The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems 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 Systems Administrator 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 System Administrator (UNIX SA)
Rank 427 463 449
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -14
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Systems Administrator 86 96 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.207% 0.180% 0.217%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.224% 0.195% 0.234%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 61 87
Average daily rate £400 £378 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.96% -16.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £310 £323
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £326 £350
% change year-on-year
+14.94% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £27.00 £33.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £33.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +88.57%
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 Systems Administrator
UK

UNIX Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England UNIX Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

England UNIX Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England UNIX Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England UNIX Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Systems 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 Systems Administrator 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 +38 62 £400 -0.62%
South East +10 13 £425 +21.42%
East of England +17 3 £375 +11.11%
West Midlands +10 3 £340 -
North West +8 2 £375 +25.00%
South West +28 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
UNIX Systems Administrator
UK

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 161 (100.00%) UNIX
2 131 (81.37%) Linux
3 114 (70.81%) Solaris
4 88 (54.66%) Finance
5 80 (49.69%) Veritas
6 71 (44.10%) Red Hat
6 71 (44.10%) Sun
7 67 (41.61%) SAN
8 64 (39.75%) Banking
9 57 (35.40%) Oracle
10 56 (34.78%) Investment Banking
11 55 (34.16%) Shell Script
11 55 (34.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 53 (32.92%) VMware
13 50 (31.06%) AIX
14 46 (28.57%) SUSE
15 44 (27.33%) Perl
16 42 (26.09%) EMC
17 39 (24.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
18 36 (22.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
19 25 (15.53%) Sybase
19 25 (15.53%) Korn
20 24 (14.91%) Symmetrix DMX
21 23 (14.29%) Migration
21 23 (14.29%) RDF
22 22 (13.66%) ITIL
22 22 (13.66%) SCSA
23 21 (13.04%) HP
24 20 (12.42%) VMware Infrastructure
25 19 (11.80%) Problem Management

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (2.484%) Middleware
2 1 (0.621%) JAX-RS
2 1 (0.621%) Regular Expression
2 1 (0.621%) RESTful
2 1 (0.621%) JPA
2 1 (0.621%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 16 (9.938%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.590%) Apache
3 7 (4.348%) SAS
4 5 (3.106%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.484%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.863%) IIS
6 3 (1.863%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.621%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.621%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 3 (1.863%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.484%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 67 (41.61%) SAN
2 13 (8.075%) NAS
3 11 (6.832%) LDAP
4 9 (5.590%) TCP/IP
5 6 (3.727%) DNS
6 3 (1.863%) HTTP
6 3 (1.863%) Internet
6 3 (1.863%) Firewall
7 2 (1.242%) DHCP
8 1 (0.621%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.621%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (0.621%) Network Security
8 1 (0.621%) PBX
8 1 (0.621%) NetScreen
8 1 (0.621%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.317%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (2.484%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.621%) Redis
3 1 (0.621%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (0.621%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.621%) Hudson
General
1 88 (54.66%) Finance
2 64 (39.75%) Banking
3 56 (34.78%) Investment Banking
4 7 (4.348%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.484%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (1.863%) Back Office
6 3 (1.863%) Retail
7 2 (1.242%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.621%) German Language
8 1 (0.621%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.91%) Symmetrix DMX
2 16 (9.938%) Wiki
2 16 (9.938%) Clustering
3 6 (3.727%) Equities
3 6 (3.727%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.863%) Fat Client
4 3 (1.863%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.242%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.242%) Open Source
5 2 (1.242%) LPAR
6 1 (0.621%) Firmware
6 1 (0.621%) PMI
6 1 (0.621%) CLARiiON
6 1 (0.621%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 161 (100.00%) UNIX
2 131 (81.37%) Linux
3 114 (70.81%) Solaris
4 55 (34.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (31.06%) AIX
6 46 (28.57%) SUSE
7 16 (9.938%) HPUX
8 12 (7.453%) Windows
9 4 (2.484%) CentOS
10 3 (1.863%) Windows 2000 Server
10 3 (1.863%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.242%) Debian
12 1 (0.621%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.621%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.621%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.621%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (14.29%) Migration
1 23 (14.29%) RDF
2 22 (13.66%) ITIL
3 19 (11.80%) Problem Management
3 19 (11.80%) Change Management
4 18 (11.18%) Software Deployment
5 6 (3.727%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (2.484%) Project Management
6 4 (2.484%) Fund Management
6 4 (2.484%) Wealth Management
6 4 (2.484%) Business Transformation
6 4 (2.484%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (1.863%) Capacity Management
7 3 (1.863%) Electronic Trading
8 2 (1.242%) Network Design
8 2 (1.242%) Business Continuity
8 2 (1.242%) Configuration Management
8 2 (1.242%) Service Management
8 2 (1.242%) ITSM
8 2 (1.242%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 55 (34.16%) Shell Script
2 44 (27.33%) Perl
3 25 (15.53%) Korn
4 7 (4.348%) Java
5 5 (3.106%) Python
5 5 (3.106%) C++
5 5 (3.106%) SQL
6 4 (2.484%) C-shell
7 3 (1.863%) sed
7 3 (1.863%) Bash shell
7 3 (1.863%) C
7 3 (1.863%) AWK
8 2 (1.242%) Ruby
9 1 (0.621%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (13.66%) SCSA
2 18 (11.18%) Sun Certification
3 10 (6.211%) RHCE
4 5 (3.106%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.106%) CCNA
4 5 (3.106%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.484%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.863%) RHCT
7 2 (1.242%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.621%) CAPM
8 1 (0.621%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.621%) OCA
8 1 (0.621%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.621%) PMP
8 1 (0.621%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.484%) SLA
2 2 (1.242%) QA
2 2 (1.242%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 39 (24.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 36 (22.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 20 (12.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (8.696%) NFS
5 5 (3.106%) Veritas File System
5 5 (3.106%) Active Directory
6 4 (2.484%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 4 (2.484%) Cronacle
7 2 (1.242%) vSphere
8 1 (0.621%) Samba
8 1 (0.621%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (4.969%) Puppet
2 4 (2.484%) Nagios
2 4 (2.484%) Tivoli
2 4 (2.484%) HP Data Protector
2 4 (2.484%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 3 (1.863%) HP SIM
3 3 (1.863%) ZABBIX
4 2 (1.242%) Cacti
5 1 (0.621%) CFEngine
5 1 (0.621%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 80 (49.69%) Veritas
2 71 (44.10%) Red Hat
2 71 (44.10%) Sun
3 57 (35.40%) Oracle
4 53 (32.92%) VMware
5 42 (26.09%) EMC
6 25 (15.53%) Sybase
7 21 (13.04%) HP
8 8 (4.969%) IBM
9 6 (3.727%) Cisco
10 5 (3.106%) Dell
10 5 (3.106%) NetApp
11 4 (2.484%) Citrix
12 3 (1.863%) Opsware
12 3 (1.863%) Murex
13 2 (1.242%) JBoss
13 2 (1.242%) Microsoft
13 2 (1.242%) F5
14 1 (0.621%) Crossbeam
14 1 (0.621%) Lotus