The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Administrator role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 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 Glasgow 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 Administrator
Rank 72 60 61
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +1
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Administrator 4 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.429% 0.254% 0.432%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.454% 0.267% 0.455%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £400 - £333
90% offered a daily rate of more than £380 - £307
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 - £359
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £315 £331
% change year-on-year
+7.93% -4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £22.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
881 750 660
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.43% 95.30% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 352 379
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.77% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Administrator
Scotland

UNIX Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow UNIX Administrator Daily Rate Trend

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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow UNIX Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Administrator
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) UNIX
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) AIX
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Tru64
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) Perl
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) C++
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) LDAP
5 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (12.50%) EMC
5 1 (12.50%) Veritas
5 1 (12.50%) Solaris
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Equities
5 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
5 1 (12.50%) Korn
5 1 (12.50%) Derivative
5 1 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (12.50%) KDB

UNIX Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) KDB
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Equities
1 1 (12.50%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) UNIX
2 5 (62.50%) AIX
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Tru64
4 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
2 1 (12.50%) Korn
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) EMC
1 1 (12.50%) Veritas