The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Beowulf in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Beowulf over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Beowulf
Rank 533 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Beowulf 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.008% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12464 14541 16939
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.45% 24.53% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7498 8526 10051
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 681 721
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.05 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%

Beowulf
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Beowulf within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Beowulf Jobs Demand Trend

Beowulf
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Beowulf within the UK.

Beowulf Daily Rate Trend

Beowulf
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Beowulf within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -

Beowulf
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Beowulf 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 Beowulf.

1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (100.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing

Beowulf
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Beowulf 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 Beowulf. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) VMware