Ubuntu Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ubuntu over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank 488 517 538
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +21
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 41 67 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.088% 0.115% 0.075%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.409% 0.567% 0.362%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 22
Average daily rate £369 £338 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.25% +1.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £227 £275 £276
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £525 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £356
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -22.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% +4.65%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
Search 45 Ubuntu jobs
All Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 10015 11813 12724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 21.59% 20.26% 20.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5378 5865 6230
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 £199 £195 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 1187 1248
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 £38.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ubuntu Jobs Demand Trend

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Trend

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

Ubuntu Daily Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Ubuntu Daily Rate Histogram

Ubuntu
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Ubuntu Hourly Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ubuntu within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +26 39 £369 +7.27%
London +25 26 £428 +17.12%
Yorkshire - 6 £125 -
City of London +1 4 £330 -37.14%
York - 4 £363 -
North Yorkshire - 4 £363 -
East of England +11 3 - -
Hertfordshire +9 3 - -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 £300 -
Hemel Hempstead - 3 - -
North East - 3 £300 -
Tyne and Wear - 3 £300 -
Berkshire +14 1 £325 -
South East +9 1 £325 +28.71%
Scotland -8 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 £125 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £100 -
Stirling - 1 - -
Sheffield - 1 £100 -
Reading - 1 £325 -
Leeds - 1 £125 -
Hounslow - 1 - -

Ubuntu
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu.

1 88 (90.72%) Linux
2 63 (64.95%) Red Hat
3 44 (45.36%) Apache
4 40 (41.24%) Debian
5 39 (40.21%) CentOS
5 39 (40.21%) MySQL
6 35 (36.08%) Windows
7 31 (31.96%) Java
7 31 (31.96%) Puppet
8 30 (30.93%) VMware
9 28 (28.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (28.87%) Nagios
10 25 (25.77%) UNIX
11 24 (24.74%) PHP
11 24 (24.74%) Python
12 22 (22.68%) IIS
12 22 (22.68%) Amazon AWS
13 21 (21.65%) Open Source
13 21 (21.65%) Bash shell
14 18 (18.56%) Windows Server 2008
15 15 (15.46%) Oracle
16 14 (14.43%) Perl
16 14 (14.43%) NoSQL
17 13 (13.40%) VMware ESXi
17 13 (13.40%) DNS
17 13 (13.40%) Windows Server 2003
17 13 (13.40%) Cisco
17 13 (13.40%) Git (software)
17 13 (13.40%) Continuous Integration
18 12 (12.37%) Ruby

