The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 23 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 Basingstoke 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 25 14 21
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +7
Contract jobs citing UNIX 17 14 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 8.543% 7.609% 4.743%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.56% 21.88% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 5
Average daily rate £425 £385 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.38% +21.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £349 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £399 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.13% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.53%
All Operating Systems
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
64 64 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 32.16% 34.78% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 18 22
Average daily rate £400 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £90 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £398 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 14
Average hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.80% +10.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
UNIX
Hampshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Basingstoke UNIX Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing UNIX 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 UNIX.

1 15 (75.00%) Finance
2 13 (65.00%) Windows
3 12 (60.00%) AIX
4 9 (45.00%) Solaris
5 8 (40.00%) Linux
5 8 (40.00%) Perl
6 7 (35.00%) ITIL
7 6 (30.00%) B2B
7 6 (30.00%) IBM
7 6 (30.00%) Oracle
8 5 (25.00%) Control-M
8 5 (25.00%) Remedy
8 5 (25.00%) Korn
8 5 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (25.00%) BMC
8 5 (25.00%) FTP
8 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (25.00%) Change Control
9 4 (20.00%) SQL
9 4 (20.00%) PRINCE2
9 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
9 4 (20.00%) SecurID
9 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
10 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
10 3 (15.00%) VMware
10 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
10 3 (15.00%) ATM
10 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
10 3 (15.00%) DB2

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing UNIX 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 UNIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.00%) SAML
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) GlassFish
1 2 (10.00%) Apache
1 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) FTP
2 3 (15.00%) ATM
3 2 (10.00%) LDAP
3 2 (10.00%) LAN
3 2 (10.00%) WAN
3 2 (10.00%) SSL
3 2 (10.00%) SAN
3 2 (10.00%) IPsec
4 1 (5.000%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (15.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.000%) OLAP
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Consultant
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Network Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Database Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Security Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Build Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (5.000%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (5.000%) Designer
5 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) SecurID
2 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.000%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 12 (60.00%) AIX
3 9 (45.00%) Solaris
4 8 (40.00%) Linux
5 1 (5.000%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ITIL
2 6 (30.00%) B2B
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (25.00%) Change Control
4 4 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Change Management
7 1 (5.000%) TOGAF
7 1 (5.000%) Scrum
7 1 (5.000%) Release Management
7 1 (5.000%) SOA
7 1 (5.000%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Perl
2 5 (25.00%) Korn
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (10.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.000%) VMware Server
2 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Control-M
2 3 (15.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) IBM
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) Remedy
2 5 (25.00%) BMC
3 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.00%) JBoss
5 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.000%) Citrix
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