Linux Administrator Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Administrator role 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 Linux Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Administrator
Rank 104 133 108
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 11 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.537% 0.181% 0.321%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.570% 0.195% 0.340%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 6
Average daily rate £310 £413 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.84% +7.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.45%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1930 3082 2645
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.24% 93.00% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1158 1838 1307
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £228 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 193 247
Average hourly rate £15.40 £23.88 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.49% +13.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Linux Administrator across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South West Linux Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Linux Administrator Daily Rate Trend

Linux Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Linux Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the South West region over the 3 months to 17 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 - 5 £310 -
Gloucestershire +29 4 £330 -26.66%
Devon +2 2 £350 -
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Linux Administrator in their job title 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 with Linux Administrator in their job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) UNIX
3 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 5 (35.71%) HP
4 4 (28.57%) Solaris
4 4 (28.57%) MySQL
4 4 (28.57%) ITIL
5 3 (21.43%) PHP
5 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
5 3 (21.43%) Mercator
5 3 (21.43%) LAMP
5 3 (21.43%) NetBackup
5 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
5 3 (21.43%) Content Management
5 3 (21.43%) Git (software)
5 3 (21.43%) Puppet
5 3 (21.43%) Hudson
5 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (14.29%) Ruby
6 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
6 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (14.29%) CentOS
6 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (14.29%) SSL
6 2 (14.29%) Apache
6 2 (14.29%) Python
6 2 (14.29%) SOA

Linux Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Linux Administrator in their job title 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 with Linux Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (21.43%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (7.143%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (7.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git (software)
1 3 (21.43%) Hudson
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.143%) Replication
1 1 (7.143%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (64.29%) UNIX
3 4 (28.57%) Solaris
4 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 2 (14.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Content Management
2 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) SOA
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.143%) ITSM
4 1 (7.143%) Data Security
4 1 (7.143%) Migration
4 1 (7.143%) Business Continuity
4 1 (7.143%) Project Management
4 1 (7.143%) Service Management
4 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
4 1 (7.143%) Information Management
4 1 (7.143%) Project Planning
4 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
4 1 (7.143%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PHP
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 2 (14.29%) Ruby
2 2 (14.29%) C
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) NetBackup
1 3 (21.43%) Puppet
1 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) HP
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
2 3 (21.43%) Mercator
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle
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