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

The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 21 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 Merseyside 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 10 23 25
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +2
Contract jobs citing UNIX 28 11 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 12.90% 4.264% 2.823%
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.79% 14.29% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 5
Average daily rate £425 £203 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+109.87% -44.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £125 £281
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £281 £371
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 67 77 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 30.88% 29.84% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 27 31
Average daily rate £318 £290 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.48% -1.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £140 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 8
Average hourly rate £11.25 £16.50 £11.37
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.81% +45.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.12 £30.00 £14.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Liverpool +19 28 £425 +41.66%
UNIX
North West

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (42.86%) Oracle
4 7 (25.00%) Linux
5 6 (21.43%) Windows
5 6 (21.43%) WebLogic
5 6 (21.43%) JDeveloper
5 6 (21.43%) Oracle ADF
6 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
6 5 (17.86%) Solaris
6 5 (17.86%) NetApp
6 5 (17.86%) C
6 5 (17.86%) Perl
6 5 (17.86%) Informix
7 4 (14.29%) Java
7 4 (14.29%) Uniface
7 4 (14.29%) SQL
8 3 (10.71%) Oracle 11g
8 3 (10.71%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (10.71%) Unit Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (10.71%) vSphere
8 3 (10.71%) EMC
8 3 (10.71%) Migration
8 3 (10.71%) VMware
8 3 (10.71%) Subversion
9 2 (7.143%) VMware ESX
9 2 (7.143%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (7.143%) Tru64
9 2 (7.143%) Project Management

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 6 (21.43%) Oracle ADF
2 1 (3.571%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.571%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (3.571%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.571%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Office
2 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.571%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (3.571%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.143%) SAN
2 1 (3.571%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.571%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Informix
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.571%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JDeveloper
2 3 (10.71%) Subversion
3 1 (3.571%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Administrator
2 9 (32.14%) DBA
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (17.86%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) C Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Uniface Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Solaris Administrator
6 2 (7.143%) Consultant
6 2 (7.143%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Windows Administrator
7 1 (3.571%) Server Support
7 1 (3.571%) Desktop Support
7 1 (3.571%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (3.571%) SAN Specialist
7 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Technical Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Tivoli Consultant
7 1 (3.571%) Solaris Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) VAX
1 1 (3.571%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 6 (21.43%) Windows
3 5 (17.86%) Solaris
4 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.143%) Tru64
5 2 (7.143%) AIX
6 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (10.71%) Unit Testing
2 3 (10.71%) Migration
3 2 (7.143%) Project Management
3 2 (7.143%) Change Management
3 2 (7.143%) Network Management
3 2 (7.143%) Performance Management
3 2 (7.143%) Data Migration
3 2 (7.143%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (3.571%) Database Tuning
4 1 (3.571%) ITIL
4 1 (3.571%) Service Management
4 1 (3.571%) Process Management
4 1 (3.571%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) C
1 5 (17.86%) Perl
2 4 (14.29%) Java
2 4 (14.29%) Uniface
2 4 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.571%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.571%) RHCE
3 1 (3.571%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) vSphere
2 2 (7.143%) VMware ESX
2 2 (7.143%) vCloud
3 1 (3.571%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (3.571%) Tivoli
1 1 (3.571%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) NetApp
3 3 (10.71%) EMC
3 3 (10.71%) VMware
4 2 (7.143%) HP
4 2 (7.143%) IBM
4 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.143%) Brocade
5 1 (3.571%) SAP
5 1 (3.571%) Motorola
5 1 (3.571%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.571%) Dell
5 1 (3.571%) ION Trading
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