Linux Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 21 33 38
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 175 85 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.079% 3.216% 3.325%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.14% 17.28% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 27 40
Average daily rate £400 £335 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.40% -9.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £293 £299
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £393 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
Average hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £21.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.78% +5.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.95 £22.60 £20.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £28.93 £29.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-4.05% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 562 492 489
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 22.73% 18.62% 17.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 193 162
Average daily rate £360 £321 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.11% +3.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £120 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 40 35
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.75 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.86% +33.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.59 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £31.10 £38.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
UK

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Linux Hourly Rate Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Glasgow +8 72 £425 +32.81%
Edinburgh +7 50 £375 +7.14%
Stirling - 14 £475 -
Aberdeen +9 11 £338 +12.50%
Renfrewshire - 8 £425 -
Dundee - 4 £238 -
Midlothian 0 2 - -
Fife - 2 - -
Inverclyde - 1 £378 -
Linux
UK

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 146 (51.59%) UNIX
2 103 (36.40%) Windows
3 98 (34.63%) SQL
4 95 (33.57%) Java
5 64 (22.61%) Oracle
6 62 (21.91%) Finance
7 50 (17.67%) Solaris
8 46 (16.25%) Sybase
9 41 (14.49%) Perl
10 35 (12.37%) DB2
11 34 (12.01%) MySQL
11 34 (12.01%) Banking
12 33 (11.66%) Spring
13 32 (11.31%) AIX
14 31 (10.95%) Microsoft
15 29 (10.25%) Windows Server 2008
15 29 (10.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 28 (9.894%) Shell Script
17 27 (9.541%) Red Hat
17 27 (9.541%) OO
17 27 (9.541%) PHP
18 26 (9.187%) C#
18 26 (9.187%) SQL Server
18 26 (9.187%) JUnit
18 26 (9.187%) Apache
19 25 (8.834%) HTML
20 24 (8.481%) ITIL
20 24 (8.481%) WebSphere
21 23 (8.127%) IBM
21 23 (8.127%) Windows Server 2003

