Linux Contracts in Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Linux skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux over the 3 months to 26 June 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.

Linux England / Yorkshire
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	20	10	12
Rank change year-on-year	-10	+2
Contract jobs citing Linux	148	307	283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire	7.36%	11.07%	9.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category	36.27%	45.75%	44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted	85	240	176
Median daily rate	£430	£450	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-4.44%	+38.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£334	£350	£242
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£570	£445
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.25%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	4
Median hourly rate	£39.50	-	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00	£37.50
% change year-on-year	-	+6.66%

Linux is in the operating system skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract Operating System Skills Yorkshire
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills	408	671	638
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire	20.28%	24.20%	21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted	213	470	357
Median daily rate	£360	£425	£300
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-15.29%	+41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£130	£263	£188
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£550	£420
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£363	£345
% change year-on-year	+3.44%	+5.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted	32	19	56
Median hourly rate	£11.88	£13.50	£14.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-12.03%	-3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£9.50	£9.15	£9.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.50	£23.50	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£15.50	£17.00	£16.20
% change year-on-year	-8.82%	+4.93%

Linux
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in Yorkshire citing Linux as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Operating Systems category.

Job vacancy trend for Linux in Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Linux in Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Linux in Yorkshire over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Linux in Yorkshire

Linux
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Linux in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linux within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire	-10	99	£430	-	56
South Yorkshire	-3	43	£475	+2.70%	14
North Yorkshire	+9	4	£250	-33.46%	8
East Yorkshire	-	1	£325	-
Linux England

Linux
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Yorkshire

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

1	181 (49.73%)	Agile Software Development
2	165 (45.33%)	Java
3	159 (43.68%)	Git (software)
4	146 (40.11%)	Python
5	128 (35.16%)	Unix
5	128 (35.16%)	CSS
6	120 (32.97%)	JavaScript
6	120 (32.97%)	Configuration Management
7	111 (30.49%)	Ruby
7	111 (30.49%)	DevOps
8	107 (29.40%)	HTML
9	103 (28.30%)	Test Automation
10	102 (28.02%)	Continuous Integration
11	96 (26.37%)	Relational Database
12	92 (25.27%)	TDD

13	82 (22.53%)	HTTP
14	81 (22.25%)	Jenkins
15	78 (21.43%)	Web Development
16	76 (20.88%)	Mac OS X
17	73 (20.05%)	Open Source
18	66 (18.13%)	Puppet
19	65 (17.86%)	REST
20	64 (17.58%)	Web Design
21	63 (17.31%)	Responsive Web Design
22	61 (16.76%)	Scala
23	60 (16.48%)	Mentoring
24	59 (16.21%)	Opscode Chef
25	57 (15.66%)	Windows
26	54 (14.84%)	JIRA
27	51 (14.01%)	MySQL

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Co-occurring IT Skills in Yorkshire 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
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	48 (13.19%)	Confluence
2	24 (6.59%)	Apache
3	13 (3.57%)	WebSphere
4	8 (2.20%)	Tomcat
5	6 (1.65%)	IIS
5	6 (1.65%)	OpenStack
6	5 (1.37%)	IBM Domino
6	5 (1.37%)	MS Exchange
6	5 (1.37%)	nginx
6	5 (1.37%)	WebLogic
6	5 (1.37%)	WebSphere Application Server
6	5 (1.37%)	WordPress
7	4 (1.10%)	SAS
8	3 (0.82%)	Apache Spark
8	3 (0.82%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	2 (0.55%)	Apache Pig
9	2 (0.55%)	Apache Solr
9	2 (0.55%)	JBoss
9	2 (0.55%)	Liferay
9	2 (0.55%)	WebSphere Portal

Applications
1	1 (0.27%)	HipChat

Business Applications
1	11 (3.02%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	1 (0.27%)	Primavera
2	1 (0.27%)	Teamcenter

