UNIX Contracts in the North East
 
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 North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 24 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 North East 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 16 21 11
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -10
Contract jobs citing UNIX 20 26 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 7.143% 5.263% 8.467%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.99% 25.49% 28.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 11
Average daily rate £260 £308 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.44% -15.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £231 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £495 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £362 £370 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.29% +5.71%
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%
Search 5 UNIX jobs in the North East
All Operating Systems
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 69 102 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 24.64% 20.65% 29.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 46
Average daily rate £263 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -15.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £232 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 13
Average hourly rate £10.63 £12.66 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.07% -4.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £9.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £20.00 £25.76
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 North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Tyne and Wear +5 13 £260 -1.88%
Durham +3 4 - -
UNIX
England

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 22 (64.71%) Linux
2 17 (50.00%) AIX
2 17 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 17 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (38.24%) IBM
4 12 (35.29%) SQL
5 11 (32.35%) Solaris
6 10 (29.41%) Windows
6 10 (29.41%) Informatica
6 10 (29.41%) Configuration Management
6 10 (29.41%) WebSphere
6 10 (29.41%) Change Control
7 9 (26.47%) Oracle
8 8 (23.53%) Java
8 8 (23.53%) WebLogic
8 8 (23.53%) LDAP
9 7 (20.59%) Siebel
9 7 (20.59%) Business Objects
9 7 (20.59%) Perl
10 6 (17.65%) JBoss
10 6 (17.65%) Sun
10 6 (17.65%) SOA
10 6 (17.65%) SSL
10 6 (17.65%) FileNet
10 6 (17.65%) Workflow
11 5 (14.71%) Spring
11 5 (14.71%) Project Management
11 5 (14.71%) XML
11 5 (14.71%) PL/SQL
12 4 (11.76%) HTML5

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (29.41%) WebSphere
2 5 (14.71%) Spring
2 5 (14.71%) XML
3 4 (11.76%) HTML5
3 4 (11.76%) CSS3
3 4 (11.76%) CSS
3 4 (11.76%) SOAP
3 4 (11.76%) Ajax
3 4 (11.76%) jQuery
4 2 (5.882%) ASP
5 1 (2.941%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.941%) Middleware
5 1 (2.941%) Struts
5 1 (2.941%) Web Services
5 1 (2.941%) JSP
5 1 (2.941%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 8 (23.53%) WebLogic
2 6 (17.65%) FileNet
3 3 (8.824%) Apache
4 2 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (2.941%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.941%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (2.941%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.941%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.882%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.941%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) LDAP
2 6 (17.65%) SSL
3 4 (11.76%) SAN
4 3 (8.824%) Wireless
5 2 (5.882%) SMTP
5 2 (5.882%) FTP
5 2 (5.882%) SNMP
5 2 (5.882%) DNS
6 1 (2.941%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (5.882%) TOAD
2 1 (2.941%) BusinessObjects XI
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (2.941%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.941%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.941%) MySQL
2 1 (2.941%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.941%) Maven
2 1 (2.941%) LoadRunner
2 1 (2.941%) JUnit
2 1 (2.941%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 4 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.941%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.941%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (14.71%) Developer
1 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
1 5 (14.71%) Build Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Project Manager
2 4 (11.76%) UNIX Engineer
3 3 (8.824%) Analyst
3 3 (8.824%) Consultant
3 3 (8.824%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (8.824%) Technical Project Manager
3 3 (8.824%) Administrator
3 3 (8.824%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (8.824%) Technical Manager
3 3 (8.824%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.882%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (5.882%) Server Analyst
4 2 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.882%) DBA
5 1 (2.941%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (2.941%) Systems Manager
5 1 (2.941%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (11.76%) RIA
1 4 (11.76%) Clustering
2 3 (8.824%) Mainframe
2 3 (8.824%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (5.882%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.941%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.941%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.941%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.941%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (64.71%) Linux
2 17 (50.00%) AIX
2 17 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (32.35%) Solaris
4 10 (29.41%) Windows
5 3 (8.824%) Windows 8
5 3 (8.824%) Windows 7
6 2 (5.882%) CentOS
7 1 (2.941%) SUSE
7 1 (2.941%) Debian
7 1 (2.941%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.941%) HPUX
7 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Configuration Management
1 10 (29.41%) Change Control
2 6 (17.65%) SOA
2 6 (17.65%) Workflow
3 5 (14.71%) Project Management
4 4 (11.76%) Web Application Development
4 4 (11.76%) ITIL
4 4 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (8.824%) PRINCE2
5 3 (8.824%) Problem Management
6 2 (5.882%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.882%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (5.882%) Data Validation
6 2 (5.882%) Data Mapping
6 2 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (5.882%) Validation
7 1 (2.941%) Migration
7 1 (2.941%) Risk Management
7 1 (2.941%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) SQL
2 8 (23.53%) Java
3 7 (20.59%) Perl
4 5 (14.71%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.882%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.941%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.824%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (8.824%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.882%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.941%) ISEB
4 1 (2.941%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (5.882%) SRDF
1 2 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.941%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.941%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (2.941%) Nagios
1 1 (2.941%) Data Guard
1 1 (2.941%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 17 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 13 (38.24%) IBM
3 10 (29.41%) Informatica
4 9 (26.47%) Oracle
5 7 (20.59%) Siebel
5 7 (20.59%) Business Objects
6 6 (17.65%) JBoss
6 6 (17.65%) Sun
7 4 (11.76%) Citrix
8 3 (8.824%) HP
8 3 (8.824%) Microsoft
9 2 (5.882%) RightFax
9 2 (5.882%) VMware
9 2 (5.882%) Novell
9 2 (5.882%) McAfee
10 1 (2.941%) Axway
10 1 (2.941%) Cisco
10 1 (2.941%) SAP
Java Developer
County Durham
Candidates must have experience of Java, Windows, Unix and messaging technologies such as SOAP/XML... Candidates with Spring, RIA, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3 are highly desirable but not...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Upon Application
Posted: 20 May 2013
Oracle Designer / Data Migration Consultant
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
SQL, Oracle PL/SQL... Skills: Strong SQL skills - Oracle PL/SQL, good understanding of data relationships and relational database design, Data analysis and manipulation using MS Office and...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Negotiable on Application
Posted: 20 May 2013
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