The first table below looks at the demand for FreeBSD skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FreeBSD 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
FreeBSD
Rank 527 577 586
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +9
Contract jobs citing FreeBSD 3 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.030% 0.008% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £370
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%

FreeBSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

FreeBSD Jobs Demand Trend

FreeBSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

FreeBSD Daily Rate Trend

FreeBSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

FreeBSD Hourly Rate Trend

FreeBSD
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 FreeBSD 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 +50 3 - -
Bath - 2 - -
South West - 2 - -
Somerset - 2 - -
London +21 1 - -

FreeBSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (91.67%) MySQL
1 11 (91.67%) UNIX
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
1 11 (91.67%) Apache
2 9 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 9 (75.00%) VMware
3 8 (66.67%) DNS
3 8 (66.67%) Windows
4 7 (58.33%) SMTP
4 7 (58.33%) RHCE
4 7 (58.33%) HP
4 7 (58.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (58.33%) Ubuntu
4 7 (58.33%) Debian
4 7 (58.33%) iSCSI
4 7 (58.33%) CentOS
4 7 (58.33%) Postfix
4 7 (58.33%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (50.00%) vSphere
5 6 (50.00%) Cacti
5 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (50.00%) Degree
5 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (50.00%) VMware ESX
5 6 (50.00%) Gentoo
5 6 (50.00%) Nagios
5 6 (50.00%) NFS
5 6 (50.00%) SNMP
6 4 (33.33%) PHP

FreeBSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) HTML
1 1 (8.333%) CSS
1 1 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) LAMP
1 1 (8.333%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 11 (91.67%) Apache
2 4 (33.33%) nginx
3 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) DNS
2 7 (58.33%) iSCSI
2 7 (58.33%) SMTP
3 6 (50.00%) SNMP
3 6 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (33.33%) Internet
5 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (16.67%) DHCP
7 1 (8.333%) HTTP
7 1 (8.333%) VRRP
7 1 (8.333%) Firewall
7 1 (8.333%) IPsec
7 1 (8.333%) VLAN
7 1 (8.333%) SSL
7 1 (8.333%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
1 2 (16.67%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Systems Support
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) UNIX Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior UNIX Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Linux Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Linux Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) PHP Developer
3 1 (8.333%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) UNIX
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 8 (66.67%) Windows
3 7 (58.33%) Debian
3 7 (58.33%) Ubuntu
3 7 (58.33%) CentOS
4 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (50.00%) Gentoo
4 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (25.00%) OpenBSD
5 3 (25.00%) Solaris
6 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (16.67%) Mac OS X Server
7 1 (8.333%) Fedora
7 1 (8.333%) AIX
7 1 (8.333%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
2 1 (8.333%) Operations Management
2 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PHP
2 3 (25.00%) Perl
3 2 (16.67%) C
4 1 (8.333%) C++
4 1 (8.333%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) RHCE
1 7 (58.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (8.333%) HPUX Certification
3 1 (8.333%) SCSA
3 1 (8.333%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Postfix
1 7 (58.33%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
2 6 (50.00%) NFS
2 6 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (8.333%) Sendmail
4 1 (8.333%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (8.333%) Squid
4 1 (8.333%) Xen
4 1 (8.333%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Nagios
1 6 (50.00%) Cacti
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (8.333%) NetBackup
3 1 (8.333%) OpenView
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Red Hat
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 7 (58.33%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.333%) Sun
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle
4 1 (8.333%) JBoss
4 1 (8.333%) IBM
4 1 (8.333%) Intel
4 1 (8.333%) Veritas
4 1 (8.333%) Remedy
4 1 (8.333%) Zend
4 1 (8.333%) Egenera