The first table below looks at the demand for Debian skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Debian 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 West 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
Debian Linux
Rank 106 - 121
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Debian 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.099% - 0.035%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.401% - 0.178%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £275 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £325 £175
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +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 West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
499 715 561
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 24.74% 22.10% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 348 242
Average daily rate £325 £415 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.68% +18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £288 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 75 85
Average hourly rate £14.02 £20.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.90% +8.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £11.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £37.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Debian
England

Debian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West 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
Bristol - 2 £275 -
Debian
England

Debian
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) LAMP
1 2 (100.00%) Symfony
1 2 (100.00%) Zend
1 2 (100.00%) Zend Framework

Debian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) LAMP
1 2 (100.00%) Symfony
1 2 (100.00%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 2 (100.00%) LAMP Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Zend
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