The first table below looks at the demand for the Linux Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linux Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linux Engineer
Rank 105 111 93
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Linux Engineer 6 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.315% 0.219% 0.224%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.333% 0.231% 0.239%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
Average daily rate £275 £343 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.70% +14.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £500 £350
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +42.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £34.75
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +15.10%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1803 2164 1674
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.55% 94.75% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 914 1155 783
Average daily rate £320 £335 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £190 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 110 122
Average hourly rate £13.71 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.55% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £10.30 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £30.00 £40.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Linux Engineer across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Yorkshire Linux Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Linux Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Linux Engineer across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Yorkshire Linux Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Linux Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Linux Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Linux Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Engineer within the Yorkshire region 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
West Yorkshire +3 3 £238 -32.14%
North Yorkshire - 2 £363 -
Linux Engineer
England

Linux Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Linux Engineer in their job title 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 with Linux Engineer in their job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Apache
2 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) Juniper
3 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 3 (42.86%) Debian
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Nagios
3 3 (42.86%) BIG-IP
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) IIS
3 3 (42.86%) PHP
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (42.86%) CentOS
3 3 (42.86%) vSphere
3 3 (42.86%) Puppet
3 3 (42.86%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
4 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL

Linux Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Linux Engineer in their job title 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 with Linux Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) LAMP
2 1 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) J2EE
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Apache
2 3 (42.86%) IIS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
4 1 (14.29%) nginx
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) BIG-IP
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (28.57%) SSL
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) SMTP
4 1 (14.29%) SSH
4 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
4 1 (14.29%) LDAP
4 1 (14.29%) FTP
4 1 (14.29%) HTTP
4 1 (14.29%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) CruiseControl
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Debian
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) CentOS
3 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
3 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) HPUX
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
1 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Kanban
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PHP
2 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) vSphere
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) Samba
3 1 (14.29%) NFS
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Nagios
1 3 (42.86%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) CA Wily
2 1 (14.29%) PureDisk
2 1 (14.29%) Cacti
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) Juniper
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) F5
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Tangosol
4 1 (14.29%) BMC
4 1 (14.29%) NetApp
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Sun
4 1 (14.29%) HP
4 1 (14.29%) EMC
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) Brocade
4 1 (14.29%) Syncsort
4 1 (14.29%) Percona
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