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

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Somerset 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 26 29 30
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +1
Contract jobs citing Linux 5 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.874% 3.550% 2.874%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.621% 18.18% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
Average daily rate £232 £350 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.71% +23.89%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +7.24%
All Operating Systems
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 58 33 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 33.33% 19.53% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 23
Average daily rate £232 £280 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% -14.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £155 £245 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £350 £361
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 14
Average hourly rate £16.20 £12.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.24% -18.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £13.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £17.60 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
South West

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bath +4 4 - -
Linux
South West

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 5 (62.50%) UNIX
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) MySQL
2 4 (50.00%) Solaris
3 3 (37.50%) Apache
3 3 (37.50%) HTML
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Internet
4 2 (25.00%) DHCP
4 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (25.00%) Perl
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (25.00%) FreeBSD
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) XML
4 2 (25.00%) Subversion
4 2 (25.00%) Mac OS X Server
4 2 (25.00%) Git (software)
4 2 (25.00%) nginx
4 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 2 (25.00%) Puppet
4 2 (25.00%) C
4 2 (25.00%) Change Control
5 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL V2
5 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (12.50%) XenApp
5 1 (12.50%) WordPress
5 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) JSP
3 1 (12.50%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) nginx
3 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (12.50%) WordPress
3 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Joomla!
3 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (12.50%) Drupal
3 1 (12.50%) CMS
3 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
1 2 (25.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Support
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Server Technician
2 1 (12.50%) Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (12.50%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Web Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
2 1 (12.50%) Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) UNIX
2 4 (50.00%) Solaris
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) FreeBSD
4 2 (25.00%) Mac OS X Server
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Vista
5 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
5 1 (12.50%) AIX
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL V2
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Resource Management
2 1 (12.50%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) C
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) VB
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) XenApp
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Zend
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe
3 1 (12.50%) Sun
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
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