The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX Administrator in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London 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 Administrator
Rank 188 195 209
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +14
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Administrator 11 24 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.173% 0.305% 0.361%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.187% 0.333% 0.393%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 27
Average daily rate £440 £384 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.65% -19.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £309 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £313 £344
% change year-on-year
+8.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £22.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5876 7201 9157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.51% 91.48% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4326 5182 6677
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 179 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Administrator
London

UNIX Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London UNIX Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the City of London region.

City of London UNIX Administrator Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London UNIX Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the City of London region.

City of London UNIX Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited UNIX Administrator in their job title 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 with UNIX Administrator in their job title.

1 20 (100.00%) UNIX
2 19 (95.00%) Linux
3 18 (90.00%) Solaris
4 17 (85.00%) Red Hat
5 10 (50.00%) Shell Script
5 10 (50.00%) SAN
6 8 (40.00%) Perl
6 8 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (35.00%) Sun
7 7 (35.00%) SUSE
8 6 (30.00%) Banking
8 6 (30.00%) Veritas
8 6 (30.00%) Finance
9 5 (25.00%) VMware
9 5 (25.00%) DNS
9 5 (25.00%) NFS
9 5 (25.00%) HP
9 5 (25.00%) LDAP
10 4 (20.00%) C++
10 4 (20.00%) Java
10 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
10 4 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (15.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (15.00%) Equities
11 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 3 (15.00%) Electronic Trading
11 3 (15.00%) Korn
11 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
11 3 (15.00%) EMC
11 3 (15.00%) RHCE

UNIX Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited UNIX Administrator in their job title 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 with UNIX Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Apache
1 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (5.000%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (5.000%) SAS
2 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.000%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) SAN
2 5 (25.00%) DNS
2 5 (25.00%) LDAP
3 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (10.00%) DHCP
4 2 (10.00%) Internet
5 1 (5.000%) NAS
5 1 (5.000%) SSH
5 1 (5.000%) SSL
5 1 (5.000%) FTP
General
1 6 (30.00%) Banking
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) German Language
4 1 (5.000%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Equities
2 2 (10.00%) New Media
2 2 (10.00%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (5.000%) LPAR
3 1 (5.000%) Celerra
3 1 (5.000%) Wiki
3 1 (5.000%) HACMP
3 1 (5.000%) CLARiiON
3 1 (5.000%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) UNIX
2 19 (95.00%) Linux
3 18 (90.00%) Solaris
4 8 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (35.00%) SUSE
6 2 (10.00%) Windows
6 2 (10.00%) Windows XP
6 2 (10.00%) HPUX
6 2 (10.00%) Debian
6 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
7 1 (5.000%) CentOS
7 1 (5.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.00%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (10.00%) ITIL
2 2 (10.00%) RDF
2 2 (10.00%) Project Management
2 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (5.000%) Network Architecture
3 1 (5.000%) Software Deployment
3 1 (5.000%) Capacity Management
3 1 (5.000%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (5.000%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 8 (40.00%) Perl
3 4 (20.00%) C++
3 4 (20.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) Korn
4 3 (15.00%) C
5 2 (10.00%) AWK
5 2 (10.00%) sed
6 1 (5.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) RHCE
2 2 (10.00%) RHCT
2 2 (10.00%) SCSA
3 1 (5.000%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.000%) CCNA
3 1 (5.000%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) NFS
2 4 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (10.00%) vSphere
5 1 (5.000%) Veritas File System
5 1 (5.000%) VMware ESX
5 1 (5.000%) Samba
5 1 (5.000%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) CFEngine
2 1 (5.000%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (5.000%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (5.000%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (5.000%) OpenView
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (35.00%) Sun
3 6 (30.00%) Veritas
4 5 (25.00%) VMware
4 5 (25.00%) HP
5 3 (15.00%) EMC
5 3 (15.00%) Oracle
6 2 (10.00%) IBM
6 2 (10.00%) Murex
6 2 (10.00%) Joyent
6 2 (10.00%) Rackspace
7 1 (5.000%) NetApp
7 1 (5.000%) Cisco
7 1 (5.000%) Dell
7 1 (5.000%) Intel