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UNIX Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills 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 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 29 22 14
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -8
Contract jobs citing UNIX 35 46 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.855% 4.315% 7.282%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.33% 28.75% 42.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 32
Average daily rate £375 £355 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% -8.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £242 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £398 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £32.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.38%
All Operating Systems
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 150 160 227
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 16.52% 15.01% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 59 65
Average daily rate £375 £314 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.52% -3.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £155 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +26.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
UNIX
Scotland

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Edinburgh UNIX Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 37 (44.05%) Linux
2 36 (42.86%) Windows
3 29 (34.52%) Oracle
4 26 (30.95%) AIX
4 26 (30.95%) Solaris
4 26 (30.95%) Finance
5 24 (28.57%) Banking
6 18 (21.43%) WebSphere
6 18 (21.43%) IBM
7 13 (15.48%) Mainframe
7 13 (15.48%) SQL
8 10 (11.90%) HPUX
8 10 (11.90%) SAN
8 10 (11.90%) Shell Script
8 10 (11.90%) Management Information System
8 10 (11.90%) Oracle EBS
9 9 (10.71%) zOS
9 9 (10.71%) TCP/IP
9 9 (10.71%) DNS
9 9 (10.71%) PL/SQL
10 8 (9.524%) MySQL
10 8 (9.524%) DB2
10 8 (9.524%) ITIL
10 8 (9.524%) LDAP
10 8 (9.524%) EMC
11 7 (8.333%) Problem Management
11 7 (8.333%) Project Management
11 7 (8.333%) Red Hat
11 7 (8.333%) WebSphere MQ
11 7 (8.333%) Firewall

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 18 (21.43%) WebSphere
2 7 (8.333%) WebSphere MQ
3 4 (4.762%) XML
4 3 (3.571%) Middleware
5 2 (2.381%) CSS
5 2 (2.381%) HTML
5 2 (2.381%) jQuery
5 2 (2.381%) Google Maps API
5 2 (2.381%) JSR 286
5 2 (2.381%) Zend Framework
6 1 (1.190%) HTML5
6 1 (1.190%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.190%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.762%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (4.762%) WebLogic
2 3 (3.571%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (3.571%) Apache
3 2 (2.381%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.381%) WebSphere Portal
3 2 (2.381%) Drupal
4 1 (1.190%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (1.190%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (1.190%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
4 1 (1.190%) TeamSite
4 1 (1.190%) CICS
4 1 (1.190%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.190%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.571%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.190%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 10 (11.90%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (5.952%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (3.571%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (2.381%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (1.190%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.90%) SAN
2 9 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 9 (10.71%) DNS
3 8 (9.524%) LDAP
4 7 (8.333%) Firewall
5 5 (5.952%) NAS
6 4 (4.762%) DHCP
6 4 (4.762%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (3.571%) Unified Communications
7 3 (3.571%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.381%) LAN
8 2 (2.381%) WAN
8 2 (2.381%) Connectrix
9 1 (1.190%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.190%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.190%) Network Security
9 1 (1.190%) Intranet
9 1 (1.190%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.524%) MySQL
1 8 (9.524%) DB2
2 6 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (5.952%) SQLPlus
3 5 (5.952%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (4.762%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.762%) Oracle Discoverer
4 4 (4.762%) RDBMS
4 4 (4.762%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (3.571%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (3.571%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (3.571%) Oracle 9i
6 2 (2.381%) Essbase
6 2 (2.381%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (2.381%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (1.190%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.190%) DataStage
