North Wales UNIX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the North Wales region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Aylesbury Ballymena Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bletchley Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Braintree Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dalkeith Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Filton Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Ilford Ipswich Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Queensferry Reading Redhill Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	9
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	6	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	50.00 %	25.00 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£400
Average daily rate	£250	£413
% change on same period last year	-39.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£342
% change on same period last year	+1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.05	£32.68
% change on same period last year	-8.05 %
Operating Systems North Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	12	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£247	£400
Average daily rate	£250	£413
% change on same period last year	-39.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£253	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£321
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£10.80
% change on same period last year	+200.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£11.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.91	£21.94
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX across the North Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Wales region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Flintshire	0	1	£250	-39.39 %

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Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 5 (71.43 %) Windows 2 4 (57.14 %) Linux 2 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 2 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 3 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (42.86 %) SAN 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (42.86 %) MCSE 3 3 (42.86 %) MCP 3 3 (42.86 %) Migration 3 3 (42.86 %) Samba 3 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (28.57 %) MS Office

5 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms 5 1 (14.29 %) Government 5 1 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (14.29 %) C++ 5 1 (14.29 %) Java 5 1 (14.29 %) Windows XP 5 1 (14.29 %) QA 5 1 (14.29 %) UMTS 5 1 (14.29 %) NetWare 5 1 (14.29 %) RNC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 Platforms 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) SAN 2 1 (14.29 %) RNC 2 1 (14.29 %) UMTS	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms 1 1 (14.29 %) Government
Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Desktop Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Desktop Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Desktop Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Software Developer	Operating Systems 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows 2 4 (57.14 %) Linux 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (14.29 %) Windows XP 4 1 (14.29 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Migration 2 1 (14.29 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) C++ 1 1 (14.29 %) Java
Qualifications 1 3 (42.86 %) MCP 1 3 (42.86 %) MCSE 1 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (14.29 %) QA
System Software 1 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 2 3 (42.86 %) Samba	Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft