UNIX Contracts in the Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands 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 Midlands 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 - 19 21
Contract jobs citing UNIX 0 7 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands - 2.602% 4.286%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 19.44% 36.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.13% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.53%
All Operating Systems
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 19 36 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 11.05% 13.38% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 6
Average daily rate £325 £300 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £210 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £375 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 11
Average hourly rate - £42.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +102.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
UNIX
England

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Midlands UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (33.33%) MS Office
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) BPEL
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Pega
4 1 (16.67%) Network Management
4 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle BPEL
4 1 (16.67%) German Language
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 (16.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle BPEL
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (16.67%) German Language
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) DBA
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Operations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Workflow
1 2 (33.33%) BPEL
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
1 1 (16.67%) TickIT
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Pega
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
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