7 1 (1.190%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 5 (5.952%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (4.762%) Subversion
3 3 (3.571%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.571%) Git (software)
4 2 (2.381%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.190%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.190%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 26 (30.95%) Finance
2 24 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (2.381%) Back Office
3 2 (2.381%) Financial Institution
3 2 (2.381%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.190%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Administrator
2 14 (16.67%) Consultant
3 8 (9.524%) Developer
3 8 (9.524%) UNIX Administrator
4 6 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (7.143%) WebSphere Administrator
4 6 (7.143%) UNIX Consultant
4 6 (7.143%) Oracle Consultant
5 5 (5.952%) Analyst
5 5 (5.952%) Project Manager
5 5 (5.952%) DBA
6 4 (4.762%) Security Consultant
6 4 (4.762%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 4 (4.762%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (4.762%) Business Consultant
6 4 (4.762%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (4.762%) E-Business Consultant
7 3 (3.571%) UNIX Specialist
7 3 (3.571%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 3 (3.571%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Mainframe
2 10 (11.90%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.571%) HACMP
3 3 (3.571%) Replication
3 3 (3.571%) Symmetrix
4 2 (2.381%) EMC Centera
4 2 (2.381%) W3C
4 2 (2.381%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (2.381%) Celerra
4 2 (2.381%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.381%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.190%) LPAR
5 1 (1.190%) DLPAR
5 1 (1.190%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (1.190%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.190%) Firmware
5 1 (1.190%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 37 (44.05%) Linux
2 36 (42.86%) Windows
3 26 (30.95%) AIX
3 26 (30.95%) Solaris
4 10 (11.90%) HPUX
5 9 (10.71%) zOS
6 5 (5.952%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (2.381%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (9.524%) ITIL
2 7 (8.333%) Problem Management
2 7 (8.333%) Project Management
3 6 (7.143%) Migration
3 6 (7.143%) Risk Analysis
4 5 (5.952%) Information Security
4 5 (5.952%) Configuration Management
4 5 (5.952%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (5.952%) Service Delivery
5 4 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (4.762%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (3.571%) SIEM
6 3 (3.571%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (3.571%) Change Management
6 3 (3.571%) Service Management
7 2 (2.381%) OOP
7 2 (2.381%) MVC
7 2 (2.381%) Risk Management
7 2 (2.381%) Investment Management
7 2 (2.381%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.48%) SQL
2 10 (11.90%) Shell Script
3 9 (10.71%) PL/SQL
4 7 (8.333%) Perl
5 3 (3.571%) Java
6 2 (2.381%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.381%) C#
6 2 (2.381%) PHP
6 2 (2.381%) Python
6 2 (2.381%) PHP5
6 2 (2.381%) Ruby
7 1 (1.190%) VB
7 1 (1.190%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (4.762%) Degree
2 2 (2.381%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.381%) CCNA
3 1 (1.190%) CCNP
3 1 (1.190%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.571%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.381%) WAI
3 1 (1.190%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.143%) Active Directory
1 6 (7.143%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (5.952%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (5.952%) SRDF
3 3 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.571%) Samba
4 2 (2.381%) NFS
5 1 (1.190%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.952%) Data Guard
1 5 (5.952%) Tivoli
2 3 (3.571%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 3 (3.571%) Puppet
2 3 (3.571%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 2 (2.381%) EMC TimeFinder
3 2 (2.381%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.381%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 2 (2.381%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (2.381%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (1.190%) Netcool
4 1 (1.190%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
4 1 (1.190%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 29 (34.52%) Oracle
2 18 (21.43%) IBM
3 8 (9.524%) EMC
4 7 (8.333%) Red Hat
5 6 (7.143%) Microsoft
5 6 (7.143%) NetApp
6 4 (4.762%) VMware
6 4 (4.762%) Brocade
7 3 (3.571%) Veritas
7 3 (3.571%) HP
8 2 (2.381%) PeopleSoft
8 2 (2.381%) Cisco
8 2 (2.381%) JBoss
8 2 (2.381%) Sun
8 2 (2.381%) Symantec
8 2 (2.381%) Twitter
8 2 (2.381%) ArcSight
8 2 (2.381%) Zend
8 2 (2.381%) Google
9 1 (1.190%) LANDesk
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