Cloud Services
1	33 (9.07%)	Amazon AWS
2	15 (4.12%)	GitHub
3	13 (3.57%)	Slack
4	8 (2.20%)	Microsoft Azure
5	5 (1.37%)	IaaS
6	4 (1.10%)	Amazon S3
6	4 (1.10%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	4 (1.10%)	Google Cloud Platform
7	3 (0.82%)	Amazon EC2
8	2 (0.55%)	PaaS
8	2 (0.55%)	Route 53
8	2 (0.55%)	SaaS
8	2 (0.55%)	Virtual Private Cloud
9	1 (0.27%)	Amazon ELB
9	1 (0.27%)	Amazon SQS
9	1 (0.27%)	AWS Lambda
9	1 (0.27%)	Loggly
9	1 (0.27%)	Office 365
9	1 (0.27%)	Sumo Logic

Communications & Networking
1	82 (22.53%)	HTTP
2	19 (5.22%)	TCP/IP
3	15 (4.12%)	Firewall
4	10 (2.75%)	SSL
5	9 (2.47%)	DNS
6	8 (2.20%)	Internet
6	8 (2.20%)	SAN
7	6 (1.65%)	WAN
8	5 (1.37%)	LAN
8	5 (1.37%)	LDAP
9	4 (1.10%)	DHCP
9	4 (1.10%)	Wi-Fi
10	2 (0.55%)	Broadband
10	2 (0.55%)	FTP
10	2 (0.55%)	HTTPS
10	2 (0.55%)	Kerberos
10	2 (0.55%)	OpenLDAP
10	2 (0.55%)	SMTP
10	2 (0.55%)	Telnet
10	2 (0.55%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	96 (26.37%)	Relational Database
2	51 (14.01%)	MySQL
3	45 (12.36%)	MongoDB
4	35 (9.62%)	PostgreSQL
5	27 (7.42%)	NoSQL
6	19 (5.22%)	SQL Server
7	16 (4.40%)	Apache Cassandra
8	12 (3.30%)	Redis
9	10 (2.75%)	Hadoop
10	8 (2.20%)	Oracle Database
11	5 (1.37%)	Amazon DynamoDB
11	5 (1.37%)	MariaDB
12	4 (1.10%)	Big Data
12	4 (1.10%)	Data Warehouse
12	4 (1.10%)	HBase
12	4 (1.10%)	Oracle Reports
12	4 (1.10%)	Riak
13	3 (0.82%)	Oracle Database 11g
13	3 (0.82%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
13	3 (0.82%)	SQL Server Reporting Services

Development Applications
1	159 (43.68%)	Git (software)
2	81 (22.25%)	Jenkins
3	54 (14.84%)	JIRA
4	44 (12.09%)	Subversion
5	36 (9.89%)	JUnit
6	20 (5.49%)	Cucumber
7	9 (2.47%)	Jasmine
8	8 (2.20%)	Eclipse
8	8 (2.20%)	Maven
9	7 (1.92%)	Octopus Deploy
9	7 (1.92%)	Selenium
10	6 (1.65%)	IntelliJ
10	6 (1.65%)	PHPUnit
11	5 (1.37%)	Sonatype Nexus
11	5 (1.37%)	Visual Studio
12	4 (1.10%)	git-flow
12	4 (1.10%)	GitLab
12	4 (1.10%)	Grunt
13	3 (0.82%)	Bitbucket
13	3 (0.82%)	Gradle

General
1	49 (13.46%)	Finance
2	15 (4.12%)	Electronics
3	14 (3.85%)	Telecoms
4	12 (3.30%)	Manufacturing
4	12 (3.30%)	Marketing
5	11 (3.02%)	Banking
6	6 (1.65%)	Retail
7	3 (0.82%)	Games
8	2 (0.55%)	Legal
9	1 (0.27%)	Law
9	1 (0.27%)	Military

Job Titles
1	177 (48.63%)	Developer
2	83 (22.80%)	Java Developer
3	56 (15.38%)	DevOps Engineer
4	45 (12.36%)	Scala Developer
5	36 (9.89%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6	25 (6.87%)	Java Scala Developer
6	25 (6.87%)	Linux Engineer
7	18 (4.95%)	Software Engineer
8	17 (4.67%)	PHP Developer
9	16 (4.40%)	Front End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
9	16 (4.40%)	Python Developer
10	14 (3.85%)	Administrator
11	12 (3.30%)	Architect
11	12 (3.30%)	DBA
11	12 (3.30%)	Full Stack Developer
12	11 (3.02%)	WebOps Engineer
13	10 (2.75%)	Platform Engineer
14	9 (2.47%)	Java Engineer
15	8 (2.20%)	Analyst
15	8 (2.20%)	Systems Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	128 (35.16%)	CSS
2	107 (29.40%)	HTML
3	65 (17.86%)	REST
4	50 (13.74%)	Spring
5	47 (12.91%)	Web Services
6	40 (10.99%)	HTML5
6	40 (10.99%)	JSON
7	39 (10.71%)	Play Framework
8	37 (10.16%)	RESTful
9	32 (8.79%)	Django
10	31 (8.52%)	Spring MVC
11	30 (8.24%)	CSS3
12	27 (7.42%)	Node.js
13	25 (6.87%)	Ajax
13	25 (6.87%)	Guice
13	25 (6.87%)	Ruby on Rails
14	16 (4.40%)	LAMP
14	16 (4.40%)	React
14	16 (4.40%)	XML
15	14 (3.85%)	.NET

Miscellaneous
1	41 (11.26%)	User Experience
2	17 (4.67%)	Greenfield Project
3	13 (3.57%)	Analytical Skills
4	10 (2.75%)	Data Centre
5	7 (1.92%)	iSeries
6	6 (1.65%)	Client/Server
6	6 (1.65%)	Management Information System
7	5 (1.37%)	Computer Science
8	4 (1.10%)	Driving Licence
8	4 (1.10%)	Replication
9	3 (0.82%)	Clustering
9	3 (0.82%)	Enterprise Software
9	3 (0.82%)	Linux Command Line
9	3 (0.82%)	STB
10	2 (0.55%)	NHS
10	2 (0.55%)	Over-the-Top Content
11	1 (0.27%)	BYOD
11	1 (0.27%)	EMC VNX
11	1 (0.27%)	Fintech
11	1 (0.27%)	Public Cloud

Operating Systems
1	128 (35.16%)	Unix
2	76 (20.88%)	Mac OS X
3	57 (15.66%)	Windows
4	35 (9.62%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	19 (5.22%)	Solaris
6	14 (3.85%)	Windows Server
7	13 (3.57%)	Ubuntu
8	11 (3.02%)	CentOS
9	8 (2.20%)	AIX
10	7 (1.92%)	Windows Server 2008
10	7 (1.92%)	Windows Server 2012
11	6 (1.65%)	Embedded Linux
11	6 (1.65%)	SUSE
12	4 (1.10%)	Android
13	3 (0.82%)	CoreOS
13	3 (0.82%)	VMS
13	3 (0.82%)	Windows NT
13	3 (0.82%)	Windows Phone
13	3 (0.82%)	Windows Server 2003
14	2 (0.55%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	181 (49.73%)	Agile Software Development
2	120 (32.97%)	Configuration Management
3	111 (30.49%)	DevOps
4	103 (28.30%)	Test Automation
5	102 (28.02%)	Continuous Integration
6	92 (25.27%)	TDD
7	78 (21.43%)	Web Development
8	73 (20.05%)	Open Source
9	64 (17.58%)	Web Design
10	63 (17.31%)	Responsive Web Design
11	60 (16.48%)	Mentoring
12	49 (13.46%)	Continuous Delivery
13	48 (13.19%)	BDD
13	48 (13.19%)	Line Management
14	39 (10.71%)	Scrum
15	38 (10.44%)	MVC
16	35 (9.62%)	Software Engineering
17	33 (9.07%)	Front End Development
18	32 (8.79%)	Visualisation
19	31 (8.52%)	Data Visualisation

Programming Languages
1	165 (45.33%)	Java
2	146 (40.11%)	Python
3	120 (32.97%)	JavaScript
4	111 (30.49%)	Ruby
5	61 (16.76%)	Scala
6	48 (13.19%)	SQL
7	34 (9.34%)	Bash Shell
8	32 (8.79%)	PHP
9	26 (7.14%)	C#
10	17 (4.67%)	Shell Script
11	12 (3.30%)	C++
12	9 (2.47%)	Go
13	7 (1.92%)	C
14	4 (1.10%)	Perl
14	4 (1.10%)	PL/SQL
15	3 (0.82%)	PowerShell
16	2 (0.55%)	Korn
16	2 (0.55%)	TypeScript
17	1 (0.27%)	ES6
17	1 (0.27%)	XPath

Qualifications
1	39 (10.71%)	Security Cleared
2	21 (5.77%)	SC Cleared
3	10 (2.75%)	BC Cleared
3	10 (2.75%)	CTC Cleared
4	9 (2.47%)	Degree
5	5 (1.37%)	BPSS Clearance
6	4 (1.10%)	MCSE
6	4 (1.10%)	Microsoft Certification
7	3 (0.82%)	ITIL Certification
7	3 (0.82%)	SAS Certification
8	2 (0.55%)	AWS Certification
8	2 (0.55%)	Computer Science Degree
9	1 (0.27%)	CCDP
9	1 (0.27%)	CCNP
9	1 (0.27%)	Chartered Engineer
9	1 (0.27%)	Cisco Certification
9	1 (0.27%)	CISM
9	1 (0.27%)	CISSP
9	1 (0.27%)	DBS Check
9	1 (0.27%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	9 (2.47%)	Disclosure Scotland
2	5 (1.37%)	QA
2	5 (1.37%)	SLA
3	4 (1.10%)	Data Quality
4	1 (0.27%)	FATCA
4	1 (0.27%)	PCI DSS

System Software
1	44 (12.09%)	Docker
2	19 (5.22%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	11 (3.02%)	Active Directory
4	7 (1.92%)	Hyper-V
4	7 (1.92%)	Virtual Machines
4	7 (1.92%)	vSphere
5	5 (1.37%)	KVM
6	3 (0.82%)	HDFS
6	3 (0.82%)	VMware ESXi
6	3 (0.82%)	XenDesktop
7	2 (0.55%)	etcd
7	2 (0.55%)	flannel
7	2 (0.55%)	Oracle RAC
7	2 (0.55%)	Veritas Volume Manager
8	1 (0.27%)	SRDF
8	1 (0.27%)	Veritas Cluster Server
8	1 (0.27%)	Virtual Desktop
8	1 (0.27%)	Virtual Servers
8	1 (0.27%)	Xen
8	1 (0.27%)	XenApp

Systems Management
1	66 (18.13%)	Puppet
2	59 (16.21%)	Opscode Chef
3	26 (7.14%)	Ansible
4	17 (4.67%)	Salt
5	12 (3.30%)	Kubernetes
6	9 (2.47%)	Cobbler
7	6 (1.65%)	NetBackup
8	5 (1.37%)	Host Intrusion Detection System
8	5 (1.37%)	Mesos
8	5 (1.37%)	Nagios
8	5 (1.37%)	Rancher
8	5 (1.37%)	SCCM
9	4 (1.10%)	Terraform
10	3 (0.82%)	Graphite
11	2 (0.55%)	Consul
11	2 (0.55%)	Docker Swarm
11	2 (0.55%)	Grafana
11	2 (0.55%)	Hadoop YARN
11	2 (0.55%)	Marathon
11	2 (0.55%)	Packer

Vendors
1	42 (11.54%)	Red Hat
2	34 (9.34%)	Google
3	30 (8.24%)	VMware
4	28 (7.69%)	Oracle
5	18 (4.95%)	Microsoft
6	16 (4.40%)	HP
7	15 (4.12%)	Cisco
8	14 (3.85%)	IBM
9	12 (3.30%)	Splunk
10	11 (3.02%)	SAP
11	8 (2.20%)	Citrix
11	8 (2.20%)	Zend
12	7 (1.92%)	Avaya
12	7 (1.92%)	NetApp
13	6 (1.65%)	EMC
13	6 (1.65%)	Rackspace
13	6 (1.65%)	SaltStack
14	5 (1.37%)	Palo Alto
14	5 (1.37%)	Sun
15	4 (1.10%)	Dell