The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 17 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 Suffolk 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 28 16 14
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -2
Contract jobs citing Linux 2 21 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 1.242% 8.400% 11.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.452% 27.63% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 7
Average daily rate £250 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.47% -2.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.73% +4.28%
All Operating Systems
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
31 76 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 19.25% 30.40% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 34 17
Average daily rate £351 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £195 £171
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £350 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 3
Average hourly rate £11.75 £17.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.88% +25.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Linux
East of England

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 17 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
Ipswich -7 2 £250 -26.47%
Linux
East of England

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) CouchDB
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Pig
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Ionix
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Pig
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) CouchDB
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Database Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Database Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Database Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Database Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ionix
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) EMC
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware