The first table below looks at the demand for Fedora skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fedora 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 Operating Systems 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
Fedora Linux
Rank 527 570 575
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +5
Contract jobs citing Fedora 3 8 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.014% 0.021%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.030% 0.068% 0.102%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 6
Average daily rate £275 £200 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -54.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £200 £300
% change year-on-year
+52.50% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
9962 11825 12738
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.47% 20.29% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5353 5945 6221
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £200 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 972 1164 1254
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.21 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%

Fedora
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Fedora Jobs Demand Trend

Fedora
Daily Rate Trend

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

Fedora Daily Rate Trend

Fedora
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Fedora Hourly Rate Trend

Fedora
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fedora 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 +43 3 £275 +37.50%
London +17 1 £275 +57.14%
Doncaster - 1 £335 -
North West - 1 £275 -
Yorkshire - 1 £335 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £335 -
Manchester - 1 £275 -

Fedora
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (93.75%) Linux
2 14 (87.50%) Red Hat
3 12 (75.00%) CentOS
4 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (43.75%) Intel
5 7 (43.75%) C++
5 7 (43.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 7 (43.75%) Threading Building Blocks
6 5 (31.25%) Hedge funds
6 5 (31.25%) Investment Banking
6 5 (31.25%) Banking
6 5 (31.25%) Python
7 4 (25.00%) MySQL
7 4 (25.00%) Finance
7 4 (25.00%) Debian
7 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
8 3 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (18.75%) Degree
8 3 (18.75%) VMware
9 2 (12.50%) Games
9 2 (12.50%) SUSE
9 2 (12.50%) SAN
9 2 (12.50%) C
9 2 (12.50%) HP
9 2 (12.50%) Oracle
9 2 (12.50%) Java
9 2 (12.50%) UNIX
9 2 (12.50%) PHP
9 2 (12.50%) SQL
9 2 (12.50%) DNS

Fedora
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (43.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 7 (43.75%) Threading Building Blocks
2 1 (6.250%) Memcached
2 1 (6.250%) HTML
2 1 (6.250%) CSS
2 1 (6.250%) SOAP
2 1 (6.250%) Web Services
2 1 (6.250%) XML
2 1 (6.250%) XSD
2 1 (6.250%) XSLT
2 1 (6.250%) XHTML
2 1 (6.250%) LAMP
2 1 (6.250%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (6.250%) Apache
2 1 (6.250%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (6.250%) SSL
2 1 (6.250%) Internet
2 1 (6.250%) VRRP
2 1 (6.250%) Firewall
2 1 (6.250%) IPsec
2 1 (6.250%) VLAN
2 1 (6.250%) iSCSI
2 1 (6.250%) SMTP
2 1 (6.250%) DHCP
2 1 (6.250%) HTTP
2 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (31.25%) Banking
1 5 (31.25%) Investment Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Games
4 1 (6.250%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) C++ Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (18.75%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (18.75%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Linux Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (6.250%) UNIX Support Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) UNIX Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) UNIX Support
5 1 (6.250%) Senior UNIX Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Linux Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Hedge funds
2 3 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 2 (12.50%) Online Games
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.250%) Open Source
4 1 (6.250%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Linux
2 12 (75.00%) CentOS
3 9 (56.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (25.00%) Debian
4 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (12.50%) SUSE
5 2 (12.50%) UNIX
6 1 (6.250%) Windows
6 1 (6.250%) AIX
6 1 (6.250%) HPUX
6 1 (6.250%) Solaris
6 1 (6.250%) FreeBSD
6 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
6 1 (6.250%) VMS
6 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
6 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (6.250%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
1 1 (6.250%) Project Management
1 1 (6.250%) Change Management
1 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (6.250%) ITSM
1 1 (6.250%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (6.250%) Load Balancing
1 1 (6.250%) Metaprogramming
1 1 (6.250%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) C++
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) PHP
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) C
3 2 (12.50%) Ruby
4 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.250%) Perl
4 1 (6.250%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.250%) vSphere
2 1 (6.250%) VMware ESX
2 1 (6.250%) Squid
2 1 (6.250%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (6.250%) OpenView
2 1 (6.250%) SCCM
2 1 (6.250%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Red Hat
2 7 (43.75%) Intel
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) HP
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