The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 17 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 Nottingham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 10 19 13
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -6
Contract jobs citing UNIX 31 12 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 10.88% 5.405% 6.780%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.80% 30.77% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 4
Average daily rate £325 £363 £236
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% +53.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £318 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £435 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
Average hourly rate £27.50 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
All Operating Systems
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
82 39 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 28.77% 17.57% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 15
Average daily rate £338 £300 £160
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +87.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £205 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £435 £313
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 4 12
Average hourly rate £17.25 £11.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.81% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £10.83
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
UNIX
Nottinghamshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the Nottingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Nottingham UNIX Hourly Rate Histogram

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 30 (63.83%) Linux
2 20 (42.55%) IBM
3 19 (40.43%) Windows
4 17 (36.17%) VMware
5 16 (34.04%) Telecoms
6 14 (29.79%) Tivoli
7 12 (25.53%) Validation
7 12 (25.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 10 (21.28%) Citrix
9 9 (19.15%) Cisco
9 9 (19.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 9 (19.15%) WebSphere
9 9 (19.15%) Finance
10 8 (17.02%) Web Services
10 8 (17.02%) Oracle
11 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
11 7 (14.89%) Service Delivery
12 6 (12.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (12.77%) DB2
12 6 (12.77%) IIS
12 6 (12.77%) Apache
12 6 (12.77%) Red Hat
12 6 (12.77%) MetaFrame
12 6 (12.77%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (10.64%) NetApp
13 5 (10.64%) HTTPS
13 5 (10.64%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 5 (10.64%) SQL
13 5 (10.64%) ActionScript
13 5 (10.64%) WebSphere Portal

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 9 (19.15%) WebSphere
2 8 (17.02%) Web Services
3 3 (6.383%) XML
3 3 (6.383%) HTML
4 2 (4.255%) XSD
4 2 (4.255%) XSLT
4 2 (4.255%) SOAP
4 2 (4.255%) WSDL
4 2 (4.255%) XML Schema
5 1 (2.128%) Middleware
5 1 (2.128%) Ajax
5 1 (2.128%) JMS
5 1 (2.128%) J2EE
5 1 (2.128%) EJB
5 1 (2.128%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (12.77%) IIS
1 6 (12.77%) Apache
2 5 (10.64%) WebSphere Portal
3 3 (6.383%) WebLogic
3 3 (6.383%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (2.128%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.255%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.128%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (10.64%) HTTPS
3 4 (8.511%) SAN
4 3 (6.383%) SSL
4 3 (6.383%) VoIP
4 3 (6.383%) NAS
5 2 (4.255%) Firewall
5 2 (4.255%) Network Security
5 2 (4.255%) FTP
5 2 (4.255%) HTTP
5 2 (4.255%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.128%) VPN
6 1 (2.128%) Internet
6 1 (2.128%) LAN
6 1 (2.128%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.128%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.77%) DB2
3 1 (2.128%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.128%) OLTP
3 1 (2.128%) DB2 UDB
Development Applications
1 3 (6.383%) Maven
1 3 (6.383%) Hudson
2 1 (2.128%) JUnit
2 1 (2.128%) Oracle Forms
General
1 16 (34.04%) Telecoms
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 4 (8.511%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.128%) Banking
4 1 (2.128%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (8.511%) Administrator
2 4 (8.511%) Project Manager
2 4 (8.511%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (8.511%) Infrastructure Manager
2 4 (8.511%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (6.383%) Network Engineer
3 3 (6.383%) Consultant
3 3 (6.383%) QA Leader
4 2 (4.255%) Architect
4 2 (4.255%) Analyst
4 2 (4.255%) DBA
4 2 (4.255%) Storage Architect
4 2 (4.255%) Server Engineer
4 2 (4.255%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.128%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (2.128%) Linux Specialist
5 1 (2.128%) WebSphere Engineer
5 1 (2.128%) Test Leader
5 1 (2.128%) Operations Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.383%) DataPower
2 2 (4.255%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.255%) Replication
3 1 (2.128%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (63.83%) Linux
2 19 (40.43%) Windows
3 6 (12.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.383%) AIX
4 3 (6.383%) MVS
5 2 (4.255%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (4.255%) HPUX
5 2 (4.255%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.128%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.53%) Validation
2 7 (14.89%) Service Delivery
3 5 (10.64%) Migration
4 4 (8.511%) Project Management
4 4 (8.511%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (6.383%) Manual Testing
5 3 (6.383%) Software Testing
5 3 (6.383%) SOA
5 3 (6.383%) BPEL
6 2 (4.255%) Business Analysis
7 1 (2.128%) E-Commerce
7 1 (2.128%) Data Modelling
7 1 (2.128%) Test Scripting
7 1 (2.128%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.64%) SQL
1 5 (10.64%) ActionScript
1 5 (10.64%) ActionScript 2.0
2 4 (8.511%) Java
3 2 (4.255%) PL/SQL
3 2 (4.255%) REXX
3 2 (4.255%) JCL
3 2 (4.255%) XPath
4 1 (2.128%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.128%) Perl
4 1 (2.128%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.255%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.511%) QA
2 1 (2.128%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (25.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.77%) MetaFrame
3 2 (4.255%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) Tivoli
2 9 (19.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 3 (6.383%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 20 (42.55%) IBM
2 17 (36.17%) VMware
3 10 (21.28%) Citrix
4 9 (19.15%) Cisco
5 8 (17.02%) Oracle
6 6 (12.77%) Red Hat
7 5 (10.64%) NetApp
8 3 (6.383%) Novell
8 3 (6.383%) F5
9 2 (4.255%) Brocade
9 2 (4.255%) PlateSpin
9 2 (4.255%) HP
9 2 (4.255%) EMC
10 1 (2.128%) Microsoft
10 1 (2.128%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.128%) McAfee