East of England UNIX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moray Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	8
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	284	468
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.379 %	0.473 %
As % of the category below	28.57 %	38.87 %
Daily rates quoted	90	134
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£354
Average daily rate	£372	£379
% change on same period last year	-2.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£363
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.16	£28.37
Average hourly rate	£24.89	£29.15
% change on same period last year	-14.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.62	£29.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.35	£31.77
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Operating Systems East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	994	1204
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.325 %	1.218 %
Daily rates quoted	266	286
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£336
Average daily rate	£305	£355
% change on same period last year	-14.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	177	230
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.37	£21.51
Average hourly rate	£22.68	£22.61
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.99	£23.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
UNIX 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Hertfordshire	-2	132	£360	-4.73 %
Essex	-2	55	£412	-4.21 %
Cambridgeshire	-12	48	£299	-9.86 %
Norfolk	+12	29	£474	+32.32 %
Suffolk	-11	9	£315	+7.78 %
East Anglia	-7	8	-	-
Bedfordshire	-9	7	£270	-4.84 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 193 (33.92 %) Linux 2 192 (33.74 %) Oracle 3 156 (27.42 %) Solaris 4 153 (26.89 %) J2EE 5 152 (26.71 %) SQL 6 147 (25.83 %) Windows 7 145 (25.48 %) Java 8 118 (20.74 %) Finance 9 98 (17.22 %) WebSphere 10 96 (16.87 %) WebLogic 11 88 (15.47 %) IBM 12 74 (13.01 %) Shell Script 13 72 (12.65 %) AIX 14 64 (11.25 %) XML 15 63 (11.07 %) OO

16 61 (10.72 %) WebSphere Application Server 17 59 (10.37 %) Perl 17 59 (10.37 %) Telecoms 18 57 (10.02 %) HPUX 19 54 (9.490 %) C 20 52 (9.139 %) DB2 21 47 (8.260 %) Apache 22 45 (7.909 %) Ant 23 43 (7.557 %) UML 23 43 (7.557 %) Middleware 24 40 (7.030 %) Cisco 24 40 (7.030 %) PL/SQL 25 37 (6.503 %) HP 26 35 (6.151 %) Hibernate 26 35 (6.151 %) Spring

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 153 (26.89 %) J2EE 2 98 (17.22 %) WebSphere 3 64 (11.25 %) XML 4 43 (7.557 %) Middleware 5 35 (6.151 %) Hibernate 5 35 (6.151 %) Spring 6 29 (5.097 %) Struts 7 28 (4.921 %) WebServices 8 27 (4.745 %) HTML 9 21 (3.691 %) JSP 9 21 (3.691 %) SOAP 10 20 (3.515 %) Servlets 11 18 (3.163 %) .NET 12 17 (2.988 %) CSS 13 14 (2.460 %) JDBC 14 13 (2.285 %) EJB 14 13 (2.285 %) JRules 14 13 (2.285 %) XSLT 15 9 (1.582 %) XHTML 16 7 (1.230 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 96 (16.87 %) WebLogic 2 61 (10.72 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 47 (8.260 %) Apache 4 26 (4.569 %) Tomcat 5 23 (4.042 %) MQSeries 6 19 (3.339 %) JBoss 7 12 (2.109 %) Tuxedo 8 10 (1.757 %) Oracle Application Server 9 8 (1.406 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 7 (1.230 %) CMS 10 7 (1.230 %) IBM HTTP Server 10 7 (1.230 %) IIS 11 6 (1.054 %) Resin 12 5 (0.879 %) Lotus Notes 12 5 (0.879 %) MS Exchange 13 4 (0.703 %) Oracle HTTP Server 14 3 (0.527 %) SAS 14 3 (0.527 %) Lotus Domino 14 3 (0.527 %) Oracle Workflow 14 3 (0.527 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 15 (2.636 %) MS Office 2 14 (2.460 %) MS Excel 3 13 (2.285 %) MS Project 4 5 (0.879 %) MS Visio 4 5 (0.879 %) Acrobat 5 3 (0.527 %) MATLAB 5 3 (0.527 %) Photoshop 6 2 (0.351 %) CATIA 7 1 (0.176 %) CA Clarity 7 1 (0.176 %) Paint Shop Pro	Business Applications 1 12 (2.109 %) Oracle 11i 2 8 (1.406 %) Oracle Applications 3 4 (0.703 %) SAP ERP 4 2 (0.351 %) BASE24 4 2 (0.351 %) Oracle EBS 5 1 (0.176 %) SoftGrid 5 1 (0.176 %) TIBCO iProcess 5 1 (0.176 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 32 (5.624 %) SAN 2 31 (5.448 %) HTTP 3 29 (5.097 %) Firewall 4 28 (4.921 %) TCP/IP 5 26 (4.569 %) LAN 6 24 (4.218 %) Internet 7 19 (3.339 %) 3G 8 16 (2.812 %) VPN 9 14 (2.460 %) DNS 9 14 (2.460 %) GSM 9 14 (2.460 %) Wireless 9 14 (2.460 %) 2G 10 13 (2.285 %) RNC 11 11 (1.933 %) WLAN 11 11 (1.933 %) WAN 11 11 (1.933 %) SS7 12 10 (1.757 %) TACACS 12 10 (1.757 %) RTP 13 9 (1.582 %) Wi-Fi 13 9 (1.582 %) RTSP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 52 (9.139 %) DB2 2 34 (5.975 %) MySQL 3 29 (5.097 %) SQL Server 4 27 (4.745 %) Oracle 9i 5 26 (4.569 %) Oracle 10g 6 23 (4.042 %) Oracle Reports 7 18 (3.163 %) Datawarehouse 8 14 (2.460 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 10 (1.757 %) ETL 9 10 (1.757 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 10 (1.757 %) RDBMS 10 9 (1.582 %) BusinessObjects 11 8 (1.406 %) MS Access 11 8 (1.406 %) Crystal Reports 12 6 (1.054 %) TOAD 13 4 (0.703 %) SQL Server 2005 14 3 (0.527 %) PostgreSQL 14 3 (0.527 %) Ingres 14 3 (0.527 %) SQL Server 2000 15 2 (0.351 %) DB2 UDB
Development Applications 1 45 (7.909 %) Ant 2 29 (5.097 %) Eclipse 3 19 (3.339 %) JUnit 4 17 (2.988 %) IntelliJ 5 14 (2.460 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 12 (2.109 %) CruiseControl 6 12 (2.109 %) Subversion 7 10 (1.757 %) Atlassian Bamboo 8 9 (1.582 %) Bugzilla 9 8 (1.406 %) Oracle Forms 9 8 (1.406 %) ClearCase 10 6 (1.054 %) Log4j 10 6 (1.054 %) ClearQuest 11 5 (0.879 %) JBuilder 11 5 (0.879 %) TestDirector 11 5 (0.879 %) JIRA 12 4 (0.703 %) PVCS 13 3 (0.527 %) VSS/SourceSafe 13 3 (0.527 %) JDeveloper 14 2 (0.351 %) FitNesse	General 1 118 (20.74 %) Finance 2 59 (10.37 %) Telecoms 3 23 (4.042 %) Insurance 4 19 (3.339 %) Financial Institution 5 15 (2.636 %) Automotive 6 14 (2.460 %) Government 7 13 (2.285 %) Retail 7 13 (2.285 %) Marketing 8 11 (1.933 %) Banking 9 8 (1.406 %) Pharmaceutical 9 8 (1.406 %) Billing 10 7 (1.230 %) Electronics 10 7 (1.230 %) Multimedia 11 5 (0.879 %) Games 11 5 (0.879 %) Education 11 5 (0.879 %) Electric 12 4 (0.703 %) Back Office 13 3 (0.527 %) Local Government 14 2 (0.351 %) Pensions 14 2 (0.351 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 108 (18.98 %) Developer 2 70 (12.30 %) Analyst 3 68 (11.95 %) Administrator 4 47 (8.260 %) Architect 5 37 (6.503 %) Java Developer 6 34 (5.975 %) DBA 7 33 (5.800 %) Systems Administrator 8 29 (5.097 %) Consultant 9 26 (4.569 %) Support Engineer 9 26 (4.569 %) UNIX Administrator 10 23 (4.042 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 10 23 (4.042 %) Support Analyst 10 23 (4.042 %) Project Manager 10 23 (4.042 %) Software Engineer 11 20 (3.515 %) Test Analyst 12 19 (3.339 %) Oracle DBA 13 15 (2.636 %) J2EE Developer 14 13 (2.285 %) DB2 DBA 15 12 (2.109 %) Infrastructure Manager 15 12 (2.109 %) Applications Support	Miscellaneous 1 22 (3.866 %) N-Tier 2 15 (2.636 %) PMI 2 15 (2.636 %) Client/Server 3 9 (1.582 %) Mainframe 4 7 (1.230 %) Management Information System 4 7 (1.230 %) Computer Science 5 6 (1.054 %) IPTV 5 6 (1.054 %) Clustering 6 3 (0.527 %) Firmware 6 3 (0.527 %) HACMP 6 3 (0.527 %) PKI 6 3 (0.527 %) Mathematics 6 3 (0.527 %) Biology 6 3 (0.527 %) Replication 7 2 (0.351 %) Biotechnology 7 2 (0.351 %) Statistics 7 2 (0.351 %) Life Science 7 2 (0.351 %) Tandem 7 2 (0.351 %) STB 7 2 (0.351 %) Streaming Video
