The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 21 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 Buckinghamshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 47 16 16
Rank change year-on-year
-31 0
Contract jobs citing UNIX 26 83 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 3.210% 8.267% 8.072%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.29% 29.64% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 40 23
Average daily rate £215 £315 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.74% -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £164 £148 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £478 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
170 280 263
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 20.99% 27.89% 24.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 109 80
Average daily rate £300 £300 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £148 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 32 39
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -6.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.80 £10.45 £10.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £16.20 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +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 Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Milton Keynes -25 16 £251 -16.25%
Amersham - 3 - -
Aylesbury - 2 £175 -
High Wycombe -4 1 £290 -20.00%
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 31 (60.78%) Windows
2 25 (49.02%) SQL
3 23 (45.10%) Oracle
4 21 (41.18%) Linux
5 20 (39.22%) VMware
6 18 (35.29%) ITIL
7 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
8 15 (29.41%) Citrix
9 14 (27.45%) VMware Infrastructure
9 14 (27.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 13 (25.49%) SAN
10 13 (25.49%) HP
11 12 (23.53%) SQL Server
11 12 (23.53%) Backup Exec
11 12 (23.53%) Service Management
11 12 (23.53%) DV Cleared
12 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (21.57%) MCSE
12 11 (21.57%) MS Exchange
13 9 (17.65%) Solaris
13 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
13 9 (17.65%) MCP
13 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
13 9 (17.65%) NAS
14 8 (15.69%) Exchange Server 2003
14 8 (15.69%) Service Delivery
14 8 (15.69%) Finance
15 7 (13.73%) Change Management
15 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
15 7 (13.73%) SLA

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 6 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (3.922%) jQuery
2 2 (3.922%) Web Services
2 2 (3.922%) J2EE
2 2 (3.922%) CSS
3 1 (1.961%) JDBC
3 1 (1.961%) JSP
3 1 (1.961%) Servlets
3 1 (1.961%) Struts
3 1 (1.961%) EJB
3 1 (1.961%) DHTML
3 1 (1.961%) XML
3 1 (1.961%) JMS
3 1 (1.961%) HTML5
3 1 (1.961%) Smarty
3 1 (1.961%) Dojo
3 1 (1.961%) Symfony
3 1 (1.961%) CakePHP
3 1 (1.961%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.961%) MooTools
Application Platforms
1 11 (21.57%) MS Exchange
2 8 (15.69%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (9.804%) CMS
3 5 (9.804%) SharePoint
4 4 (7.843%) Lync
5 1 (1.961%) CICS
5 1 (1.961%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.961%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.961%) FileNet
5 1 (1.961%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.961%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.961%) TYPO3
Applications
1 4 (7.843%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.882%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.961%) FileNet Content Manager
2 1 (1.961%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.49%) SAN
2 9 (17.65%) NAS
3 5 (9.804%) Firewall
4 2 (3.922%) LAN
4 2 (3.922%) WAN
4 2 (3.922%) ICMP
5 1 (1.961%) Internet
5 1 (1.961%) SMTP
5 1 (1.961%) FTP
5 1 (1.961%) HTTP
5 1 (1.961%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.961%) Broadband
5 1 (1.961%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.804%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (7.843%) PowerCenter
4 3 (5.882%) MySQL
4 3 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.882%) OLTP
5 2 (3.922%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (3.922%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (3.922%) DB2
6 1 (1.961%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (1.961%) DB2 UDB
6 1 (1.961%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.961%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.961%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.922%) Git (software)
2 1 (1.961%) Ant
2 1 (1.961%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.961%) Subversion
2 1 (1.961%) Maven
General
1 8 (15.69%) Finance
2 4 (7.843%) Retail
3 3 (5.882%) Banking
4 1 (1.961%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.961%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Analyst
2 12 (23.53%) Support Analyst
3 8 (15.69%) Administrator
4 6 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) UNIX Administrator
4 6 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (11.76%) Developer
5 5 (9.804%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (9.804%) Architect
6 4 (7.843%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.843%) Applications Support
6 4 (7.843%) 1st Line Support
7 3 (5.882%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (5.882%) Team Leader
7 3 (5.882%) MVS Operator
8 2 (3.922%) Oracle Team Leader
8 2 (3.922%) PHP Developer
8 2 (3.922%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (3.922%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.804%) Mainframe
1 5 (9.804%) Cryptography
2 4 (7.843%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (7.843%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.882%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.882%) Clustering
3 3 (5.882%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.922%) PKI
4 2 (3.922%) CESG
5 1 (1.961%) HACMP
5 1 (1.961%) Replication
5 1 (1.961%) AS400
5 1 (1.961%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (60.78%) Windows
2 21 (41.18%) Linux
3 14 (27.45%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (17.65%) Solaris
5 6 (11.76%) Windows NT
5 6 (11.76%) HPUX
6 3 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (5.882%) MVS
6 3 (5.882%) Windows 7
6 3 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.922%) Windows 8
7 2 (3.922%) AIX
7 2 (3.922%) Windows 2000
8 1 (1.961%) OS/390
8 1 (1.961%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.961%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) ITIL
2 12 (23.53%) Service Management
3 8 (15.69%) Service Delivery
4 7 (13.73%) Change Management
4 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (7.843%) Incident Management
5 4 (7.843%) CRM
6 3 (5.882%) Six Sigma
6 3 (5.882%) E-Commerce
6 3 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
6 3 (5.882%) Content Management
7 2 (3.922%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (3.922%) Information Assurance
7 2 (3.922%) Requirements Management
7 2 (3.922%) ITIL V3
7 2 (3.922%) OO
8 1 (1.961%) Information Security
8 1 (1.961%) MVC
8 1 (1.961%) Workflow
8 1 (1.961%) UML
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) SQL
2 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.843%) T-SQL
3 4 (7.843%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.882%) PL/SQL
4 3 (5.882%) Java
4 3 (5.882%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.882%) Perl
5 2 (3.922%) PHP
5 2 (3.922%) JCL
6 1 (1.961%) Bash shell
6 1 (1.961%) PHP5
6 1 (1.961%) Korn
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.53%) DV Cleared
3 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (21.57%) MCSE
4 9 (17.65%) MCP
4 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.843%) Degree
6 1 (1.961%) RHCE
6 1 (1.961%) CCSP
6 1 (1.961%) CCNA
6 1 (1.961%) CISSP
6 1 (1.961%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.961%) SCSA
6 1 (1.961%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) SLA
2 3 (5.882%) QA
3 1 (1.961%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (27.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (13.73%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.843%) vSphere
3 4 (7.843%) VMware ESX
4 3 (5.882%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 2 (3.922%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.961%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.961%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Backup Exec
2 5 (9.804%) OpenView
3 4 (7.843%) Tivoli
4 3 (5.882%) Control-M
4 3 (5.882%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (5.882%) HP SIM
4 3 (5.882%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (3.922%) OVSD
6 1 (1.961%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (1.961%) MAINVIEW
6 1 (1.961%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.961%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 23 (45.10%) Oracle
2 20 (39.22%) VMware
3 15 (29.41%) Citrix
4 13 (25.49%) HP
5 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 6 (11.76%) Sun
7 5 (9.804%) Compaq
7 5 (9.804%) Intel
8 3 (5.882%) StorageTek
9 2 (3.922%) IBM
9 2 (3.922%) NetApp
9 2 (3.922%) Informatica
10 1 (1.961%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (1.961%) JBoss
10 1 (1.961%) Zend
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