The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu 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
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 223 232 242
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +10
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 1 7 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.013% 0.069% 0.106%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.057% 0.336% 0.449%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
Average daily rate £325 £253 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.71% -32.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £356
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -22.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
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%
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Ubuntu Jobs Demand Trend

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Ubuntu Daily Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Ubuntu Hourly Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Berkshire +14 1 £325 -
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) Debian
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) VLAN
3 3 (50.00%) CentOS
3 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) Junos
4 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (33.33%) CCNP
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (33.33%) X.25
4 2 (33.33%) BGP
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) Apache
4 2 (33.33%) ISDN
4 2 (33.33%) SMTP
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) IIS
4 2 (33.33%) UNIX
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) IVR

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
2 1 (16.67%) Jetty
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) Junos
3 2 (33.33%) X.25
3 2 (33.33%) BGP
3 2 (33.33%) ISDN
3 2 (33.33%) SMTP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (16.67%) IPsec
4 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
4 1 (16.67%) HTTP
4 1 (16.67%) SNMP
4 1 (16.67%) VRRP
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) Internet
4 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) TestComplete
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 1 (16.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior UNIX Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Linux Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Open Source
1 2 (33.33%) IVR
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Debian
3 3 (50.00%) CentOS
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) UNIX
5 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (16.67%) SUSE
5 1 (16.67%) Fedora
5 1 (16.67%) OpenBSD
5 1 (16.67%) Android
5 1 (16.67%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Squid
2 1 (16.67%) NFS
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco