The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Hampshire 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
Rank 16 24 16
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -8
Contract jobs citing UNIX 135 90 144
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 8.847% 5.657% 7.788%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.27% 20.64% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 42 75
Average daily rate £325 £375 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +17.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £449 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £362 £370 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.29% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 10
Average hourly rate £40.50 £36.00 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £15.35 £23.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.53%
All Operating Systems
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
446 436 517
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.23% 27.40% 27.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 188 182
Average daily rate £325 £340 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.41% +6.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £463 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 90 103
Average hourly rate £25.00 £23.75 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.35 £11.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Hampshire UNIX Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke -6 19 £425 +10.38%
Southampton +9 13 £325 -9.72%
Andover - 10 £550 -
Portsmouth -2 7 £325 -5.48%
Havant +6 6 £400 -
Winchester +3 5 £308 -
Eastleigh +2 3 - -
Gosport - 3 £350 -
Farnborough -2 1 £428 +3.63%
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing UNIX also 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 that cited UNIX.

1 91 (50.56%) Linux
2 85 (47.22%) Windows
3 74 (41.11%) Oracle
4 66 (36.67%) SQL
5 61 (33.89%) Security Cleared
6 49 (27.22%) SC Cleared
7 45 (25.00%) Java
8 37 (20.56%) AIX
9 33 (18.33%) XML
10 32 (17.78%) C
11 31 (17.22%) C++
12 30 (16.67%) Microsoft
13 28 (15.56%) Configuration Management
13 28 (15.56%) VMware
14 27 (15.00%) UML
15 26 (14.44%) Red Hat
16 25 (13.89%) Perl
16 25 (13.89%) Finance
17 24 (13.33%) ClearCase
17 24 (13.33%) OOD
18 23 (12.78%) HP
18 23 (12.78%) Solaris
18 23 (12.78%) Ant
19 22 (12.22%) MS Excel
19 22 (12.22%) Windows Server 2003
19 22 (12.22%) VMware Infrastructure
20 21 (11.67%) Shell Script
21 20 (11.11%) Apache
21 20 (11.11%) SAN
21 20 (11.11%) LAN

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing UNIX also 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 that cited UNIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (18.33%) XML
2 17 (9.444%) Motif
3 14 (7.778%) JDBC
4 12 (6.667%) HTML
4 12 (6.667%) Middleware
4 12 (6.667%) Spring
5 11 (6.111%) wxWidgets
5 11 (6.111%) SAML
5 11 (6.111%) JSP
6 9 (5.000%) .NET
7 8 (4.444%) ASP.NET
7 8 (4.444%) Hibernate
7 8 (4.444%) JPA
7 8 (4.444%) Java EE
8 7 (3.889%) Web Services
9 6 (3.333%) WebSphere
10 5 (2.778%) Drools
10 5 (2.778%) Lucene
10 5 (2.778%) HTML5
10 5 (2.778%) REST
Application Platforms
1 20 (11.11%) Apache
2 18 (10.00%) Tomcat
3 10 (5.556%) GlassFish
4 5 (2.778%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (2.222%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.667%) WebSphere Process Server
6 3 (1.667%) SAS
6 3 (1.667%) IIS
7 2 (1.111%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.111%) CMS
7 2 (1.111%) Windows Azure
8 1 (0.556%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.556%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.556%) Commerce Server
8 1 (0.556%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.556%) Oracle 9iAS
Applications
1 22 (12.22%) MS Excel
2 5 (2.778%) MS Office
3 1 (0.556%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.556%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.556%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (5.000%) Remedy ITSM
1 9 (5.000%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.111%) Maximo
2 2 (1.111%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.11%) SAN
1 20 (11.11%) LAN
1 20 (11.11%) WAN
2 14 (7.778%) TCP/IP
3 12 (6.667%) LDAP
3 12 (6.667%) SSL
4 11 (6.111%) HTTP
5 10 (5.556%) IPsec
6 8 (4.444%) ATM
6 8 (4.444%) Firewall
6 8 (4.444%) DVB
7 7 (3.889%) FTP
8 5 (2.778%) Wireshark
8 5 (2.778%) Wireless
8 5 (2.778%) 3G
8 5 (2.778%) GPRS
8 5 (2.778%) PSTN
8 5 (2.778%) VoIP
9 4 (2.222%) HTTPS
9 4 (2.222%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.444%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.333%) Ingres
3 14 (7.778%) Oracle 8/8i
