England UNIX Support Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Support role in IT contracts within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Support in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

UNIX Support
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Birmingham Bristol Canary Wharf Cheltenham City of London County Londonderry Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Leicestershire Livingston London Manchester Midlands North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Rotherham Scotland South East South West South Yorkshire Stevenage UK Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	455	524
Rank change on same period last year	+69
Matching contract IT job ads	96	117
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.134 %	0.118 %
As % of the category below	0.162 %	0.137 %
Daily rates quoted	47	42
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£356
Average daily rate	£354	£384
% change on same period last year	-7.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£262	£313
% change on same period last year	-16.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.48	£29.01
Average hourly rate	£29.88	£31.65
% change on same period last year	-5.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.29	£34.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.64	£30.99
% change on same period last year	+27.90 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	59258	85192
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	82.78 %	85.59 %
Daily rates quoted	19738	26381
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£390
Average daily rate	£401	£414
% change on same period last year	-3.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£427	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5325	7556
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.57	£23.93
Average hourly rate	£24.11	£25.50
% change on same period last year	-5.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.65	£27.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
UNIX Support UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Support across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX Support across the England region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX Support across the England region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Support within the England region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+75	60	£400	-6.93 %
South West	+31	13	£245	-
West Midlands	+14	7	£310	+5.98 %
East Midlands	+8	5	£225	-
South East	+14	3	£275	-12.49 %
Midlands	+16	2	-	-
North West	+15	2	-	-
Yorkshire	+12	2	-	-
East of England	+22	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Support 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 Support in their job title.

1 184 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 104 (56.52 %) Solaris 3 60 (32.61 %) Linux 4 50 (27.17 %) Finance 5 47 (25.54 %) Oracle 6 42 (22.83 %) SQL 6 42 (22.83 %) Banking 7 38 (20.65 %) Windows 8 35 (19.02 %) AIX 9 34 (18.48 %) VERITAS 10 33 (17.93 %) Red Hat 10 33 (17.93 %) Perl 10 33 (17.93 %) Red Hat Linux 11 25 (13.59 %) Shell Script 12 23 (12.50 %) NetBackup

13 22 (11.96 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 14 21 (11.41 %) Retail 14 21 (11.41 %) RDBMS 14 21 (11.41 %) IBM 15 20 (10.87 %) SAN 15 20 (10.87 %) WebSphere 16 19 (10.33 %) Sun 17 18 (9.783 %) Microsoft 17 18 (9.783 %) NFS 18 17 (9.239 %) Telecoms 18 17 (9.239 %) Retail Banking 18 17 (9.239 %) Investment Management 19 16 (8.696 %) Informix 19 16 (8.696 %) Apache 19 16 (8.696 %) Sybase

