The first table below looks at the demand for Linux 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 Linux over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 6 13 20
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +7
Contract jobs citing Linux 7 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stevenage 20.00% 3.279% 5.000%
As % of the Operating Systems category 31.82% 10.00% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
Average daily rate £256 - £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.35% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
Stevenage
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
22 20 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stevenage 62.86% 32.79% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
Average daily rate £250 £280 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £250 £103
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £310 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -1.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
Hertfordshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) AIX
4 2 (28.57%) HPUX
4 2 (28.57%) Solaris
4 2 (28.57%) ClearCase
4 2 (28.57%) Perl
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) MySQL
4 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 2 (28.57%) PLM
4 2 (28.57%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) Sun
4 2 (28.57%) HP
4 2 (28.57%) Nagios
4 2 (28.57%) ClearQuest
4 2 (28.57%) Billing
4 2 (28.57%) Subversion
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
5 1 (14.29%) Cygwin
5 1 (14.29%) Redmine
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) Remedy
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Middleware

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) ClearCase
1 2 (28.57%) ClearQuest
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Redmine
2 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (28.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) AIX
3 2 (28.57%) HPUX
3 2 (28.57%) Solaris
3 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) PLM
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Cygwin
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Sun
2 2 (28.57%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy
3 1 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
2 years professional experience); C coding; Linux scripting skills... Configuration management using ClearCase, CVS or similar. Change tracking with ClearQuest, Bugzilla or similar... Microsoft Windows 7; Linux Red...
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