North West UNIX Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Engineer role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

UNIX Engineer
Location Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Marlow North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland South East South West Surrey Swindon UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	126	141
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	1	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.030 %	0.148 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£337
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£17.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.83	£24.25
% change on same period last year	+68.38 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3344	4045
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.708 %	4.088 %
Daily rates quoted	783	827
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	467	456
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.62	£20.30
Average hourly rate	£23.40	£21.94
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.19	£23.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
UNIX Engineer England

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.

UNIX Engineer
Demand Trend

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

UNIX Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

UNIX Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Engineer across the North West 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 Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Manchester	-4	1	-	-

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UNIX Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited UNIX Engineer in their job title 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 with UNIX Engineer in their job title.

1 8 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 5 (62.50 %) AIX 3 4 (50.00 %) IBM 4 3 (37.50 %) Solaris 5 2 (25.00 %) Linux 5 2 (25.00 %) Apache 5 2 (25.00 %) Tomcat 5 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 6 1 (12.50 %) IMAP 6 1 (12.50 %) IronPort 6 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows 6 1 (12.50 %) Banking 6 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 6 1 (12.50 %) C++

6 1 (12.50 %) Perl 6 1 (12.50 %) MySQL 6 1 (12.50 %) Finance 6 1 (12.50 %) Migration 6 1 (12.50 %) Debian 6 1 (12.50 %) Replication 6 1 (12.50 %) LDAP 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows NT 6 1 (12.50 %) ATM 6 1 (12.50 %) SMTP 6 1 (12.50 %) FTP 6 1 (12.50 %) HTTP 6 1 (12.50 %) SNMP 6 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (12.50 %) DNS

UNIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited UNIX Engineer in their job title 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 with UNIX Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 2 (25.00 %) Apache 1 2 (25.00 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) LDAP 1 1 (12.50 %) ATM 1 1 (12.50 %) SMTP 1 1 (12.50 %) FTP 1 1 (12.50 %) HTTP 1 1 (12.50 %) SNMP 1 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (12.50 %) DNS 1 1 (12.50 %) Internet 1 1 (12.50 %) IMAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) MySQL
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance 1 1 (12.50 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) HACMP 1 1 (12.50 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 5 (62.50 %) AIX 3 3 (37.50 %) Solaris 4 2 (25.00 %) Linux 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows NT 5 1 (12.50 %) Debian 5 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat Linux 5 1 (12.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 1 1 (12.50 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C++ 1 1 (12.50 %) Perl	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) SLA
Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli 1 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 1 (12.50 %) BMC PATROL 1 1 (12.50 %) Nagios	Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) IBM 2 2 (25.00 %) Oracle 3 1 (12.50 %) Sun 3 1 (12.50 %) HP 3 1 (12.50 %) BMC 3 1 (12.50 %) NetApp 3 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat 3 1 (12.50 %) IronPort