The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Specialist
Rank 200 217 243
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +26
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Specialist 3 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.014% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £450 - £494
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+21.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £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 138 186 197
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 £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Specialist
London

UNIX Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London UNIX Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London UNIX Specialist Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London UNIX Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited UNIX Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (33.33%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (33.33%) vSphere
5 1 (16.67%) CLARiiON
5 1 (16.67%) Clustering
5 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
5 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (16.67%) Nagios
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Firewall
5 1 (16.67%) Advertising
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Apache
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco
5 1 (16.67%) Sun
5 1 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) EMC
5 1 (16.67%) Perl
5 1 (16.67%) PHP
5 1 (16.67%) MySQL
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
5 1 (16.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) NetApp

UNIX Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited UNIX Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) CloudStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) BIG-IP
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (16.67%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CLARiiON
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Project Management
1 1 (16.67%) Migration
1 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) PHP
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (16.67%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
1 1 (16.67%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Sun
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Veritas
3 1 (16.67%) F5