The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills 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 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 28 32 25
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -7
Contract jobs citing UNIX 20 22 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 4.149% 3.416% 3.876%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.20% 19.64% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 15
Average daily rate £400 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £195 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £380 £426
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £37.00 £23.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.44% +6.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.38%
All Operating Systems
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
99 112 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.54% 17.39% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 37 41
Average daily rate £335 £225 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+48.88% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £143 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 15
Average hourly rate £16.50 £22.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.66% +73.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
UNIX
West Midlands

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 14 (38.89%) Oracle
2 14 (38.89%) Shell Script
3 13 (36.11%) AIX
4 10 (27.78%) SQL
5 9 (25.00%) J2EE
5 9 (25.00%) C
5 9 (25.00%) C++
5 9 (25.00%) Solaris
5 9 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (19.44%) HP
7 6 (16.67%) Windows
7 6 (16.67%) RDBMS
7 6 (16.67%) Perl
7 6 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (13.89%) QA
8 5 (13.89%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (13.89%) Banking
8 5 (13.89%) Financial Institution
8 5 (13.89%) Front Office
8 5 (13.89%) Fixed Income
8 5 (13.89%) Equities
8 5 (13.89%) Electronic Trading
8 5 (13.89%) System Testing
8 5 (13.89%) Derivative
8 5 (13.89%) IBM
8 5 (13.89%) CGI
8 5 (13.89%) ProC
8 5 (13.89%) SAN
9 4 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 9 (25.00%) J2EE
2 6 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
3 5 (13.89%) CGI
4 1 (2.778%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (2.778%) STL
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.556%) SAS
2 1 (2.778%) CMS
2 1 (2.778%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.778%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 3 (8.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.333%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) SAN
2 4 (11.11%) NAS
3 3 (8.333%) SDH
3 3 (8.333%) DSL
3 3 (8.333%) Megaco
4 1 (2.778%) xDSL
4 1 (2.778%) Softswitch
4 1 (2.778%) LLU
4 1 (2.778%) ADSL
4 1 (2.778%) Broadband
4 1 (2.778%) ISDN
4 1 (2.778%) PSTN
4 1 (2.778%) VoIP
4 1 (2.778%) WAN
4 1 (2.778%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.778%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.778%) Internet
4 1 (2.778%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (13.89%) ProC
General
1 19 (52.78%) Finance
2 5 (13.89%) Banking
2 5 (13.89%) Financial Institution
2 5 (13.89%) Front Office
3 4 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.778%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Analyst
2 7 (19.44%) Developer
3 6 (16.67%) Consultant
4 5 (13.89%) C Developer
4 5 (13.89%) UNIX Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Support Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
5 4 (11.11%) Tester
5 4 (11.11%) Systems Tester
5 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (8.333%) QA Analyst
6 3 (8.333%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (8.333%) Administrator
6 3 (8.333%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Backup Consultant
7 2 (5.556%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.556%) NOC Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Storage Consultant
8 1 (2.778%) Storage Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Fixed Income
1 5 (13.89%) Equities
1 5 (13.89%) Derivative
2 3 (8.333%) CLARiiON
2 3 (8.333%) Symmetrix
2 3 (8.333%) Replication
3 1 (2.778%) Clustering
3 1 (2.778%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.778%) LPAR
3 1 (2.778%) DLPAR
3 1 (2.778%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) AIX
2 9 (25.00%) Solaris
3 6 (16.67%) Windows
4 2 (5.556%) Linux
5 1 (2.778%) OpenVMS
5 1 (2.778%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.89%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (13.89%) Electronic Trading
1 5 (13.89%) System Testing
2 4 (11.11%) Software Testing
2 4 (11.11%) Integration Testing
3 3 (8.333%) Migration
4 1 (2.778%) Data Management
4 1 (2.778%) Multithreading
4 1 (2.778%) Validation
4 1 (2.778%) Build Automation
4 1 (2.778%) Waterfall
4 1 (2.778%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (2.778%) OO
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Shell Script
2 10 (27.78%) SQL
3 9 (25.00%) C
3 9 (25.00%) C++
4 6 (16.67%) Perl
5 1 (2.778%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.778%) COBOL
5 1 (2.778%) Java
5 1 (2.778%) C#
5 1 (2.778%) Pascal
5 1 (2.778%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 1 (2.778%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.778%) Security Cleared
1 1 (2.778%) CCNA
1 1 (2.778%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.778%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (2.778%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.778%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Oracle
2 7 (19.44%) HP
3 5 (13.89%) IBM
4 4 (11.11%) EMC
4 4 (11.11%) Symantec
4 4 (11.11%) Sun
4 4 (11.11%) ION Trading
5 3 (8.333%) webMethods
6 2 (5.556%) Veritas
6 2 (5.556%) VMware
7 1 (2.778%) Cramer
7 1 (2.778%) BT
7 1 (2.778%) Pega
7 1 (2.778%) Cisco
7 1 (2.778%) Lotus
7 1 (2.778%) Citrix
7 1 (2.778%) Ericsson
7 1 (2.778%) Remedy