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (12.37%) Web Services
2 10 (10.31%) LAMP
3 9 (9.278%) .NET
4 8 (8.247%) J2EE
5 6 (6.186%) CSS
6 5 (5.155%) J2SE
6 5 (5.155%) HTML5
6 5 (5.155%) CSS3
7 4 (4.124%) Resque
7 4 (4.124%) RESTful
7 4 (4.124%) Django
7 4 (4.124%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (4.124%) HTML
7 4 (4.124%) Middleware
8 3 (3.093%) jQuery
8 3 (3.093%) Memcached
8 3 (3.093%) WSGI
8 3 (3.093%) Gearman
9 2 (2.062%) PostGIS
9 2 (2.062%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 44 (45.36%) Apache
2 22 (22.68%) IIS
2 22 (22.68%) Amazon AWS
3 10 (10.31%) Tomcat
4 9 (9.278%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (9.278%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.278%) nginx
5 7 (7.216%) OpenStack
6 5 (5.155%) Apache Solr
7 3 (3.093%) Drupal
7 3 (3.093%) Gunicorn
8 2 (2.062%) Apache Pig
8 2 (2.062%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.062%) CloudFront
8 2 (2.062%) Route 53
9 1 (1.031%) WebLogic
9 1 (1.031%) GlassFish
9 1 (1.031%) Jetty
9 1 (1.031%) CMS
9 1 (1.031%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 4 (4.124%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.031%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.40%) DNS
2 12 (12.37%) SMTP
3 11 (11.34%) SNMP
3 11 (11.34%) Firewall
4 10 (10.31%) iSCSI
5 9 (9.278%) Fibre Channel
6 8 (8.247%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (8.247%) SAN
7 7 (7.216%) DHCP
8 6 (6.186%) VLAN
8 6 (6.186%) Internet
9 5 (5.155%) TCP/IP
9 5 (5.155%) NAS
10 4 (4.124%) BIG-IP
10 4 (4.124%) VPN
10 4 (4.124%) LAN
11 3 (3.093%) X.25
11 3 (3.093%) BGP
11 3 (3.093%) MPLS
11 3 (3.093%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (40.21%) MySQL
2 14 (14.43%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.31%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.247%) Redis
5 6 (6.186%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.155%) Big Data
7 4 (4.124%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.093%) Oracle 8/8i
8 3 (3.093%) SQL Server 2008
9 2 (2.062%) Sqoop
9 2 (2.062%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.062%) SQL Server 2012
10 1 (1.031%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (1.031%) Oracle 11g
10 1 (1.031%) Jackrabbit
10 1 (1.031%) Pentaho
10 1 (1.031%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 13 (13.40%) Git (software)
2 6 (6.186%) Subversion
3 5 (5.155%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.093%) Selenium
4 3 (3.093%) Capistrano
4 3 (3.093%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.062%) Hudson
5 2 (2.062%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.062%) Bazaar
5 2 (2.062%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.031%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (1.031%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.031%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.031%) JIRA
6 1 (1.031%) TestComplete
6 1 (1.031%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.031%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.031%) Maven
6 1 (1.031%) CruiseControl
6 1 (1.031%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (4.124%) Telecoms
2 3 (3.093%) Publishing
3 2 (2.062%) Retail
3 2 (2.062%) Law
3 2 (2.062%) Dutch Language
3 2 (2.062%) German Language
4 1 (1.031%) Games
4 1 (1.031%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.031%) Advertising
4 1 (1.031%) Finance
4 1 (1.031%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 26 (26.80%) Administrator
2 24 (24.74%) Systems Administrator
3 23 (23.71%) Linux Administrator
4 20 (20.62%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 18 (18.56%) Systems Engineer
6 16 (16.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (11.34%) Developer
8 8 (8.247%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (5.155%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.124%) Build Engineer
10 4 (4.124%) Infrastructure Architect
10 4 (4.124%) Consultant
10 4 (4.124%) Architect
10 4 (4.124%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.124%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.093%) 2nd Line Support
11 3 (3.093%) UNIX Administrator
11 3 (3.093%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 2 (2.062%) Web Administrator
12 2 (2.062%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.65%) Open Source
2 9 (9.278%) IaaS
3 6 (6.186%) Clustering
4 5 (5.155%) Replication
5 4 (4.124%) Digital Media
5 4 (4.124%) SaaS
5 4 (4.124%) Mathematics
6 3 (3.093%) Computer Science
6 3 (3.093%) Cryptography
6 3 (3.093%) PaaS
7 2 (2.062%) IVR
7 2 (2.062%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (2.062%) Smartcard
7 2 (2.062%) EFT
7 2 (2.062%) EFTPOS
8 1 (1.031%) Online Games
8 1 (1.031%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.031%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.031%) Social Media
8 1 (1.031%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 88 (90.72%) Linux
2 40 (41.24%) Debian
3 39 (40.21%) CentOS
4 35 (36.08%) Windows
5 28 (28.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (25.77%) UNIX
7 18 (18.56%) Windows Server 2008
8 13 (13.40%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (9.278%) Solaris
10 8 (8.247%) Gentoo
10 8 (8.247%) SUSE
11 7 (7.216%) FreeBSD
12 4 (4.124%) Windows 7
13 3 (3.093%) AIX
13 3 (3.093%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (3.093%) Android
13 3 (3.093%) Fedora
14 2 (2.062%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (2.062%) Apple iOS
14 2 (2.062%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (13.40%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (12.37%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (11.34%) Configuration Management
4 9 (9.278%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (7.216%) TDD
6 6 (6.186%) OO
7 5 (5.155%) Project Management
7 5 (5.155%) E-Commerce
7 5 (5.155%) Load Balancing
7 5 (5.155%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (4.124%) Product Management
8 4 (4.124%) Automated Testing
8 4 (4.124%) Migration
8 4 (4.124%) Information Security
8 4 (4.124%) ITIL
9 3 (3.093%) SOA
9 3 (3.093%) Unit Testing
9 3 (3.093%) Scrum
9 3 (3.093%) Network Architecture
9 3 (3.093%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (31.96%) Java
2 24 (24.74%) PHP
2 24 (24.74%) Python
3 21 (21.65%) Bash shell
4 14 (14.43%) Perl
5 12 (12.37%) Ruby
6 11 (11.34%) SQL
7 9 (9.278%) JavaScript
8 8 (8.247%) PowerShell
9 7 (7.216%) C++
10 6 (6.186%) C
11 5 (5.155%) Shell Script
12 3 (3.093%) Korn
13 2 (2.062%) C#
13 2 (2.062%) VBScript
13 2 (2.062%) VB.NET
14 1 (1.031%) VB
14 1 (1.031%) Groovy
14 1 (1.031%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 9 (9.278%) Degree
2 7 (7.216%) RHCE
3 6 (6.186%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (5.155%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.155%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.124%) CCNP
6 2 (2.062%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (2.062%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.062%) CCNA
6 2 (2.062%) IBM Certification
6 2 (2.062%) Sun Certification
7 1 (1.031%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.031%) CCIE
7 1 (1.031%) ISEB
7 1 (1.031%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.062%) QA
2 1 (1.031%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (13.40%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (12.37%) vSphere
3 11 (11.34%) Active Directory
4 10 (10.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (10.31%) NFS
5 9 (9.278%) VMware ESX
6 8 (8.247%) Postfix
7 6 (6.186%) Varnish
8 3 (3.093%) Samba
9 2 (2.062%) Squid
10 1 (1.031%) Xen
10 1 (1.031%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (1.031%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (1.031%) Snort
Systems Management
1 31 (31.96%) Puppet
2 28 (28.87%) Nagios
3 10 (10.31%) Cacti
4 7 (7.216%) Zenoss
5 2 (2.062%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.031%) WSUS
6 1 (1.031%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.031%) Backup Exec
6 1 (1.031%) CA Wily
6 1 (1.031%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.031%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 63 (64.95%) Red Hat
2 30 (30.93%) VMware
3 15 (15.46%) Oracle
4 13 (13.40%) Cisco
5 11 (11.34%) HP
6 5 (5.155%) Microsoft
7 4 (4.124%) F5
7 4 (4.124%) Juniper
7 4 (4.124%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.093%) NetApp
8 3 (3.093%) Sun
8 3 (3.093%) EMC
9 2 (2.062%) Rackspace
9 2 (2.062%) Percona
9 2 (2.062%) Riverbed
9 2 (2.062%) JBoss
9 2 (2.062%) IBM
9 2 (2.062%) Veritas
9 2 (2.062%) Apple
10 1 (1.031%) Citrix
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