The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CentOS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Surrey 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 76 96 101
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +5
Contract jobs citing CentOS 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.164% 0.124% 0.054%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.637% 0.532% 0.221%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £230 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £284 £275
% change year-on-year
+23.34% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.25 £41.25 £23.75
% change year-on-year
-19.39% +73.68%
All Operating Systems
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
314 376 453
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 25.74% 23.40% 24.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 145 188
Average daily rate £340 £300 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £135 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 87 45
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £11.70 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing CentOS across the Surrey region.

Surrey CentOS Daily Rate Trend

CentOS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Guildford -13 1 - -
Oxted - - - -
Reigate - - - -
Staines - - - -
Woking - - - - 1
CentOS
South East

CentOS
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (85.71%) Apache
3 5 (71.43%) PHP
4 4 (57.14%) Java
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (42.86%) Open Source
5 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
5 3 (42.86%) Web Services
5 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
5 3 (42.86%) OpenStack
5 3 (42.86%) IaaS
6 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
6 2 (28.57%) ERP
6 2 (28.57%) Broadband
6 2 (28.57%) HTML
6 2 (28.57%) JBoss
6 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (28.57%) MySQL
6 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (28.57%) SaaS
6 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (14.29%) Finance
7 1 (14.29%) Puppet
7 1 (14.29%) CFEngine

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) Apache
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon AWS
2 3 (42.86%) OpenStack
3 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (28.57%) PHP Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Web Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Open Source
1 3 (42.86%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PHP
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
1 1 (14.29%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) JBoss