The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the Oxford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £500 £318
% change year-on-year
-17.50% +57.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £30.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-13.93% -35.10%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
225 326 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 96.98% 97.02% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 185 81
Average daily rate £340 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £456 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 42 23
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Engineer
Oxfordshire

UNIX Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Engineer across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oxford UNIX Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford UNIX Engineer Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Engineer across the Oxford region.

Oxford UNIX Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (100.00%) C-shell
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (100.00%) MarkLogic

UNIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (100.00%) MarkLogic
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) C-shell
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat