The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 114 135 115
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -20
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 1 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.049% 0.121% 0.071%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.198% 0.554% 0.351%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £450 £450 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.11% +16.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £275 £325
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All Operating Systems
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
505 722 569
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 24.66% 21.79% 20.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 354 238
Average daily rate £325 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.77% +28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £288 £210
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 80 69 95
Average hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.90 £13.00 £12.42
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.40 £41.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West Ubuntu Daily 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 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
Gloucestershire +28 1 £450 -0.11%
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Solaris
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Ruby
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) J2EE
4 1 (25.00%) MySQL
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) JBoss
4 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) ClearCase

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (25.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (25.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) CentOS
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Solaris
4 1 (25.00%) SUSE
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) SOA
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
1 2 (50.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Sun
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) Perforce
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds