The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford 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 Salford 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 - 9 3
Contract jobs citing Linux 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford - 7.317% 14.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 21.43% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-4.05% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
5 14 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 20.00% 34.15% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 0
Average daily rate £325 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
Manchester

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Symbian
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) ISEB
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone SDK
2 2 (66.67%) bada
2 2 (66.67%) Maemo
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Semantic Web
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Robotium
3 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) Firebug
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 2 (66.67%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Series 60
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Robotium
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Firebug
2 1 (33.33%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
1 2 (66.67%) iPhone
2 1 (33.33%) Semantic Web
2 1 (33.33%) Interactive TV
2 1 (33.33%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (66.67%) bada
2 2 (66.67%) Maemo
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Symbian
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) EMC