The first table below looks at the demand for Cygwin skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stevenage region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cygwin over the 3 months to 20 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 System Software category for the Stevenage 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cygwin
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cygwin 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stevenage 2.941% - -
As % of the System Software category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.50
All System Software
Stevenage
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stevenage 11.76% 11.67% 9.756%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
Average daily rate £180 - £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Average hourly rate - £34.63 £35.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.60%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
Cygwin
Hertfordshire

Cygwin
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Cygwin across the Stevenage region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Stevenage Cygwin Jobs Demand Trend

Cygwin
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Stevenage Cygwin Hourly Rate Trend

Cygwin
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage region citing Cygwin 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 Cygwin.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) Redmine

Cygwin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage region citing Cygwin 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 Cygwin. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Redmine
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat