The first table below looks at the demand for Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ubuntu Linux
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Ubuntu 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - -
As % of the Operating Systems category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £275 £325
% change year-on-year
+18.18% -15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 -
All Operating Systems
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
322 419 325
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 19.50% 18.78% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 177 125
Average daily rate £275 £311 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.64% +10.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £192 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £433 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 65 63
Average hourly rate £15.10 £15.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +19.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £29.10 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
Ubuntu
England

Ubuntu
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Ubuntu Daily Rate Trend

Ubuntu
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) X.25
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Junos
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus

Ubuntu
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) X.25
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Junos
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware