The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX Developer 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 London 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 Developer
Rank 351 389 376
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -13
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Developer 26 26 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.120% 0.097% 0.212%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.130% 0.104% 0.230%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 36
Average daily rate £575 £475 £560
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.05% -15.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £343 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £550 £613
UK excluding London average daily rate - £400 £270
% change year-on-year
- +48.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 - £29.00
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Developer
England

UNIX Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London UNIX Developer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London UNIX Developer Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London UNIX Developer Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London UNIX Developer Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Developer within the London 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
City of London +9 2 £575 +5.99%
UNIX Developer
England

UNIX Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 36 (100.00%) UNIX
2 31 (86.11%) C++
3 17 (47.22%) Shell Script
4 16 (44.44%) Linux
5 15 (41.67%) OO
6 14 (38.89%) Perl
7 13 (36.11%) Oracle
7 13 (36.11%) Python
8 12 (33.33%) RDBMS
8 12 (33.33%) STL
9 10 (27.78%) Fixed Income
10 8 (22.22%) Front Office
10 8 (22.22%) Java
10 8 (22.22%) Multithreading
11 5 (13.89%) Ruby
11 5 (13.89%) C
12 4 (11.11%) Solaris
13 3 (8.333%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
13 3 (8.333%) Banking
13 3 (8.333%) Investment Banking
13 3 (8.333%) Equities
13 3 (8.333%) SAN
13 3 (8.333%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 2 (5.556%) Process Management
14 2 (5.556%) Finance
14 2 (5.556%) Windows
14 2 (5.556%) JavaScript
14 2 (5.556%) XML
14 2 (5.556%) Node.js
14 2 (5.556%) Software Engineering

UNIX Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (33.33%) STL
2 2 (5.556%) XML
2 2 (5.556%) Node.js
3 1 (2.778%) REST
3 1 (2.778%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.778%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.333%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) RDBMS
General
1 8 (22.22%) Front Office
2 3 (8.333%) Banking
2 3 (8.333%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.556%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Fixed Income
2 3 (8.333%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (8.333%) Equities
2 3 (8.333%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.556%) Mathematics
3 2 (5.556%) Physics
3 2 (5.556%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.778%) Derivative
4 1 (2.778%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 36 (100.00%) UNIX
2 16 (44.44%) Linux
3 4 (11.11%) Solaris
4 2 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) OO
2 8 (22.22%) Multithreading
3 2 (5.556%) Process Management
3 2 (5.556%) Software Engineering
4 1 (2.778%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (2.778%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (2.778%) Business Analysis
4 1 (2.778%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (2.778%) Scrum
4 1 (2.778%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 31 (86.11%) C++
2 17 (47.22%) Shell Script
3 14 (38.89%) Perl
4 13 (36.11%) Python
5 8 (22.22%) Java
6 5 (13.89%) Ruby
6 5 (13.89%) C
7 2 (5.556%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.778%) Groovy
8 1 (2.778%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.556%) Degree
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Oracle
2 1 (2.778%) JBoss
2 1 (2.778%) TIBCO