The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Southampton 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 Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £500 £350
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +15.10%
All Job Titles
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
284 219 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 94.98% 94.40% 96.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 113 74
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £250 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £475 £501
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 52 30
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £41.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Engineer
Hampshire

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Linux Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Media
3 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 2000
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) PHP
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (25.00%) Squid
4 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
4 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 2000
3 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware