Linux Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Linux skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux 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 Operating Systems category for the West Midlands region.

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
Linux
Rank 65 58 44
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -14
Contract jobs citing Linux 34 55 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 2.027% 2.407% 3.193%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.37% 12.85% 18.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 35
Average daily rate £325 £280 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% -1.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £200 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £392 £390 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 1
Average hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-1.35% +5.71%
All Operating Systems
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 328 428 314
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 19.56% 18.73% 16.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 178 125
Average daily rate £300 £300 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.08% +5.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £180 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £422 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 65 58
Average hourly rate £15.35 £14.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.87% +7.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £27.60 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
Linux
England

Linux
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Linux across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

West Midlands Linux Jobs Demand Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Linux across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Linux Daily Rate Trend

Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands Linux Daily Rate Histogram

Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Linux across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Linux Hourly Rate Trend

Linux
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands Linux Hourly Rate Histogram

Linux
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the West Midlands region 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
Herefordshire - 8 £320 -
Birmingham -1 5 £363 +20.83%
Worcestershire -7 5 £168 -52.14%
Coventry -1 4 £175 -23.91%
Warwickshire -11 4 - -
Staffordshire +15 1 - -
Walsall - 1 £330 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Linux
England

Linux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Linux 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 Linux.

1 60 (53.57%) Windows
2 43 (38.39%) UNIX
3 39 (34.82%) Oracle
4 33 (29.46%) Red Hat
5 32 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 29 (25.89%) Security Cleared
7 28 (25.00%) WebSphere
8 27 (24.11%) IBM
9 24 (21.43%) Active Directory
10 22 (19.64%) HTTP
10 22 (19.64%) VMware
11 21 (18.75%) DB2
11 21 (18.75%) SQL
12 20 (17.86%) TCP/IP
12 20 (17.86%) SAN
12 20 (17.86%) Microsoft
13 19 (16.96%) Cisco
13 19 (16.96%) Middleware
14 18 (16.07%) WebSphere Process Server
14 18 (16.07%) SOA
14 18 (16.07%) LAN
15 17 (15.18%) WAN
15 17 (15.18%) LDAP
15 17 (15.18%) Firewall
16 16 (14.29%) IBM HTTP Server
16 16 (14.29%) MySQL
16 16 (14.29%) Web Services
16 16 (14.29%) SC Cleared
16 16 (14.29%) NAS
17 15 (13.39%) Windows Server 2008

Linux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Linux 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 Linux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 28 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 19 (16.96%) Middleware
3 16 (14.29%) Web Services
4 15 (13.39%) .NET
4 15 (13.39%) JMS
5 9 (8.036%) HTML
5 9 (8.036%) CSS
6 6 (5.357%) jQuery
7 5 (4.464%) XML
8 4 (3.571%) SAML
9 3 (2.679%) Django
9 3 (2.679%) HTML5
10 2 (1.786%) OAuth
10 2 (1.786%) OpenID
10 2 (1.786%) CSS3
10 2 (1.786%) J2EE
10 2 (1.786%) JDBC
10 2 (1.786%) SOAP
10 2 (1.786%) LAMP
10 2 (1.786%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 18 (16.07%) WebSphere Process Server
2 16 (14.29%) IBM HTTP Server
3 12 (10.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 11 (9.821%) MS Exchange
5 9 (8.036%) WebSphere MQ
5 9 (8.036%) Apache
6 8 (7.143%) SharePoint
7 7 (6.250%) ESB
7 7 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (4.464%) Tomcat
9 4 (3.571%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 4 (3.571%) WordPress
10 3 (2.679%) Exchange Server 5.5
10 3 (2.679%) Exchange Server 2000
10 3 (2.679%) Exchange Server 2003
10 3 (2.679%) CMS
11 2 (1.786%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (1.786%) Drupal
11 2 (1.786%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.893%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (6.250%) MS Office
2 4 (3.571%) Photoshop
2 4 (3.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.464%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 2 (1.786%) ENOVIA
3 1 (0.893%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.64%) HTTP
2 20 (17.86%) TCP/IP
2 20 (17.86%) SAN
3 18 (16.07%) LAN
4 17 (15.18%) WAN
4 17 (15.18%) LDAP
4 17 (15.18%) Firewall
5 16 (14.29%) NAS
6 14 (12.50%) DNS
7 6 (5.357%) SNMP
8 5 (4.464%) MPLS
9 4 (3.571%) VPN
9 4 (3.571%) VoIP
10 3 (2.679%) X.500
10 3 (2.679%) TACACS
10 3 (2.679%) FTP
10 3 (2.679%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (1.786%) Cisco PIX
11 2 (1.786%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (1.786%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.75%) DB2
2 16 (14.29%) MySQL
3 12 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (4.464%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.786%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.893%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.893%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.893%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (5.357%) Subversion
2 5 (4.464%) ClearCase
3 4 (3.571%) TortoiseSVN
4 2 (1.786%) Dreamweaver
4 2 (1.786%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (1.786%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.893%) Selenium
5 1 (0.893%) Maven
5 1 (0.893%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.893%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.893%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.893%) Ant
5 1 (0.893%) PhoneGap
General
1 6 (5.357%) Back Office
1 6 (5.357%) Banking
2 5 (4.464%) Investment Banking
2 5 (4.464%) Telecoms
2 5 (4.464%) Finance
2 5 (4.464%) Manufacturing
3 4 (3.571%) Retail
4 3 (2.679%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (2.679%) German Language
5 1 (0.893%) Marketing
5 1 (0.893%) Billing
5 1 (0.893%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.893%) Electronics
5 1 (0.893%) Publishing
5 1 (0.893%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 19 (16.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (16.07%) Administrator
3 15 (13.39%) Developer
4 9 (8.036%) Support Engineer
4 9 (8.036%) WebSphere Specialist
5 7 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
5 7 (6.250%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (5.357%) Network Engineer
6 6 (5.357%) Consultant
7 5 (4.464%) WebSphere Engineer
7 5 (4.464%) Systems Support
7 5 (4.464%) WebSphere Administrator
8 4 (3.571%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 4 (3.571%) Architect
8 4 (3.571%) WebSphere Consultant
8 4 (3.571%) UNIX Systems Administrator
8 4 (3.571%) WebSphere Developer
8 4 (3.571%) Implementation Engineer
9 3 (2.679%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.143%) Clustering
1 8 (7.143%) Computer Science
2 5 (4.464%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.679%) Symmetrix DMX
4 2 (1.786%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.786%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.786%) W3C
4 2 (1.786%) Handset
4 2 (1.786%) VLE
4 2 (1.786%) Replication
5 1 (0.893%) Statistics
5 1 (0.893%) IVR
5 1 (0.893%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.893%) iPad
5 1 (0.893%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.893%) iPhone
5 1 (0.893%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.893%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 60 (53.57%) Windows
2 43 (38.39%) UNIX
3 32 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (13.39%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (12.50%) Solaris
6 8 (7.143%) AIX
6 8 (7.143%) HPUX
7 7 (6.250%) Windows 2000 Server
8 6 (5.357%) SUSE
9 4 (3.571%) Windows NT
9 4 (3.571%) zOS
10 2 (1.786%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.893%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.893%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.893%) Debian
11 1 (0.893%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.893%) CentOS
11 1 (0.893%) Android
11 1 (0.893%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.07%) SOA
2 14 (12.50%) ITIL
3 10 (8.929%) Migration
4 8 (7.143%) Project Management
5 7 (6.250%) Incident Management
6 6 (5.357%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (4.464%) Service Management
7 5 (4.464%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (3.571%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (3.571%) Network Management
8 4 (3.571%) EAI
8 4 (3.571%) Six Sigma
8 4 (3.571%) Configuration Management
9 3 (2.679%) Web Development
9 3 (2.679%) Fund Management
9 3 (2.679%) Wealth Management
9 3 (2.679%) Data Analysis
9 3 (2.679%) Service Delivery
9 3 (2.679%) RDF
9 3 (2.679%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.75%) SQL
2 12 (10.71%) Java
3 11 (9.821%) Shell Script
4 10 (8.929%) PHP
5 8 (7.143%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.571%) Perl
7 3 (2.679%) Korn
7 3 (2.679%) Python
8 2 (1.786%) PHP5
8 2 (1.786%) C++
8 2 (1.786%) Ruby
9 1 (0.893%) Jython
9 1 (0.893%) Progress 4GL
9 1 (0.893%) C
9 1 (0.893%) C#
9 1 (0.893%) VBScript
9 1 (0.893%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.893%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 29 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.929%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.250%) CCNA
5 6 (5.357%) Degree
6 4 (3.571%) IBM Certification
6 4 (3.571%) GCSC
7 3 (2.679%) CCIE
7 3 (2.679%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.786%) CCNP
8 2 (1.786%) ISEB
9 1 (0.893%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.679%) SLA
2 2 (1.786%) QA
3 1 (0.893%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.464%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.679%) Samba
3 3 (2.679%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (2.679%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.893%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.893%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.893%) XenServer
4 1 (0.893%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (2.679%) Tivoli
2 2 (1.786%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (0.893%) WSUS
3 1 (0.893%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.893%) Nagios
3 1 (0.893%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 1 (0.893%) Tivoli Remote Control
3 1 (0.893%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.893%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (0.893%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.893%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (0.893%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 39 (34.82%) Oracle
2 33 (29.46%) Red Hat
3 27 (24.11%) IBM
4 22 (19.64%) VMware
5 20 (17.86%) Microsoft
6 19 (16.96%) Cisco
7 10 (8.929%) EMC
8 7 (6.250%) HP
9 6 (5.357%) Juniper
9 6 (5.357%) Sun
10 5 (4.464%) Intel
10 5 (4.464%) Cognos
10 5 (4.464%) F5
11 4 (3.571%) Veritas
12 3 (2.679%) Sybase
13 2 (1.786%) Adobe
13 2 (1.786%) Citrix
14 1 (0.893%) Zend
14 1 (0.893%) Alterian
14 1 (0.893%) BMC
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