The first table below looks at the demand for CentOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CentOS over the 3 months to 20 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 Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CentOS Linux
Rank 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing CentOS 11 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.583% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.165% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £270 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -17.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £34.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £41.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.57% +50.00%
All Operating Systems
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
508 452 356
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 26.94% 19.67% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 211 135
Average daily rate £315 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 73 56
Average hourly rate £12.88 £13.00 £15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.96% -17.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
CentOS
England

CentOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire CentOS Jobs Demand Trend

CentOS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire CentOS Daily Rate Trend

CentOS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire CentOS Hourly Rate Trend

CentOS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CentOS within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
West Yorkshire - 7 £265 -
North Yorkshire - 4 £363 -
CentOS
England

CentOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing CentOS 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 CentOS.

1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (92.86%) Windows
3 12 (85.71%) Red Hat
4 11 (78.57%) Cisco
4 11 (78.57%) Firewall
4 11 (78.57%) BIG-IP
4 11 (78.57%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (78.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (78.57%) F5
5 8 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (57.14%) Apache
6 7 (50.00%) IIS
7 6 (42.86%) Perforce
7 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
7 6 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (35.71%) vSphere
8 5 (35.71%) Ubuntu
8 5 (35.71%) Juniper
8 5 (35.71%) Debian
8 5 (35.71%) VMware
9 4 (28.57%) Clustering
9 4 (28.57%) Nagios
9 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
9 4 (28.57%) Tomcat
9 4 (28.57%) Puppet
9 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (21.43%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (21.43%) Cacti
10 3 (21.43%) NAS
10 3 (21.43%) iSCSI

CentOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing CentOS 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 CentOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.143%) .NET
1 1 (7.143%) J2EE
1 1 (7.143%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (57.14%) Apache
2 7 (50.00%) IIS
3 4 (28.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) Firewall
1 11 (78.57%) BIG-IP
1 11 (78.57%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (21.43%) NAS
2 3 (21.43%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (21.43%) iSCSI
3 2 (14.29%) DVB
3 2 (14.29%) RTSP
4 1 (7.143%) SSH
4 1 (7.143%) LDAP
4 1 (7.143%) SMTP
4 1 (7.143%) DHCP
4 1 (7.143%) FTP
4 1 (7.143%) HTTP
4 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.143%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) CruiseControl
1 1 (7.143%) Maven
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Build Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Network Support
4 1 (7.143%) Server Support Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Environment Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Software Configuration Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Server Support
4 1 (7.143%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 2 (14.29%) IPTV
2 2 (14.29%) Video on Demand
3 1 (7.143%) Reference Data
3 1 (7.143%) Firmware
3 1 (7.143%) STB
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (92.86%) Windows
3 11 (78.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (35.71%) Debian
6 5 (35.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (7.143%) HPUX
7 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (7.143%) SUSE
7 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.143%) CRM
3 1 (7.143%) Migration
3 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
3 1 (7.143%) Test Management
3 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C
2 2 (14.29%) PHP
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.143%) COBOL
3 1 (7.143%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) MCP
1 1 (7.143%) MCSE
1 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) vSphere
2 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.143%) NFS
3 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.143%) Squid
3 1 (7.143%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Nagios
1 4 (28.57%) Puppet
2 3 (21.43%) Cacti
3 1 (7.143%) CA Wily
3 1 (7.143%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 11 (78.57%) Cisco
2 11 (78.57%) F5
3 6 (42.86%) Perforce
4 5 (35.71%) VMware
4 5 (35.71%) Juniper
5 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
6 3 (21.43%) Oracle
6 3 (21.43%) HP
6 3 (21.43%) EMC
7 1 (7.143%) Citrix
7 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
7 1 (7.143%) Tangosol
7 1 (7.143%) Brocade
7 1 (7.143%) Syncsort
Skipton, North Yorkshire
You will be working within their infrastructure, supporting and troubleshooting the system. The main skills needed are: Basic Linux skills - Redhat, CentOS. Microsoft Server. Desktop - Windows 2013 and...
Greywood Associates Limited
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Skipton, Yorkshire
Systems Administrator - Contract - Skipton ( Linux / Samba / RedHat / Microsoft Server / SQL Server / HyperV / SQL Server ) My client is looking for a contract Systems Administrator to join their team on...
greywood
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
York, Yorkshire
My client is actively seeking a dynamic, communicable and intelligent Linux Build and Deployment Engineer with proven past experience in Linux based domains to deliver server and portal...
IQ Resourcing
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 3 May 2013