UNIX Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Manchester 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 37 18 32
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +14
Contract jobs citing UNIX 38 98 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 4.064% 7.573% 3.774%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.62% 34.51% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 19
Average daily rate £325 £347 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.34% -13.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £400 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.13% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £22.43
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +0.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.53%
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 168 284 150
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 17.97% 21.95% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 104 59
Average daily rate £275 £300 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £175 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 39 35
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £25.00 £22.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
UNIX
North West

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Manchester UNIX Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 37 (39.36%) Windows
2 35 (37.23%) Linux
3 34 (36.17%) Finance
4 28 (29.79%) SQL
5 27 (28.72%) Shell Script
6 26 (27.66%) IBM
7 25 (26.60%) Java
8 23 (24.47%) Oracle
9 22 (23.40%) Perl
10 20 (21.28%) AIX
11 18 (19.15%) Solaris
11 18 (19.15%) JavaScript
11 18 (19.15%) Banking
12 17 (18.09%) Retail
12 17 (18.09%) RDBMS
13 16 (17.02%) XML
14 15 (15.96%) HPUX
14 15 (15.96%) LDAP
14 15 (15.96%) WebSphere
14 15 (15.96%) Oracle 11g
15 14 (14.89%) ITIL
16 13 (13.83%) Middleware
16 13 (13.83%) Active Directory
16 13 (13.83%) Oracle 10g
16 13 (13.83%) XSLT
16 13 (13.83%) Bash shell
17 12 (12.77%) Oracle RAC
17 12 (12.77%) HTML
17 12 (12.77%) J2EE
18 11 (11.70%) DB2

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 16 (17.02%) XML
2 15 (15.96%) WebSphere
3 13 (13.83%) Middleware
3 13 (13.83%) XSLT
4 12 (12.77%) HTML
4 12 (12.77%) J2EE
5 11 (11.70%) JMS
6 10 (10.64%) XHTML
6 10 (10.64%) JDBC
6 10 (10.64%) Ajax
7 9 (9.574%) JSP
7 9 (9.574%) Servlets
7 9 (9.574%) Web Services
7 9 (9.574%) EJB
8 8 (8.511%) Struts
8 8 (8.511%) XMLBeans
8 8 (8.511%) JSTL
9 6 (6.383%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
9 6 (6.383%) SPNEGO
10 5 (5.319%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 11 (11.70%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (8.511%) MQSeries
3 6 (6.383%) SAS
3 6 (6.383%) Apache
4 3 (3.191%) TIBCO EMS
4 3 (3.191%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (2.128%) Gentran
5 2 (2.128%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (2.128%) ESB
6 1 (1.064%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.064%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.064%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (6.383%) MS Visio
2 5 (5.319%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (8.511%) Tridion
2 3 (3.191%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
2 3 (3.191%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (2.128%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.128%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (2.128%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (2.128%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.064%) assyst
4 1 (1.064%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.96%) LDAP
2 9 (9.574%) Internet
3 8 (8.511%) SSL
3 8 (8.511%) VPN
3 8 (8.511%) Firewall
4 6 (6.383%) Kerberos
4 6 (6.383%) SMS
4 6 (6.383%) X.509
4 6 (6.383%) Network Security
5 3 (3.191%) SAN
5 3 (3.191%) WAN
5 3 (3.191%) FTP
5 3 (3.191%) HTTP
5 3 (3.191%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.191%) LAN
5 3 (3.191%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.064%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.09%) RDBMS
2 15 (15.96%) Oracle 11g
3 13 (13.83%) Oracle 10g
4 11 (11.70%) DB2
5 5 (5.319%) OLAP
6 3 (3.191%) Base SAS
6 3 (3.191%) GIS
6 3 (3.191%) SAP BW
6 3 (3.191%) SAP BI
6 3 (3.191%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (3.191%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.191%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.128%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.064%) BusinessObjects XI
