The first table below looks at the demand for Sendmail skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sendmail 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sendmail
Rank 525 556 584
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +28
Contract jobs citing Sendmail 5 22 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.038% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.116% 0.475% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 3
Average daily rate £320 £350 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -5.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £340 -
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -
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
4317 4635 4468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.304% 7.953% 7.289%
Number of daily rates quoted 2073 2240 1970
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 613 651
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -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 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

Sendmail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sendmail Jobs Demand Trend

Sendmail
Daily Rate Trend

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

Sendmail Daily Rate Trend

Sendmail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sendmail Hourly Rate Trend

Sendmail
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sendmail 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 +30 4 £315 -10.00%
East of England +13 3 £315 -10.00%
Cambridgeshire +11 3 £315 -10.00%
Cambridge +6 1 £310 -11.42%
Northern Ireland - 1 £375 -
South East - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 - -
Camberley - 1 - -
Belfast - 1 £375 -
County Antrim - 1 £375 -

Sendmail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 14 (70.00%) Perl
2 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 12 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 12 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (55.00%) DNS
3 11 (55.00%) Sun
3 11 (55.00%) Solaris
4 10 (50.00%) Windows
4 10 (50.00%) Apache
5 9 (45.00%) Python
6 8 (40.00%) Oracle
6 8 (40.00%) Java
7 7 (35.00%) UNIX
7 7 (35.00%) RHCE
7 7 (35.00%) Nagios
7 7 (35.00%) Postfix
7 7 (35.00%) Puppet
7 7 (35.00%) Firewall
7 7 (35.00%) LAMP
8 6 (30.00%) Debian
8 6 (30.00%) Subversion
8 6 (30.00%) Blue Coat
8 6 (30.00%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (30.00%) Bash shell
8 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
8 6 (30.00%) Git (software)
8 6 (30.00%) OpenLDAP
8 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
8 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared

Sendmail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (35.00%) LAMP
2 2 (10.00%) J2EE
3 1 (5.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Rackspace Cloud
4 1 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (5.000%) MS Exchange
4 1 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Project
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
1 1 (5.000%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) DNS
2 7 (35.00%) Firewall
3 6 (30.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (30.00%) NetScreen
3 6 (30.00%) Kerberos
3 6 (30.00%) WAN
3 6 (30.00%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (20.00%) Internet
5 3 (15.00%) SSH
5 3 (15.00%) Network Security
5 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (10.00%) SAN
7 1 (5.000%) VPN
7 1 (5.000%) POP3
7 1 (5.000%) SMTP
7 1 (5.000%) DHCP
7 1 (5.000%) IMAP
7 1 (5.000%) LDAP
7 1 (5.000%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Subversion
1 6 (30.00%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.000%) Banking
3 1 (5.000%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.000%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Administrator
3 4 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.000%) UNIX Administrator
6 1 (5.000%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.000%) AIX Administrator
6 1 (5.000%) Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) HACMP
1 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.000%) Clustering
1 1 (5.000%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
1 12 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (55.00%) Solaris
3 10 (50.00%) Windows
4 7 (35.00%) UNIX
5 6 (30.00%) Debian
6 4 (20.00%) Windows XP
7 3 (15.00%) AIX
8 2 (10.00%) VMS
8 2 (10.00%) SUSE
9 1 (5.000%) FreeBSD
9 1 (5.000%) HPUX
9 1 (5.000%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (15.00%) Project Management
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (5.000%) Operations Management
4 1 (5.000%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.000%) High Availability
4 1 (5.000%) Change Control
4 1 (5.000%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.000%) Service Management
4 1 (5.000%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Perl
2 9 (45.00%) Python
3 8 (40.00%) Java
4 6 (30.00%) Bash shell
5 5 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (25.00%) PHP
6 4 (20.00%) C++
7 3 (15.00%) C
7 3 (15.00%) SQL
7 3 (15.00%) VB
8 1 (5.000%) AWK
8 1 (5.000%) PowerShell
8 1 (5.000%) Bourne shell
8 1 (5.000%) sed
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) RHCE
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) RHCT
4 1 (5.000%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.000%) HPUX Certification
4 1 (5.000%) SCSA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Postfix
2 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (25.00%) Samba
4 2 (10.00%) NFS
5 1 (5.000%) Xen
5 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (5.000%) qmail
5 1 (5.000%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Veritas File System
5 1 (5.000%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (5.000%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Nagios
1 7 (35.00%) Puppet
2 6 (30.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (10.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (10.00%) OpenView
4 1 (5.000%) Legato
4 1 (5.000%) Tivoli
4 1 (5.000%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 11 (55.00%) Sun
3 8 (40.00%) Oracle
4 6 (30.00%) Cisco
4 6 (30.00%) McAfee
4 6 (30.00%) Juniper
4 6 (30.00%) NetApp
4 6 (30.00%) Blue Coat
5 3 (15.00%) IBM
5 3 (15.00%) HP
6 2 (10.00%) Veritas
6 2 (10.00%) Rackspace
7 1 (5.000%) Egenera
7 1 (5.000%) EMC
7 1 (5.000%) Intel
7 1 (5.000%) JBoss
7 1 (5.000%) StorageTek
7 1 (5.000%) BMC
7 1 (5.000%) VMware
7 1 (5.000%) Remedy