The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Brighton 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
Rank - 35 23
Contract jobs citing UNIX 0 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton - 1.550% 1.538%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 12.90% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £469 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
All Operating Systems
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
11 31 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 7.692% 12.02% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 2
Average daily rate £210 £425 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.58% +21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £230 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £488 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.25 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.84% +23.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
UNIX
East Sussex

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Brighton UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
2 2 (50.00%) XPath
2 2 (50.00%) SQLite
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Mason
2 2 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (50.00%) Business Objects
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) TOAD
2 2 (50.00%) XQuery
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) XSLT
1 2 (50.00%) Mason
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) TOAD
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQLite
2 2 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Perl Developer
2 2 (50.00%) ETL Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Solaris
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Content Management
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) XQuery
2 2 (50.00%) XPath
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Business Objects