UNIX Contracts in Cheltenham
 
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 Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 24 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 Cheltenham 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 15 5 19
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +14
Contract jobs citing UNIX 3 69 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 3.750% 28.75% 4.000%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.04% 67.65% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 38 1
Average daily rate - £475 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +52.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £362 £370 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.29% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.53%
Search 1 UNIX jobs in Cheltenham
All Operating Systems
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 23 102 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 28.75% 42.50% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 56 20
Average daily rate £310 £475 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.73% +53.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £400 £293
10% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £500 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
UNIX
Gloucestershire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 4 (66.67%) Solaris
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (50.00%) Sun
2 3 (50.00%) Middleware
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (33.33%) GlassFish
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Azure
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (33.33%) vSphere
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) IaaS
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 3 (50.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (33.33%) GlassFish
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 5.5
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) MPLS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) WebLogic Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Solaris
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) Sun
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
Unix Administrator Team Lead
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
SEO: UNIX, Solaris, RedHat, Linux, Team Lead, Manager, support, admin, administrator, administration, Cheltenham The Role: provide technical support, maintenance and ultimate technical leadership for Unix based systems and...
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Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
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