UNIX Contracts in Oxfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills 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 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 35 39 8
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -31
Contract jobs citing UNIX 16 13 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 3.620% 2.067% 12.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.69% 11.93% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 27
Average daily rate £230 £350 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.28% -4.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £288 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £413 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £17.00 - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 102 109 159
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 23.08% 17.33% 35.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 34 64
Average daily rate £305 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £225 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £378 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 35
Average hourly rate £14.63 £16.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.36% +17.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.45 £11.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.75 £23.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +4 5 - -
Bicester - 1 £305 -
UNIX
South East

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 19 (70.37%) TCP/IP
1 19 (70.37%) VMware
2 17 (62.96%) Windows
3 12 (44.44%) DNS
3 12 (44.44%) NetWare
3 12 (44.44%) Degree
4 11 (40.74%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (40.74%) Firewall
4 11 (40.74%) DHCP
4 11 (40.74%) Cisco
4 11 (40.74%) ITIL
4 11 (40.74%) Linux
5 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (29.63%) Solaris
7 7 (25.93%) Red Hat
7 7 (25.93%) Altiris
8 6 (22.22%) CCNA
8 6 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (22.22%) SQL
8 6 (22.22%) Oracle
9 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
9 5 (18.52%) Oracle 10g
9 5 (18.52%) Bash shell
9 5 (18.52%) Oracle 11g
10 4 (14.81%) Clustering
10 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (14.81%) Veritas
10 4 (14.81%) MarkLogic
10 4 (14.81%) NFS
10 4 (14.81%) VPN

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (11.11%) WSH
1 3 (11.11%) Java EE
2 2 (7.407%) Hibernate
2 2 (7.407%) Ajax
2 2 (7.407%) Spring
2 2 (7.407%) Struts2
2 2 (7.407%) jQuery
2 2 (7.407%) JAXB
2 2 (7.407%) HTML
2 2 (7.407%) J2EE
2 2 (7.407%) EJB
2 2 (7.407%) CSS
2 2 (7.407%) JSP
2 2 (7.407%) Struts
2 2 (7.407%) Web Services
2 2 (7.407%) XML
3 1 (3.704%) Middleware
3 1 (3.704%) OC4J
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (7.407%) WebLogic
2 2 (7.407%) Apache
3 1 (3.704%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (3.704%) Jetty
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.704%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 19 (70.37%) TCP/IP
2 12 (44.44%) DNS
3 11 (40.74%) Firewall
3 11 (40.74%) DHCP
4 4 (14.81%) VPN
5 3 (11.11%) SMTP
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (7.407%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (3.704%) LDAP
7 1 (3.704%) HTTP
7 1 (3.704%) SNMP
7 1 (3.704%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle 10g
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (14.81%) MarkLogic
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.407%) MySQL
5 1 (3.704%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.704%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (3.704%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (7.407%) Finance
2 1 (3.704%) Military
2 1 (3.704%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Administrator
2 5 (18.52%) Network Administrator
3 4 (14.81%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Developer
5 2 (7.407%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.407%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) UNIX Engineer
5 2 (7.407%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.704%) Network Support Technician
6 1 (3.704%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (3.704%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.704%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (3.704%) IT Administrator
6 1 (3.704%) Network Support
6 1 (3.704%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Clustering
2 2 (7.407%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.704%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 12 (44.44%) NetWare
3 11 (40.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (40.74%) Linux
4 8 (29.63%) Solaris
5 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (7.407%) Windows 7
6 2 (7.407%) Windows XP
6 2 (7.407%) AIX
7 1 (3.704%) HPUX
7 1 (3.704%) CentOS
7 1 (3.704%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.704%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) ITIL
2 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (11.11%) Six Sigma
3 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 2 (7.407%) E-business
4 2 (7.407%) MVC
4 2 (7.407%) Scrum
4 2 (7.407%) Problem Management
4 2 (7.407%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (7.407%) Change Control
4 2 (7.407%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.704%) SOA
5 1 (3.704%) Logistics
5 1 (3.704%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Bash shell
3 4 (14.81%) Perl
4 3 (11.11%) VB
4 3 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (7.407%) Korn
5 2 (7.407%) C-shell
5 2 (7.407%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.407%) C
6 1 (3.704%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Degree
2 6 (22.22%) CCNA
2 6 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.407%) CCIE
3 2 (7.407%) CCNP
4 1 (3.704%) MCSE
4 1 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.704%) Sun Certification
4 1 (3.704%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.704%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (7.407%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (14.81%) NFS
4 1 (3.704%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Nagios
1 3 (11.11%) Tivoli
1 3 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (3.704%) Control-M
Vendors
1 19 (70.37%) VMware
2 11 (40.74%) Cisco
3 7 (25.93%) Red Hat
3 7 (25.93%) Altiris
4 6 (22.22%) Oracle
5 4 (14.81%) Veritas
5 4 (14.81%) HP
6 1 (3.704%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.704%) EMC
6 1 (3.704%) Citrix
6 1 (3.704%) BMC
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