3 14 (7.778%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
5 9 (5.000%) DB2
6 7 (3.889%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (3.889%) Oracle 10g
7 6 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
8 5 (2.778%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.778%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.222%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.667%) Base SAS
10 3 (1.667%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (1.667%) Oracle OWB
10 3 (1.667%) PowerCenter
11 2 (1.111%) MySQL
11 2 (1.111%) Oracle 9i
11 2 (1.111%) GIS
11 2 (1.111%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 24 (13.33%) ClearCase
2 23 (12.78%) Ant
3 17 (9.444%) NUnit
3 17 (9.444%) CppUnit
3 17 (9.444%) GoogleTest
4 14 (7.778%) CruiseControl
4 14 (7.778%) Subversion
5 10 (5.556%) Rational Rose
5 10 (5.556%) ClearQuest
6 8 (4.444%) JUnit
6 8 (4.444%) FitNesse
7 7 (3.889%) Hudson
8 6 (3.333%) Maven
9 5 (2.778%) Selenium
9 5 (2.778%) Git (software)
9 5 (2.778%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.778%) Jasmine
9 5 (2.778%) Jenkins
9 5 (2.778%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (2.222%) LoadRunner
General
1 25 (13.89%) Finance
2 15 (8.333%) Telecoms
3 9 (5.000%) Billing
4 3 (1.667%) Military
5 2 (1.111%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.111%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.556%) Games
6 1 (0.556%) Publishing
6 1 (0.556%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (23.33%) Developer
2 18 (10.00%) Analyst
3 17 (9.444%) Architect
4 16 (8.889%) Software Engineer
5 15 (8.333%) Consultant
5 15 (8.333%) Administrator
6 12 (6.667%) C++ Developer
7 11 (6.111%) Test Analyst
8 9 (5.000%) Technical Architect
9 7 (3.889%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.333%) DBA
10 6 (3.333%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (3.333%) C++ Software Engineer
11 5 (2.778%) JavaScript Developer
11 5 (2.778%) Database Architect
11 5 (2.778%) Oracle Developer
12 4 (2.222%) Project Manager
12 4 (2.222%) Tester
12 4 (2.222%) Applications Developer
12 4 (2.222%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.556%) Open Source
3 7 (3.889%) HACMP
4 6 (3.333%) DTV
4 6 (3.333%) Computer Science
5 4 (2.222%) MPEG
5 4 (2.222%) SecurID
5 4 (2.222%) Derivative
6 2 (1.111%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.111%) SaaS
6 2 (1.111%) iSeries
6 2 (1.111%) Data Integration
6 2 (1.111%) CMDB
7 1 (0.556%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.556%) Data Extraction
7 1 (0.556%) STB
7 1 (0.556%) LPAR
7 1 (0.556%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.556%) Clustering
7 1 (0.556%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 91 (50.56%) Linux
2 85 (47.22%) Windows
3 37 (20.56%) AIX
4 23 (12.78%) Solaris
5 22 (12.22%) Windows Server 2003
6 20 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (7.222%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (6.667%) Windows XP
9 9 (5.000%) Oracle Linux
9 9 (5.000%) Windows 2000
10 4 (2.222%) HPUX
10 4 (2.222%) Windows NT
11 3 (1.667%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.556%) Windows Vista
12 1 (0.556%) Android
12 1 (0.556%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.556%) SUSE
12 1 (0.556%) Debian
12 1 (0.556%) Tru64
12 1 (0.556%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (15.56%) Configuration Management
2 27 (15.00%) UML
3 24 (13.33%) OOD
4 20 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 20 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 18 (10.00%) Multithreading
5 18 (10.00%) ITIL
6 17 (9.444%) Migration
6 17 (9.444%) PRINCE2
7 14 (7.778%) RUP
7 14 (7.778%) Unified Process
8 12 (6.667%) OO
9 11 (6.111%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (5.556%) Project Management
11 9 (5.000%) Risk Management
12 8 (4.444%) B2B
12 8 (4.444%) Identity Management
12 8 (4.444%) Information Security
12 8 (4.444%) Memory Management
12 8 (4.444%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (36.67%) SQL
2 45 (25.00%) Java
3 32 (17.78%) C
4 31 (17.22%) C++
5 25 (13.89%) Perl
6 21 (11.67%) Shell Script
7 18 (10.00%) PL/SQL
8 17 (9.444%) JavaScript
8 17 (9.444%) Python
9 16 (8.889%) Korn
10 13 (7.222%) PHP
11 7 (3.889%) C#
12 5 (2.778%) XPath
12 5 (2.778%) Bash shell
13 3 (1.667%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.667%) Jython
14 2 (1.111%) VB
15 1 (0.556%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
15 1 (0.556%) VC++
15 1 (0.556%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 61 (33.89%) Security Cleared
2 49 (27.22%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.444%) ISEB
3 8 (4.444%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.889%) Degree