8 1 (1.064%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 11 (11.70%) JUnit
2 9 (9.574%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 9 (9.574%) Eclipse
3 8 (8.511%) Ant
3 8 (8.511%) Log4j
3 8 (8.511%) Subversion
4 1 (1.064%) Maven
4 1 (1.064%) LoadRunner
General
1 34 (36.17%) Finance
2 18 (19.15%) Banking
3 17 (18.09%) Retail
4 7 (7.447%) Games
5 6 (6.383%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.383%) Local Government
6 2 (2.128%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.128%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.064%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) Developer
2 15 (15.96%) Administrator
3 14 (14.89%) Analyst
4 12 (12.77%) Java Developer
4 12 (12.77%) Oracle DBA
4 12 (12.77%) DBA
5 10 (10.64%) J2EE Developer
5 10 (10.64%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 9 (9.574%) Technical Analyst
6 9 (9.574%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.383%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.383%) Systems Support
7 6 (6.383%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (6.383%) Systems Support Engineer
8 4 (4.255%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.255%) SAS Developer
9 3 (3.191%) Designer
9 3 (3.191%) TIBCO Support
9 3 (3.191%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.191%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.64%) Mainframe
2 9 (9.574%) Web 2.0
3 6 (6.383%) Data Integration
4 5 (5.319%) Wiki
4 5 (5.319%) Grid Computing
5 4 (4.255%) HACMP
6 3 (3.191%) Computer Science
6 3 (3.191%) Equities
6 3 (3.191%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (2.128%) Oracle Exalogic
7 2 (2.128%) CMDB
7 2 (2.128%) LPAR
7 2 (2.128%) DLPAR
8 1 (1.064%) iSeries
8 1 (1.064%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.064%) FMCG
8 1 (1.064%) Clustering
8 1 (1.064%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 37 (39.36%) Windows
2 35 (37.23%) Linux
3 20 (21.28%) AIX
4 18 (19.15%) Solaris
5 15 (15.96%) HPUX
6 8 (8.511%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (8.511%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.064%) i5/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (14.89%) ITIL
2 11 (11.70%) OO
3 10 (10.64%) E-Commerce
3 10 (10.64%) Service Delivery
3 10 (10.64%) Change Management
4 9 (9.574%) Content Management
4 9 (9.574%) RAD
4 9 (9.574%) UML
5 8 (8.511%) Project Planning
6 7 (7.447%) Project Management
6 7 (7.447%) SOA
7 6 (6.383%) Identity Management
8 5 (5.319%) Migration
8 5 (5.319%) PRINCE2
9 4 (4.255%) Capacity Planning
10 3 (3.191%) Problem Management
10 3 (3.191%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (3.191%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (3.191%) Configuration Management
10 3 (3.191%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.79%) SQL
2 27 (28.72%) Shell Script
3 25 (26.60%) Java
4 22 (23.40%) Perl
5 18 (19.15%) JavaScript
6 13 (13.83%) Bash shell
7 11 (11.70%) PL/SQL
8 9 (9.574%) C
9 8 (8.511%) XPath
10 7 (7.447%) Ruby
11 2 (2.128%) Korn
11 2 (2.128%) Bourne shell
12 1 (1.064%) Scala
12 1 (1.064%) Objective-C
12 1 (1.064%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (4.255%) Degree
1 4 (4.255%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (1.064%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.064%) ISEB
2 1 (1.064%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.128%) QA
2 1 (1.064%) Basel II
System Software
1 13 (13.83%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.77%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.064%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (1.064%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.064%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 10 (10.64%) Data Guard
2 6 (6.383%) Tivoli
2 6 (6.383%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 6 (6.383%) Puppet
3 5 (5.319%) Netcool
3 5 (5.319%) Nagios
4 3 (3.191%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (3.191%) TIBCO Hawk
4 3 (3.191%) HP UCMDB
5 2 (2.128%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 26 (27.66%) IBM
2 23 (24.47%) Oracle
3 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.574%) Blue Martini
4 9 (9.574%) ATG
4 9 (9.574%) Red Hat
5 8 (8.511%) Clearswift
5 8 (8.511%) CheckPoint
5 8 (8.511%) Interwoven
5 8 (8.511%) SurfControl
5 8 (8.511%) Kaspersky
5 8 (8.511%) Elastic Path
6 7 (7.447%) HP
7 6 (6.383%) SAP
8 3 (3.191%) TIBCO
9 2 (2.128%) Remedy
9 2 (2.128%) Sun
9 2 (2.128%) BMC
9 2 (2.128%) VMware
10 1 (1.064%) Brocade
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