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 33 (11.66%) Spring
2 25 (8.834%) HTML
3 24 (8.481%) WebSphere
4 22 (7.774%) XML
5 21 (7.420%) CSS
5 21 (7.420%) J2SE
6 19 (6.714%) Web Services
7 18 (6.360%) JMS
8 17 (6.007%) .NET
9 16 (5.654%) J2EE
10 12 (4.240%) Middleware
11 11 (3.887%) Ruby on Rails
12 10 (3.534%) SOAP
12 10 (3.534%) HTML5
13 9 (3.180%) GWT
14 7 (2.473%) Ext JS
14 7 (2.473%) CSS3
14 7 (2.473%) ASP.NET
14 7 (2.473%) Hibernate
15 6 (2.120%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 26 (9.187%) Apache
2 16 (5.654%) WebSphere Application Server
3 15 (5.300%) Tomcat
4 10 (3.534%) MS Exchange
5 9 (3.180%) WebLogic
6 8 (2.827%) MQSeries
7 7 (2.473%) WebSphere Portal
7 7 (2.473%) SharePoint
7 7 (2.473%) IIS
8 6 (2.120%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (1.767%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 5 (1.767%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
9 5 (1.767%) Exchange Server 2010
10 4 (1.413%) BizTalk Server
10 4 (1.413%) FileNet
10 4 (1.413%) Exchange Server 2003
11 3 (1.060%) GlassFish
11 3 (1.060%) nginx
11 3 (1.060%) Drupal
11 3 (1.060%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 14 (4.947%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.707%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.353%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.767%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.060%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.707%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.353%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.774%) TCP/IP
2 20 (7.067%) DNS
3 16 (5.654%) SAN
4 13 (4.594%) DHCP
5 9 (3.180%) LDAP
6 8 (2.827%) Firewall
7 7 (2.473%) NAS
7 7 (2.473%) HTTP
7 7 (2.473%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (2.473%) Internet
8 6 (2.120%) Wireless
9 5 (1.767%) Unified Communications
9 5 (1.767%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.413%) Broadband
10 4 (1.413%) Network Security
11 3 (1.060%) SMTP
11 3 (1.060%) TACACS
12 2 (0.707%) Intranet
12 2 (0.707%) WAN
12 2 (0.707%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.37%) DB2
2 34 (12.01%) MySQL
3 26 (9.187%) SQL Server
4 17 (6.007%) RDBMS
5 12 (4.240%) Oracle 8/8i
6 9 (3.180%) Oracle 10g
7 8 (2.827%) SQL Server 2005
8 7 (2.473%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (2.473%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.120%) Essbase
10 5 (1.767%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (1.767%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.413%) GIS
11 4 (1.413%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.413%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.413%) Oracle BI EE
12 3 (1.060%) KDB
12 3 (1.060%) InterSystems Cache
12 3 (1.060%) MS Access
13 2 (0.707%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 26 (9.187%) JUnit
2 10 (3.534%) Git (software)
3 8 (2.827%) Subversion
4 6 (2.120%) Eclipse
4 6 (2.120%) Maven
5 4 (1.413%) Rational Application Developer
6 3 (1.060%) Rational Rhapsody
6 3 (1.060%) JIRA
7 2 (0.707%) Ant
7 2 (0.707%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (0.707%) ClearCase
7 2 (0.707%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.353%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.353%) TortoiseSVN
8 1 (0.353%) Talend Open Studio
8 1 (0.353%) Concordion
8 1 (0.353%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.353%) Hudson
8 1 (0.353%) PhoneGap
8 1 (0.353%) MSTest
General
1 62 (21.91%) Finance
2 34 (12.01%) Banking
3 11 (3.887%) Investment Banking
3 11 (3.887%) Front Office
4 5 (1.767%) Interactive Media
4 5 (1.767%) Games
5 4 (1.413%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.413%) Retail
6 2 (0.707%) Aerospace
6 2 (0.707%) Manufacturing
6 2 (0.707%) Marketing
7 1 (0.353%) Electronics
7 1 (0.353%) Back Office
7 1 (0.353%) Advertising
7 1 (0.353%) Legal
Job Titles
1 106 (37.46%) Developer
2 44 (15.55%) Java Developer
3 34 (12.01%) Administrator
4 22 (7.774%) Analyst
5 21 (7.420%) Architect
5 21 (7.420%) Systems Administrator
6 15 (5.300%) Consultant
6 15 (5.300%) Senior Developer
7 14 (4.947%) UNIX Administrator
8 12 (4.240%) Software Developer
9 11 (3.887%) C# Developer
10 10 (3.534%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (3.534%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.180%) WebSphere Developer
12 8 (2.827%) Technical Specialist
12 8 (2.827%) UNIX Systems Administrator
12 8 (2.827%) Infrastructure Architect
12 8 (2.827%) PHP Developer
12 8 (2.827%) Technical Leader
13 7 (2.473%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.240%) Management Information System
2 11 (3.887%) Derivative
2 11 (3.887%) Equity Derivative
2 11 (3.887%) Clustering
3 9 (3.180%) IPTV
3 9 (3.180%) Interactive TV
4 8 (2.827%) Thin Client
4 8 (2.827%) Fat Client
5 5 (1.767%) Computer Science
6 4 (1.413%) Mathematics
6 4 (1.413%) Smartphone
6 4 (1.413%) Video on Demand
7 3 (1.060%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.060%) Equities
7 3 (1.060%) Handset
7 3 (1.060%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.707%) Blackberry
8 2 (0.707%) SaaS
8 2 (0.707%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.353%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 146 (51.59%) UNIX
2 103 (36.40%) Windows
3 50 (17.67%) Solaris
4 32 (11.31%) AIX
5 29 (10.25%) Windows Server 2008
5 29 (10.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (8.127%) Windows Server 2003
7 15 (5.300%) Windows XP
8 10 (3.534%) HPUX
9 5 (1.767%) Windows 7
10 4 (1.413%) zOS
10 4 (1.413%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.060%) Tru64
12 2 (0.707%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.707%) Debian
12 2 (0.707%) SUSE
12 2 (0.707%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.707%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.707%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.707%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (9.541%) OO
2 24 (8.481%) ITIL
3 15 (5.300%) Agile Software Development
4 14 (4.947%) Scrum
5 13 (4.594%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (4.240%) Web Application Development
6 12 (4.240%) Problem Management
7 11 (3.887%) MVC
8 10 (3.534%) Risk Management
8 10 (3.534%) Project Management
8 10 (3.534%) TDD
8 10 (3.534%) Incident Management
8 10 (3.534%) Multithreading
9 9 (3.180%) OOP
10 8 (2.827%) Configuration Management
10 8 (2.827%) Unit Testing
11 7 (2.473%) Change Management
11 7 (2.473%) Regression Testing
12 6 (2.120%) SOA
12 6 (2.120%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (34.63%) SQL
2 95 (33.57%) Java
3 41 (14.49%) Perl
4 28 (9.894%) Shell Script
5 27 (9.541%) PHP
6 26 (9.187%) C#
7 22 (7.774%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.714%) C++
9 18 (6.360%) Python
10 11 (3.887%) Korn
11 9 (3.180%) Bash shell
12 8 (2.827%) VBA
12 8 (2.827%) VB
12 8 (2.827%) Ruby
13 6 (2.120%) ActionScript
13 6 (2.120%) Scala
14 5 (1.767%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.767%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.413%) Jython
15 4 (1.413%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (3.534%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.120%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (2.120%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (1.413%) MCSE
3 4 (1.413%) Degree
4 3 (1.060%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.060%) CISSP
5 2 (0.707%) MCSA
5 2 (0.707%) MCITP
6 1 (0.353%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.353%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.353%) CCNA
6 1 (0.353%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.887%) QA
2 7 (2.473%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.353%) ISO/IEC 17799
3 1 (0.353%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (5.654%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.300%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.180%) vSphere
4 4 (1.413%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 3 (1.060%) XenDesktop
5 3 (1.060%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.060%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (1.060%) Samba
5 3 (1.060%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.353%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.353%) Cygwin
6 1 (0.353%) NFS
6 1 (0.353%) MetaFrame
6 1 (0.353%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (4.947%) Tivoli
2 9 (3.180%) Netcool
3 6 (2.120%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 4 (1.413%) Control-M
4 4 (1.413%) Backup Exec
4 4 (1.413%) WSUS
5 3 (1.060%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 2 (0.707%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.707%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.707%) Puppet
6 2 (0.707%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.707%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.353%) HP Operations Orchestration
7 1 (0.353%) HP UCMDB
7 1 (0.353%) HP SiteScope
7 1 (0.353%) OpenView
Vendors
1 64 (22.61%) Oracle
2 46 (16.25%) Sybase
3 31 (10.95%) Microsoft
4 27 (9.541%) Red Hat
5 23 (8.127%) IBM
6 22 (7.774%) VMware
7 21 (7.420%) JBoss
8 19 (6.714%) HP
9 12 (4.240%) Sun
9 12 (4.240%) NetApp
10 8 (2.827%) Veritas
10 8 (2.827%) EMC
10 8 (2.827%) Citrix
11 7 (2.473%) Informatica
12 4 (1.413%) TIBCO
12 4 (1.413%) Lotus
12 4 (1.413%) Veeam
13 3 (1.060%) Lumension
13 3 (1.060%) ArcSight
13 3 (1.060%) Cognos
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