Operating Systems 1 193 (33.92 %) Linux 2 156 (27.42 %) Solaris 3 147 (25.83 %) Windows 4 72 (12.65 %) AIX 5 57 (10.02 %) HPUX 6 21 (3.691 %) Windows NT 7 17 (2.988 %) Windows 2000 8 12 (2.109 %) Windows XP 9 9 (1.582 %) Windows Server 2003 10 6 (1.054 %) SUSE 10 6 (1.054 %) Windows Mobile 10 6 (1.054 %) FreeBSD 11 4 (0.703 %) i5/OS 11 4 (0.703 %) Tru64 12 3 (0.527 %) Mac OS X 13 1 (0.176 %) zOS 13 1 (0.176 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 63 (11.07 %) OO 2 43 (7.557 %) UML 3 22 (3.866 %) Project Management 4 21 (3.691 %) Migration 5 20 (3.515 %) PRINCE2 5 20 (3.515 %) OOD 6 19 (3.339 %) Change Management 7 18 (3.163 %) Disaster Recovery 8 17 (2.988 %) SOA 9 16 (2.812 %) Configuration Management 9 16 (2.812 %) Security Cleared 10 15 (2.636 %) CRM 10 15 (2.636 %) ITIL 10 15 (2.636 %) Incident Management 11 14 (2.460 %) E-Commerce 12 13 (2.285 %) RUP 12 13 (2.285 %) Project Planning 12 13 (2.285 %) Software Engineering 13 11 (1.933 %) Data Management 13 11 (1.933 %) RAD
Programming Languages 1 152 (26.71 %) SQL 2 145 (25.48 %) Java 3 74 (13.01 %) Shell Script 4 59 (10.37 %) Perl 5 54 (9.490 %) C 6 40 (7.030 %) PL/SQL 7 30 (5.272 %) C++ 8 23 (4.042 %) JavaScript 9 22 (3.866 %) PHP 10 13 (2.285 %) C# 10 13 (2.285 %) Python 10 13 (2.285 %) VB 11 11 (1.933 %) Korn 12 5 (0.879 %) VB6 12 5 (0.879 %) Embedded C 13 4 (0.703 %) Ruby 13 4 (0.703 %) COBOL 13 4 (0.703 %) DHTML 14 3 (0.527 %) VB.NET 14 3 (0.527 %) Assembly Language	Qualifications 1 24 (4.218 %) Degree 2 15 (2.636 %) CCNA 2 15 (2.636 %) Cisco Certification 3 14 (2.460 %) ISEB 4 12 (2.109 %) Microsoft Certification 5 10 (1.757 %) MCSE 6 6 (1.054 %) MCP 7 5 (0.879 %) HNC 8 4 (0.703 %) HND 8 4 (0.703 %) CCNP 9 3 (0.527 %) CCDP 9 3 (0.527 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 3 (0.527 %) MCSA 9 3 (0.527 %) ITIL Certification 10 2 (0.351 %) Sun Certification 11 1 (0.176 %) CISSP 11 1 (0.176 %) CCDA 11 1 (0.176 %) MCSD 11 1 (0.176 %) PMP 11 1 (0.176 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 23 (4.042 %) SLA 2 10 (1.757 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 2 (0.351 %) WAI 3 2 (0.351 %) QA 3 2 (0.351 %) GxP	System Software 1 23 (4.042 %) NetBackup 2 19 (3.339 %) Active Directory 3 14 (2.460 %) Oracle RAC 4 6 (1.054 %) Oracle RMAN 5 4 (0.703 %) Terminal Server 6 2 (0.351 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 6 2 (0.351 %) ISA Server 6 2 (0.351 %) Samba 6 2 (0.351 %) NFS 6 2 (0.351 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 1 (0.176 %) VMware Server 7 1 (0.176 %) VMware ESX 7 1 (0.176 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 15 (2.636 %) Tivoli 2 10 (1.757 %) OpenView 3 9 (1.582 %) CiscoWorks 4 7 (1.230 %) NNM 4 7 (1.230 %) Tivoli NetView 4 7 (1.230 %) HP Data Protector 5 2 (0.351 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 1 (0.176 %) MOM 6 1 (0.176 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 1 (0.176 %) AutoSys 6 1 (0.176 %) Veritas Storage Foundation	Vendors 1 192 (33.74 %) Oracle 2 88 (15.47 %) IBM 3 40 (7.030 %) Cisco 4 37 (6.503 %) HP 5 33 (5.800 %) Red Hat 6 32 (5.624 %) Sun 7 29 (5.097 %) Microsoft 8 24 (4.218 %) BEA 9 23 (4.042 %) VERITAS 10 15 (2.636 %) EMC 11 14 (2.460 %) ILOG 11 14 (2.460 %) Ab Initio 12 13 (2.285 %) Citrix 13 11 (1.933 %) NetApp 14 10 (1.757 %) Nortel 15 9 (1.582 %) Business Objects 16 8 (1.406 %) SAP 16 8 (1.406 %) Intel 16 8 (1.406 %) VMware 17 7 (1.230 %) Brocade