The first table below looks at the demand for Cobbler skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cobbler 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cobbler
Rank 513 557 548
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -9
Contract jobs citing Cobbler 16 27 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.046% 0.059%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.501% 0.756% 0.998%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 29
Average daily rate £550 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.77% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £375 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £369 £355 £450
% change year-on-year
+3.87% -21.11%
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
3192 3573 3609
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.880% 6.127% 5.912%
Number of daily rates quoted 1794 1824 1718
Average daily rate £375 £350 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 170 236
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.81 £22.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.94% -12.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%

Cobbler
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cobbler Jobs Demand Trend

Cobbler
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cobbler Daily Rate Trend

Cobbler
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Cobbler within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cobbler Daily Rate Histogram

Cobbler
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cobbler within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +35 16 £550 +52.77%
London +29 14 £563 +55.70%
South East +15 1 £350 -6.66%
Hammersmith - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £388 -
Surrey - 1 £350 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £388 -
Weybridge - 1 £350 -

Cobbler
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Cobbler 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 Cobbler.

1 24 (96.00%) Puppet
2 21 (84.00%) Linux
3 19 (76.00%) Red Hat
4 16 (64.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (56.00%) Perl
6 13 (52.00%) Python
7 12 (48.00%) Bash shell
8 11 (44.00%) Apache
8 11 (44.00%) SAN
9 10 (40.00%) Veritas
9 10 (40.00%) Samba
10 9 (36.00%) Shell Script
10 9 (36.00%) Tomcat
10 9 (36.00%) ITIL
10 9 (36.00%) TCP/IP
10 9 (36.00%) EMC
10 9 (36.00%) Gigabit Ethernet
10 9 (36.00%) NAS
10 9 (36.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 8 (32.00%) UNIX
11 8 (32.00%) Finance
12 7 (28.00%) Clustering
12 7 (28.00%) RHCE
12 7 (28.00%) Capacity Planning
13 6 (24.00%) SRDF
13 6 (24.00%) WebSphere
13 6 (24.00%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (24.00%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (24.00%) Validation
13 6 (24.00%) AIX

Cobbler
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Cobbler 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 Cobbler. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (24.00%) WebSphere
2 5 (20.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 11 (44.00%) Apache
2 9 (36.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (12.00%) LiveSite
4 2 (8.000%) IIS
5 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
5 1 (4.000%) MS Exchange
5 1 (4.000%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Office
2 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) SAN
2 9 (36.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (36.00%) Gigabit Ethernet
2 9 (36.00%) NAS
3 6 (24.00%) DHCP
3 6 (24.00%) Ethernet
4 4 (16.00%) Internet
4 4 (16.00%) SNMP
5 3 (12.00%) DNS
6 1 (4.000%) LDAP
6 1 (4.000%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.000%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.000%) Subversion
3 1 (4.000%) Git (software)
3 1 (4.000%) Hudson
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
2 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Administrator
3 5 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (12.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.000%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Linux Specialist
7 1 (4.000%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Clustering
2 5 (20.00%) Open Source
3 4 (16.00%) Digital Media
4 2 (8.000%) Video on Demand
4 2 (8.000%) Streaming Media
4 2 (8.000%) IPTV
4 2 (8.000%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.000%) iDTV
5 1 (4.000%) Replication
5 1 (4.000%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 21 (84.00%) Linux
2 16 (64.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (32.00%) UNIX
4 6 (24.00%) AIX
4 6 (24.00%) Solaris
4 6 (24.00%) VMS
5 5 (20.00%) Windows
6 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (8.000%) CentOS
7 2 (8.000%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ITIL
2 7 (28.00%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (24.00%) Validation
4 4 (16.00%) Scrum
5 1 (4.000%) Workflow
5 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.000%) Configuration Management
5 1 (4.000%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.000%) Kanban
5 1 (4.000%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.000%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Perl
2 13 (52.00%) Python
3 12 (48.00%) Bash shell
4 9 (36.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (16.00%) Ruby
6 3 (12.00%) PHP
7 2 (8.000%) C-shell
7 2 (8.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) RHCE
2 2 (8.000%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.000%) MCSE
3 1 (4.000%) RHCA
3 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Samba
2 9 (36.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 6 (24.00%) SRDF
3 6 (24.00%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
5 1 (4.000%) NFS
5 1 (4.000%) Xen
5 1 (4.000%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.000%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 24 (96.00%) Puppet
2 6 (24.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 4 (16.00%) Zenoss
4 3 (12.00%) ZABBIX
4 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 2 (8.000%) Nagios
6 1 (4.000%) SCCM
6 1 (4.000%) SCOM
6 1 (4.000%) Splunk
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) Red Hat
2 10 (40.00%) Veritas
3 9 (36.00%) EMC
4 6 (24.00%) Oracle
5 4 (16.00%) JBoss
5 4 (16.00%) Cisco
5 4 (16.00%) Intel
5 4 (16.00%) HP
6 3 (12.00%) Juniper
6 3 (12.00%) VMware
6 3 (12.00%) RightScale
7 2 (8.000%) Microsoft
8 1 (4.000%) Dell
8 1 (4.000%) Citrix
8 1 (4.000%) NetApp
8 1 (4.000%) Infoblox