The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridgeshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 15 15 27
Rank change year-on-year
0 +12
Contract jobs citing UNIX 39 60 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 7.117% 8.571% 4.054%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.03% 30.46% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 32 11
Average daily rate £350 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.54% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 1
Average hourly rate £48.25 £38.75 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.51% +4.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -
All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
177 197 166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 32.30% 28.14% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 87 73
Average daily rate £306 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £153 £166 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 47 42
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% +76.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £52.50 £29.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
UNIX
East of England

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire UNIX Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cambridge -3 21 £388 +12.72%
Peterborough +2 1 - -
UNIX
East of England

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 38 (49.35%) Linux
2 30 (38.96%) Windows
3 28 (36.36%) Java
4 23 (29.87%) Python
5 20 (25.97%) Perl
6 18 (23.38%) Shell Script
7 13 (16.88%) NetApp
8 12 (15.58%) Apache
8 12 (15.58%) Tomcat
9 11 (14.29%) JBoss
9 11 (14.29%) SQL
10 10 (12.99%) IIS
10 10 (12.99%) C#
10 10 (12.99%) PhD
10 10 (12.99%) Bioinformatics
10 10 (12.99%) Biology
11 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
11 9 (11.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (11.69%) XML
11 9 (11.69%) Oracle
11 9 (11.69%) Red Hat
12 8 (10.39%) DHCP
12 8 (10.39%) TCP/IP
12 8 (10.39%) DNS
12 8 (10.39%) HTML
12 8 (10.39%) Client/Server
12 8 (10.39%) VMware
12 8 (10.39%) Finance
12 8 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
12 8 (10.39%) JIRA

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (11.69%) XML
2 8 (10.39%) HTML
3 6 (7.792%) Web Services
3 6 (7.792%) JSP
4 4 (5.195%) Middleware
4 4 (5.195%) WebSphere
5 3 (3.896%) Spring
5 3 (3.896%) Hibernate
5 3 (3.896%) SOAP
5 3 (3.896%) CSS
5 3 (3.896%) J2EE
6 1 (1.299%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (1.299%) STL
Application Platforms
1 12 (15.58%) Apache
1 12 (15.58%) Tomcat
2 10 (12.99%) IIS
3 3 (3.896%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (3.896%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.299%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.896%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.39%) DHCP
1 8 (10.39%) TCP/IP
1 8 (10.39%) DNS
2 7 (9.091%) BIG-IP
2 7 (9.091%) Internet
3 5 (6.494%) SAN
3 5 (6.494%) SNMP
4 4 (5.195%) NAS
4 4 (5.195%) VLAN
5 3 (3.896%) Firewall
5 3 (3.896%) VPN
5 3 (3.896%) HTTP
6 1 (1.299%) Wireless
6 1 (1.299%) LAN
6 1 (1.299%) WAN
6 1 (1.299%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.195%) MySQL
2 3 (3.896%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (3.896%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (3.896%) GIS
2 3 (3.896%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.896%) DB2
2 3 (3.896%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) JIRA
2 3 (3.896%) Selenium
2 3 (3.896%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.299%) Subversion
3 1 (1.299%) JMeter
General
1 8 (10.39%) Finance
2 3 (3.896%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (2.597%) Danish Language
3 2 (2.597%) French Language
3 2 (2.597%) German Language
3 2 (2.597%) Hebrew Language
3 2 (2.597%) Swedish Language
4 1 (1.299%) Marketing
4 1 (1.299%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.299%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.299%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.299%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Administrator
2 17 (22.08%) Systems Administrator
3 10 (12.99%) Analyst
4 9 (11.69%) Linux Administrator
5 8 (10.39%) Test Engineer
6 7 (9.091%) Test Analyst
7 5 (6.494%) Senior Programmer
7 5 (6.494%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (6.494%) Programmer
8 4 (5.195%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.195%) Developer
8 4 (5.195%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.896%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.896%) Integration Consultant
9 3 (3.896%) Test Consultant
9 3 (3.896%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.896%) DBA
9 3 (3.896%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.896%) Tester
9 3 (3.896%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Biology
2 8 (10.39%) Client/Server
3 6 (7.792%) Cryptography
4 3 (3.896%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.299%) Streaming Media
5 1 (1.299%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 1 (1.299%) LPAR
5 1 (1.299%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.299%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.299%) Open Source
5 1 (1.299%) ASIC Verification
5 1 (1.299%) Verilog
5 1 (1.299%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.299%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 38 (49.35%) Linux
2 30 (38.96%) Windows
3 9 (11.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (6.494%) Debian
6 3 (3.896%) Windows 7
6 3 (3.896%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.896%) Windows XP
7 2 (2.597%) AIX
7 2 (2.597%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (12.99%) Bioinformatics
2 7 (9.091%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (6.494%) Software Testing
3 5 (6.494%) Embedded Software Development
3 5 (6.494%) Validation
4 4 (5.195%) Configuration Management
4 4 (5.195%) Scrum
4 4 (5.195%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (5.195%) Software Engineering
5 3 (3.896%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (3.896%) Unit Testing
5 3 (3.896%) Test Scripting
5 3 (3.896%) System Testing
5 3 (3.896%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (3.896%) TDD
5 3 (3.896%) Business Continuity
5 3 (3.896%) BCP
5 3 (3.896%) Service Delivery
5 3 (3.896%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (3.896%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 28 (36.36%) Java
2 23 (29.87%) Python
3 20 (25.97%) Perl
4 18 (23.38%) Shell Script
5 11 (14.29%) SQL
6 10 (12.99%) C#
7 6 (7.792%) C
7 6 (7.792%) Ruby
8 5 (6.494%) C++
9 3 (3.896%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.597%) PHP
11 1 (1.299%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) PhD
2 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.091%) Degree
4 4 (5.195%) ISEB
4 4 (5.195%) RHCE
5 3 (3.896%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.896%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.896%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.896%) MCP
5 3 (3.896%) MCSE
5 3 (3.896%) MCSA
6 2 (2.597%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.896%) JSP 440
2 2 (2.597%) QA
3 1 (1.299%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (9.091%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.896%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (6.494%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (3.896%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) NetApp
2 11 (14.29%) JBoss
3 9 (11.69%) Oracle
3 9 (11.69%) Red Hat
4 8 (10.39%) VMware
5 6 (7.792%) Microsoft
6 5 (6.494%) Isilon
6 5 (6.494%) HP
7 3 (3.896%) Akamai
7 3 (3.896%) Perforce
7 3 (3.896%) Remedy
7 3 (3.896%) ESRI
7 3 (3.896%) Adobe
7 3 (3.896%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.896%) Cisco
8 2 (2.597%) IBM
9 1 (1.299%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.299%) Twitter
9 1 (1.299%) Citrix