5 5 (2.778%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.111%) CCNA
6 2 (1.111%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.111%) HP AIS
6 2 (1.111%) ISEB Practitioner
6 2 (1.111%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.556%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.556%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.889%) QA
2 2 (1.111%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.111%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.556%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (12.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.444%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (3.333%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.222%) Shibboleth
5 4 (2.222%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.222%) Xen
6 3 (1.667%) Nmap
6 3 (1.667%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 2 (1.111%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.111%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.556%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.556%) Squid
8 1 (0.556%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.556%) Samba
Systems Management
1 13 (7.222%) HP Quality Center
2 10 (5.556%) Tivoli
3 9 (5.000%) Data Guard
3 9 (5.000%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 7 (3.889%) Control-M
5 2 (1.111%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.111%) HP Data Protector
6 1 (0.556%) Oracle Statspack
6 1 (0.556%) Nessus
6 1 (0.556%) Puppet
6 1 (0.556%) Netcool
6 1 (0.556%) Netcool/OMNIbus
6 1 (0.556%) OpenView Configuration Management
6 1 (0.556%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 74 (41.11%) Oracle
2 30 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 28 (15.56%) VMware
4 26 (14.44%) Red Hat
5 23 (12.78%) HP
6 14 (7.778%) IBM
7 11 (6.111%) Remedy
8 10 (5.556%) Cisco
9 9 (5.000%) BMC
10 7 (3.889%) JBoss
11 4 (2.222%) Juniper
11 4 (2.222%) 3PAR
12 3 (1.667%) Blue Coat
12 3 (1.667%) Cognizant
12 3 (1.667%) Informatica
12 3 (1.667%) Sun
12 3 (1.667%) Siebel
13 2 (1.111%) Citrix
13 2 (1.111%) Dell
13 2 (1.111%) Intel
Portsmouth, Hampshire
This is a fixed term contract starting in May running through to 31st December and will likely to be extended for one year thereafter: Essential Skills: (candidates must...
Polar Recruitment
Rate: Fixed Term contract until Dec 3st intially
Posted: 20 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
The ideal candidate will have experience of Rational Performance Tester, Unix, SQL and XML. Due to the nature of the project candidates must hold or be willing to...
Experis IT
Rate: £400 - £455 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Andover, South East
Technical WriterAndover, HampshireContract Length: 6 months+Key Skills: Technical, Author, Writer, Windows, Unix, Linux, Network, Infrastructure, Oracle, MOD, Defence, Army, MilitaryRole PurposePrimary Purposes... Networks - LAN, WAN, PSTN, VoIP,...
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 15 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Managed File Transfer - MTF - Shell/Perl Scripting- UNIX/ AIX - Connect:Direct. A MTF Consultant (Managed File Transfer - Shell/Perl Scripting- UNIX/ AIX - Connect:Direct) is required to work...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £400 - £463 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Andover, South East
Technical Analyst/Author/WriterAndover, HampshireContract Length: 3 months+Key Skills: Technical, Author, Writer, Design, Documentation, UNIX, LINUX, Windows, Oracle, Network, SAN, LAN, WAN, VOIP, Army, MOD, Defence, MilitaryRole...
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 22 May 2013
Andover, Hampshire
Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio. -Experience of producing Microsoft Office Document Templates -Demonstrated broad understanding of systems software technologies including Microsoft Windows Server 2003+,...
LA International
Posted: 22 May 2013
Andover, South East
Non Functional Test AnalystAndover, HampshireContract Length: 3 months +Key Skills: NON FUNCTIONAL,TEST, ORACLE, SQL SERVER, WINDOWS, UNIX, VIRTUAL, VMWARE, SERVER, BUILD, DATA WAREHOUSE, DATAWAREHOUSE, DATAWARHOUSING, QTP, QUICK...
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 29 April 2013
Havant, Hampshire
A good level of technical experience in the following: Qualys; INFOMAN; IT Vendor Lifecycle knowledge; IT Security & Vulnerability Management; Software deployment technologies; Windows, UNIX, Mainframe and Storage technology...
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £375 - £425 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013