OpenStack Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OpenStack skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenStack over the 3 months to 22 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 Application Platforms 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenStack
Rank 523 583 -
Rank change year-on-year
+60 -
Contract jobs citing OpenStack 11 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.005% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.129% 0.031% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £375 -
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category		 8518 9671 10055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.07% 16.31% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4829 5304 5361
Average daily rate £355 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 467 438 552
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%

OpenStack
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OpenStack within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

OpenStack Jobs Demand Trend

OpenStack
Daily Rate Trend

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

OpenStack Daily Rate Trend

OpenStack
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenStack within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +64 11 £425 +13.33%
Yorkshire +5 6 £425 -
North Yorkshire - 6 £425 -
York - 4 £425 -
London - 2 £330 -
South East - 2 - -
City of London - 2 £330 -
Surrey - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Staines - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 - -

OpenStack
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenStack 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 OpenStack.

1 24 (64.86%) VMware
2 23 (62.16%) Linux
3 22 (59.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (56.76%) Open Source
5 20 (54.05%) Red Hat
6 19 (51.35%) IaaS
7 13 (35.14%) Java
8 12 (32.43%) Web Services
8 12 (32.43%) Apache
8 12 (32.43%) Amazon AWS
9 11 (29.73%) SaaS
9 11 (29.73%) CentOS
9 11 (29.73%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (29.73%) Hyper-V
9 11 (29.73%) Xen
9 11 (29.73%) PHP
9 11 (29.73%) Configuration Management
9 11 (29.73%) NoSQL
10 10 (27.03%) Citrix
10 10 (27.03%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (24.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (24.32%) PaaS
11 9 (24.32%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (24.32%) Windows Azure
11 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
12 8 (21.62%) Google
12 8 (21.62%) SCOM
12 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
12 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
12 8 (21.62%) CloudStack

OpenStack
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenStack 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 OpenStack. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (32.43%) Web Services
2 5 (13.51%) J2SE
2 5 (13.51%) J2EE
2 5 (13.51%) LAMP
3 2 (5.405%) HTML
3 2 (5.405%) SOAP
3 2 (5.405%) XML
3 2 (5.405%) CGI
3 2 (5.405%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.703%) MapReduce
4 1 (2.703%) RESTful
4 1 (2.703%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 12 (32.43%) Apache
1 12 (32.43%) Amazon AWS
2 9 (24.32%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (24.32%) Windows Azure
3 8 (21.62%) CloudStack
4 4 (10.81%) MS Exchange
5 1 (2.703%) Rackspace Cloud
5 1 (2.703%) Kafka
5 1 (2.703%) Apache Pig
5 1 (2.703%) Drupal
5 1 (2.703%) Magento
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.108%) SAN
1 3 (8.108%) NAS
2 1 (2.703%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.703%) OSPF
2 1 (2.703%) IPv4
2 1 (2.703%) Firewall
2 1 (2.703%) BGP
2 1 (2.703%) DVB
2 1 (2.703%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.703%) LAN
2 1 (2.703%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.405%) MySQL
3 1 (2.703%) HBase
3 1 (2.703%) Big Data
3 1 (2.703%) Hypertable
3 1 (2.703%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.703%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.703%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.703%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.703%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Subversion
2 2 (5.405%) Git (software)
3 1 (2.703%) Mercurial
General
1 3 (8.108%) Telecoms
1 3 (8.108%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.405%) Marketing
2 2 (5.405%) German Language
3 1 (2.703%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Architect
2 10 (27.03%) Systems Administrator
2 10 (27.03%) Linux Engineer
3 9 (24.32%) Linux Administrator
3 9 (24.32%) Administrator
4 8 (21.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 7 (18.92%) Technical Architect
6 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (10.81%) Senior Architect
8 3 (8.108%) Developer
8 3 (8.108%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (5.405%) Consultant
9 2 (5.405%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (5.405%) Web Administrator
9 2 (5.405%) VMware Architect
9 2 (5.405%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (5.405%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.405%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.405%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 21 (56.76%) Open Source
2 19 (51.35%) IaaS
3 11 (29.73%) SaaS
3 11 (29.73%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (24.32%) PaaS
5 8 (21.62%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (5.405%) Replication
6 2 (5.405%) Computer Science
6 2 (5.405%) Eucalyptus
6 2 (5.405%) Smartcard
6 2 (5.405%) EFT
6 2 (5.405%) EFTPOS
6 2 (5.405%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (2.703%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 23 (62.16%) Linux
2 11 (29.73%) CentOS
3 9 (24.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (18.92%) Ubuntu
5 4 (10.81%) Windows
6 3 (8.108%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (29.73%) Configuration Management
2 10 (27.03%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (8.108%) ERP
4 2 (5.405%) Migration
4 2 (5.405%) ITSM
4 2 (5.405%) ITIL
4 2 (5.405%) UML
4 2 (5.405%) E-Commerce
4 2 (5.405%) Mobile Commerce
5 1 (2.703%) RDF
5 1 (2.703%) SOA
5 1 (2.703%) Data Migration
5 1 (2.703%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.703%) Software Engineering
5 1 (2.703%) Scrum
5 1 (2.703%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Java
2 11 (29.73%) PHP
3 7 (18.92%) Python
4 3 (8.108%) Perl
4 3 (8.108%) C++
5 2 (5.405%) C
5 2 (5.405%) C#
5 2 (5.405%) SQL
5 2 (5.405%) VB
5 2 (5.405%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.703%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.703%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.703%) Ruby
6 1 (2.703%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) MCTS
2 4 (10.81%) MCITP
3 1 (2.703%) VCP5
3 1 (2.703%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.703%) CCIE
3 1 (2.703%) Degree
3 1 (2.703%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 22 (59.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (29.73%) Hyper-V
2 11 (29.73%) Xen
3 4 (10.81%) UAG
4 1 (2.703%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (2.703%) Varnish
4 1 (2.703%) vSphere
4 1 (2.703%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) SCOM
2 4 (10.81%) Puppet
3 3 (8.108%) BladeLogic
4 2 (5.405%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 2 (5.405%) Tivoli
4 2 (5.405%) Ionix
5 1 (2.703%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (64.86%) VMware
2 20 (54.05%) Red Hat
3 10 (27.03%) Citrix
4 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
5 8 (21.62%) Google
6 4 (10.81%) BMC
7 3 (8.108%) Cisco
8 2 (5.405%) Opsware
8 2 (5.405%) Oracle
8 2 (5.405%) HP
8 2 (5.405%) CA
8 2 (5.405%) NetApp
8 2 (5.405%) Symantec
9 1 (2.703%) Rackspace
9 1 (2.703%) SAP
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