Macclesfield UNIX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the Macclesfield 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£356
% change on same period last year	-1.68 %
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	£30.85	£31.71
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Operating Systems Macclesfield
Matching contract IT job ads	11	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.014 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£500
Average daily rate	£375	£500
% change on same period last year	-25.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£331
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£7.78	£8.00
Average hourly rate	£10.22	£11.50
% change on same period last year	-11.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.67	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.98	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
UNIX Cheshire

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 Macclesfield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

UNIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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.

1 3 (100.00 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) C 2 2 (66.67 %) C++ 2 2 (66.67 %) WebLogic 2 2 (66.67 %) Apache 2 2 (66.67 %) Tomcat 2 2 (66.67 %) Perl 2 2 (66.67 %) FTP 2 2 (66.67 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (66.67 %) Bioinformatics 2 2 (66.67 %) yacc 3 1 (33.33 %) Local Government 3 1 (33.33 %) WCAG 3 1 (33.33 %) WAI 3 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development

3 1 (33.33 %) TDD 3 1 (33.33 %) Subversion 3 1 (33.33 %) Education 3 1 (33.33 %) Government 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) e-GIF 3 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) OOD 3 1 (33.33 %) SOA 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) HTML 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 1 (33.33 %) CSS 1 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 1 1 (33.33 %) XML 1 1 (33.33 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) WebLogic 1 2 (66.67 %) Apache 1 2 (66.67 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) FTP
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) yacc 2 1 (33.33 %) Subversion	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (33.33 %) Education 2 1 (33.33 %) Government 2 1 (33.33 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Java Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) Programmer	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Bioinformatics 2 1 (33.33 %) OO 2 1 (33.33 %) OOD 2 1 (33.33 %) SOA 2 1 (33.33 %) e-GIF 2 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 2 1 (33.33 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) C 2 2 (66.67 %) C++ 2 2 (66.67 %) Perl 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) WCAG 1 1 (33.33 %) WAI	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft