Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 26 September 2017

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Oracle Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle Linux over the 6 months to 26 September 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
UK
6 months to
26 Sep 2017		 Same period 2016 Same period 2015
Rank 818 737 803
Rank change year-on-year -81 +66 -57
Contract jobs citing Oracle Linux 51 155 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.15% 0.071%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.25% 0.66% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 106 45
UK median daily rate £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
10th Percentile £338 £363 £330
90th Percentile £575 £500 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £395 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -1.25% -5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
UK median hourly rate - - £21.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

Oracle Linux is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

All Operating Systems
UK
Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 20592 23632 24529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.79% 22.14% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 12933 14879 14444
UK median daily rate £425 £400 £375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% +2.74%
10th Percentile £181 £206 £185
90th Percentile £588 £575 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year - +7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1210 1278 1919
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £16.50 £16.35
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +6.06% +0.92% +3.81%
10th Percentile £10.75 £10.50 £10.50
90th Percentile £47.83 £43.28 £40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.50 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +3.13% - +3.23%

Oracle Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Oracle Linux as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Oracle Linux.

Contractor daily rate trend for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Oracle Linux over the 6 months to 26 September 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 26 September 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Job
Vacancies
England -86 49 £420 -1.18% 3
UK excluding London +4 33 £395 -1.25% 2
London -52 16 £425 -4.23% 1
South East -27 14 £413 +3.13%
North of England +69 8 £300 -31.82% 1
Midlands +31 8 £375 - 1
West Midlands - 8 £375 - 1
North West +28 6 £600 +33.33%
Yorkshire +33 2 £300 -17.24% 1
South West +3 2 £438 +16.67%
Scotland +15 1 - -

For the 6 months to 26 September 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Linux also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for Oracle Linux.

1 51 (100.00%) Oracle
1 51 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (37.25%) Unix
3 17 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 17 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (27.45%) SUSE
5 13 (25.49%) SQL
6 12 (23.53%) Java
6 12 (23.53%) AIX
6 12 (23.53%) Tomcat
6 12 (23.53%) Red Hat
7 11 (21.57%) Retail
8 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
8 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
8 10 (19.61%) Puppet
8 10 (19.61%) SAN
8 10 (19.61%) Agile Software Development
8 10 (19.61%) Solaris
9 9 (17.65%) Oracle Database
9 9 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (17.65%) WebSphere
10 8 (15.69%) BladeLogic
10 8 (15.69%) TDD
10 8 (15.69%) NetBackup
10 8 (15.69%) HTML
10 8 (15.69%) CSS
11 7 (13.73%) JSP
11 7 (13.73%) SSL
11 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (13.73%) Oracle RAC

Oracle Linux
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (23.53%) Tomcat
2 9 (17.65%) WebSphere
3 4 (7.84%) Apache
4 3 (5.88%) Commerce Server
4 3 (5.88%) WebLogic
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.96%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.96%) GeoServer
6 1 (1.96%) IIS
6 1 (1.96%) Mule
6 1 (1.96%) Mule ESB
6 1 (1.96%) NetWeaver
6 1 (1.96%) SAS
6 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.96%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.96%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (1.96%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) SAN
2 7 (13.73%) SSL
3 5 (9.80%) DNS
4 4 (7.84%) Firewall
5 3 (5.88%) IPsec
5 3 (5.88%) LDAP
5 3 (5.88%) Network Security
6 1 (1.96%) DHCP
6 1 (1.96%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.96%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.96%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) Oracle Database
2 6 (11.76%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (9.80%) Oracle Database 12c
4 4 (7.84%) DB2
5 3 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.88%) MySQL
5 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.92%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database 10g
6 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.96%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
7 1 (1.96%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle OWB
7 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.96%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git (software)
1 4 (7.84%) Maven
2 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.92%) Toad
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (21.57%) Retail
2 5 (9.80%) Finance
3 4 (7.84%) Games
4 1 (1.96%) Advertising
4 1 (1.96%) Electronics
4 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.96%) Marketing
4 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Developer
2 9 (17.65%) Administrator
3 8 (15.69%) Unix Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) WebSphere Developer
4 7 (13.73%) Linux Administrator
5 6 (11.76%) DBA
5 6 (11.76%) Oracle DBA
6 5 (9.80%) Unix Scripting Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Consultant
7 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Solaris Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Analyst
9 2 (3.92%) AIX Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) JDE CNC Consultant
9 2 (3.92%) JDE Consultant
9 2 (3.92%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 2 (3.92%) Middleware Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Oracle Developer
9 2 (3.92%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (3.92%) Unix Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) CSS
1 8 (15.69%) HTML
2 7 (13.73%) JSP
3 5 (9.80%) Dojo
3 5 (9.80%) EJB
3 5 (9.80%) JPA
3 5 (9.80%) Spring
3 5 (9.80%) Spring Integration
4 4 (7.84%) Apache Camel
4 4 (7.84%) Grails
4 4 (7.84%) JMS
4 4 (7.84%) Middleware
4 4 (7.84%) REST
5 3 (5.88%) J2EE
5 3 (5.88%) Java EE
5 3 (5.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle ADF
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (3.92%) RESTful
6 2 (3.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) iPad
1 4 (7.84%) Online Games
2 3 (5.88%) User Experience
3 2 (3.92%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Clustering
4 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) DataPower
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.96%) Equities
4 1 (1.96%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Exalytics
4 1 (1.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 51 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (37.25%) Unix
3 17 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (27.45%) SUSE
5 12 (23.53%) AIX
6 10 (19.61%) Solaris
7 5 (9.80%) Windows
8 4 (7.84%) CentOS
9 3 (5.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (3.92%) HPUX
10 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
10 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (1.96%) Android
11 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.96%) VMS
11 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (15.69%) TDD
3 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (13.73%) High Availability
4 6 (11.76%) Change Management
4 6 (11.76%) DevOps
4 6 (11.76%) ITIL
5 4 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (7.84%) Load Balancing
5 4 (7.84%) Low Latency
5 4 (7.84%) Microservices
5 4 (7.84%) Performance Engineering
6 3 (5.88%) Migration
6 3 (5.88%) Performance Testing
6 3 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (5.88%) Problem Management
6 3 (5.88%) Service Delivery
7 2 (3.92%) Identity Management
7 2 (3.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (3.92%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 13 (25.49%) SQL
3 12 (23.53%) Java
4 6 (11.76%) Python
5 5 (9.80%) Perl
6 4 (7.84%) Bash Shell
6 4 (7.84%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.88%) Groovy
7 3 (5.88%) Korn
8 2 (3.92%) Ruby
8 2 (3.92%) Scala
9 1 (1.96%) C
9 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
1 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) Degree
3 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.96%) MCP
4 1 (1.96%) MCSA
4 1 (1.96%) MCSE
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.96%) OCP
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.96%) RHCE
4 1 (1.96%) RHCSS
4 1 (1.96%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) JSP 440
1 2 (3.92%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (9.80%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.96%) Docker
5 1 (1.96%) Firmware
5 1 (1.96%) GFS2
5 1 (1.96%) NFS
5 1 (1.96%) OCFS2
5 1 (1.96%) vCloud
5 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.96%) vSphere
5 1 (1.96%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Puppet
2 8 (15.69%) BladeLogic
2 8 (15.69%) NetBackup
3 6 (11.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Data Guard
4 4 (7.84%) vRealize
5 2 (3.92%) Ansible
5 2 (3.92%) Opscode Chef
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.96%) SCCM
6 1 (1.96%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 6 (11.76%) VMware
4 5 (9.80%) IBM
5 4 (7.84%) HP
5 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.92%) Citrix
6 2 (3.92%) Cognos
6 2 (3.92%) EXASOL
6 2 (3.92%) JD Edwards
6 2 (3.92%) NetApp
6 2 (3.92%) SAP
6 2 (3.92%) Sybase
7 1 (1.96%) EMC
7 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.96%) Software AG
7 1 (1.96%) Sophos
7 1 (1.96%) webMethods