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The table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Support Engineer role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Support Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 UNIX Support Engineer
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank176-
Rank change on same period last yearNew entry-
Matching contract IT job ads20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.003 %0.000 %
As % of the category below0.035 %0.000 %
Daily rates quoted20
Average minimum daily rate£270-
Average daily rate£288-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£305-
UK excluding London average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£37.50-
% change on same period last year-
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads57705867
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled9.088 %6.287 %
Daily rates quoted30262493
Average minimum daily rate£400£451
Average daily rate£433£477
% change on same period last year-9.07 %
Average maximum daily rate£467£503
UK excluding London average daily rate£353£351
% change on same period last year+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted267232
Average minimum hourly rate£22.85£22.62
Average hourly rate£24.72£23.87
% change on same period last year+3.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.60£25.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.37£24.42
% change on same period last year-4.31 %
UNIX Support Engineer LondonUNIX Support Engineer
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

UNIX Support Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Support Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London UNIX Support Engineer Demand Trend

UNIX Support Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London UNIX Support Engineer Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Support Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited UNIX Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title.

13 (100.00 %)UNIX
22 (66.67 %)Finance
22 (66.67 %)RDBMS
22 (66.67 %)Solaris
22 (66.67 %)Linux
22 (66.67 %)Perl
31 (33.33 %)PHP
31 (33.33 %)SQL
31 (33.33 %)MySQL
31 (33.33 %)Oracle
31 (33.33 %)Sybase
31 (33.33 %)JSP
31 (33.33 %)Servlets
31 (33.33 %)XML
31 (33.33 %)OOP
31 (33.33 %)Apache
31 (33.33 %)Tomcat
31 (33.33 %)LDAP
31 (33.33 %)TCP/IP
31 (33.33 %)DNS
31 (33.33 %)Sun
31 (33.33 %)Internet
31 (33.33 %)Shell Script
31 (33.33 %)Configuration Management
31 (33.33 %)Financial Institution
31 (33.33 %)Front Office
31 (33.33 %)Fixed Income
31 (33.33 %)Banking
31 (33.33 %)C++
31 (33.33 %)Java

UNIX Support Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited UNIX Support 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 Support Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (33.33 %)JSP
11 (33.33 %)Servlets
11 (33.33 %)XML
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (33.33 %)Apache
11 (33.33 %)Tomcat
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (33.33 %)LDAP
11 (33.33 %)TCP/IP
11 (33.33 %)DNS
11 (33.33 %)Internet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (66.67 %)RDBMS
21 (33.33 %)MySQL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12 (66.67 %)Finance
21 (33.33 %)Financial Institution
21 (33.33 %)Front Office
21 (33.33 %)Banking
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (33.33 %)Fixed Income
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
13 (100.00 %)UNIX
22 (66.67 %)Solaris
22 (66.67 %)Linux
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (33.33 %)OOP
11 (33.33 %)Configuration Management
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (66.67 %)Perl
21 (33.33 %)PHP
21 (33.33 %)SQL
21 (33.33 %)Shell Script
21 (33.33 %)C++
21 (33.33 %)Java
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (33.33 %)Oracle
11 (33.33 %)Sybase
11 (33.33 %)Sun