CFEngine Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for CFEngine skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CFEngine over the 3 months to 17 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 Systems Management 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CFEngine
Rank 528 569 -
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -
Contract jobs citing CFEngine 2 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.015% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.064% 0.253% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £425 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category		 3118 3560 3639
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.720% 6.109% 5.937%
Number of daily rates quoted 1762 1821 1721
Average daily rate £375 £350 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £227 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 165 224
Average hourly rate £21.00 £19.63 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.00% -16.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

CFEngine
Jobs Demand Trend

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

CFEngine Jobs Demand Trend

CFEngine
Daily Rate Trend

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

CFEngine Daily Rate Trend

CFEngine
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing CFEngine within the UK.

CFEngine Hourly Rate Trend

CFEngine
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CFEngine within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +41 2 £425 +6.25%
London +21 2 £425 -5.55%
City of London - 2 £425 -

CFEngine
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CFEngine 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 CFEngine.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
3 5 (71.43%) UNIX
4 4 (57.14%) Solaris
4 4 (57.14%) Debian
4 4 (57.14%) Puppet
5 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (42.86%) New Media
5 3 (42.86%) Joyent
5 3 (42.86%) Rackspace
5 3 (42.86%) CentOS
5 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
5 3 (42.86%) Internet
5 3 (42.86%) Windows
5 3 (42.86%) Perl
5 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
6 2 (28.57%) Python
6 2 (28.57%) JBoss
6 2 (28.57%) Ruby
6 2 (28.57%) Finance
6 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
7 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
7 1 (14.29%) Redis
7 1 (14.29%) Open Source
7 1 (14.29%) Hudson
7 1 (14.29%) Banking
7 1 (14.29%) Subversion
7 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails

CFEngine
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing CFEngine 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 CFEngine. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Tomcat
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
1 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
1 1 (14.29%) Hudson
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Systems Administrator
1 6 (85.71%) Administrator
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Senior UNIX Administrator
3 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) New Media
2 1 (14.29%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (71.43%) UNIX
3 4 (57.14%) Debian
3 4 (57.14%) Solaris
4 3 (42.86%) CentOS
4 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
4 3 (42.86%) Windows
4 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
5 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Perl
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
2 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Nagios
2 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) Joyent
2 3 (42.86%) Rackspace
3 2 (28.57%) JBoss
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