The first table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Debian over the 3 months to 20 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 South East 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Debian Linux
Rank 223 241 229
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -12
Contract jobs citing Debian 2 6 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.026% 0.059% 0.146%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.113% 0.283% 0.618%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
Average daily rate £325 £330 £163
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% +103.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £175
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +85.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- -18.18%
All Operating Systems
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1774 2123 2428
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 22.68% 20.99% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 868 855
Average daily rate £330 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £160 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 331 316
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.25 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.75 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
Debian
England

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Debian Jobs Demand Trend

Debian
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Debian Daily Rate Trend

Debian
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Debian across the South East region.

South East Debian Hourly Rate Trend

Debian
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Debian within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 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
Oxfordshire +4 2 £325 -10.34%
Debian
England

Debian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Debian 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 Debian.

1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) VMware
3 6 (46.15%) Migration
3 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
4 5 (38.46%) Perl
4 5 (38.46%) Ubuntu
5 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
5 4 (30.77%) Firewall
5 4 (30.77%) DNS
5 4 (30.77%) Cisco
5 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (23.08%) CentOS
6 3 (23.08%) Bash shell
6 3 (23.08%) IIS
6 3 (23.08%) UNIX
6 3 (23.08%) Windows
6 3 (23.08%) Apache
6 3 (23.08%) SAN
6 3 (23.08%) VLAN
7 2 (15.38%) Subversion
7 2 (15.38%) Fedora
7 2 (15.38%) IVR
7 2 (15.38%) Web Development
7 2 (15.38%) Ingres
7 2 (15.38%) ISDN
7 2 (15.38%) SMTP
7 2 (15.38%) AIX
7 2 (15.38%) PHP
7 2 (15.38%) SQL

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Debian 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 Debian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (15.38%) CGI
2 1 (7.692%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) IIS
1 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.692%) Jetty
2 1 (7.692%) nginx
2 1 (7.692%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.692%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) VLAN
2 3 (23.08%) SAN
3 2 (15.38%) ISDN
3 2 (15.38%) SMTP
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (15.38%) Junos
3 2 (15.38%) BGP
3 2 (15.38%) X.25
4 1 (7.692%) VRRP
4 1 (7.692%) IPsec
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (7.692%) iSCSI
4 1 (7.692%) HTTP
4 1 (7.692%) SNMP
4 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.692%) Internet
4 1 (7.692%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) Ingres
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Subversion
General
1 1 (7.692%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) Database Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) UNIX Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Senior UNIX Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Linux Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) IVR
1 2 (15.38%) Wiki
2 1 (7.692%) Online Games
2 1 (7.692%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.692%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Ubuntu
3 3 (23.08%) CentOS
3 3 (23.08%) UNIX
3 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 2 (15.38%) AIX
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (15.38%) Fedora
5 1 (7.692%) OpenBSD
5 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (7.692%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
3 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Web Development
3 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
4 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Perl
2 3 (23.08%) Bash shell
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) PHP
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.692%) Python
4 1 (7.692%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) CCNP
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.692%) Squid
3 1 (7.692%) NFS
3 1 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.692%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Dell