The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX System Engineer
Rank 384 403 429
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +26
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Systems Engineer 1 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.011% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.012% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 8
Average daily rate £325 £450 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.77% +18.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
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 450 606 683
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
UNIX Systems Engineer
England

UNIX Systems Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London UNIX Systems Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Systems Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London UNIX Systems Engineer Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Systems Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London UNIX Systems Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Systems Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited UNIX Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Publishing
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP

UNIX Systems Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited UNIX Systems 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 Systems Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) OCA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas