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This section looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the London region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkUNIX
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank1510
Rank change on same period last yearDown-5
Matching contract IT job ads27805036
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled3.706 %5.095 %
As % of the category below43.39 %50.91 %
Daily rates quoted12442066
Average minimum daily rate£428£439
Average daily rate£458£466
% change on same period last year-1.70 %
Average maximum daily rate£488£492
UK excluding London average daily rate£361£363
% change on same period last year-0.65 %
Hourly rates quoted58126
Average minimum hourly rate£27.08£35.09
Average hourly rate£28.36£36.64
% change on same period last year-22.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate£29.64£38.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.35£31.77
% change on same period last year+1.82 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
London
Matching contract IT job ads64079891
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled8.540 %10.01 %
Daily rates quoted24383469
Average minimum daily rate£384£404
Average daily rate£409£428
% change on same period last year-4.64 %
Average maximum daily rate£433£453
UK excluding London average daily rate£335£337
% change on same period last year-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted649852
Average minimum hourly rate£19.38£21.43
Average hourly rate£20.55£22.58
% change on same period last year-9.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate£21.71£23.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.08£23.44
% change on same period last year-5.80 %
UNIX EnglandUNIX
England

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
Demand Trend

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

London UNIX Demand Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

London UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

London UNIX Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

London UNIX Hourly Rate Histogram

UNIX
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX within the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of LondonNo change01009£471-1.89 %
Docklands, LondonDown-5102£488-0.50 %
Canary WharfUp+163£510+2.42 %
CroydonUp+1212£350-10.25 %
UxbridgeDown-111£428-
HayesUp+19£380-
FelthamNew entry-6--
WimbledonUp+54£228-
LutonUp+123£325+11.42 %
RomfordNew entry-3£350-
HarrowDown-13£190-
LewishamNo change02£140-67.05 %
BexleyheathNew entry-2£300-
SouthwarkNew entry-2--
ClaphamNew entry-2--
EnfieldNew entry-1--
HounslowDown-91--
BromleyDown-21--
BrentfordUp+21--
TwickenhamNew entry-1--
WestminsterDown-11£375-
UNIX EnglandUNIX
England

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

12137 (33.87 %)SQL
22032 (32.20 %)Banking
31929 (30.57 %)Oracle
41692 (26.81 %)Linux
51678 (26.59 %)Java
61668 (26.43 %)Finance
71414 (22.41 %)Windows
81386 (21.97 %)Perl
81386 (21.97 %)Investment Banking
91348 (21.36 %)Sybase
101240 (19.65 %)Solaris
11948 (15.02 %)Shell Script
12886 (14.04 %)C++
13831 (13.17 %)Front Office
14547 (8.669 %)Derivative
15518 (8.209 %)XML
16465 (7.369 %)OO
17462 (7.322 %)Equities
18438 (6.941 %)SQL Server
19437 (6.926 %)PL/SQL
20418 (6.624 %)J2EE
21410 (6.498 %)Fixed Income
22371 (5.880 %)Oracle 10g
23365 (5.784 %)Sun
24333 (5.277 %)SAN
25323 (5.119 %)Apache
26320 (5.071 %)Microsoft
27315 (4.992 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
28314 (4.976 %)TCP/IP
29312 (4.945 %)Migration

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1518 (8.209 %)XML
2418 (6.624 %)J2EE
3301 (4.770 %)HTML
4238 (3.772 %)WebSphere
5232 (3.677 %).NET
5232 (3.677 %)Middleware
6200 (3.170 %)Spring
7166 (2.631 %)CSS
8162 (2.567 %)JMS
9158 (2.504 %)JSP
10157 (2.488 %)Hibernate
11152 (2.409 %)WebServices
12130 (2.060 %)AJAX
13123 (1.949 %)FIX Protocol
13123 (1.949 %)STL
14101 (1.601 %)J2SE
1593 (1.474 %)Struts
1675 (1.189 %)XSLT
1675 (1.189 %)XHTML
1771 (1.125 %)Servlets
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1323 (5.119 %)Apache
2273 (4.326 %)WebLogic
3199 (3.154 %)Tomcat
4158 (2.504 %)JBoss
5142 (2.250 %)MQSeries
687 (1.379 %)MS Exchange
785 (1.347 %)IIS
877 (1.220 %)TIBCO EMS
953 (0.840 %)Exchange Server 2003
1046 (0.729 %)WebSphere MQ
1145 (0.713 %)Rendezvous
1242 (0.666 %)WebSphere Application Server
1338 (0.602 %)Exchange Server 2000
1436 (0.571 %)SAS
1530 (0.475 %)Oracle Application Server
1627 (0.428 %)SharePoint
1627 (0.428 %)iPlanet
1725 (0.396 %)Lotus Notes
1821 (0.333 %)CMS
1920 (0.317 %)TeamSite
London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1132 (2.092 %)MS Office
2125 (1.981 %)MS Excel
341 (0.650 %)Photoshop
423 (0.365 %)MS Project
517 (0.269 %)Spreadsheet
611 (0.174 %)MS Visio
77 (0.111 %)MS PowerPoint
86 (0.095 %)DOC1
94 (0.063 %)Adobe Illustrator
94 (0.063 %)QuarkXPress
103 (0.048 %)MATLAB
112 (0.032 %)Acrobat
121 (0.016 %)Fireworks
121 (0.016 %)S-PLUS
121 (0.016 %)Paint Shop Pro
121 (0.016 %)InDesign
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
197 (1.537 %)RMDS
280 (1.268 %)Global One
361 (0.967 %)Summit
433 (0.523 %)BusinessWorks
526 (0.412 %)Oracle Applications
526 (0.412 %)Oracle EBS
526 (0.412 %)Kondor+
622 (0.349 %)TIBCO iProcess
719 (0.301 %)FENICS FX
814 (0.222 %)Murex MxG2000
910 (0.158 %)Oracle Financials
910 (0.158 %)Oracle 11i
109 (0.143 %)WebTrends
115 (0.079 %)SunGard GMI
115 (0.079 %)Advent Geneva
115 (0.079 %)Siebel Analytics
124 (0.063 %)FRONT ARENA
133 (0.048 %)Loan IQ
133 (0.048 %)SAP PM
133 (0.048 %)Endur
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1333 (5.277 %)SAN
2314 (4.976 %)TCP/IP
3244 (3.867 %)Firewall
4206 (3.265 %)DNS
5188 (2.979 %)Internet
6183 (2.900 %)LAN
7168 (2.662 %)WAN
892 (1.458 %)LDAP
978 (1.236 %)VPN
1063 (0.998 %)FTP
1157 (0.903 %)Intranet
1247 (0.745 %)SSL
1346 (0.729 %)HTTP
1445 (0.713 %)Network Security
1534 (0.539 %)DHCP
1633 (0.523 %)VoIP
1729 (0.460 %)OSPF
1729 (0.460 %)BGP
1825 (0.396 %)SMTP
1825 (0.396 %)Ethernet
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1438 (6.941 %)SQL Server
2371 (5.880 %)Oracle 10g
3187 (2.964 %)MySQL
4180 (2.853 %)Oracle 9i
5172 (2.726 %)RDBMS
6165 (2.615 %)Datawarehouse
7145 (2.298 %)Oracle 8/8i
8115 (1.823 %)Oracle Reports
9102 (1.616 %)ETL
10100 (1.585 %)DB2
1172 (1.141 %)SQL Server 2005
1268 (1.078 %)BusinessObjects
1361 (0.967 %)SQL Server 2000
1449 (0.777 %)Oracle Discoverer
1449 (0.777 %)TOAD
1547 (0.745 %)Oracle OWB
1642 (0.666 %)OLTP
1642 (0.666 %)Sybase ASE
1737 (0.586 %)Reference Data
1831 (0.491 %)GIS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1203 (3.217 %)Ant
2143 (2.266 %)Subversion
3124 (1.965 %)ClearCase
4114 (1.807 %)JUnit
589 (1.410 %)Eclipse
664 (1.014 %)LoadRunner
757 (0.903 %)Oracle Forms
849 (0.777 %)TestDirector
943 (0.681 %)QuickTest Pro
1036 (0.571 %)ClearQuest
1134 (0.539 %)Flash
1134 (0.539 %)Visual Studio
1134 (0.539 %)CruiseControl
1231 (0.491 %)PowerBuilder
1323 (0.365 %)Rational Rose
1323 (0.365 %)WinRunner
1418 (0.285 %)PVCS
1516 (0.254 %)JIRA
1615 (0.238 %)IntelliJ
1714 (0.222 %)ProC
London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12032 (32.20 %)Banking
21668 (26.43 %)Finance
31386 (21.97 %)Investment Banking
4831 (13.17 %)Front Office
5213 (3.376 %)Back Office
6192 (3.043 %)Financial Institution
7126 (1.997 %)Government
8108 (1.712 %)Telecoms
996 (1.521 %)Retail
1049 (0.777 %)Insurance
1140 (0.634 %)Retail Banking
1235 (0.555 %)Education
1322 (0.349 %)Health
1322 (0.349 %)Publishing
1420 (0.317 %)General Ledger
1518 (0.285 %)Billing
1518 (0.285 %)Games
1518 (0.285 %)Legal
1617 (0.269 %)Corporate Banking
1711 (0.174 %)Marketing
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12067 (32.76 %)Developer
21215 (19.26 %)Analyst
3639 (10.13 %)Administrator
4626 (9.921 %)Support Analyst
5574 (9.097 %)Java Developer
6360 (5.705 %)C++ Developer
7347 (5.499 %)DBA
8307 (4.865 %)Applications Support
9306 (4.849 %)Systems Administrator
9306 (4.849 %)UNIX Administrator
10245 (3.883 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
11243 (3.851 %)Consultant
12230 (3.645 %)Oracle DBA
13171 (2.710 %)Oracle Developer
14167 (2.647 %)Architect
15161 (2.552 %)Senior Developer
16156 (2.472 %)Applications Support Analyst
17140 (2.219 %)Sybase Developer
18131 (2.076 %)Project Manager
19128 (2.029 %)Test Analyst
London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1547 (8.669 %)Derivative
2462 (7.322 %)Equities
3410 (6.498 %)Fixed Income
4315 (4.992 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5139 (2.203 %)Equity Derivative
5139 (2.203 %)Credit Risk
6101 (1.601 %)Replication
797 (1.537 %)Clustering
881 (1.284 %)Multithreading
977 (1.220 %)Market Risk
1075 (1.189 %)Credit Derivative
1169 (1.094 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1264 (1.014 %)Mainframe
1357 (0.903 %)Computer Science
1448 (0.761 %)Mathematics
1540 (0.634 %)HACMP
1635 (0.555 %)N-Tier
1733 (0.523 %)Grid Computing
1830 (0.475 %)Client/Server
1928 (0.444 %)Blackberry
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11692 (26.81 %)Linux
21414 (22.41 %)Windows
31240 (19.65 %)Solaris
4253 (4.010 %)AIX
5241 (3.819 %)Windows NT
6219 (3.471 %)HPUX
7125 (1.981 %)Windows XP
892 (1.458 %)Windows 2000
980 (1.268 %)VMS
1079 (1.252 %)Windows Server 2003
1120 (0.317 %)SUSE
1120 (0.317 %)MVS
1213 (0.206 %)Debian
1213 (0.206 %)Fedora
1311 (0.174 %)Mac OS X
1410 (0.158 %)Mac OS X Server
158 (0.127 %)FreeBSD
167 (0.111 %)zOS
175 (0.079 %)OpenVMS
184 (0.063 %)Windows Mobile
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1465 (7.369 %)OO
2312 (4.945 %)Migration
3217 (3.439 %)ITIL
4188 (2.979 %)Security Cleared
5175 (2.773 %)UML
6156 (2.472 %)Project Management
7147 (2.330 %)Risk Management
8144 (2.282 %)Electronic Trading
9131 (2.076 %)Investment Management
10130 (2.060 %)Configuration Management
11127 (2.013 %)Asset Management
12124 (1.965 %)Release Management
13118 (1.870 %)Data Modelling
14116 (1.838 %)SC Cleared
15113 (1.791 %)Algorithmic Trading
16108 (1.712 %)User Acceptance Testing
16108 (1.712 %)Disaster Recovery
17102 (1.616 %)Web Development
18101 (1.601 %)Agile Software Development
1990 (1.426 %)Performance Testing
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12137 (33.87 %)SQL
21678 (26.59 %)Java
31386 (21.97 %)Perl
4948 (15.02 %)Shell Script
5886 (14.04 %)C++
6437 (6.926 %)PL/SQL
7300 (4.754 %)C#
8268 (4.247 %)C
9208 (3.296 %)Korn
10200 (3.170 %)JavaScript
11188 (2.979 %)VB
12161 (2.552 %)Transact-SQL
13123 (1.949 %)Python
14111 (1.759 %)PHP
1597 (1.537 %)VBA
1652 (0.824 %)VB.NET
1747 (0.745 %)VBScript
1747 (0.745 %)Tcl
1747 (0.745 %)Ruby
1826 (0.412 %)VC++
London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1222 (3.518 %)Degree
280 (1.268 %)Cisco Certification
363 (0.998 %)CISSP
460 (0.951 %)ISEB
558 (0.919 %)Microsoft Certification
645 (0.713 %)CCNA
740 (0.634 %)MCSE
836 (0.571 %)CCNP
926 (0.412 %)ITIL Certification
1020 (0.317 %)Oracle Certification
1118 (0.285 %)IBM Certification
1118 (0.285 %)CISA
1217 (0.269 %)CISM
1315 (0.238 %)RHCE
1413 (0.206 %)Sun Certification
1413 (0.206 %)MCP
1511 (0.174 %)CCIE
1610 (0.158 %)MCSA
1610 (0.158 %)OCP
178 (0.127 %)CCSP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1134 (2.124 %)QA
255 (0.872 %)SLA
336 (0.571 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
411 (0.174 %)MiFID
510 (0.158 %)BS7799
510 (0.158 %)Basel II
66 (0.095 %)ISO9000
74 (0.063 %)ISO27001
83 (0.048 %)GxP
83 (0.048 %)GLP
92 (0.032 %)ISO17799
101 (0.016 %)ISO9001
101 (0.016 %)TickIT
101 (0.016 %)RosettaNet
101 (0.016 %)PCI DSS
London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1163 (2.583 %)Active Directory
2121 (1.918 %)NetBackup
382 (1.300 %)Oracle RAC
382 (1.300 %)NFS
474 (1.173 %)Oracle RMAN
537 (0.586 %)VMware Infrastructure
628 (0.444 %)Backup Exec
725 (0.396 %)VMware ESX
824 (0.380 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
918 (0.285 %)AquaLogic
1016 (0.254 %)Orbix
1016 (0.254 %)Samba
1113 (0.206 %)Squid
1212 (0.190 %)MetaFrame
138 (0.127 %)Xen
147 (0.111 %)ISA Server
155 (0.079 %)Terminal Server
164 (0.063 %)VMware Workstation
173 (0.048 %)Terminal Services
173 (0.048 %)RACF
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1221 (3.502 %)AutoSys
2140 (2.219 %)Tivoli
378 (1.236 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
467 (1.062 %)OpenView
565 (1.030 %)CONTROL-M
642 (0.666 %)Legato
730 (0.475 %)HP Data Protector
829 (0.460 %)Tivoli Monitoring
926 (0.412 %)EMC NetWorker
1024 (0.380 %)BMC PATROL
1122 (0.349 %)Netcool
1221 (0.333 %)Unicenter
1314 (0.222 %)MOM
1412 (0.190 %)Nagios
1511 (0.174 %)CA SiteMinder
1511 (0.174 %)CiscoWorks
1610 (0.158 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
179 (0.143 %)EMC TimeFinder
188 (0.127 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
188 (0.127 %)ServiceCenter
London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11929 (30.57 %)Oracle
21348 (21.36 %)Sybase
3365 (5.784 %)Sun
4320 (5.071 %)Microsoft
5305 (4.834 %)VERITAS
6298 (4.723 %)Red Hat
7282 (4.469 %)TIBCO
8281 (4.453 %)HP
9275 (4.358 %)Murex
10237 (3.756 %)Calypso
11231 (3.661 %)Cisco
12195 (3.090 %)IBM
13170 (2.694 %)Reuters
14160 (2.536 %)Bloomberg
15140 (2.219 %)Remedy
15140 (2.219 %)EMC
16126 (1.997 %)Fidessa
17100 (1.585 %)VMware
1898 (1.553 %)Informatica
1980 (1.268 %)BEA
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