UNIX Contracts in Cardiff
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 17 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 Cardiff 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 21 27 23
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -4
Contract jobs citing UNIX 4 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.439% 2.273% 5.240%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.756% 8.475% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
Average daily rate £375 £269 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.53% -28.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
All Operating Systems
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 41 59 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 25.00% 26.82% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 25
Average daily rate £305 £200 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.50% -48.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £105 £117
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £300 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
Average hourly rate £11.00 £14.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.13% +20.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
UNIX
South Wales

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 15 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
3 10 (41.67%) COBOL
3 10 (41.67%) IIS
3 10 (41.67%) Windows
3 10 (41.67%) Shell Script
3 10 (41.67%) IBM
3 10 (41.67%) WebSphere
4 9 (37.50%) Finance
4 9 (37.50%) Project Management
4 9 (37.50%) MS Office
4 9 (37.50%) SQL
5 8 (33.33%) MS Project
5 8 (33.33%) OO
5 8 (33.33%) Degree
5 8 (33.33%) iSeries
6 7 (29.17%) AIX
6 7 (29.17%) DB2
6 7 (29.17%) RPG
6 7 (29.17%) OS/400
7 6 (25.00%) Linux
8 5 (20.83%) UML
8 5 (20.83%) Java
8 5 (20.83%) TestDirector
8 5 (20.83%) NHS
8 5 (20.83%) AS400
8 5 (20.83%) Banking
9 4 (16.67%) Web Development
9 4 (16.67%) TDD
9 4 (16.67%) RESTful

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 10 (41.67%) WebSphere
2 4 (16.67%) Web Services
2 4 (16.67%) XML
2 4 (16.67%) RESTful
3 2 (8.333%) .NET
3 2 (8.333%) Hibernate
3 2 (8.333%) Spring
4 1 (4.167%) jQuery
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (4.167%) CSS
4 1 (4.167%) Middleware
4 1 (4.167%) REST
4 1 (4.167%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (41.67%) IIS
2 1 (4.167%) Apache
2 1 (4.167%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (37.50%) MS Office
2 8 (33.33%) MS Project
3 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) DNS
1 1 (4.167%) SAN
1 1 (4.167%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
2 7 (29.17%) DB2
3 3 (12.50%) Informix
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (8.333%) MySQL
5 1 (4.167%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (4.167%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) TestDirector
2 3 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 3 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (8.333%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.333%) Hudson
3 2 (8.333%) ProC
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (4.167%) JUnit
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Analyst
2 8 (33.33%) Applications Support
3 7 (29.17%) Support Analyst
3 7 (29.17%) Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Test Analyst
6 2 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.333%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.333%) Junior
6 2 (8.333%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) Administrator
6 2 (8.333%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) Junior Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.167%) SQL Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Windows Support Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) AS400 Support
7 1 (4.167%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Agile Test Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) iSeries
2 5 (20.83%) NHS
2 5 (20.83%) AS400
3 2 (8.333%) Open Source
4 1 (4.167%) LPAR
4 1 (4.167%) DLPAR
4 1 (4.167%) Clustering
4 1 (4.167%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) AIX
2 7 (29.17%) OS/400
3 6 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (8.333%) Solaris
4 2 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.167%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Project Management
2 8 (33.33%) OO
3 5 (20.83%) UML
4 4 (16.67%) Web Development
4 4 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (12.50%) Data Management
5 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 3 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 3 (12.50%) RUP
5 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (8.333%) Regression Testing
6 2 (8.333%) Content Management
6 2 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (8.333%) Integration Testing
6 2 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (8.333%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) COBOL
1 10 (41.67%) Shell Script
2 9 (37.50%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) RPG
4 5 (20.83%) Java
5 3 (12.50%) PHP
6 2 (8.333%) VB
6 2 (8.333%) VB.NET
6 2 (8.333%) Tcl
6 2 (8.333%) VB6
6 2 (8.333%) Ruby
7 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.167%) C
7 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.167%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) ISEB
3 2 (8.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Tivoli
1 1 (4.167%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (41.67%) IBM
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) SAP
5 2 (8.333%) Rackspace
6 1 (4.167%) EMC
6 1 (4.167%) Red Hat
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