The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Engineer
Rank 194 208 234
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +26
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Engineer 11 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.171% 0.088% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.185% 0.096% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 5
Average daily rate £450 £438 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £401 £365 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £475 £545
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £500 £318
% change year-on-year
-17.50% +57.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £30.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-13.93% -35.10%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5944 7299 8873
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.46% 91.48% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4372 5246 6461
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £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 140 182 195
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 £41.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Engineer
London

UNIX Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London UNIX Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London UNIX Engineer Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London UNIX Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) UNIX
2 11 (73.33%) Solaris
2 11 (73.33%) Linux
2 11 (73.33%) Perl
3 9 (60.00%) Finance
4 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
4 8 (53.33%) SAN
5 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
6 5 (33.33%) LDAP
6 5 (33.33%) NFS
6 5 (33.33%) DNS
6 5 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 4 (26.67%) VMware
7 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (20.00%) NAS
8 3 (20.00%) BladeLogic
8 3 (20.00%) Sun
8 3 (20.00%) HP
8 3 (20.00%) Python
8 3 (20.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (13.33%) F5
9 2 (13.33%) HPUX
9 2 (13.33%) EMC
9 2 (13.33%) Veritas
9 2 (13.33%) Cisco
9 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
9 2 (13.33%) Banking
9 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
9 2 (13.33%) CLARiiON

UNIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) SAN
2 5 (33.33%) LDAP
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.667%) Retail
4 1 (6.667%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) CLARiiON
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) UNIX
2 11 (73.33%) Solaris
2 11 (73.33%) Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (13.33%) HPUX
4 2 (13.33%) SUSE
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (6.667%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Perl
2 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (6.667%) C
4 1 (6.667%) C++
4 1 (6.667%) Java
4 1 (6.667%) Bash shell
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) NFS
1 5 (33.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Sun
3 3 (20.00%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) F5
4 2 (13.33%) EMC
4 2 (13.33%) Veritas
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco
5 1 (6.667%) IBM
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle