The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 20 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 Oxfordshire 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
20 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 Oxfordshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £500 £318
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
411 604 425
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 94.05% 95.72% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 290 195
Average daily rate £340 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £488 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 82 60
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% +13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.00 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.90 £30.00 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Engineer
South East

UNIX Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire UNIX Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 2 (100.00%) MarkLogic
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) C-shell
2 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
2 1 (50.00%) NFS

UNIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (100.00%) MarkLogic
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) HP