The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills 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 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 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
Rank 13 21 8
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -13
Contract jobs citing Linux 23 11 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 7.692% 4.741% 11.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.74% 25.00% 39.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 6
Average daily rate £295 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £161 £256 £186
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £300 £309
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 10
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £34.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% +6.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.60 £37.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £37.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-4.05% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
86 44 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 28.76% 18.97% 29.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 16 15
Average daily rate £275 £285 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £211 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 19
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -3.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £9.94 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £41.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
Hampshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Southampton Linux Hourly Rate Histogram

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 (54.05%) Windows
2 14 (37.84%) Red Hat
3 12 (32.43%) Telecoms
4 11 (29.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (29.73%) Oracle
5 10 (27.03%) UNIX
6 9 (24.32%) ITIL
6 9 (24.32%) Digital Media
7 7 (18.92%) Bash shell
7 7 (18.92%) VMware
8 6 (16.22%) Perl
8 6 (16.22%) PHP
8 6 (16.22%) SQL
8 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
8 6 (16.22%) DVB
9 5 (13.51%) Shell Script
9 5 (13.51%) MySQL
9 5 (13.51%) C
9 5 (13.51%) C++
10 4 (10.81%) Apache
10 4 (10.81%) Solaris
10 4 (10.81%) Python
10 4 (10.81%) Windows XP
10 4 (10.81%) LAN
10 4 (10.81%) MPEG
10 4 (10.81%) WAN
10 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
10 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
11 3 (8.108%) Korn
11 3 (8.108%) PowerShell

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (5.405%) HTML
2 1 (2.703%) HTML5
2 1 (2.703%) iOS SDK
2 1 (2.703%) REST
2 1 (2.703%) Ajax
2 1 (2.703%) jQuery
2 1 (2.703%) JPA
2 1 (2.703%) Drools
2 1 (2.703%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (2.703%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.703%) Lucene
2 1 (2.703%) Spring
2 1 (2.703%) Middleware
2 1 (2.703%) JMS
2 1 (2.703%) CSS
2 1 (2.703%) JDBC
2 1 (2.703%) STL
2 1 (2.703%) XML
2 1 (2.703%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) Apache
2 3 (8.108%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.703%) OpenStack
3 1 (2.703%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.703%) Magento
3 1 (2.703%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.703%) SAS
3 1 (2.703%) Commerce Server
3 1 (2.703%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.703%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.405%) MS Office
1 2 (5.405%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.108%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (8.108%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
1 6 (16.22%) DVB
2 4 (10.81%) LAN
2 4 (10.81%) WAN
3 3 (8.108%) HTTP
3 3 (8.108%) DNS
3 3 (8.108%) IPv4
4 2 (5.405%) Internet
5 1 (2.703%) tcpdump
5 1 (2.703%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.703%) Network Security
5 1 (2.703%) Broadband
5 1 (2.703%) SMTP
5 1 (2.703%) DHCP
5 1 (2.703%) FTP
5 1 (2.703%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) MySQL
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.703%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 2 (5.405%) ClearCase
2 1 (2.703%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.703%) Git (software)
2 1 (2.703%) Subversion
2 1 (2.703%) Xcode
2 1 (2.703%) Maven
General
1 12 (32.43%) Telecoms
2 3 (8.108%) Multimedia
2 3 (8.108%) General Ledger
3 1 (2.703%) Law
3 1 (2.703%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.703%) Games
3 1 (2.703%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Software Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Configuration Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (8.108%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (8.108%) Developer
4 3 (8.108%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.108%) Support Specialist
4 3 (8.108%) Administrator
5 2 (5.405%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.405%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.405%) Systems Support Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Systems Support
5 2 (5.405%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.405%) Linux Support
6 1 (2.703%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Linux Support Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.703%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Digital Media
2 4 (10.81%) MPEG
3 2 (5.405%) DTV
3 2 (5.405%) STB
3 2 (5.405%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.703%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.703%) Mobile Games
4 1 (2.703%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.703%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 20 (54.05%) Windows
2 11 (29.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (27.03%) UNIX
4 4 (10.81%) Solaris
4 4 (10.81%) Windows XP
5 3 (8.108%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (8.108%) Windows 2000
6 2 (5.405%) CentOS
6 2 (5.405%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.703%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.703%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.703%) Windows Vista
7 1 (2.703%) Android
7 1 (2.703%) Debian
7 1 (2.703%) AIX
7 1 (2.703%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) ITIL
2 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
3 2 (5.405%) UML
3 2 (5.405%) SOA
3 2 (5.405%) Scrum
3 2 (5.405%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (5.405%) Multithreading
3 2 (5.405%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (2.703%) SIEM
4 1 (2.703%) Change Control
4 1 (2.703%) Test Strategy
4 1 (2.703%) Software Testing
4 1 (2.703%) Unit Testing
4 1 (2.703%) Incident Management
4 1 (2.703%) Load Balancing
4 1 (2.703%) Use Case
4 1 (2.703%) Information Assurance
4 1 (2.703%) Test Automation
4 1 (2.703%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (2.703%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Bash shell
2 6 (16.22%) Perl
2 6 (16.22%) PHP
2 6 (16.22%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Shell Script
3 5 (13.51%) C
3 5 (13.51%) C++
4 4 (10.81%) Python
5 3 (8.108%) Korn
5 3 (8.108%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.108%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.405%) Java
7 1 (2.703%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (2.703%) Degree
1 1 (2.703%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.703%) Security Cleared
1 1 (2.703%) CCNA
1 1 (2.703%) ISEB
1 1 (2.703%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (2.703%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) ISO 9001
1 1 (2.703%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.703%) Squid
2 1 (2.703%) Snort
2 1 (2.703%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.703%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (2.703%) Puppet
1 1 (2.703%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Red Hat
2 11 (29.73%) Oracle
3 7 (18.92%) VMware
4 3 (8.108%) Hyperion
5 2 (5.405%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.703%) Sourcefire
6 1 (2.703%) HP
6 1 (2.703%) Apple
6 1 (2.703%) JBoss
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