The first table below looks at the demand for OpenBSD 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 OpenBSD over the 3 months to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenBSD
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenBSD 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
1900 2050 2435
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 23.40% 20.37% 23.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 809 906
Average daily rate £340 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £160 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 342 347
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% +4.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.08
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +5.70%
OpenBSD
England

OpenBSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East OpenBSD Jobs Demand Trend

OpenBSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East OpenBSD Daily Rate Trend

OpenBSD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenBSD within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
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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
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Vacancies
Berkshire - - - - 3
OpenBSD
England

OpenBSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing OpenBSD 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 OpenBSD.

1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) FreeBSD
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Memcached
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Fedora
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Squid
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) VRRP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS

OpenBSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing OpenBSD 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 OpenBSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) VRRP
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior UNIX Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) FreeBSD
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) Fedora
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) Squid
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
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