The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 16 9 14
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +5
Contract jobs citing Linux 20 31 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 7.463% 11.83% 7.829%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.64% 37.80% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 16
Average daily rate £335 £370 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.45% -17.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-4.05% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
78 82 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 29.10% 31.30% 27.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 41
Average daily rate £330 £275 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -35.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £171 £135 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £448 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 15
Average hourly rate £23.50 £19.53 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.32% -2.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.44 £11.65 £10.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South Yorkshire Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Sheffield +6 16 £200 -57.89%
Doncaster +1 3 £500 +47.05%
Linux
Yorkshire

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Linux 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 Linux.

1 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 19 (44.19%) UNIX
3 17 (39.53%) Windows
4 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
4 11 (25.58%) Oracle
4 11 (25.58%) IIS
4 11 (25.58%) SLA
5 9 (20.93%) Java
5 9 (20.93%) .NET
5 9 (20.93%) ITIL
6 8 (18.60%) Solaris
6 8 (18.60%) MySQL
7 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
7 7 (16.28%) XML
7 7 (16.28%) HTML
7 7 (16.28%) HP
8 6 (13.95%) Red Hat
8 6 (13.95%) XSLT
8 6 (13.95%) Apache
8 6 (13.95%) PHP
8 6 (13.95%) CSS
8 6 (13.95%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (13.95%) MVC
8 6 (13.95%) LAMP
8 6 (13.95%) PHPUnit
8 6 (13.95%) HTML5
8 6 (13.95%) CSS3
8 6 (13.95%) Web Development
8 6 (13.95%) Symfony
8 6 (13.95%) jQuery

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Linux 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 Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (20.93%) .NET
2 7 (16.28%) XML
2 7 (16.28%) HTML
3 6 (13.95%) XSLT
3 6 (13.95%) CSS
3 6 (13.95%) LAMP
3 6 (13.95%) HTML5
3 6 (13.95%) CSS3
3 6 (13.95%) Symfony
3 6 (13.95%) jQuery
4 2 (4.651%) JSP
4 2 (4.651%) Struts
4 2 (4.651%) Middleware
4 2 (4.651%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.651%) Spring
4 2 (4.651%) Struts2
4 2 (4.651%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 11 (25.58%) IIS
2 6 (13.95%) Apache
3 2 (4.651%) Tomcat
3 2 (4.651%) Alfresco
3 2 (4.651%) Liferay
4 1 (2.326%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (2.326%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (4.651%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.977%) SAN
1 3 (6.977%) NAS
2 1 (2.326%) Network Security
2 1 (2.326%) LAN
2 1 (2.326%) FTP
2 1 (2.326%) HTTP
2 1 (2.326%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.326%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) MySQL
2 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) DataStage
3 1 (2.326%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (2.326%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (2.326%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) PHPUnit
2 2 (4.651%) JUnit
2 2 (4.651%) Eclipse
2 2 (4.651%) Subversion
2 2 (4.651%) Maven
2 2 (4.651%) Selenium
2 2 (4.651%) FitNesse
2 2 (4.651%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (6.977%) Finance
2 1 (2.326%) Financial Institution
2 1 (2.326%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 19 (44.19%) Analyst
2 14 (32.56%) Applications Support
3 11 (25.58%) Support Analyst
4 9 (20.93%) Applications Support Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Administrator
5 5 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.302%) Developer
6 4 (9.302%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (9.302%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (6.977%) Oracle DBA
7 3 (6.977%) DBA
8 2 (4.651%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (4.651%) Security Analyst
8 2 (4.651%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (4.651%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.651%) PHP Developer
9 1 (2.326%) Tivoli Specialist
9 1 (2.326%) UNIX Support Analyst
9 1 (2.326%) Senior DBA
9 1 (2.326%) Solaris Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.651%) CESG
2 1 (2.326%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (44.19%) UNIX
2 17 (39.53%) Windows
3 8 (18.60%) Solaris
4 5 (11.63%) SUSE
5 2 (4.651%) HPUX
5 2 (4.651%) Fedora
6 1 (2.326%) Android
6 1 (2.326%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.326%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.326%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (2.326%) Debian
6 1 (2.326%) Windows CE
6 1 (2.326%) VMS
6 1 (2.326%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.93%) ITIL
2 6 (13.95%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (13.95%) MVC
2 6 (13.95%) Web Development
3 4 (9.302%) RAD
4 3 (6.977%) Service Management
5 2 (4.651%) Information Security
5 2 (4.651%) Performance Management
5 2 (4.651%) SIEM
5 2 (4.651%) Cyber Security
6 1 (2.326%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (2.326%) Release Management
6 1 (2.326%) Business Analysis
6 1 (2.326%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (2.326%) Incident Management
6 1 (2.326%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.326%) ETL
6 1 (2.326%) UML
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) Java
2 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
3 6 (13.95%) PHP
4 3 (6.977%) SQL
5 1 (2.326%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.326%) Embedded C
5 1 (2.326%) Embedded C++
5 1 (2.326%) Python
5 1 (2.326%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.326%) C
5 1 (2.326%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.651%) MCP
3 2 (4.651%) CISSP
3 2 (4.651%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.651%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.58%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (9.302%) Oracle RAC
1 4 (9.302%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (6.977%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.326%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.326%) Samba
3 1 (2.326%) NFS
3 1 (2.326%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.326%) Data Guard
1 1 (2.326%) ServiceCenter
1 1 (2.326%) Tivoli
1 1 (2.326%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 1 (2.326%) Tivoli Remote Control
1 1 (2.326%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Oracle
2 7 (16.28%) HP
3 6 (13.95%) Red Hat
4 4 (9.302%) Veritas
5 3 (6.977%) IBM
5 3 (6.977%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.651%) Sun
6 2 (4.651%) BMC
7 1 (2.326%) NetApp
7 1 (2.326%) Cognos