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UNIX Engineer Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title 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 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Engineer
Rank 352 382 413
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +31
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Engineer 40 31 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.173% 0.116% 0.133%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.189% 0.126% 0.144%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 26
Average daily rate £425 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £382 £255 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £500 £288
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £67.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-61.11% +43.61%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 21207 24646 29107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 91.96% 92.55% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14319 15934 18765
Average daily rate £450 £435 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -8.42%
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 457 611 670
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.97 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Engineer
England

UNIX Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London UNIX Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London UNIX Engineer Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London UNIX Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London UNIX Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Engineer within the London 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
City of London +7 9 £450 +12.50% 3
Docklands, London - 1 £525 -
UNIX Engineer
England

UNIX Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 74 (100.00%) UNIX
2 63 (85.14%) Linux
3 62 (83.78%) Solaris
4 51 (68.92%) Perl
5 45 (60.81%) Red Hat
6 40 (54.05%) SAN
7 33 (44.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 29 (39.19%) Banking
9 27 (36.49%) Veritas
10 24 (32.43%) Shell Script
11 23 (31.08%) Finance
12 22 (29.73%) VMware
13 21 (28.38%) EMC
13 21 (28.38%) Sun
14 18 (24.32%) HP
14 18 (24.32%) Clustering
14 18 (24.32%) NAS
14 18 (24.32%) VMware Infrastructure
15 17 (22.97%) Veritas Volume Manager
15 17 (22.97%) Python
16 16 (21.62%) NFS
16 16 (21.62%) Investment Banking
17 15 (20.27%) VMware ESX
18 13 (17.57%) HPUX
19 11 (14.86%) DNS
19 11 (14.86%) Cisco
19 11 (14.86%) Oracle Certification
19 11 (14.86%) CLARiiON
19 11 (14.86%) SUSE
19 11 (14.86%) Load Balancing

UNIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.351%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.757%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.054%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (54.05%) SAN
2 18 (24.32%) NAS
3 11 (14.86%) DNS
4 10 (13.51%) LDAP
5 2 (2.703%) DHCP
5 2 (2.703%) DECnet
6 1 (1.351%) Internet
6 1 (1.351%) HTTP
6 1 (1.351%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.351%) LAN
6 1 (1.351%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.757%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (4.054%) Data Mining
General
1 29 (39.19%) Banking
2 23 (31.08%) Finance
3 16 (21.62%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.054%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.703%) Front Office
6 1 (1.351%) Retail
6 1 (1.351%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.32%) Clustering
2 11 (14.86%) CLARiiON
3 9 (12.16%) Equities
4 6 (8.108%) Open Source
5 5 (6.757%) Wiki
6 4 (5.405%) Symmetrix DMX
7 2 (2.703%) Computer Science
7 2 (2.703%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.351%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.351%) PKI
8 1 (1.351%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.351%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 74 (100.00%) UNIX
2 63 (85.14%) Linux
3 62 (83.78%) Solaris
4 33 (44.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (17.57%) HPUX
6 11 (14.86%) SUSE
7 7 (9.459%) AIX
8 4 (5.405%) Windows
9 3 (4.054%) Windows 7
10 2 (2.703%) VMS
10 2 (2.703%) OpenVMS
11 1 (1.351%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.86%) Load Balancing
2 9 (12.16%) Configuration Management
2 9 (12.16%) Migration
3 8 (10.81%) High Availability
4 6 (8.108%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (8.108%) ITIL
5 4 (5.405%) RDF
5 4 (5.405%) Problem Management
5 4 (5.405%) Change Management
6 2 (2.703%) Electronic Trading
6 2 (2.703%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.351%) Supplier Management
7 1 (1.351%) PRINCE2
7 1 (1.351%) Service Management
7 1 (1.351%) Data Protection
7 1 (1.351%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 51 (68.92%) Perl
2 24 (32.43%) Shell Script
3 17 (22.97%) Python
4 10 (13.51%) C
4 10 (13.51%) C++
5 7 (9.459%) Ruby
6 6 (8.108%) Korn
7 5 (6.757%) Java
8 4 (5.405%) SQL
9 2 (2.703%) DCL
10 1 (1.351%) C-shell
10 1 (1.351%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 11 (14.86%) Oracle Certification
2 9 (12.16%) OCA
3 2 (2.703%) OCP
3 2 (2.703%) RHCE
3 2 (2.703%) Degree
3 2 (2.703%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.703%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.351%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.351%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (24.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (22.97%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 16 (21.62%) NFS
4 15 (20.27%) VMware ESX
5 7 (9.459%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.351%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.351%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 6 (8.108%) Puppet
2 3 (4.054%) BladeLogic
3 2 (2.703%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.351%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 45 (60.81%) Red Hat
2 27 (36.49%) Veritas
3 22 (29.73%) VMware
4 21 (28.38%) Sun
4 21 (28.38%) EMC
5 18 (24.32%) HP
6 11 (14.86%) Cisco
6 11 (14.86%) F5
7 8 (10.81%) Oracle
8 6 (8.108%) Sybase
9 1 (1.351%) IBM
9 1 (1.351%) NetApp
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