Cambridgeshire UNIX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 7 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 Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury 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 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	7
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	60	150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.085 %	0.151 %
As % of the category below	26.79 %	40.87 %
Daily rates quoted	8	23
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£294
Average daily rate	£287	£324
% change on same period last year	-11.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£356
% change on same period last year	-1.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.46	£33.64
Average hourly rate	£33.73	£36.20
% change on same period last year	-6.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.00	£38.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.83	£31.63
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Operating Systems Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	224	367
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.318 %	0.371 %
Daily rates quoted	30	61
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£291
Average daily rate	£258	£311
% change on same period last year	-17.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£274	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£332
% change on same period last year	-1.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	73	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.21	£29.68
Average hourly rate	£24.88	£32.06
% change on same period last year	-22.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.55	£34.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.94	£22.31
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
UNIX East of England

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 7 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 Cambridgeshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 7 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
Cambridge	-4	41	£230	-28.97 %
Peterborough	-2	2	-	-
Huntingdon	-	2	-	-

UNIX East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 66 (57.39 %) Linux 2 55 (47.83 %) Windows 3 37 (32.17 %) C++ 4 33 (28.70 %) C 5 28 (24.35 %) Active Directory 6 22 (19.13 %) Solaris 6 22 (19.13 %) OO 7 20 (17.39 %) Windows Server 2003 8 19 (16.52 %) OOD 9 17 (14.78 %) 3G 10 16 (13.91 %) Java 10 16 (13.91 %) Telecoms 11 15 (13.04 %) SQL 11 15 (13.04 %) Windows XP 11 15 (13.04 %) GSM

11 15 (13.04 %) Python 12 14 (12.17 %) Microsoft Certification 12 14 (12.17 %) MCSE 12 14 (12.17 %) MS Exchange 12 14 (12.17 %) Software Engineering 13 13 (11.30 %) RNC 13 13 (11.30 %) Perl 14 12 (10.43 %) SS7 14 12 (10.43 %) Citrix 14 12 (10.43 %) TCP/IP 14 12 (10.43 %) 2G 15 11 (9.565 %) UML 15 11 (9.565 %) SQL Server 15 11 (9.565 %) HPUX 16 10 (8.696 %) Oracle

