Linux Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 100 90 112
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 11 49 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.534% 1.483% 0.290%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.567% 1.594% 0.307%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 5
Average daily rate £425 £500 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +42.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £500 £350
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £32.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -28.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +15.10%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1939 3074 2605
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.08% 93.07% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1165 1846 1291
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 £225 £230 £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 143 191 237
Average hourly rate £15.30 £22.50 £21.96
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.00% +2.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.35 £38.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Linux Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Linux Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the South West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Gloucestershire +9 11 £425 -15.00%
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Linux
2 51 (94.44%) Security Cleared
3 50 (92.59%) Red Hat
4 29 (53.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (48.15%) SC Cleared
5 26 (48.15%) C
6 25 (46.30%) UNIX
6 25 (46.30%) DNS
6 25 (46.30%) Shell Script
6 25 (46.30%) DV Cleared
7 24 (44.44%) Clustering
7 24 (44.44%) DHCP
7 24 (44.44%) Perl
8 19 (35.19%) VMware Infrastructure
8 19 (35.19%) VMware
9 18 (33.33%) Remedy
10 7 (12.96%) OpenStack
11 5 (9.259%) Puppet
11 5 (9.259%) Oracle
12 2 (3.704%) C++
12 2 (3.704%) NFS
12 2 (3.704%) TCP/IP
12 2 (3.704%) HPUX
12 2 (3.704%) Solaris
12 2 (3.704%) DTV
12 2 (3.704%) DVB
12 2 (3.704%) Service Management
12 2 (3.704%) Firmware
12 2 (3.704%) SAN
12 2 (3.704%) Embedded C

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Linux Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 7 (12.96%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.852%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 25 (46.30%) DNS
2 24 (44.44%) DHCP
3 2 (3.704%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.704%) DVB
3 2 (3.704%) SAN
4 1 (1.852%) SSH
4 1 (1.852%) Firewall
4 1 (1.852%) VPN
4 1 (1.852%) LAN
4 1 (1.852%) WAN
Miscellaneous
1 24 (44.44%) Clustering
2 2 (3.704%) DTV
2 2 (3.704%) Firmware
2 2 (3.704%) STB
Operating Systems
1 54 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (53.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (46.30%) UNIX
4 2 (3.704%) HPUX
4 2 (3.704%) Solaris
4 2 (3.704%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (1.852%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (3.704%) Service Management
1 2 (3.704%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (1.852%) Project Planning
2 1 (1.852%) Test Scripting
2 1 (1.852%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (1.852%) Migration
2 1 (1.852%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 26 (48.15%) C
2 25 (46.30%) Shell Script
3 24 (44.44%) Perl
4 2 (3.704%) C++
4 2 (3.704%) Embedded C
4 2 (3.704%) Embedded C++
5 1 (1.852%) Korn
5 1 (1.852%) C-shell
5 1 (1.852%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 51 (94.44%) Security Cleared
2 26 (48.15%) SC Cleared
3 25 (46.30%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.852%) Degree
4 1 (1.852%) CCNP
4 1 (1.852%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 19 (35.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.704%) NFS
3 1 (1.852%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (9.259%) Puppet
Vendors
1 50 (92.59%) Red Hat
2 19 (35.19%) VMware
3 18 (33.33%) Remedy
4 5 (9.259%) Oracle
5 1 (1.852%) Juniper
5 1 (1.852%) Nokia
5 1 (1.852%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.852%) Cisco
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