The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 16 14 4
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -10
Contract jobs citing UNIX 12 19 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.792% 7.170% 14.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.77% 36.54% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 8
Average daily rate £260 £265 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.88% -25.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £230 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £518 £402
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.13% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.53%
All Operating Systems
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
39 52 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 25.32% 19.62% 36.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 27
Average daily rate £263 £265 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.94% -13.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £230 £148
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £550 £389
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 3
Average hourly rate £10.00 £19.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.71% +44.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
UNIX
Tyne and Wear

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 18 (72.00%) Linux
2 17 (68.00%) Red Hat
2 17 (68.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (56.00%) AIX
4 13 (52.00%) IBM
5 11 (44.00%) Solaris
6 10 (40.00%) SQL
6 10 (40.00%) Informatica
6 10 (40.00%) Configuration Management
6 10 (40.00%) WebSphere
7 9 (36.00%) Change Control
8 8 (32.00%) LDAP
9 7 (28.00%) Siebel
9 7 (28.00%) Oracle
9 7 (28.00%) Perl
9 7 (28.00%) Business Objects
9 7 (28.00%) WebLogic
10 6 (24.00%) JBoss
10 6 (24.00%) SSL
10 6 (24.00%) Sun
10 6 (24.00%) FileNet
10 6 (24.00%) Workflow
11 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
11 4 (16.00%) Finance
11 4 (16.00%) Citrix
11 4 (16.00%) SAN
11 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
11 4 (16.00%) Java
12 3 (12.00%) Windows
12 3 (12.00%) Apache

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 10 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.000%) ASP
3 1 (4.000%) JSP
3 1 (4.000%) Struts
3 1 (4.000%) Web Services
3 1 (4.000%) XML
3 1 (4.000%) J2EE
3 1 (4.000%) Middleware
3 1 (4.000%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.000%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) WebLogic
2 6 (24.00%) FileNet
3 3 (12.00%) Apache
4 2 (8.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (4.000%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (4.000%) MS Exchange
5 1 (4.000%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (4.000%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (4.000%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) LDAP
2 6 (24.00%) SSL
3 4 (16.00%) SAN
4 2 (8.000%) SMTP
4 2 (8.000%) FTP
4 2 (8.000%) SNMP
4 2 (8.000%) DNS
5 1 (4.000%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (8.000%) TOAD
2 1 (4.000%) MySQL
2 1 (4.000%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.000%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (4.000%) JUnit
2 1 (4.000%) LoadRunner
2 1 (4.000%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (4.000%) Maven
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.000%) Banking
2 1 (4.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Build Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) UNIX Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Administrator
4 2 (8.000%) Server Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Consultant
4 2 (8.000%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.000%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) DBA
5 1 (4.000%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.000%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Technical Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Environment Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Clustering
2 2 (8.000%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.000%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.000%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Linux
2 17 (68.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (56.00%) AIX
4 11 (44.00%) Solaris
5 3 (12.00%) Windows
6 2 (8.000%) CentOS
7 1 (4.000%) HPUX
7 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (4.000%) Ubuntu
7 1 (4.000%) SUSE
7 1 (4.000%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 9 (36.00%) Change Control
3 6 (24.00%) Workflow
4 2 (8.000%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (8.000%) Validation
4 2 (8.000%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (8.000%) Data Validation
4 2 (8.000%) Data Mapping
4 2 (8.000%) Problem Management
4 2 (8.000%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (8.000%) Project Management
5 1 (4.000%) ITIL
5 1 (4.000%) Data Modelling
5 1 (4.000%) SOA
5 1 (4.000%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.000%) Release Management
5 1 (4.000%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.000%) System Testing
5 1 (4.000%) Performance Management
5 1 (4.000%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) Perl
3 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Java
4 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.000%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.000%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.000%) ISEB
3 1 (4.000%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.000%) SRDF
2 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.000%) Nagios
1 1 (4.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) Red Hat
2 13 (52.00%) IBM
3 10 (40.00%) Informatica
4 7 (28.00%) Siebel
4 7 (28.00%) Oracle
4 7 (28.00%) Business Objects
5 6 (24.00%) JBoss
5 6 (24.00%) Sun
6 4 (16.00%) Citrix
7 3 (12.00%) HP
8 2 (8.000%) RightFax
8 2 (8.000%) VMware
8 2 (8.000%) Microsoft
8 2 (8.000%) Novell
8 2 (8.000%) McAfee
9 1 (4.000%) SAP
9 1 (4.000%) Cisco
9 1 (4.000%) Axway