The first table below looks at the demand for FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
FreeBSD
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing FreeBSD 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Operating Systems
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1766 2084 2451
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 22.66% 20.54% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 847 872
Average daily rate £335 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £160 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 329 333
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -8.10%
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 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
FreeBSD
England

FreeBSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East FreeBSD Jobs Demand Trend

FreeBSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East FreeBSD Daily Rate Trend

FreeBSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East FreeBSD Hourly Rate Trend

FreeBSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD.

1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) OpenBSD
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) nginx
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (33.33%) OpenView
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Intel
3 1 (33.33%) RHCE
3 1 (33.33%) HPUX Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) HPUX

FreeBSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Memcached
1 1 (33.33%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) nginx
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
2 1 (33.33%) VRRP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior UNIX Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Linux Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) OpenBSD
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
3 1 (33.33%) HPUX
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) Fedora
3 1 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (33.33%) Debian
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Management
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) RHCE
1 1 (33.33%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SCSA
1 1 (33.33%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Squid
2 1 (33.33%) Xen
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VirtualBox
2 1 (33.33%) Postfix
2 1 (33.33%) Sendmail
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) OpenView
1 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Sun
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Intel
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) Egenera
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss