The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Birmingham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX System Administrator (UNIX SA)
Rank 41 52 43
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -9
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Systems Administrator 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.457% 0.163% 0.400%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.488% 0.172% 0.437%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £340 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £315 £350
% change year-on-year
+19.04% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £33.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +88.57%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
410 582 458
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.61% 94.94% 91.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 316 257
Average daily rate £340 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £188 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 39 31
Average hourly rate £16.25 £14.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £9.16 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £115.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
UNIX Systems Administrator
West Midlands

UNIX Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham UNIX Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham UNIX Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham UNIX Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited UNIX Systems Administrator 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 UNIX Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) AIX
1 5 (100.00%) Veritas
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Sybase
2 3 (60.00%) Solaris
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) SLA
2 3 (60.00%) Sun
2 3 (60.00%) RDF
2 3 (60.00%) EMC
2 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) SUSE
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Korn
2 3 (60.00%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Fund Management
2 3 (60.00%) Wealth Management
2 3 (60.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (60.00%) Symmetrix DMX
2 3 (60.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) SAS
3 2 (40.00%) Finance

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited UNIX Systems Administrator 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 UNIX Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) AIX
2 3 (60.00%) Solaris
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) RDF
1 3 (60.00%) Fund Management
1 3 (60.00%) Wealth Management
1 3 (60.00%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (60.00%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 3 (60.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Veritas
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Sybase
2 3 (60.00%) Sun
2 3 (60.00%) EMC