Leeds UNIX Systems Administrator Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the Leeds 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

UNIX System Administrator
Location Aberdeen Banbury Basingstoke Benfleet Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Knaresborough Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South West Southampton Surrey Telford UK West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	80
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.500 %	0.167 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£200
Average daily rate	£525	£213
% change on same period last year	+147.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£600	£225
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£303
% change on same period last year	+9.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.05	£36.50
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Job Titles Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	1000	1200
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.623 %	1.310 %
Daily rates quoted	261	378
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£312
Average daily rate	£367	£327
% change on same period last year	+12.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	88	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.98	£22.01
Average hourly rate	£20.13	£23.16
% change on same period last year	-13.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.28	£24.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.15	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
UNIX Systems Administrator West Yorkshire

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.

UNIX Systems Administrator
Demand Trend

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

UNIX Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

UNIX Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 7 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 4 (57.14 %) Linux 3 3 (42.86 %) Finance 3 3 (42.86 %) HPUX 4 2 (28.57 %) Solaris 4 2 (28.57 %) Windows 4 2 (28.57 %) AIX 4 2 (28.57 %) Sun 4 2 (28.57 %) EMC 4 2 (28.57 %) SAN 4 2 (28.57 %) VERITAS 4 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat 4 2 (28.57 %) Debian 4 2 (28.57 %) Internet 4 2 (28.57 %) Firewall

4 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (14.29 %) Cisco 5 1 (14.29 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (28.57 %) SAN 1 2 (28.57 %) Internet 1 2 (28.57 %) Firewall	General 1 3 (42.86 %) Finance 2 1 (14.29 %) Financial Institution
Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 4 (57.14 %) Linux 3 3 (42.86 %) HPUX 4 2 (28.57 %) Solaris 4 2 (28.57 %) Windows 4 2 (28.57 %) AIX 4 2 (28.57 %) Debian 4 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (14.29 %) Windows Server 2003	Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Sun 1 2 (28.57 %) EMC 1 2 (28.57 %) VERITAS 1 2 (28.57 %) Red Hat 2 1 (14.29 %) Cisco