UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Engineer
Rank 435 475 494
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +19
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Engineer 78 84 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.188% 0.157% 0.137%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.203% 0.170% 0.148%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 52 35
Average daily rate £425 £500 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +31.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £353 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £500 £318
% change year-on-year
-15.00% +57.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £26.25 £30.50 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.93% -35.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £30.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-13.93% -35.10%
Search 13 UNIX Engineer jobs in England
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 1983 2412 2765
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 £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Engineer
UK

UNIX Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England UNIX Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England UNIX Engineer Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England UNIX Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England UNIX Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +52 45 £431 -4.16%
South West +2 13 £438 -12.50%
South East +23 9 £425 -
North West +15 5 £250 -16.66%
North East +12 3 £265 -
Yorkshire +1 2 £200 -42.85%
East Midlands - 1 - -
UNIX Engineer
UK

UNIX Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 137 (100.00%) UNIX
2 110 (80.29%) Linux
3 83 (60.58%) Red Hat
4 79 (57.66%) Solaris
5 77 (56.20%) Perl
6 65 (47.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 59 (43.07%) SAN
8 49 (35.77%) Shell Script
9 46 (33.58%) Clustering
10 36 (26.28%) Veritas
10 36 (26.28%) DNS
11 33 (24.09%) EMC
12 32 (23.36%) C
12 32 (23.36%) Security Cleared
13 30 (21.90%) VMware
14 29 (21.17%) Banking
14 29 (21.17%) HP
15 28 (20.44%) Finance
16 27 (19.71%) Sun
17 26 (18.98%) VMware Infrastructure
17 26 (18.98%) DV Cleared
18 24 (17.52%) DHCP
18 24 (17.52%) HPUX
19 21 (15.33%) Migration
19 21 (15.33%) NAS
20 20 (14.60%) Veritas Volume Manager
20 20 (14.60%) Investment Banking
20 20 (14.60%) NFS
21 19 (13.87%) AIX
22 18 (13.14%) Oracle

UNIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (2.920%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.730%) Qt
2 1 (0.730%) XML
2 1 (0.730%) J2EE
2 1 (0.730%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.650%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.920%) Apache
3 3 (2.190%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.460%) FileNet
4 2 (1.460%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.730%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.730%) nginx
5 1 (0.730%) IIS
5 1 (0.730%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.730%) SAS
5 1 (0.730%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.730%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.730%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 2 (1.460%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.730%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 59 (43.07%) SAN
2 36 (26.28%) DNS
3 24 (17.52%) DHCP
4 21 (15.33%) NAS
5 11 (8.029%) LDAP
6 6 (4.380%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.190%) SSL
7 3 (2.190%) Firewall
8 2 (1.460%) DECnet
8 2 (1.460%) HTTP
8 2 (1.460%) LAN
8 2 (1.460%) WAN
9 1 (0.730%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.730%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.730%) SMTP
9 1 (0.730%) VPN
9 1 (0.730%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.650%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (2.190%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.460%) MarkLogic
3 2 (1.460%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.730%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.730%) DB2
4 1 (0.730%) Oracle 10g
General
1 29 (21.17%) Banking
2 28 (20.44%) Finance
3 20 (14.60%) Investment Banking
4 4 (2.920%) Front Office
4 4 (2.920%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.190%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.460%) Marketing
7 1 (0.730%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.730%) Publishing
7 1 (0.730%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 46 (33.58%) Clustering
2 13 (9.489%) CLARiiON
3 9 (6.569%) Equities
4 5 (3.650%) Symmetrix DMX
4 5 (3.650%) Wiki
5 4 (2.920%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.460%) Open Source
7 1 (0.730%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.730%) PKI
7 1 (0.730%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.730%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.730%) HP Superdome
7 1 (0.730%) LPAR
7 1 (0.730%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 137 (100.00%) UNIX
2 110 (80.29%) Linux
3 79 (57.66%) Solaris
4 65 (47.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (17.52%) HPUX
6 19 (13.87%) AIX
7 11 (8.029%) SUSE
7 11 (8.029%) Windows
8 3 (2.190%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (2.190%) Windows 7
8 3 (2.190%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.190%) VMS
9 2 (1.460%) OpenVMS
9 2 (1.460%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (0.730%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.730%) CentOS
10 1 (0.730%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.730%) Debian
10 1 (0.730%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.730%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (15.33%) Migration
2 14 (10.22%) Load Balancing
3 11 (8.029%) Configuration Management
3 11 (8.029%) High Availability
4 9 (6.569%) ITIL
5 7 (5.109%) Change Management
6 5 (3.650%) Problem Management
7 4 (2.920%) RDF
7 4 (2.920%) Electronic Trading
8 3 (2.190%) Service Management
9 2 (1.460%) Validation
9 2 (1.460%) Workflow
9 2 (1.460%) ERP
9 2 (1.460%) PRINCE2
9 2 (1.460%) Change Control
9 2 (1.460%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (1.460%) Network Management
9 2 (1.460%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (1.460%) Continuous Integration
10 1 (0.730%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 77 (56.20%) Perl
2 49 (35.77%) Shell Script
3 32 (23.36%) C
4 11 (8.029%) C++
4 11 (8.029%) Python
5 9 (6.569%) Java
6 8 (5.839%) SQL
7 6 (4.380%) Ruby
8 5 (3.650%) Korn
9 4 (2.920%) Bash shell
10 3 (2.190%) C-shell
11 2 (1.460%) DCL
12 1 (0.730%) PHP
12 1 (0.730%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.98%) DV Cleared
3 8 (5.839%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (4.380%) OCA
5 5 (3.650%) Degree
6 2 (1.460%) RHCE
6 2 (1.460%) OCP
6 2 (1.460%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.730%) CCNP
7 1 (0.730%) CISSP
7 1 (0.730%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.380%) SLA
2 1 (0.730%) QA
System Software
1 26 (18.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (14.60%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 20 (14.60%) NFS
3 17 (12.41%) VMware ESX
4 8 (5.839%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (2.190%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.460%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.730%) Veritas File System
7 1 (0.730%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.730%) vSphere
7 1 (0.730%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.730%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (2.920%) Tivoli
1 4 (2.920%) NetBackup
1 4 (2.920%) Puppet
2 3 (2.190%) BladeLogic
2 3 (2.190%) OpenView
2 3 (2.190%) Nagios
3 2 (1.460%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (1.460%) Netcool
3 2 (1.460%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.730%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (0.730%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 83 (60.58%) Red Hat
2 36 (26.28%) Veritas
3 33 (24.09%) EMC
4 30 (21.90%) VMware
5 29 (21.17%) HP
6 27 (19.71%) Sun
7 18 (13.14%) Oracle
8 15 (10.95%) Cisco
8 15 (10.95%) F5
9 11 (8.029%) IBM
10 7 (5.109%) Sybase
11 4 (2.920%) NetApp
11 4 (2.920%) JBoss
12 3 (2.190%) Siebel
12 3 (2.190%) CheckPoint
12 3 (2.190%) Informatica
13 2 (1.460%) Juniper
13 2 (1.460%) BMC
13 2 (1.460%) Microsoft
13 2 (1.460%) Business Objects
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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