The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Canary Wharf 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 29 38 25
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -13
Contract jobs citing UNIX 17 12 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 5.075% 3.085% 7.937%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.69% 17.65% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 29
Average daily rate £525 £560 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +1.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £484 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.38%
All Operating Systems
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
49 68 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 14.63% 17.48% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 41 58
Average daily rate £600 £520 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -5.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £253 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
UNIX
London

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 16 (59.26%) Banking
2 14 (51.85%) Linux
3 12 (44.44%) Java
3 12 (44.44%) SQL
4 11 (40.74%) Sybase
5 10 (37.04%) Finance
6 9 (33.33%) Investment Banking
6 9 (33.33%) Spring
7 7 (25.93%) Perl
8 6 (22.22%) Windows
8 6 (22.22%) Solaris
8 6 (22.22%) XML
8 6 (22.22%) Oracle
8 6 (22.22%) C#
8 6 (22.22%) Shell Script
9 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
9 5 (18.52%) SAN
9 5 (18.52%) Front Office
9 5 (18.52%) Multithreading
9 5 (18.52%) TDD
10 4 (14.81%) Scala
10 4 (14.81%) Veritas
10 4 (14.81%) C++
10 4 (14.81%) XSLT
10 4 (14.81%) DB2
10 4 (14.81%) WebLogic
10 4 (14.81%) MQSeries
11 3 (11.11%) NFS
11 3 (11.11%) Adobe
11 3 (11.11%) Sun

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 (33.33%) Spring
2 6 (22.22%) XML
3 4 (14.81%) XSLT
4 3 (11.11%) Middleware
4 3 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 3 (11.11%) WebSphere
4 3 (11.11%) Java SE
4 3 (11.11%) Java EE
4 3 (11.11%) Murex Flex
5 2 (7.407%) WPF
5 2 (7.407%) WSH
6 1 (3.704%) CSS
6 1 (3.704%) JDBC
6 1 (3.704%) JSP
6 1 (3.704%) Servlets
6 1 (3.704%) STL
6 1 (3.704%) J2EE
6 1 (3.704%) HTML
6 1 (3.704%) Boost C++ Libraries
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) WebLogic
1 4 (14.81%) MQSeries
2 2 (7.407%) Confluence
2 2 (7.407%) IIS
3 1 (3.704%) Documentum
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 1 (3.704%) Captiva
3 1 (3.704%) Lync
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Murex MxG2000
1 3 (11.11%) Global One
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) SAN
2 1 (3.704%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
2 4 (14.81%) DB2
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) UniData
4 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (3.704%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (7.407%) JIRA
1 2 (7.407%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.704%) Ant
2 1 (3.704%) Maven
General
1 16 (59.26%) Banking
2 10 (37.04%) Finance
3 9 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 5 (18.52%) Front Office
5 3 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Developer
2 10 (37.04%) Java Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (7.407%) Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (7.407%) Java Applications Developer
5 2 (7.407%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 2 (7.407%) Applications Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Support Analyst
6 1 (3.704%) Architect
6 1 (3.704%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.704%) Administrator
6 1 (3.704%) Java/J2EE Architect
6 1 (3.704%) XML Developer
6 1 (3.704%) Java Architect
6 1 (3.704%) Business Support Analyst
6 1 (3.704%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 3 (11.11%) Mathematics
2 2 (7.407%) Derivative
2 2 (7.407%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (7.407%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Linux
2 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) Solaris
3 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (7.407%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.704%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) Multithreading
1 5 (18.52%) TDD
2 3 (11.11%) OO
2 3 (11.11%) Automated Testing
2 3 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (7.407%) Load Balancing
3 2 (7.407%) Scrum
3 2 (7.407%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.704%) SOA
4 1 (3.704%) OOP
4 1 (3.704%) ITIL
4 1 (3.704%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.704%) MVC
4 1 (3.704%) Risk Management
4 1 (3.704%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.704%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (3.704%) Release Management
4 1 (3.704%) Analytics
4 1 (3.704%) Software Architecture
4 1 (3.704%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Java
1 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Perl
3 6 (22.22%) C#
3 6 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 4 (14.81%) Scala
4 4 (14.81%) C++
5 3 (11.11%) Python
5 3 (11.11%) C-shell
6 2 (7.407%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.704%) JavaScript
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) NFS
2 2 (7.407%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.407%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.704%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (3.704%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) BladeLogic
1 2 (7.407%) Puppet
1 2 (7.407%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 1 (3.704%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Sybase
2 6 (22.22%) Oracle
3 4 (14.81%) Veritas
4 3 (11.11%) Adobe
4 3 (11.11%) Sun
4 3 (11.11%) Murex
4 3 (11.11%) Teradata
5 2 (7.407%) Atlassian
5 2 (7.407%) VMware
5 2 (7.407%) NetIQ
5 2 (7.407%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.407%) BMC
5 2 (7.407%) HP
6 1 (3.704%) EMC
6 1 (3.704%) IBM
6 1 (3.704%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.704%) Symantec
6 1 (3.704%) Aveksa
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