UNIX Contracts in Chester
 
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 Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 23 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 Chester 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 5 3 7
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +4
Contract jobs citing UNIX 21 21 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 14.89% 18.10% 11.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.89% 60.00% 48.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
Average daily rate £258 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.42% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £252 £338 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £485 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.13% +7.14%
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%
All Operating Systems
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 54 35 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 38.30% 30.17% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 13
Average daily rate £300 £363 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.24% +18.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £200 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £371 £494 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
Average hourly rate £28.75 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+105.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
UNIX
Cheshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 27 (61.36%) Linux
2 23 (52.27%) AIX
3 17 (38.64%) Windows
4 13 (29.55%) Oracle
4 13 (29.55%) ITIL
4 13 (29.55%) VMware
5 12 (27.27%) Red Hat
5 12 (27.27%) Project Management
6 11 (25.00%) Citrix
6 11 (25.00%) SAP
7 10 (22.73%) DB2
7 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (20.45%) PRINCE2
9 8 (18.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 8 (18.18%) Finance
10 7 (15.91%) SAP Basis
10 7 (15.91%) SAP XI
10 7 (15.91%) Banking
10 7 (15.91%) SAP BPC
10 7 (15.91%) Service Management
10 7 (15.91%) SAP BW
10 7 (15.91%) NetWeaver
10 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (13.64%) CISSP
11 6 (13.64%) MS Office
11 6 (13.64%) VB
11 6 (13.64%) Windows XP
11 6 (13.64%) MS Exchange
11 6 (13.64%) Blackberry
11 6 (13.64%) Windows 7

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (15.91%) SAP Basis
1 7 (15.91%) SAP XI
2 2 (4.545%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.91%) NetWeaver
2 6 (13.64%) MS Exchange
3 5 (11.36%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.273%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (15.91%) SAP BPC
2 2 (4.545%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.545%) DNS
2 1 (2.273%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.273%) LDAP
2 1 (2.273%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) DB2
2 7 (15.91%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.273%) RDBMS
General
1 8 (18.18%) Finance
2 7 (15.91%) Banking
3 6 (13.64%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.545%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Consultant
2 9 (20.45%) Project Manager
3 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Manager
4 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 6 (13.64%) Security Consultant
5 6 (13.64%) Build Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 6 (13.64%) SAP Consultant
6 5 (11.36%) UNIX Specialist
7 4 (9.091%) Risk Consultant
8 3 (6.818%) Information Security Consultant
8 3 (6.818%) Programme Manager
8 3 (6.818%) Administrator
9 1 (2.273%) Tivoli Specialist
9 1 (2.273%) Transformation Programme Manager
9 1 (2.273%) Storage Administrator
9 1 (2.273%) UNIX Engineer
9 1 (2.273%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
9 1 (2.273%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
9 1 (2.273%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Blackberry
2 3 (6.818%) Clustering
2 3 (6.818%) HACMP
3 1 (2.273%) PMI
3 1 (2.273%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 27 (61.36%) Linux
2 23 (52.27%) AIX
3 17 (38.64%) Windows
4 6 (13.64%) Windows XP
4 6 (13.64%) Windows 7
5 5 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (11.36%) Tru64
6 1 (2.273%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) ITIL
2 12 (27.27%) Project Management
3 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (20.45%) PRINCE2
5 7 (15.91%) Service Management
5 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.64%) Information Security
7 5 (11.36%) Risk Assessment
7 5 (11.36%) Risk Analysis
7 5 (11.36%) Configuration Management
7 5 (11.36%) Change Management
8 3 (6.818%) Programme Management
8 3 (6.818%) Migration
9 2 (4.545%) Service Delivery
9 2 (4.545%) CRM
9 2 (4.545%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 1 (2.273%) Change Control
10 1 (2.273%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) VB
2 4 (9.091%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.273%) ABAP
3 1 (2.273%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 6 (13.64%) CISSP
3 4 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.273%) Degree
4 1 (2.273%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.091%) BS7799
2 1 (2.273%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.818%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (6.818%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 2 (4.545%) VMware ESX
2 2 (4.545%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 4 (9.091%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.273%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Oracle
1 13 (29.55%) VMware
2 12 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 11 (25.00%) Citrix
3 11 (25.00%) SAP
4 4 (9.091%) Cisco
5 2 (4.545%) IBM
5 2 (4.545%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.273%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.273%) Brocade
6 1 (2.273%) HP
6 1 (2.273%) NetApp
6 1 (2.273%) Veritas
6 1 (2.273%) CheckPoint
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