The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu 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
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 121 108 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.040% 0.038% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.178% 0.203% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £275 £325
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
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%
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Ubuntu Jobs Demand Trend

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Ubuntu across the Scotland region.

Scotland Ubuntu Daily Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu 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
Stirling - 1 - -
Ubuntu
UK

Ubuntu
Top 20 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) SUSE
2 2 (50.00%) Debian
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 2 (50.00%) CakePHP
2 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) AIX
2 2 (50.00%) HPUX
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) CakePHP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
1 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) SUSE
2 2 (50.00%) Debian
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) AIX
2 2 (50.00%) HPUX
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) HP