The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Renfrewshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Renfrewshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 15.63% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
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 £37.50 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +7.24%
All Operating Systems
Renfrewshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
54 20 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 84.38% 55.56% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 8 2
Average daily rate £370 £420 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.90% +76.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £353 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £420 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
Scotland

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Renfrewshire 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 Renfrewshire region.

Renfrewshire 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 Renfrewshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Renfrewshire Linux Daily Rate Histogram

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 Renfrewshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Erskine - 10 £425 -
Linux
Scotland

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Solaris
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (90.00%) Windows XP
3 7 (70.00%) Tivoli
4 6 (60.00%) SAN
4 6 (60.00%) Veritas
4 6 (60.00%) DHCP
4 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (60.00%) DNS
4 6 (60.00%) AIX
4 6 (60.00%) NAS
4 6 (60.00%) Software Distribution
4 6 (60.00%) Netcool
4 6 (60.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 6 (60.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (60.00%) Clustering
5 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Korn
6 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (30.00%) Release Management
6 3 (30.00%) SaaS
6 3 (30.00%) Bourne shell
6 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
6 3 (30.00%) Lumension
6 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (30.00%) Telecoms

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) SAN
1 6 (60.00%) DHCP
1 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
1 6 (60.00%) NAS
General
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (30.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Clustering
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Solaris
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 9 (90.00%) Windows XP
3 6 (60.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Software Distribution
1 6 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) Release Management
2 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (30.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Korn
1 3 (30.00%) Bourne shell
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) Perl
1 3 (30.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Tivoli
2 6 (60.00%) Netcool
2 6 (60.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) OpenView
3 1 (10.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Veritas
3 3 (30.00%) Lumension
4 2 (20.00%) McAfee
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) IBM
Erskine, Renfrewshire
Good understanding and working knowledge of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Enterprise Architecture, Windows XP/7 Desktop and supporting products " Good understanding of Enterprise Security Architecture... " Scripting experience (Bourne/...
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £500.00 - £600.00 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013