The first table below looks at the demand for Embedded Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Embedded Linux over the 3 months to 24 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 Swindon 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Embedded Linux
Rank - 39 35
Contract jobs citing Embedded Linux 0 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon - 0.826% 0.631%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 5.455% 3.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £308 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £34.75
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +22.30%
All Operating Systems
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
52 55 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 17.33% 15.15% 18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 29
Average daily rate £375 £348 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.91% -18.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £191 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 4
Average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -52.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.10 £12.42 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.60 £22.00 £34.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Embedded Linux
Wiltshire

Embedded Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon Embedded Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Embedded Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon Embedded Linux Daily Rate Trend

Embedded Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon Embedded Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Embedded Linux
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing Embedded 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 Embedded Linux.

1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) Broadband
2 3 (75.00%) Embedded C
2 3 (75.00%) 3G
2 3 (75.00%) 4G
3 2 (50.00%) 2G
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Subversion
4 1 (25.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array

Embedded Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing Embedded 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 Embedded Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Broadband
2 3 (75.00%) 3G
2 3 (75.00%) 4G
3 2 (50.00%) 2G
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Embedded C