Buckinghamshire UNIX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	7
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	57	205
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.080 %	0.207 %
As % of the category below	15.24 %	35.47 %
Daily rates quoted	19	50
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£284
Average daily rate	£354	£305
% change on same period last year	+16.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£356
% change on same period last year	-1.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	£26.93
Average hourly rate	£26.50	£27.61
% change on same period last year	-4.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£28.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.85	£31.71
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Operating Systems Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	374	578
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.527 %	0.584 %
Daily rates quoted	122	136
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£293
Average daily rate	£329	£309
% change on same period last year	+6.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	69	136
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.06	£23.29
Average hourly rate	£20.51	£24.17
% change on same period last year	-15.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.95	£25.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
UNIX South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UNIX across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	-20	36	£298	-3.26 %
Marlow	+1	8	£386	+0.18 %
Aylesbury	0	1	-	-
High Wycombe	-8	1	-	-

UNIX South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 61 (36.97 %) Finance 2 53 (32.12 %) Windows 3 46 (27.88 %) Oracle 3 46 (27.88 %) DB2 4 33 (20.00 %) Solaris 5 31 (18.79 %) Linux 5 31 (18.79 %) SQL 6 25 (15.15 %) Banking 7 22 (13.33 %) FreeBSD 8 20 (12.12 %) PowerCenter 9 19 (11.52 %) Perl 9 19 (11.52 %) SQL Server 10 17 (10.30 %) Java 11 16 (9.697 %) Retail 12 15 (9.091 %) IBM

13 13 (7.879 %) Sun 13 13 (7.879 %) Informix 13 13 (7.879 %) NetBackup 14 12 (7.273 %) Oracle RMAN 14 12 (7.273 %) DB2 UDB 14 12 (7.273 %) Sybase 14 12 (7.273 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 12 (7.273 %) Mainframe 14 12 (7.273 %) Active Directory 14 12 (7.273 %) Cisco 15 11 (6.667 %) BMC 15 11 (6.667 %) Middleware 15 11 (6.667 %) MQSeries 15 11 (6.667 %) C++ 15 11 (6.667 %) Retail Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 11 (6.667 %) Middleware 2 3 (1.818 %) XML 3 2 (1.212 %) Oracle Fusion 3 2 (1.212 %) HTML 3 2 (1.212 %) J2EE 4 1 (0.606 %) EJB 4 1 (0.606 %) Struts 4 1 (0.606 %) Hibernate 4 1 (0.606 %) SAP Basis 4 1 (0.606 %) WebSphere 4 1 (0.606 %) EJB 3.0 4 1 (0.606 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 11 (6.667 %) MQSeries 2 9 (5.455 %) BizTalk Server 2 9 (5.455 %) Tuxedo 3 5 (3.030 %) Apache 4 4 (2.424 %) SAS 5 3 (1.818 %) MS Exchange 5 3 (1.818 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (1.212 %) Lotus Notes 6 2 (1.212 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 2 (1.212 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 1 (0.606 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 2 (1.212 %) MS Office 2 1 (0.606 %) Spreadsheet 2 1 (0.606 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (0.606 %) SAP R/3 1 1 (0.606 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 6 (3.636 %) LLU 2 5 (3.030 %) ATM 3 4 (2.424 %) LAN 3 4 (2.424 %) SAN 3 4 (2.424 %) Internet 3 4 (2.424 %) WAN 3 4 (2.424 %) IMAP 4 3 (1.818 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (1.818 %) VPN 5 2 (1.212 %) Firewall 5 2 (1.212 %) Wireless 5 2 (1.212 %) FirePass 5 2 (1.212 %) LDAP 6 1 (0.606 %) BSS 6 1 (0.606 %) DHCP 6 1 (0.606 %) HTTP 6 1 (0.606 %) SS7 6 1 (0.606 %) ISUP 6 1 (0.606 %) DNS 6 1 (0.606 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (27.88 %) DB2 2 20 (12.12 %) PowerCenter 3 19 (11.52 %) SQL Server 4 13 (7.879 %) Informix 5 12 (7.273 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 12 (7.273 %) DB2 UDB 6 7 (4.242 %) BusinessObjects 6 7 (4.242 %) MySQL 7 6 (3.636 %) Datawarehouse 7 6 (3.636 %) ETL 8 4 (2.424 %) Oracle Reports 9 2 (1.212 %) Oracle 10g 10 1 (0.606 %) SAP BW 10 1 (0.606 %) Oracle 11g 10 1 (0.606 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 1 (0.606 %) Ingres
Development Applications 1 4 (2.424 %) Subversion 2 3 (1.818 %) Oracle Forms 3 2 (1.212 %) Rational Rose 3 2 (1.212 %) PVCS 4 1 (0.606 %) Visual Studio	General 1 61 (36.97 %) Finance 2 25 (15.15 %) Banking 3 16 (9.697 %) Retail 4 11 (6.667 %) Retail Banking 5 10 (6.061 %) Financial Institution 6 5 (3.030 %) Telecoms 6 5 (3.030 %) Auditing 7 4 (2.424 %) Investment Banking 8 3 (1.818 %) Pensions 9 2 (1.212 %) Manufacturing 9 2 (1.212 %) Insurance 9 2 (1.212 %) Construction 10 1 (0.606 %) Government 10 1 (0.606 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 37 (22.42 %) Analyst 2 27 (16.36 %) Developer 3 22 (13.33 %) Systems Analyst 3 22 (13.33 %) Administrator 4 17 (10.30 %) Team Leader 5 13 (7.879 %) Systems Administrator 5 13 (7.879 %) DBA 6 9 (5.455 %) Consultant 7 7 (4.242 %) UNIX Administrator 8 6 (3.636 %) Project Manager 8 6 (3.636 %) Support Analyst 8 6 (3.636 %) NOC Engineer 8 6 (3.636 %) UNIX Operator 9 5 (3.030 %) Senior Developer 9 5 (3.030 %) Database Consultant 9 5 (3.030 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 9 5 (3.030 %) Technical Team Leader 10 4 (2.424 %) Oracle DBA 10 4 (2.424 %) SQL DBA 10 4 (2.424 %) ETL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 12 (7.273 %) Mainframe 2 11 (6.667 %) IPTV 3 8 (4.848 %) Clustering 4 4 (2.424 %) IBM Mainframe 5 2 (1.212 %) Blackberry 5 2 (1.212 %) AS400 6 1 (0.606 %) CLARiiON 6 1 (0.606 %) Symmetrix 6 1 (0.606 %) Grid Computing 6 1 (0.606 %) Biometrics 6 1 (0.606 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.606 %) Tandem 6 1 (0.606 %) Computer Science 6 1 (0.606 %) Spanish Language 6 1 (0.606 %) Celerra
Operating Systems 1 53 (32.12 %) Windows 2 33 (20.00 %) Solaris 3 31 (18.79 %) Linux 4 22 (13.33 %) FreeBSD 5 8 (4.848 %) AIX 6 5 (3.030 %) Windows NT 7 3 (1.818 %) Red Hat Linux 7 3 (1.818 %) HPUX 8 2 (1.212 %) OS/2 9 1 (0.606 %) Windows Server 2003 9 1 (0.606 %) Windows Server 2008 9 1 (0.606 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 1 (0.606 %) Windows 2000 9 1 (0.606 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (6.667 %) Disaster Recovery 2 10 (6.061 %) Project Management 3 7 (4.242 %) ITIL 3 7 (4.242 %) CRM 3 7 (4.242 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (3.636 %) Systems Analysis 5 5 (3.030 %) Data Security 5 5 (3.030 %) RAD 5 5 (3.030 %) Incident Management 6 4 (2.424 %) Release Management 7 3 (1.818 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (1.818 %) Process Management 8 2 (1.212 %) Migration 8 2 (1.212 %) Stakeholder Management 8 2 (1.212 %) EAI 8 2 (1.212 %) Service Management 8 2 (1.212 %) SOA 8 2 (1.212 %) DV Cleared 8 2 (1.212 %) Resource Management 8 2 (1.212 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 31 (18.79 %) SQL 2 19 (11.52 %) Perl 3 17 (10.30 %) Java 4 11 (6.667 %) C++ 5 9 (5.455 %) PL/SQL 6 4 (2.424 %) COBOL 6 4 (2.424 %) C 7 3 (1.818 %) Shell Script 8 2 (1.212 %) Clipper 9 1 (0.606 %) PHP 9 1 (0.606 %) VBScript 9 1 (0.606 %) VB 9 1 (0.606 %) Python	Qualifications 1 6 (3.636 %) Degree 2 2 (1.212 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (1.212 %) MCSE 2 2 (1.212 %) CCNP 2 2 (1.212 %) CCNA 2 2 (1.212 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (1.212 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.606 %) CNE 3 1 (0.606 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (4.242 %) SLA 2 2 (1.212 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 1 (0.606 %) Basel II 3 1 (0.606 %) QA	System Software 1 13 (7.879 %) NetBackup 2 12 (7.273 %) Oracle RMAN 2 12 (7.273 %) Active Directory 3 2 (1.212 %) RACF 3 2 (1.212 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (0.606 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 11 (6.667 %) BMC Performance Manager 2 8 (4.848 %) CONTROL-M 3 4 (2.424 %) Nagios 4 3 (1.818 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (1.212 %) Unicenter 5 2 (1.212 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 2 (1.212 %) MIMEsweeper 6 1 (0.606 %) OVOU 6 1 (0.606 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 46 (27.88 %) Oracle 2 15 (9.091 %) IBM 3 13 (7.879 %) Sun 4 12 (7.273 %) Sybase 4 12 (7.273 %) Cisco 5 11 (6.667 %) BMC 6 7 (4.242 %) Business Objects 7 6 (3.636 %) Microsoft 8 5 (3.030 %) Remedy 9 4 (2.424 %) EMC 10 3 (1.818 %) Red Hat 10 3 (1.818 %) VERITAS 11 2 (1.212 %) Lotus 11 2 (1.212 %) Informatica 11 2 (1.212 %) HP 11 2 (1.212 %) Micro Focus 11 2 (1.212 %) VMware 11 2 (1.212 %) Blue Coat 12 1 (0.606 %) Brocade 12 1 (0.606 %) Netezza