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POSIX Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for POSIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited POSIX 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 Application Development category for the England 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
Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX (POSIX)
Rank 510 517 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing POSIX 22 28 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.051% 0.053% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.182% 0.200% -
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 0
Average daily rate £325 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 -
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12120 14009 16221
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 28.01% 26.45% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7804 8578 9744
Average daily rate £375 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 357 519
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
POSIX
UK

POSIX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing POSIX across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England POSIX Jobs Demand Trend

POSIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

England POSIX Daily Rate Trend

POSIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England POSIX Hourly Rate Trend

POSIX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing POSIX within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Find
Job
Vacancies
South East +25 4 £350 - 1
London +18 2 £325 +30.00%
South West - - - - 1
East of England - - - -
POSIX
UK

POSIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing POSIX 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 POSIX.

1 27 (96.43%) Linux
2 19 (67.86%) Python
2 19 (67.86%) RDBMS
2 19 (67.86%) Bash shell
3 18 (64.29%) Node.js
3 18 (64.29%) Redis
3 18 (64.29%) Route 53
3 18 (64.29%) Couchbase
3 18 (64.29%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (64.29%) Continuous Integration
3 18 (64.29%) Kanban
3 18 (64.29%) nginx
3 18 (64.29%) SimpleDB
3 18 (64.29%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (64.29%) Amazon S3
3 18 (64.29%) Amazon AWS
3 18 (64.29%) Puppet
3 18 (64.29%) MongoDB
3 18 (64.29%) NoSQL
3 18 (64.29%) HTTP
3 18 (64.29%) Configuration Management
3 18 (64.29%) Apache
3 18 (64.29%) C++
3 18 (64.29%) PHP
3 18 (64.29%) MySQL
3 18 (64.29%) TDD
3 18 (64.29%) Ruby
4 17 (60.71%) DNS
4 17 (60.71%) Web Services
5 16 (57.14%) Internet

POSIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing POSIX 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 POSIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (64.29%) Node.js
2 17 (60.71%) Web Services
3 5 (17.86%) LAMP
4 2 (7.143%) ASP
5 1 (3.571%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 18 (64.29%) Route 53
1 18 (64.29%) nginx
1 18 (64.29%) Amazon EC2
1 18 (64.29%) Amazon S3
1 18 (64.29%) Amazon AWS
1 18 (64.29%) Apache
2 6 (21.43%) CM System
Communications & Networking
1 18 (64.29%) HTTP
2 17 (60.71%) DNS
3 16 (57.14%) Internet
4 2 (7.143%) DVB
4 2 (7.143%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.571%) WiMAX
5 1 (3.571%) SSH
5 1 (3.571%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.571%) Wireless
5 1 (3.571%) VoIP
5 1 (3.571%) DHCP
5 1 (3.571%) Ethernet
5 1 (3.571%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.571%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (67.86%) RDBMS
2 18 (64.29%) Redis
2 18 (64.29%) Couchbase
2 18 (64.29%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (64.29%) SimpleDB
2 18 (64.29%) MongoDB
2 18 (64.29%) NoSQL
2 18 (64.29%) MySQL
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) ClearCase
2 1 (3.571%) NUnit
2 1 (3.571%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.571%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 8 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.571%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 25 (89.29%) Software Engineer
2 14 (50.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 1 (3.571%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (3.571%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (3.571%) Python Developer
4 1 (3.571%) Web Programmer
4 1 (3.571%) Embedded Software Developer
4 1 (3.571%) Embedded C Developer
4 1 (3.571%) C Developer
4 1 (3.571%) Web Developer
4 1 (3.571%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) DBA
4 1 (3.571%) Programmer
4 1 (3.571%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (3.571%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.571%) PHP Developer
4 1 (3.571%) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) DTV
2 2 (7.143%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.571%) Device Driver
3 1 (3.571%) STB
3 1 (3.571%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 27 (96.43%) Linux
2 2 (7.143%) Windows
2 2 (7.143%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.571%) VMS
3 1 (3.571%) AIX
3 1 (3.571%) HPUX
3 1 (3.571%) Solaris
3 1 (3.571%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Continuous Integration
1 18 (64.29%) Kanban
1 18 (64.29%) Configuration Management
1 18 (64.29%) TDD
2 16 (57.14%) Scrum
3 2 (7.143%) Test Automation
3 2 (7.143%) Security Testing
3 2 (7.143%) Software Architecture
3 2 (7.143%) Network Design
4 1 (3.571%) UML
4 1 (3.571%) Test Management
4 1 (3.571%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) Python
1 19 (67.86%) Bash shell
2 18 (64.29%) C++
2 18 (64.29%) PHP
2 18 (64.29%) Ruby
3 8 (28.57%) C
4 2 (7.143%) Embedded C
5 1 (3.571%) Assembly Language
5 1 (3.571%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.571%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) OCP
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle Certification
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle
2 1 (3.571%) Perforce
2 1 (3.571%) HP
2 1 (3.571%) Freescale
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