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 7 (6.087 %) XML 1 7 (6.087 %) HTML 2 6 (5.217 %) J2EE 3 5 (4.348 %) WebSphere 4 4 (3.478 %) JSP 4 4 (3.478 %) Spring 4 4 (3.478 %) Hibernate 5 2 (1.739 %) STL 5 2 (1.739 %) AJAX 6 1 (0.870 %) JavaBeans 6 1 (0.870 %) OpenGL 6 1 (0.870 %) .NET 6 1 (0.870 %) Struts 6 1 (0.870 %) XSL 6 1 (0.870 %) Servlets 6 1 (0.870 %) CSS 6 1 (0.870 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 14 (12.17 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (7.826 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 6 (5.217 %) Lotus Notes 3 6 (5.217 %) Apache 4 5 (4.348 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 2 (1.739 %) SAS 5 2 (1.739 %) Tomcat 5 2 (1.739 %) IIS 5 2 (1.739 %) Oracle Application Server 6 1 (0.870 %) CMS
Applications 1 4 (3.478 %) MS Excel 1 4 (3.478 %) MS Office 2 1 (0.870 %) Pro/ENGINEER	Business Applications 1 1 (0.870 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 17 (14.78 %) 3G 2 15 (13.04 %) GSM 3 13 (11.30 %) RNC 4 12 (10.43 %) SS7 4 12 (10.43 %) TCP/IP 4 12 (10.43 %) 2G 5 10 (8.696 %) SMS 6 7 (6.087 %) Internet 7 5 (4.348 %) VPN 7 5 (4.348 %) LAN 7 5 (4.348 %) WAN 8 3 (2.609 %) Firewall 8 3 (2.609 %) DNS 8 3 (2.609 %) GPRS 9 2 (1.739 %) DHCP 9 2 (1.739 %) Intranet 9 2 (1.739 %) UMTS 9 2 (1.739 %) IP Telephony 9 2 (1.739 %) VLAN 10 1 (0.870 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (9.565 %) SQL Server 2 5 (4.348 %) MySQL 3 3 (2.609 %) MS Access 3 3 (2.609 %) Oracle Reports 4 2 (1.739 %) DB2 4 2 (1.739 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 2 (1.739 %) RDBMS 5 1 (0.870 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 6 (5.217 %) Subversion 2 4 (3.478 %) Eclipse 2 4 (3.478 %) Ant 2 4 (3.478 %) Bugzilla 3 3 (2.609 %) ProC 3 3 (2.609 %) JUnit 3 3 (2.609 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (1.739 %) IntelliJ 4 2 (1.739 %) CruiseControl 4 2 (1.739 %) Atlassian Bamboo	General 1 16 (13.91 %) Telecoms 2 10 (8.696 %) Finance 3 4 (3.478 %) Banking 4 2 (1.739 %) Government 4 2 (1.739 %) Insurance 4 2 (1.739 %) Pensions 5 1 (0.870 %) Aerospace 5 1 (0.870 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 27 (23.48 %) Software Engineer 2 18 (15.65 %) Support Engineer 3 15 (13.04 %) Administrator 3 15 (13.04 %) Developer 4 13 (11.30 %) Systems Administrator 5 10 (8.696 %) Analyst 6 9 (7.826 %) Java Developer 7 7 (6.087 %) IT Support Engineer 8 6 (5.217 %) Support Analyst 8 6 (5.217 %) 2nd Line Support 9 5 (4.348 %) Windows Systems Administrator 9 5 (4.348 %) Senior Software Engineer 9 5 (4.348 %) Windows Administrator 10 4 (3.478 %) Helpdesk Support 10 4 (3.478 %) C++ Developer 11 3 (2.609 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 11 3 (2.609 %) C++ Software Engineer 11 3 (2.609 %) Helpdesk Analyst 11 3 (2.609 %) Systems Engineer 12 2 (1.739 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.478 %) Computer Science 2 3 (2.609 %) Client/Server 3 2 (1.739 %) Mainframe 3 2 (1.739 %) Replication 3 2 (1.739 %) Data Extraction 3 2 (1.739 %) Life Science 3 2 (1.739 %) Biotechnology 3 2 (1.739 %) Statistics 3 2 (1.739 %) Mathematics 4 1 (0.870 %) Biology 4 1 (0.870 %) PKI 4 1 (0.870 %) Wiki 4 1 (0.870 %) Video Conferencing 4 1 (0.870 %) VHDL 4 1 (0.870 %) Verilog 4 1 (0.870 %) Cryptography 4 1 (0.870 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 66 (57.39 %) Linux 2 55 (47.83 %) Windows 3 22 (19.13 %) Solaris 4 20 (17.39 %) Windows Server 2003 5 15 (13.04 %) Windows XP 6 11 (9.565 %) HPUX 7 9 (7.826 %) Windows 2000 8 8 (6.957 %) AIX 8 8 (6.957 %) Mac OS X 9 7 (6.087 %) Windows NT 10 6 (5.217 %) Red Hat Linux 11 4 (3.478 %) CentOS 12 3 (2.609 %) SUSE 13 2 (1.739 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 13 2 (1.739 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (19.13 %) OO 2 19 (16.52 %) OOD 3 14 (12.17 %) Software Engineering 4 11 (9.565 %) UML 5 10 (8.696 %) Change Management 6 5 (4.348 %) ITIL 7 4 (3.478 %) E-Commerce 7 4 (3.478 %) Disaster Recovery 7 4 (3.478 %) Service Delivery 7 4 (3.478 %) Security Cleared 8 3 (2.609 %) Data Protection 8 3 (2.609 %) Migration 8 3 (2.609 %) Identity Management 9 2 (1.739 %) BCP 9 2 (1.739 %) Information Security Management 9 2 (1.739 %) Data Security 9 2 (1.739 %) Security Management 9 2 (1.739 %) Information Security 9 2 (1.739 %) Continuous Integration 9 2 (1.739 %) Biostatistics
Programming Languages 1 37 (32.17 %) C++ 2 33 (28.70 %) C 3 16 (13.91 %) Java 4 15 (13.04 %) SQL 4 15 (13.04 %) Python 5 13 (11.30 %) Perl 6 6 (5.217 %) Shell Script 7 4 (3.478 %) PHP 8 3 (2.609 %) JavaScript 9 2 (1.739 %) C# 10 1 (0.870 %) DHTML 10 1 (0.870 %) PL/SQL 10 1 (0.870 %) VB	Qualifications 1 14 (12.17 %) Microsoft Certification 1 14 (12.17 %) MCSE 2 8 (6.957 %) Degree 3 7 (6.087 %) MCP 4 3 (2.609 %) MCSA 5 1 (0.870 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (4.348 %) PCI DSS 1 5 (4.348 %) ISO27001 2 2 (1.739 %) QA	System Software 1 28 (24.35 %) Active Directory 2 9 (7.826 %) Terminal Server 3 5 (4.348 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (1.739 %) NFS 4 2 (1.739 %) Oracle RMAN 5 1 (0.870 %) VMware Server 5 1 (0.870 %) Samba 5 1 (0.870 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 2 (1.739 %) OpenView 2 1 (0.870 %) Nagios	Vendors 1 12 (10.43 %) Citrix 2 10 (8.696 %) Oracle 2 10 (8.696 %) Microsoft 3 9 (7.826 %) Cisco 4 7 (6.087 %) VMware 5 6 (5.217 %) Lotus 5 6 (5.217 %) Red Hat 6 4 (3.478 %) IBM 6 4 (3.478 %) HP 7 3 (2.609 %) Remedy 7 3 (2.609 %) Sun 7 3 (2.609 %) Sybase 8 2 (1.739 %) NetApp 9 1 (0.870 %) Macrovision 9 1 (0.870 %) Intel 9 1 (0.870 %) Cognos