The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 23 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 Tyne and Wear 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux
Rank 8 13 6
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux 23 31 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 12.17% 9.254% 13.70%
As % of the Operating Systems category 53.49% 40.79% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 20
Average daily rate £266 £265 £409
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.47% -35.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £233 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £541 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +7.24%
All Operating Systems
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
43 76 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 22.75% 22.69% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 37 42
Average daily rate £263 £270 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -16.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £232 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 5
Average hourly rate £13.25 £19.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.26% +46.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.20 £12.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £190.00 £16.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
Linux
North East

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 23 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +1 23 £266 +0.47%
Linux
North East

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 30 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 21 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 18 (51.43%) UNIX
4 14 (40.00%) AIX
5 13 (37.14%) IBM
6 11 (31.43%) LDAP
6 11 (31.43%) WebSphere
6 11 (31.43%) CentOS
7 10 (28.57%) Informatica
8 9 (25.71%) Citrix
8 9 (25.71%) Configuration Management
8 9 (25.71%) Solaris
8 9 (25.71%) Apache
8 9 (25.71%) Cisco
8 9 (25.71%) Change Control
9 8 (22.86%) JBoss
9 8 (22.86%) SQL
9 8 (22.86%) Firewall
9 8 (22.86%) HP
10 7 (20.00%) Perl
10 7 (20.00%) MySQL
10 7 (20.00%) Business Objects
10 7 (20.00%) WebLogic
10 7 (20.00%) Siebel
10 7 (20.00%) XenServer
11 6 (17.14%) FileNet
11 6 (17.14%) Workflow
11 6 (17.14%) SAN
11 6 (17.14%) DNS
11 6 (17.14%) SSL

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 11 (31.43%) WebSphere
2 3 (8.571%) Middleware
3 1 (2.857%) .NET
3 1 (2.857%) GWT
3 1 (2.857%) HTML5
3 1 (2.857%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 9 (25.71%) Apache
2 7 (20.00%) WebLogic
3 6 (17.14%) FileNet
4 2 (5.714%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.857%) IIS
5 1 (2.857%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (2.857%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (2.857%) ESB
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) assyst
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) LDAP
2 8 (22.86%) Firewall
3 6 (17.14%) SAN
3 6 (17.14%) DNS
3 6 (17.14%) SSL
3 6 (17.14%) DHCP
4 5 (14.29%) VPN
5 3 (8.571%) OSPF
6 2 (5.714%) Internet
6 2 (5.714%) BGP
7 1 (2.857%) Wireless
7 1 (2.857%) IPsec
7 1 (2.857%) VLAN
7 1 (2.857%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.857%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.857%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (2.857%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.857%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (2.857%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.857%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.857%) LoadRunner
1 1 (2.857%) Rational Performance Tester
1 1 (2.857%) PhoneGap
General
1 2 (5.714%) Finance
1 2 (5.714%) Telecoms
1 2 (5.714%) Banking
2 1 (2.857%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Administrator
2 12 (34.29%) Systems Administrator
3 8 (22.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 8 (22.86%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (20.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Linux Administrator
5 6 (17.14%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 5 (14.29%) Build Engineer
7 4 (11.43%) UNIX Engineer
8 3 (8.571%) Senior Network Administrator
8 3 (8.571%) Network Administrator
9 2 (5.714%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (5.714%) Systems Engineer
10 1 (2.857%) Senior Manager
10 1 (2.857%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 1 (2.857%) Support Engineer
10 1 (2.857%) Applications Support
10 1 (2.857%) 3rd Line Support
10 1 (2.857%) Project Manager
10 1 (2.857%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.857%) Client/Server
1 1 (2.857%) Thin Client
1 1 (2.857%) Handset
1 1 (2.857%) Clustering
1 1 (2.857%) iPhone
1 1 (2.857%) Fat Client
1 1 (2.857%) iPad
1 1 (2.857%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 21 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 18 (51.43%) UNIX
3 14 (40.00%) AIX
4 11 (31.43%) CentOS
5 9 (25.71%) Solaris
6 4 (11.43%) Windows
7 3 (8.571%) Debian
7 3 (8.571%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.857%) Windows XP
8 1 (2.857%) HPUX
8 1 (2.857%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (2.857%) SUSE
8 1 (2.857%) Android
8 1 (2.857%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Configuration Management
1 9 (25.71%) Change Control
2 6 (17.14%) Workflow
3 5 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (11.43%) Validation
5 3 (8.571%) Identity Management
6 2 (5.714%) ITIL
7 1 (2.857%) Data Modelling
7 1 (2.857%) SOA
7 1 (2.857%) E-Commerce
7 1 (2.857%) RDF
7 1 (2.857%) Project Management
7 1 (2.857%) Service Management
7 1 (2.857%) Risk Management
7 1 (2.857%) TDD
7 1 (2.857%) Logistics
7 1 (2.857%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.857%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (2.857%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (2.857%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) Perl
3 5 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (2.857%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.571%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.857%) CCNP
2 1 (2.857%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.857%) RHCE
2 1 (2.857%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) XenServer
2 2 (5.714%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.857%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Nagios
Vendors
1 30 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 13 (37.14%) IBM
3 10 (28.57%) Informatica
4 9 (25.71%) Citrix
4 9 (25.71%) Cisco
5 8 (22.86%) JBoss
5 8 (22.86%) HP
6 7 (20.00%) Business Objects
6 7 (20.00%) Siebel
7 6 (17.14%) Oracle
7 6 (17.14%) Sun
8 2 (5.714%) VMware
9 1 (2.857%) SAP
9 1 (2.857%) Brocade
9 1 (2.857%) Axway
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