The first table below looks at the demand for 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 Linux 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 34 19 12
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux 10 20 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 2.857% 5.917% 8.264%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.87% 33.90% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 11
Average daily rate £425 £338 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.92% -20.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £345
% change year-on-year
- +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +23.07%
All Operating Systems
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
53 59 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.14% 17.46% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 35 26
Average daily rate £363 £338 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.40% -20.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £167 £292
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
Average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -23.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £12.42 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.55 £22.00 £32.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
Linux
Wiltshire

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 16 (80.00%) Oracle
1 16 (80.00%) Oracle EBS
1 16 (80.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 14 (70.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 14 (70.00%) Middleware
3 13 (65.00%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (65.00%) ETL
3 13 (65.00%) Oracle RAC
4 12 (60.00%) Oracle 10gAS
4 12 (60.00%) BPEL
4 12 (60.00%) Informatica
4 12 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
5 11 (55.00%) SAN
5 11 (55.00%) Siebel
5 11 (55.00%) NAS
6 9 (45.00%) Oracle 11i
6 9 (45.00%) Hyperion
7 8 (40.00%) LAN
7 8 (40.00%) WAN
7 8 (40.00%) VPN
7 8 (40.00%) VMware
7 8 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (35.00%) Information Assurance
8 7 (35.00%) WebCenter
8 7 (35.00%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (30.00%) Oracle 11g
9 6 (30.00%) ITIL
9 6 (30.00%) PRINCE2
10 4 (20.00%) SOA

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 14 (70.00%) Middleware
2 7 (35.00%) WebCenter
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (15.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 12 (60.00%) Oracle 10gAS
2 7 (35.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (15.00%) ESB
Business Applications
1 16 (80.00%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (70.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 9 (45.00%) Oracle 11i
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) SAN
1 11 (55.00%) NAS
2 8 (40.00%) LAN
2 8 (40.00%) WAN
2 8 (40.00%) VPN
3 3 (15.00%) 4G
3 3 (15.00%) 3G
3 3 (15.00%) Broadband
3 3 (15.00%) Wireless
4 2 (10.00%) 2G
5 1 (5.000%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (80.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 13 (65.00%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
4 6 (30.00%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (15.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JDeveloper
2 1 (5.000%) Subversion
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
1 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 7 (35.00%) Team Leader
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (25.00%) DBA
3 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) OBIEE Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Information Assurance Leader
4 3 (15.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 2 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Oracle BI Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Development Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Administrator
6 1 (5.000%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) Oracle Team Leader
6 1 (5.000%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (5.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) ETL
2 12 (60.00%) BPEL
3 7 (35.00%) Information Assurance
4 6 (30.00%) ITIL
4 6 (30.00%) PRINCE2
5 4 (20.00%) SOA
5 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.00%) CRM
6 3 (15.00%) ERP
6 3 (15.00%) Workflow
7 2 (10.00%) E-business
7 2 (10.00%) Data Security
7 2 (10.00%) Scrum
7 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Performance Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Performance Management
8 1 (5.000%) Validation
8 1 (5.000%) Change Management
8 1 (5.000%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (5.000%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (15.00%) Embedded C
1 3 (15.00%) XQuery
1 3 (15.00%) C
1 3 (15.00%) Perl
1 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) C#
2 1 (5.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Oracle
2 12 (60.00%) Informatica
3 11 (55.00%) Siebel
4 9 (45.00%) Hyperion
5 8 (40.00%) VMware