The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 35 20 19
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -1
Contract jobs citing UNIX 22 69 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 3.374% 7.005% 6.173%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.64% 27.38% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 16
Average daily rate £361 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.68% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £294 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £453 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £29.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -9.23%
All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
189 252 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 28.99% 25.58% 25.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 91 70
Average daily rate £315 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £187 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £457 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 50
Average hourly rate £16.00 £18.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +8.02%
UNIX
East of England

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hemel Hempstead +12 6 - - 2
Stevenage - 5 £365 -
Watford -6 3 - - 1
Welwyn Garden City - - - -
Hertford - - - -
Kings Langley - - - -
Rickmansworth - - - - 3
Royston - - - - 1
St Albans - - - - 2
UNIX
East of England

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 33 (75.00%) Linux
2 17 (38.64%) Solaris
3 16 (36.36%) HTML
3 16 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 16 (36.36%) XML
4 15 (34.09%) SQL
5 14 (31.82%) Red Hat
6 13 (29.55%) Finance
6 13 (29.55%) JSP
6 13 (29.55%) OO
6 13 (29.55%) E-Commerce
6 13 (29.55%) IBM
6 13 (29.55%) Ajax
6 13 (29.55%) WebSphere
7 12 (27.27%) Retail
7 12 (27.27%) J2EE
8 11 (25.00%) Perl
8 11 (25.00%) Java
9 10 (22.73%) DB2
9 10 (22.73%) MQSeries
10 9 (20.45%) Oracle
10 9 (20.45%) ITIL
10 9 (20.45%) HP
10 9 (20.45%) Subversion
10 9 (20.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (18.18%) SAN
11 8 (18.18%) VMware
11 8 (18.18%) Windows
12 7 (15.91%) CSS
12 7 (15.91%) Ant

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 16 (36.36%) HTML
1 16 (36.36%) XML
2 13 (29.55%) JSP
2 13 (29.55%) Ajax
2 13 (29.55%) WebSphere
3 12 (27.27%) J2EE
4 7 (15.91%) CSS
4 7 (15.91%) REST
5 6 (13.64%) CSS3
5 6 (13.64%) XMLBeans
5 6 (13.64%) JSON
5 6 (13.64%) JSTL
5 6 (13.64%) HTML5
5 6 (13.64%) JDBC
5 6 (13.64%) Servlets
5 6 (13.64%) EJB
5 6 (13.64%) XSLT
5 6 (13.64%) Struts
5 6 (13.64%) XHTML
5 6 (13.64%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 10 (22.73%) MQSeries
2 6 (13.64%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (11.36%) Apache
4 3 (6.818%) Tomcat
5 2 (4.545%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.273%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Tridion
2 1 (2.273%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) SAN
2 6 (13.64%) Internet
2 6 (13.64%) DNS
3 5 (11.36%) DHCP
4 4 (9.091%) WAN
4 4 (9.091%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.545%) VLAN
5 2 (4.545%) Network Security
5 2 (4.545%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.545%) HTTP
5 2 (4.545%) MPLS
5 2 (4.545%) SSH
6 1 (2.273%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.273%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) DB2
2 6 (13.64%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.818%) DbVisualizer
3 3 (6.818%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.545%) MySQL
5 1 (2.273%) MS Access
5 1 (2.273%) OLTP
5 1 (2.273%) SAP BW
5 1 (2.273%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Subversion
2 7 (15.91%) Ant
2 7 (15.91%) Eclipse
3 6 (13.64%) JUnit
3 6 (13.64%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Log4j
4 3 (6.818%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (6.818%) LoadRunner
General
1 13 (29.55%) Finance
2 12 (27.27%) Retail
3 5 (11.36%) Games
4 2 (4.545%) Banking
4 2 (4.545%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.273%) Back Office
5 1 (2.273%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Developer
2 9 (20.45%) Administrator
3 7 (15.91%) Java Developer
3 7 (15.91%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (13.64%) J2EE Developer
4 6 (13.64%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 4 (9.091%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (9.091%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (9.091%) UNIX Administrator
5 4 (9.091%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (6.818%) Solaris Administrator
6 3 (6.818%) Server Engineer
6 3 (6.818%) Architect
6 3 (6.818%) Analyst
6 3 (6.818%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.818%) Tester
7 2 (4.545%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.545%) Network Analyst
7 2 (4.545%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.545%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Clustering
1 6 (13.64%) Web 2.0
2 1 (2.273%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 33 (75.00%) Linux
2 17 (38.64%) Solaris
3 9 (20.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (18.18%) Windows
5 6 (13.64%) HPUX
6 4 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (6.818%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (4.545%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (4.545%) VMS
8 2 (4.545%) AIX
9 1 (2.273%) Debian
9 1 (2.273%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.273%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) OO
1 13 (29.55%) E-Commerce
2 9 (20.45%) ITIL
3 6 (13.64%) RAD
3 6 (13.64%) UML
3 6 (13.64%) Web Design
3 6 (13.64%) Content Management
3 6 (13.64%) Responsive Web Design
4 4 (9.091%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (6.818%) System Testing
5 3 (6.818%) Automated Testing
5 3 (6.818%) Change Control
5 3 (6.818%) Migration
5 3 (6.818%) Regression Testing
5 3 (6.818%) Project Management
6 2 (4.545%) CRM
6 2 (4.545%) Change Management
6 2 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.545%) TDD
6 2 (4.545%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 15 (34.09%) SQL
3 11 (25.00%) Perl
3 11 (25.00%) Java
4 7 (15.91%) Bash shell
5 6 (13.64%) PowerHouse
5 6 (13.64%) XPath
6 4 (9.091%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.545%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.273%) Korn
8 1 (2.273%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.273%) ABAP
8 1 (2.273%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.818%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.545%) CCNA
4 2 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.273%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.273%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.818%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.818%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.545%) MetaFrame
2 2 (4.545%) Terminal Services
2 2 (4.545%) XenApp
2 2 (4.545%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.273%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.273%) Varnish
3 1 (2.273%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (2.273%) Tivoli
1 1 (2.273%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (2.273%) Nagios
1 1 (2.273%) NetBackup
1 1 (2.273%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Red Hat
2 13 (29.55%) IBM
3 9 (20.45%) Oracle
3 9 (20.45%) HP
4 8 (18.18%) VMware
5 6 (13.64%) Blue Martini
5 6 (13.64%) ATG
5 6 (13.64%) Elastic Path
5 6 (13.64%) Interwoven
6 5 (11.36%) Sun
7 4 (9.091%) Cisco
7 4 (9.091%) Microsoft
7 4 (9.091%) Citrix
7 4 (9.091%) Veritas
8 3 (6.818%) EMC
9 2 (4.545%) SAP
9 2 (4.545%) Opsware
10 1 (2.273%) Crossbeam
10 1 (2.273%) F5
10 1 (2.273%) CheckPoint