The first table below looks at the demand for Cygwin skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cygwin over the 3 months to 18 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 System Software 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cygwin
Rank 552 587 583
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -4
Contract jobs citing Cygwin 2 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.003% 0.006%
As % of the System Software category 0.043% 0.042% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £314 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4664 4738 4570
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.581% 8.159% 7.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 2250 2241 2031
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £195 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £324 £310
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 682 678
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%

Cygwin
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cygwin Jobs Demand Trend

Cygwin
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cygwin Daily Rate Trend

Cygwin
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cygwin Hourly Rate Trend

Cygwin
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cygwin within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +13 1 £250 - 2
East of England +13 1 £250 - 2
Cambridge - - - - 2
London - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - - 2

Cygwin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Cygwin 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 Cygwin.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) ClearCase
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) ClearQuest
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (33.33%) Automotive
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Bugzilla
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) SSH
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET

Cygwin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Cygwin 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 Cygwin. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) ClearQuest
1 2 (66.67%) ClearCase
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Bugzilla
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Redmine
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
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