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (1.538%) Xen
4 1 (1.538%) Postfix
4 1 (1.538%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.538%) Veritas File System
4 1 (1.538%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (1.538%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 7 (10.77%) Tivoli
2 3 (4.615%) NetBackup
3 2 (3.077%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.538%) OpenView
Vendors
1 22 (33.85%) Red Hat
2 20 (30.77%) Oracle
3 14 (21.54%) Greenplum
4 9 (13.85%) VMware
4 9 (13.85%) IBM
4 9 (13.85%) EMC
5 7 (10.77%) HP
5 7 (10.77%) Ericsson
5 7 (10.77%) Avaya
5 7 (10.77%) Huawei
5 7 (10.77%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 6 (9.231%) Cisco
6 6 (9.231%) Business Objects
7 4 (6.154%) NEC
7 4 (6.154%) Citrix
8 3 (4.615%) Microsoft
8 3 (4.615%) Veritas
8 3 (4.615%) Qualys
8 3 (4.615%) Verint
9 2 (3.077%) Brocade
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