North Yorkshire UNIX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the North Yorkshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moray Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	25
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	12	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	13.04 %	25.32 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£250
Average daily rate	£410	£250
% change on same period last year	+64.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£363
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£33.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.35	£31.77
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Operating Systems North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	92	79
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.123 %	0.080 %
Daily rates quoted	9	7
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£239
Average daily rate	£360	£250
% change on same period last year	+43.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£261
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.72	£24.62
Average hourly rate	£17.13	£24.77
% change on same period last year	-30.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.54	£24.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
UNIX Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 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
Harrogate	-10	3	-	-
York	0	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 12 (54.55 %) Linux 2 10 (45.45 %) Solaris 2 10 (45.45 %) Oracle 3 8 (36.36 %) Sun 3 8 (36.36 %) Finance 4 7 (31.82 %) Red Hat 5 5 (22.73 %) TCP/IP 6 4 (18.18 %) SCSA 6 4 (18.18 %) IBM 6 4 (18.18 %) FTP 6 4 (18.18 %) Windows 6 4 (18.18 %) Back Office 6 4 (18.18 %) Internet 7 3 (13.64 %) SAN 7 3 (13.64 %) Shell Script

7 3 (13.64 %) Banking 8 2 (9.091 %) Network Design 8 2 (9.091 %) WebSphere 8 2 (9.091 %) iSCSI 8 2 (9.091 %) PCI DSS 8 2 (9.091 %) OSPF 8 2 (9.091 %) Financial Institution 8 2 (9.091 %) Firewall 8 2 (9.091 %) Frame Relay 8 2 (9.091 %) Debian 8 2 (9.091 %) Gentoo 8 2 (9.091 %) Citrix 8 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory 8 2 (9.091 %) WebSphere MQ 8 2 (9.091 %) Terminal Services

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 2 (9.091 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) WebLogic 1 2 (9.091 %) Apache 1 2 (9.091 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (4.545 %) SAS 2 1 (4.545 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 5 (22.73 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (18.18 %) FTP 2 4 (18.18 %) Internet 3 3 (13.64 %) SAN 4 2 (9.091 %) OSPF 4 2 (9.091 %) Firewall 4 2 (9.091 %) Frame Relay 4 2 (9.091 %) iSCSI 4 2 (9.091 %) RIP 4 2 (9.091 %) DNS 4 2 (9.091 %) SSL 4 2 (9.091 %) ATM 4 2 (9.091 %) GPRS 4 2 (9.091 %) LAN 4 2 (9.091 %) WAN 5 1 (4.545 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (9.091 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (4.545 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2 1 (4.545 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) TestDirector
General 1 8 (36.36 %) Finance 2 4 (18.18 %) Back Office 3 3 (13.64 %) Banking 4 2 (9.091 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (4.545 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 5 (22.73 %) Systems Engineer 1 5 (22.73 %) Infrastructure Specialist 2 4 (18.18 %) Administrator 3 3 (13.64 %) UNIX Administrator 3 3 (13.64 %) Architect 4 2 (9.091 %) Systems Administrator 4 2 (9.091 %) UNIX Engineer 4 2 (9.091 %) Server Administrator 4 2 (9.091 %) Linux Engineer 4 2 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Designer 4 2 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 1 (4.545 %) Linux Administrator 5 1 (4.545 %) Server Support Technician 5 1 (4.545 %) Linux Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.545 %) UNIX Systems Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 1 (4.545 %) Ab Initio Developer 5 1 (4.545 %) Systems Architect 5 1 (4.545 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.091 %) Client/Server 2 1 (4.545 %) PMI 2 1 (4.545 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 12 (54.55 %) Linux 2 10 (45.45 %) Solaris 3 4 (18.18 %) Windows 4 2 (9.091 %) AIX 4 2 (9.091 %) Debian 4 2 (9.091 %) Gentoo 5 1 (4.545 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (9.091 %) ITIL 1 2 (9.091 %) SOA 1 2 (9.091 %) Network Design 2 1 (4.545 %) Project Management 2 1 (4.545 %) Migration 2 1 (4.545 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (4.545 %) OO 2 1 (4.545 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 3 (13.64 %) Shell Script 2 2 (9.091 %) Java 3 1 (4.545 %) Perl 3 1 (4.545 %) SQL 3 1 (4.545 %) C 3 1 (4.545 %) C++
Qualifications 1 4 (18.18 %) SCSA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (9.091 %) PCI DSS
System Software 1 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory 1 2 (9.091 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 1 (4.545 %) OpenView 1 1 (4.545 %) NNM 1 1 (4.545 %) OVOW 1 1 (4.545 %) OVIS
Vendors 1 10 (45.45 %) Oracle 2 8 (36.36 %) Sun 3 7 (31.82 %) Red Hat 4 4 (18.18 %) IBM 5 2 (9.091 %) Citrix 5 2 (9.091 %) Cisco 6 1 (4.545 %) HP 6 1 (4.545 %) Ab Initio