The first table below looks at the demand for YUM skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited YUM over the 3 months to 21 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 Systems Management 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Yellowdog Updater, Modified (YUM)
Rank 537 573 577
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +4
Contract jobs citing YUM 3 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.014% 0.005%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.094% 0.224% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
Average daily rate £451 £313 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.16% -30.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £306 -
% change year-on-year
-2.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £33.00
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3197 3564 3578
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.772% 6.097% 5.948%
Number of daily rates quoted 1804 1813 1698
Average daily rate £375 £350 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -5.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 170 226
Average hourly rate £20.25 £19.63 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.18% -16.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

YUM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

YUM Jobs Demand Trend

YUM
Daily Rate Trend

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

YUM Daily Rate Trend

YUM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing YUM within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

YUM Daily Rate Histogram

YUM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

YUM Hourly Rate Trend

YUM
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YUM within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +40 3 £451 +44.16%
London +13 2 £451 +32.01%
Hertfordshire +11 1 £300 -2.04%
East of England +9 1 £300 -2.04%

YUM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing YUM 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 YUM.

1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Tomcat
3 6 (66.67%) Python
3 6 (66.67%) Subversion
3 6 (66.67%) Maven
4 5 (55.56%) Ruby
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon AWS
4 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
5 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (44.44%) Puppet
5 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
5 4 (44.44%) Solaris
5 4 (44.44%) Java
6 3 (33.33%) Web Services
6 3 (33.33%) UNIX
6 3 (33.33%) Apache
6 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
6 3 (33.33%) Splunk
6 3 (33.33%) Bash shell
6 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
6 3 (33.33%) CentOS
7 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
7 2 (22.22%) Open Source
7 2 (22.22%) Confluence
7 2 (22.22%) Digital Media
7 2 (22.22%) Redmine
7 2 (22.22%) RHCT
7 2 (22.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (22.22%) Wireshark

YUM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing YUM 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 YUM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) Tomcat
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Apache
4 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Wireshark
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Subversion
1 6 (66.67%) Maven
2 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
3 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
4 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
4 2 (22.22%) Redmine
4 2 (22.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (11.11%) ClearCase
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Build Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Open Source
1 2 (22.22%) Digital Media
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Solaris
3 3 (33.33%) UNIX
3 3 (33.33%) CentOS
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
1 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Ruby
3 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
3 4 (44.44%) Java
4 3 (33.33%) Bash shell
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) RHCT
1 2 (22.22%) RHCE
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Puppet
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Wind River
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