The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX Consultant in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Consultant
Rank - - 72
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Consultant 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - 0.152%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.160%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £431 £320 £408
% change year-on-year
+34.76% -21.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
773 1019 1249
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.15% 93.74% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 504 609
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £237 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 36
Average hourly rate £13.93 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.43% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.60 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Consultant
Scotland

UNIX Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh UNIX Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UNIX Consultant across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh UNIX Consultant Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Consultant
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited UNIX Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AIX
1 5 (100.00%) HPUX
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Solaris
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) MySQL
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 3 (60.00%) DB2
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (60.00%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (20.00%) Banking
5 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management

UNIX Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited UNIX Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) AIX
1 5 (100.00%) HPUX
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Solaris
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle