UNIX Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 24 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 Berkshire 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 34 34 30
Rank change year-on-year
0 -4
Contract jobs citing UNIX 109 130 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 4.551% 4.134% 5.242%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.93% 24.53% 25.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 55 74
Average daily rate £366 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £225 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £390 £439
UK excluding London average daily rate £362 £370 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.29% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £41.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.53%
Search 58 UNIX jobs in Berkshire
All Operating Systems
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 497 530 616
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 20.75% 16.85% 20.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 202 209
Average daily rate £335 £325 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.07% -1.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 53 41
Average hourly rate £20.50 £15.58 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.62% -22.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Reading -18 35 £338 +20.53%
Slough +1 16 £300 -7.69%
Maidenhead 0 8 £490 +30.66%
Bracknell -12 6 £450 +100.00%
Newbury -3 2 £375 -11.76%
Windsor -3 1 £550 +69.23%
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 77 (37.93%) Linux
2 76 (37.44%) Oracle
3 68 (33.50%) SQL
4 67 (33.00%) Windows
5 64 (31.53%) Telecoms
6 42 (20.69%) Java
7 39 (19.21%) Perl
8 33 (16.26%) XML
9 30 (14.78%) 3G
10 29 (14.29%) PL/SQL
10 29 (14.29%) HP
11 28 (13.79%) Migration
12 27 (13.30%) Shell Script
13 25 (12.32%) ITIL
13 25 (12.32%) Degree
14 23 (11.33%) .NET
14 23 (11.33%) Disaster Recovery
15 22 (10.84%) SAN
15 22 (10.84%) TCP/IP
15 22 (10.84%) Nokia Siemens Networks
16 21 (10.34%) IBM
16 21 (10.34%) Solaris
16 21 (10.34%) Ericsson
17 20 (9.852%) 2G
18 19 (9.360%) Finance
18 19 (9.360%) Red Hat
18 19 (9.360%) J2EE
18 19 (9.360%) Oracle 11g
18 19 (9.360%) Retail
19 18 (8.867%) WebSphere

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 33 (16.26%) XML
2 23 (11.33%) .NET
3 19 (9.360%) J2EE
4 18 (8.867%) WebSphere
4 18 (8.867%) HTML
5 13 (6.404%) Ajax
6 12 (5.911%) CSS
6 12 (5.911%) JMS
7 11 (5.419%) JSTL
7 11 (5.419%) Middleware
7 11 (5.419%) JSP
7 11 (5.419%) EJB
8 10 (4.926%) Web Services
9 8 (3.941%) REST
10 6 (2.956%) WSH
11 5 (2.463%) WAP
12 4 (1.970%) Flash
12 4 (1.970%) XHTML
13 3 (1.478%) soapUI
13 3 (1.478%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 13 (6.404%) Apache
2 8 (3.941%) Tomcat
3 7 (3.448%) WebLogic
4 5 (2.463%) WebLogic Portal
5 4 (1.970%) IIS
5 4 (1.970%) SAS
6 3 (1.478%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.478%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (1.478%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (0.985%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.985%) MS Exchange
7 2 (0.985%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.985%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.985%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.985%) GlassFish
8 1 (0.493%) Jetty
8 1 (0.493%) Resin
8 1 (0.493%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.493%) CMS
8 1 (0.493%) Commerce Server
Applications
1 11 (5.419%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.985%) MS Office
3 1 (0.493%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.493%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.493%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.493%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.970%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.985%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.985%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.493%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 30 (14.78%) 3G
2 22 (10.84%) SAN
2 22 (10.84%) TCP/IP
3 20 (9.852%) 2G
4 14 (6.897%) Radio Access Network
5 13 (6.404%) Internet
5 13 (6.404%) GSM
6 12 (5.911%) TELNET
7 11 (5.419%) Firewall
7 11 (5.419%) DNS
7 11 (5.419%) UMTS
8 10 (4.926%) HTTP
9 9 (4.433%) SS7
10 8 (3.941%) GPRS
11 7 (3.448%) LAN
12 6 (2.956%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (2.956%) Network Security
13 5 (2.463%) SSL
13 5 (2.463%) IPv4
13 5 (2.463%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.360%) Oracle 11g
2 18 (8.867%) SQL Server
3 17 (8.374%) DB2
4 16 (7.882%) MySQL
5 15 (7.389%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (6.897%) Oracle 10g
7 7 (3.448%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.956%) MS Access
9 5 (2.463%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.463%) Oracle 8/8i
10 4 (1.970%) Base SAS
11 3 (1.478%) DbVisualizer
11 3 (1.478%) SQL Server 2000
11 3 (1.478%) Oracle 9i
12 2 (0.985%) TOAD
12 2 (0.985%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.985%) DataStage
12 2 (0.985%) Oracle Exadata
13 1 (0.493%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.493%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 12 (5.911%) JUnit
2 9 (4.433%) Subversion
3 7 (3.448%) ProC
4 6 (2.956%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (1.970%) WebDriver
5 4 (1.970%) Selenium
6 2 (0.985%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.985%) Ant
6 2 (0.985%) ERwin
6 2 (0.985%) StarTeam
7 1 (0.493%) JProfiler
7 1 (0.493%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.493%) Maven
7 1 (0.493%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.493%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.493%) ClearCase
General
1 64 (31.53%) Telecoms
2 19 (9.360%) Finance
2 19 (9.360%) Retail
3 8 (3.941%) Banking
4 4 (1.970%) Back Office
4 4 (1.970%) Marketing
5 2 (0.985%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.493%) Electronics
6 1 (0.493%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 59 (29.06%) Developer
2 21 (10.34%) Support Engineer
3 18 (8.867%) Senior Developer
4 14 (6.897%) DBA
4 14 (6.897%) Oracle DBA
5 12 (5.911%) Network Engineer
6 11 (5.419%) Architect
7 10 (4.926%) Administrator
7 10 (4.926%) Systems Developer
8 8 (3.941%) Test Engineer
8 8 (3.941%) Oracle Developer
9 7 (3.448%) Storage Engineer
9 7 (3.448%) Technical Leader
9 7 (3.448%) UNIX Engineer
10 6 (2.956%) OSS Engineer
11 5 (2.463%) Databuild Engineer
11 5 (2.463%) Network Support
11 5 (2.463%) Network Support Engineer
11 5 (2.463%) Software Developer
11 5 (2.463%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.941%) Clustering
1 8 (3.941%) Computer Science
2 6 (2.956%) CLARiiON
3 5 (2.463%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.463%) Mainframe
4 4 (1.970%) Wiki
5 3 (1.478%) LPAR
5 3 (1.478%) DLPAR
5 3 (1.478%) iPhone
5 3 (1.478%) IBM Mainframe
5 3 (1.478%) Open Source
5 3 (1.478%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 3 (1.478%) Handset
5 3 (1.478%) Symmetrix
5 3 (1.478%) EMC Centera
5 3 (1.478%) HACMP
6 2 (0.985%) Thin Client
6 2 (0.985%) Grid Computing
6 2 (0.985%) Replication
6 2 (0.985%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 77 (37.93%) Linux
2 67 (33.00%) Windows
3 21 (10.34%) Solaris
4 15 (7.389%) HPUX
5 7 (3.448%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (3.448%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.956%) AIX
6 6 (2.956%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.478%) Android
7 3 (1.478%) SUSE
8 2 (0.985%) Windows 2000
8 2 (0.985%) Windows XP
8 2 (0.985%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (0.493%) CentOS
9 1 (0.493%) Nucleus RTOS
9 1 (0.493%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.493%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.493%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (13.79%) Migration
2 25 (12.32%) ITIL
3 23 (11.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (7.882%) Web Development
5 14 (6.897%) Validation
5 14 (6.897%) Software Testing
6 12 (5.911%) ETL
7 11 (5.419%) E-Commerce
7 11 (5.419%) RAD
8 8 (3.941%) OO
8 8 (3.941%) Incident Management
8 8 (3.941%) Network Management
9 7 (3.448%) Release Management
9 7 (3.448%) Service Delivery
9 7 (3.448%) Project Management
10 6 (2.956%) Configuration Management
10 6 (2.956%) Change Management
10 6 (2.956%) Automated Testing
10 6 (2.956%) Load Balancing
10 6 (2.956%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 68 (33.50%) SQL
2 42 (20.69%) Java
3 39 (19.21%) Perl
4 29 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 27 (13.30%) Shell Script
6 18 (8.867%) JavaScript
7 17 (8.374%) C++
8 15 (7.389%) C#
9 13 (6.404%) C
10 11 (5.419%) PHP
11 10 (4.926%) Bash shell
12 8 (3.941%) PowerShell
13 6 (2.956%) VBScript
14 3 (1.478%) Groovy
14 3 (1.478%) JCL
14 3 (1.478%) COBOL
15 2 (0.985%) Python
15 2 (0.985%) VBA
15 2 (0.985%) RPG
15 2 (0.985%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 25 (12.32%) Degree
2 14 (6.897%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (5.911%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.433%) CCNA
4 9 (4.433%) HNC
5 8 (3.941%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.956%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.463%) CCNP
7 5 (2.463%) HND
8 3 (1.478%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.478%) CCSE
8 3 (1.478%) CCSA
8 3 (1.478%) CISSP
8 3 (1.478%) ISEB
9 2 (0.985%) MCSE
9 2 (0.985%) CCA
9 2 (0.985%) Citrix Certification
9 2 (0.985%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.985%) OCP
9 2 (0.985%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.956%) QA
2 3 (1.478%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.985%) SLA
4 1 (0.493%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 9 (4.433%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (3.941%) NFS
2 8 (3.941%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (3.448%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.463%) Xen
5 4 (1.970%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (1.478%) SRDF
7 2 (0.985%) MetaFrame
7 2 (0.985%) NDS
7 2 (0.985%) VMware ESX
7 2 (0.985%) vSphere
7 2 (0.985%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.493%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.493%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.493%) Postfix
8 1 (0.493%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.493%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 9 (4.433%) HP Quality Center
2 8 (3.941%) Nagios
3 7 (3.448%) NetBackup
3 7 (3.448%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 6 (2.956%) Tivoli
4 6 (2.956%) SCOM
5 3 (1.478%) Ganglia
5 3 (1.478%) Data Guard
5 3 (1.478%) Netcool
5 3 (1.478%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 3 (1.478%) Legato
6 2 (0.985%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.985%) Control-M
6 2 (0.985%) MOM
6 2 (0.985%) HP SIM
7 1 (0.493%) Netcool/Webtop
7 1 (0.493%) OpenView
Vendors
1 76 (37.44%) Oracle
2 29 (14.29%) HP
3 22 (10.84%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 21 (10.34%) IBM
4 21 (10.34%) Ericsson
5 19 (9.360%) Red Hat
6 14 (6.897%) Nortel
7 13 (6.404%) VMware
8 12 (5.911%) EMC
8 12 (5.911%) Microsoft
9 11 (5.419%) Cisco
10 10 (4.926%) Citrix
11 8 (3.941%) CheckPoint
11 8 (3.941%) BMC
12 7 (3.448%) Greenplum
12 7 (3.448%) Sun
13 6 (2.956%) Adobe
14 5 (2.463%) Veritas
15 4 (1.970%) JBoss
15 4 (1.970%) Nokia
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