The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon 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 Croydon 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 12 8 9
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +1
Contract jobs citing UNIX 2 15 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 4.000% 11.28% 15.90%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.38% 50.00% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 21
Average daily rate - £531 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
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
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
13 30 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 26.00% 22.56% 35.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 35
Average daily rate £215 £450 £435
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-52.22% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £200 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £603 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
UNIX
London

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Cognos
3 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) IIS
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) IPsec
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 2 (40.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Support Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Support Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Support Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Server Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cognos
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) VMware