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited UNIX Support 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 Support in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (10.87 %) WebSphere 2 8 (4.348 %) Middleware 3 7 (3.804 %) JSP 4 5 (2.717 %) FIX Protocol 4 5 (2.717 %) J2EE 5 3 (1.630 %) Servlets 6 2 (1.087 %) XML 6 2 (1.087 %) ATL 6 2 (1.087 %) EJB 7 1 (0.543 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 16 (8.696 %) Apache 2 9 (4.891 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (4.891 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (4.348 %) Tomcat 3 8 (4.348 %) WebLogic 4 6 (3.261 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 4 (2.174 %) JRun 6 3 (1.630 %) IIS 6 3 (1.630 %) JBoss 6 3 (1.630 %) iPlanet 6 3 (1.630 %) WebSphere MQ 7 2 (1.087 %) Oracle Application Server 8 1 (0.543 %) IBM HTTP Server
Applications 1 3 (1.630 %) MS Office 1 3 (1.630 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.543 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (0.543 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 20 (10.87 %) SAN 2 13 (7.065 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (4.348 %) LAN 3 8 (4.348 %) WAN 4 6 (3.261 %) DNS 4 6 (3.261 %) Internet 4 6 (3.261 %) Firewall 5 4 (2.174 %) LLU 5 4 (2.174 %) Broadband 6 3 (1.630 %) DSL 7 2 (1.087 %) LDAP 8 1 (0.543 %) SSL 8 1 (0.543 %) DHCP 8 1 (0.543 %) HTTP 8 1 (0.543 %) DMZ 8 1 (0.543 %) Intranet 8 1 (0.543 %) SSH 8 1 (0.543 %) BIG-IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (11.41 %) RDBMS 2 16 (8.696 %) Informix 3 12 (6.522 %) SQL Server 4 7 (3.804 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 5 (2.717 %) MySQL 6 3 (1.630 %) Oracle Reports 7 2 (1.087 %) DB2 7 2 (1.087 %) Oracle 9i 8 1 (0.543 %) Oracle 10g 8 1 (0.543 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 3 (1.630 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (0.543 %) Ant	General 1 50 (27.17 %) Finance 2 42 (22.83 %) Banking 3 21 (11.41 %) Retail 4 17 (9.239 %) Retail Banking 4 17 (9.239 %) Telecoms 5 13 (7.065 %) Investment Banking 6 11 (5.978 %) Front Office 7 4 (2.174 %) Financial Institution 7 4 (2.174 %) Electric 7 4 (2.174 %) Government 8 3 (1.630 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.543 %) Pharmaceutical 9 1 (0.543 %) Publishing 9 1 (0.543 %) Auditing
Miscellaneous 1 10 (5.435 %) PKI 2 8 (4.348 %) Equities 3 7 (3.804 %) Clustering 4 6 (3.261 %) Fixed Income 5 3 (1.630 %) VAX 6 2 (1.087 %) Mainframe 7 1 (0.543 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 1 (0.543 %) HACMP 7 1 (0.543 %) IPTV 7 1 (0.543 %) Derivative 7 1 (0.543 %) Mathematics 7 1 (0.543 %) Credit Risk	Operating Systems 1 184 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 104 (56.52 %) Solaris 3 60 (32.61 %) Linux 4 38 (20.65 %) Windows 5 35 (19.02 %) AIX 6 33 (17.93 %) Red Hat Linux 7 22 (11.96 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 15 (8.152 %) HPUX 9 10 (5.435 %) Windows 2000 9 10 (5.435 %) Windows Vista 10 6 (3.261 %) VMS 11 4 (2.174 %) Windows Server 2003 12 2 (1.087 %) MVS 12 2 (1.087 %) FreeBSD 12 2 (1.087 %) Windows XP 13 1 (0.543 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (9.239 %) Investment Management 2 11 (5.978 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (5.978 %) ITIL 3 8 (4.348 %) Change Management 3 8 (4.348 %) Problem Management 4 6 (3.261 %) Incident Management 4 6 (3.261 %) Service Management 4 6 (3.261 %) Service Delivery 5 5 (2.717 %) Configuration Management 5 5 (2.717 %) DV Cleared 6 3 (1.630 %) RDF 6 3 (1.630 %) Supply Chain Management 7 2 (1.087 %) Data Security 7 2 (1.087 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (1.087 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (0.543 %) PRINCE2 8 1 (0.543 %) Project Management 8 1 (0.543 %) Disaster Recovery 8 1 (0.543 %) Operations Management 8 1 (0.543 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 42 (22.83 %) SQL 2 33 (17.93 %) Perl 3 25 (13.59 %) Shell Script 4 11 (5.978 %) Java 5 10 (5.435 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (1.630 %) PHP 6 3 (1.630 %) C 7 2 (1.087 %) C++ 8 1 (0.543 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (0.543 %) Fortran 8 1 (0.543 %) REXX 8 1 (0.543 %) PowerHouse 8 1 (0.543 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 9 (4.891 %) Degree 2 7 (3.804 %) HNC 3 4 (2.174 %) RHCE 4 3 (1.630 %) CCNA 4 3 (1.630 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (1.087 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (1.087 %) MCSE 5 2 (1.087 %) RHCT 6 1 (0.543 %) HP APS	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.717 %) SLA 1 5 (2.717 %) QA 2 1 (0.543 %) GxP
System Software 1 23 (12.50 %) NetBackup 2 18 (9.783 %) NFS 3 1 (0.543 %) Xen	Systems Management 1 8 (4.348 %) Tivoli 2 7 (3.804 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 7 (3.804 %) CONTROL-M 3 4 (2.174 %) Unicenter 4 3 (1.630 %) OpenView 4 3 (1.630 %) Nagios 4 3 (1.630 %) CA SiteMinder 4 3 (1.630 %) BMC PATROL 5 1 (0.543 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 5 1 (0.543 %) HP Data Protector 5 1 (0.543 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 47 (25.54 %) Oracle 2 34 (18.48 %) VERITAS 3 33 (17.93 %) Red Hat 4 21 (11.41 %) IBM 5 19 (10.33 %) Sun 6 18 (9.783 %) Microsoft 7 16 (8.696 %) Sybase 8 13 (7.065 %) HP 9 8 (4.348 %) Hitachi 10 7 (3.804 %) Remedy 11 5 (2.717 %) Intel 12 4 (2.174 %) EMC 13 3 (1.630 %) Brocade 13 3 (1.630 %) VMware 13 3 (1.630 %) NetApp 13 3 (1.630 %) Retek 13 3 (1.630 %) BMC 13 3 (1.630 %) CA 14 1 (0.543 %) Citrix 14 1 (0.543 %) Compaq