East of England UNIX Specialist Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Specialist role in IT contracts within the East of England 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

UNIX Specialist
Location Aberdeen Berkshire Bristol Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Londonderry Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire Leeds London Manchester Norfolk North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Poole Scotland South East South West UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	133	152
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	1	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.031 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£368	£400
Average daily rate	£368	£400
% change on same period last year	-8.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£324
% change on same period last year	+2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.07	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+11.62 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3242	4524
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.565 %	4.572 %
Daily rates quoted	976	1376
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£317
Average daily rate	£334	£335
% change on same period last year	-0.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	498	720
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.19	£26.14
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£27.51
% change on same period last year	-18.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.82	£28.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
UNIX Specialist England

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 Specialist
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UNIX Specialist across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Specialist across the East of England region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Specialist within the East of England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Norfolk	-12	1	£368	-

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) Solaris 2 2 (66.67 %) Shell Script 3 1 (33.33 %) Middleware 3 1 (33.33 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (33.33 %) NetBackup 3 1 (33.33 %) Orchard 3 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 3 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) JBoss 3 1 (33.33 %) J2SE 3 1 (33.33 %) IBM 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat

3 1 (33.33 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) Perl 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 3 1 (33.33 %) DB2 3 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (33.33 %) AIX

UNIX Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 Development 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 1 (33.33 %) J2SE 1 1 (33.33 %) Middleware 1 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 1 (33.33 %) JBoss
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) DB2	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Pharmaceutical
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) Solaris 3 1 (33.33 %) Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) AIX	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Shell Script 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) NetBackup	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 1 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat 1 1 (33.33 %) Orchard