The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salisbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 17 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 Salisbury 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salisbury 20.00% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.73% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Salisbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salisbury 20.00% 5.556% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Linux
Wiltshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salisbury 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 Salisbury region.

Salisbury 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 Salisbury region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Salisbury Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salisbury 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 12 (80.00%) C++
2 11 (73.33%) C
3 7 (46.67%) EPoS
3 7 (46.67%) EMV
3 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 7 (46.67%) APACS
4 4 (26.67%) VeriFone
4 4 (26.67%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (26.67%) Chip and PIN
5 3 (20.00%) Ethernet
5 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (20.00%) Electronics
6 2 (13.33%) Degree
6 2 (13.33%) GlassFish
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 2 (13.33%) IPsec
6 2 (13.33%) JTAG
6 2 (13.33%) Android
6 2 (13.33%) Qt
6 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) SSL
6 2 (13.33%) SAML
6 2 (13.33%) SAN
6 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
6 2 (13.33%) Java
6 2 (13.33%) Perl
6 2 (13.33%) PHP

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salisbury 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 (13.33%) SAML
1 2 (13.33%) Qt
2 1 (6.667%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
1 2 (13.33%) GlassFish
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (13.33%) SSL
2 2 (13.33%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) IPsec
2 2 (13.33%) LDAP
2 2 (13.33%) LAN
2 2 (13.33%) WAN
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (6.667%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Software Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Programmer
3 4 (26.67%) C++ Developer
3 4 (26.67%) C++ Programmer
3 4 (26.67%) Software Programmer
4 3 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) C Developer
4 3 (20.00%) C Programmer
5 2 (13.33%) Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
6 1 (6.667%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Audio Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Audio Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) EPoS
1 7 (46.67%) EMV
1 7 (46.67%) APACS
2 4 (26.67%) Chip and PIN
2 4 (26.67%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) UNIX
1 2 (13.33%) Android
1 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.667%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
1 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 1 (6.667%) OO
2 1 (6.667%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) C++
2 11 (73.33%) C
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) Perl
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
4 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.667%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) MCSE
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) JTAG
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) VeriFone
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) JBoss
3 1 (6.667%) Progress
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Strong focus on front end work (GUI, QT, UI) - design, code, test and release Linux applications - Linux OS... Programming ARM processors - Android or IOS application development would be...
Anantha Limited
Rate: From £25 to £28 per hour
Posted: 13 May 2013