UNIX Administrator Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Administrator
Rank 425 430 419
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -11
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Administrator 89 141 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.211% 0.260% 0.267%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.228% 0.281% 0.288%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 78 101
Average daily rate £390 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £276 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £313 £344
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
Average hourly rate £27.00 £22.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -18.18%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £22.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 39040 50214 51349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.49% 92.56% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22971 28392 28508
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2022 2460 2732
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Administrator
UK

UNIX Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England UNIX Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

England UNIX Administrator Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England UNIX Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England UNIX Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Administrator within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
London +17 64 £400 -
South East +5 12 £338 -3.57%
East of England +15 4 £400 +18.51%
West Midlands +13 3 £325 -
North West -8 3 £313 +4.07%
South West +23 1 - -
Yorkshire -4 1 - -
UNIX Administrator
UK

UNIX Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Administrator 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 Administrator in their job title.

1 159 (100.00%) UNIX
2 129 (81.13%) Linux
3 95 (59.75%) Solaris
4 71 (44.65%) Red Hat
5 66 (41.51%) Veritas
6 64 (40.25%) SAN
7 61 (38.36%) Finance
8 57 (35.85%) Shell Script
8 57 (35.85%) VMware
9 51 (32.08%) Sun
10 48 (30.19%) AIX
11 47 (29.56%) SUSE
12 46 (28.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 44 (27.67%) Perl
14 42 (26.42%) Oracle
15 40 (25.16%) EMC
16 36 (22.64%) Veritas Volume Manager
17 35 (22.01%) Banking
18 32 (20.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
19 30 (18.87%) HP
20 27 (16.98%) ITIL
21 26 (16.35%) Migration
22 25 (15.72%) Investment Banking
22 25 (15.72%) VMware Infrastructure
23 23 (14.47%) Korn
24 22 (13.84%) HPUX
25 21 (13.21%) Change Management
26 19 (11.95%) Problem Management
26 19 (11.95%) Symmetrix DMX
27 18 (11.32%) Windows

UNIX Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Administrator 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 Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (1.887%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.258%) Middleware
3 1 (0.629%) JPA
3 1 (0.629%) RESTful
3 1 (0.629%) Regular Expression
3 1 (0.629%) JAX-RS
3 1 (0.629%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (0.629%) HTML
3 1 (0.629%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 15 (9.434%) SharePoint
2 13 (8.176%) Apache
3 9 (5.660%) Tomcat
4 5 (3.145%) Oracle Application Server
4 5 (3.145%) SAS
4 5 (3.145%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.887%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (1.887%) IIS
6 2 (1.258%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.629%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.629%) FileNet
7 1 (0.629%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.629%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (0.629%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (3.145%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.774%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (0.629%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.629%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.629%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (40.25%) SAN
2 14 (8.805%) TCP/IP
3 11 (6.918%) LDAP
3 11 (6.918%) NAS
4 9 (5.660%) DNS
5 6 (3.774%) Internet
6 4 (2.516%) DHCP
7 3 (1.887%) HTTP
8 2 (1.258%) WAN
8 2 (1.258%) SSL
8 2 (1.258%) LAN
8 2 (1.258%) Firewall
8 2 (1.258%) snoop
9 1 (0.629%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.629%) Cisco PIX
9 1 (0.629%) Network Security
9 1 (0.629%) SSH
9 1 (0.629%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.629%) NetScreen
9 1 (0.629%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.805%) Oracle Exadata
2 7 (4.403%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.258%) VLDB
3 2 (1.258%) OLTP
4 1 (0.629%) Redis
4 1 (0.629%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.629%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (0.629%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.629%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (0.629%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.629%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (0.629%) Git (software)
1 1 (0.629%) Hudson
1 1 (0.629%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.629%) Subversion
1 1 (0.629%) ClearQuest
1 1 (0.629%) ClearCase
General
1 61 (38.36%) Finance
2 35 (22.01%) Banking
3 25 (15.72%) Investment Banking
4 4 (2.516%) Back Office
4 4 (2.516%) Financial Institution
5 3 (1.887%) Retail
6 2 (1.258%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.258%) Law
6 2 (1.258%) German Language
7 1 (0.629%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.629%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.629%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.95%) Symmetrix DMX
2 15 (9.434%) Clustering
2 15 (9.434%) Wiki
3 8 (5.031%) LPAR
4 6 (3.774%) HACMP
5 4 (2.516%) Thin Client
5 4 (2.516%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.887%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.887%) New Media
6 3 (1.887%) Equities
7 2 (1.258%) Firmware
7 2 (1.258%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.258%) CLARiiON
7 2 (1.258%) Mathematics
7 2 (1.258%) Computer Science
7 2 (1.258%) HP Superdome
7 2 (1.258%) Open Source
8 1 (0.629%) FMCG
8 1 (0.629%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 159 (100.00%) UNIX
2 129 (81.13%) Linux
3 95 (59.75%) Solaris
4 48 (30.19%) AIX
5 47 (29.56%) SUSE
6 46 (28.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (13.84%) HPUX
8 18 (11.32%) Windows
9 5 (3.145%) Debian
10 4 (2.516%) Windows XP
10 4 (2.516%) Windows 7
10 4 (2.516%) CentOS
11 3 (1.887%) Windows 2000 Server
11 3 (1.887%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.887%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.629%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.629%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (16.98%) ITIL
2 26 (16.35%) Migration
3 21 (13.21%) Change Management
4 19 (11.95%) Problem Management
5 18 (11.32%) RDF
6 6 (3.774%) Project Management
6 6 (3.774%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (3.774%) Business Continuity
7 5 (3.145%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (2.516%) ITSM
8 4 (2.516%) Data Security
8 4 (2.516%) Service Management
9 3 (1.887%) Capacity Management
9 3 (1.887%) Test Scripting
9 3 (1.887%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (1.887%) Six Sigma
9 3 (1.887%) PRINCE2
10 2 (1.258%) E-Commerce
10 2 (1.258%) Benchmarking
10 2 (1.258%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (35.85%) Shell Script
2 44 (27.67%) Perl
3 23 (14.47%) Korn
4 10 (6.289%) AWK
4 10 (6.289%) SQL
5 9 (5.660%) Java
6 8 (5.031%) sed
7 6 (3.774%) Bash shell
8 5 (3.145%) C++
8 5 (3.145%) Python
9 3 (1.887%) Ruby
9 3 (1.887%) C
10 2 (1.258%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.629%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (9.434%) RHCE
2 13 (8.176%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.289%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.031%) RHCT
5 6 (3.774%) Sun Certification
5 6 (3.774%) SCSA
6 5 (3.145%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.145%) CCNA
7 4 (2.516%) IBM Certification
7 4 (2.516%) Degree
8 2 (1.258%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.258%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (1.258%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.629%) OCA
9 1 (0.629%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.629%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.516%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.258%) QA
3 1 (0.629%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (22.64%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 32 (20.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 25 (15.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (7.547%) NFS
5 7 (4.403%) Veritas File System
5 7 (4.403%) VMware ESX
5 7 (4.403%) Active Directory
6 5 (3.145%) Samba
7 4 (2.516%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 3 (1.887%) vSphere
9 2 (1.258%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.629%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.629%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (6.918%) HP Data Protector
2 10 (6.289%) Puppet
3 5 (3.145%) OpenView
4 4 (2.516%) Tivoli
4 4 (2.516%) BMC PATROL
4 4 (2.516%) Nagios
4 4 (2.516%) NetBackup
4 4 (2.516%) CFEngine
4 4 (2.516%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 3 (1.887%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.887%) HP SIM
6 2 (1.258%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (1.258%) Cacti
7 1 (0.629%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.629%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 71 (44.65%) Red Hat
2 66 (41.51%) Veritas
3 57 (35.85%) VMware
4 51 (32.08%) Sun
5 42 (26.42%) Oracle
6 40 (25.16%) EMC
7 30 (18.87%) HP
8 18 (11.32%) IBM
9 16 (10.06%) Sybase
10 9 (5.660%) Cisco
11 7 (4.403%) NetApp
12 5 (3.145%) Intel
12 5 (3.145%) Citrix
13 4 (2.516%) JBoss
13 4 (2.516%) BMC
14 3 (1.887%) Opsware
14 3 (1.887%) Joyent
14 3 (1.887%) Rackspace
14 3 (1.887%) Dell
14 3 (1.887%) Murex
UNIX System Administrator - Banking - 450/day - SW London
Surrey
UNIX System Administrator - Banking - 450/day - SW London. My client, a Top Tier Leading Investment Bank, seeks to find an experienced UNIX System Administrator to work on a...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
UNIX Administrator - Linux Redhat / Solaris / Netbackup /
London
The successful UNIX SME will be supporting Redhat, Solaris and backups in a mixture of BAU and project-based environments... The UNIX Administrator will need solid experience and...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Unix Administrator Team Lead
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
SEO: UNIX, Solaris, RedHat, Linux, Team Lead, Manager, support, admin, administrator, administration, Cheltenham The Role: provide technical support, maintenance and ultimate technical leadership for Unix based systems and...
Think IT Recruitment
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
UNIX Engineer - Administrator - Consultant - Yorkshire
East Riding
The successful UNIX Engineer must have experience in: * Detailed knowledge of Solaris as primary skill and Linux as secondary skill, additional knowledge of HPUX, AIX,VMS would be...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
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