Linux Contracts in Slough
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 24 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 Slough 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 20 22 22
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Contract jobs citing Linux 19 8 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 7.787% 3.922% 4.702%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.34% 18.18% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 6
Average daily rate £350 £313 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% +15.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £288 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £368 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £29.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -9.37%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
- +7.24%
Search 12 Linux jobs in Slough
All Operating Systems
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 41 44 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 16.80% 21.57% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 20
Average daily rate £350 £300 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £205 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £370 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 1
Average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -53.12%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
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Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough 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 Slough region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 19 (73.08%) UNIX
2 11 (42.31%) Telecoms
3 9 (34.62%) Degree
4 8 (30.77%) Oracle
4 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
4 8 (30.77%) HP
5 7 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (26.92%) ITIL
5 7 (26.92%) Java
5 7 (26.92%) Solaris
5 7 (26.92%) Bash shell
5 7 (26.92%) CCNA
6 6 (23.08%) HPUX
6 6 (23.08%) Middleware
7 5 (19.23%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (19.23%) BMC
7 5 (19.23%) Nagios
7 5 (19.23%) Windows
7 5 (19.23%) WSH
7 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
7 5 (19.23%) VBScript
7 5 (19.23%) Ajax
7 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
7 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
8 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (15.38%) Scrum
8 4 (15.38%) PHP
8 4 (15.38%) MySQL
8 4 (15.38%) Project Management
9 3 (11.54%) SQL

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 6 (23.08%) Middleware
2 5 (19.23%) WSH
2 5 (19.23%) Ajax
3 3 (11.54%) XML
3 3 (11.54%) Zend Framework
4 2 (7.692%) CSS3
4 2 (7.692%) jQuery
4 2 (7.692%) WebSphere
4 2 (7.692%) LAMP
4 2 (7.692%) .NET
4 2 (7.692%) CSS
5 1 (3.846%) HTML
5 1 (3.846%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Apache
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (7.692%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.846%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.846%) Firewall
1 1 (3.846%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.846%) DSL
1 1 (3.846%) DVB
1 1 (3.846%) DNS
1 1 (3.846%) Broadband
1 1 (3.846%) LAN
1 1 (3.846%) SMTP
1 1 (3.846%) VLAN
1 1 (3.846%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) MySQL
3 2 (7.692%) TOAD
3 2 (7.692%) DB2
3 2 (7.692%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Ant
1 2 (7.692%) ERwin
2 1 (3.846%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.846%) ClearCase
2 1 (3.846%) Maven
General
1 11 (42.31%) Telecoms
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 2 (7.692%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.846%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 3 (11.54%) PHP Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Applications Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (7.692%) Consultant
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.846%) UNIX Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (3.846%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
2 3 (11.54%) Clustering
3 2 (7.692%) iSeries
3 2 (7.692%) Grid Computing
3 2 (7.692%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.846%) STB
4 1 (3.846%) Open Source
4 1 (3.846%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) UNIX
2 7 (26.92%) Solaris
3 6 (23.08%) HPUX
4 5 (19.23%) Windows
5 1 (3.846%) SUSE
5 1 (3.846%) Nucleus RTOS
5 1 (3.846%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) ITIL
2 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (15.38%) Scrum
2 4 (15.38%) Project Management
3 3 (11.54%) E-Commerce
3 3 (11.54%) OOD
3 3 (11.54%) OOP
3 3 (11.54%) OO
3 3 (11.54%) MVC
3 3 (11.54%) Automated Testing
3 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
3 3 (11.54%) Change Control
4 2 (7.692%) Waterfall
4 2 (7.692%) Web Application Development
4 2 (7.692%) Load Balancing
4 2 (7.692%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (7.692%) Problem Management
4 2 (7.692%) TOGAF
4 2 (7.692%) Migration
4 2 (7.692%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Java
1 7 (26.92%) Bash shell
2 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
2 5 (19.23%) VBScript
2 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 4 (15.38%) PHP
4 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) Perl
4 3 (11.54%) C
4 3 (11.54%) PHP5
5 2 (7.692%) RPG IV
5 2 (7.692%) C++
5 2 (7.692%) RPG
5 2 (7.692%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.846%) Embedded C
6 1 (3.846%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Degree
2 7 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (26.92%) CCNA
3 5 (19.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.692%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Nagios
2 2 (7.692%) NetBackup
2 2 (7.692%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle
1 8 (30.77%) HP
2 5 (19.23%) BMC
3 3 (11.54%) Zend
4 2 (7.692%) 3PAR
4 2 (7.692%) BT
4 2 (7.692%) SAP
4 2 (7.692%) Symantec
4 2 (7.692%) IBM
5 1 (3.846%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.846%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.846%) Citrix
5 1 (3.846%) Cisco
5 1 (3.846%) VMware
5 1 (3.846%) Redknee
5 1 (3.846%) Crossbeam
5 1 (3.846%) F5
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