The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 20 23 20
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -3
Contract jobs citing UNIX 6 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 3.947% 2.222% 4.945%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.22% 10.53% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
Average daily rate £375 £270 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.88% -30.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
27 38 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 17.76% 21.11% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 23
Average daily rate £363 £270 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.25% -28.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £95 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £363 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 3
Average hourly rate £18.00 £13.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -15.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £18.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
UNIX
Yorkshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
York - 3 £405 -
Knaresborough - 1 - -
UNIX
Yorkshire

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 9 (75.00%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) Apache
3 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (25.00%) Informatica
3 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (25.00%) ETL
3 3 (25.00%) Business Objects
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) XML
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (25.00%) Solvency II
4 2 (16.67%) F5
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (16.67%) BIG-IP
4 2 (16.67%) IIS
4 2 (16.67%) DB2
4 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Migration

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 3 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (8.333%) JMS
2 1 (8.333%) XHTML
2 1 (8.333%) EJB
2 1 (8.333%) CSS
2 1 (8.333%) JDBC
2 1 (8.333%) JSP
2 1 (8.333%) Servlets
2 1 (8.333%) Struts
2 1 (8.333%) XSLT
2 1 (8.333%) J2EE
2 1 (8.333%) JSF
2 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (16.67%) IIS
3 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
3 1 (8.333%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (16.67%) BIG-IP
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.333%) MPLS
2 1 (8.333%) OSPF
2 1 (8.333%) IPsec
2 1 (8.333%) Internet
2 1 (8.333%) LDAP
2 1 (8.333%) WAN
2 1 (8.333%) RIP
2 1 (8.333%) VPN
2 1 (8.333%) SSL
2 1 (8.333%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (8.333%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (8.333%) Network Security
2 1 (8.333%) FWSM
2 1 (8.333%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (16.67%) DB2
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (8.333%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (8.333%) JUnit
2 1 (8.333%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Database Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (16.67%) DBA
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Network Security Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Security Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Network Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Build Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Client/Server
1 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.333%) Debian
2 1 (8.333%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Solaris
2 1 (8.333%) Ubuntu
2 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (8.333%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (16.67%) ERP
2 2 (16.67%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (16.67%) CRM
2 2 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (8.333%) ITIL
3 1 (8.333%) Load Balancing
3 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (8.333%) Network Architecture
3 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (8.333%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.333%) Java
3 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) Perl
3 1 (8.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) CCNA
1 1 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Solvency II
2 1 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.333%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (8.333%) vSphere
2 1 (8.333%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Nagios
1 1 (8.333%) OpenView
1 1 (8.333%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (8.333%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Informatica
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) Business Objects
3 2 (16.67%) F5
3 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (8.333%) IBM
4 1 (8.333%) HP
4 1 (8.333%) Citrix
4 1 (8.333%) Juniper
4 1 (8.333%) Nokia
4 1 (8.333%) JBoss
4 1 (8.333%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.333%) VMware
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