Poole Unix Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Unix skills within the Poole region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Unix over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Angus Atherstone Aylesbury Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Dudley Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ilford Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moray Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington 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 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 Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Tayside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	10
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	6	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	40.00 %	60.00 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£550	£338
Average daily rate	£575	£356
% change on same period last year	+61.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£600	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£363
% change on same period last year	+0.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£36.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.05	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Operating Systems Poole
Matching contract IT job ads	15	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.021 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£500	£321
Average daily rate	£542	£343
% change on same period last year	+57.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£583	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£20.88
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£23.25
% change on same period last year	-48.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£25.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.83	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Unix Dorset

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 Poole 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 Poole region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Unix across the Poole region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 Poole region.

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Poole 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 7 (43.75 %) Middleware 2 6 (37.50 %) Finance 2 6 (37.50 %) Windows 3 5 (31.25 %) Banking 4 4 (25.00 %) Mainframe 5 3 (18.75 %) Stakeholder Management 5 3 (18.75 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (18.75 %) Citrix 6 2 (12.50 %) TestDirector 6 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (12.50 %) Internet 6 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 6 2 (12.50 %) SQL 6 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 6 2 (12.50 %) Financial Institution

6 2 (12.50 %) Penetration Testing 6 2 (12.50 %) BIG-IP 7 1 (6.250 %) Blue Coat 7 1 (6.250 %) Teradata 7 1 (6.250 %) DB2 7 1 (6.250 %) AIX 7 1 (6.250 %) Linux 7 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 7 1 (6.250 %) IBM 7 1 (6.250 %) Shell Script 7 1 (6.250 %) JCL 7 1 (6.250 %) Test Management 7 1 (6.250 %) IBM Mainframe 7 1 (6.250 %) Korn

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Poole 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 7 (43.75 %) Middleware	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) Internet 1 2 (12.50 %) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) TestDirector
General 1 6 (37.50 %) Finance 2 5 (31.25 %) Banking 3 2 (12.50 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Performance Manager 1 6 (37.50 %) Capacity Manager 2 5 (31.25 %) Systems Manager 3 3 (18.75 %) Project Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 5 1 (6.250 %) DBA 5 1 (6.250 %) Linux Consultant 5 1 (6.250 %) Architect 5 1 (6.250 %) Tester 5 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Test Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 1 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Consultant 5 1 (6.250 %) DB2 DBA 5 1 (6.250 %) UNIX Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 4 (25.00 %) Mainframe 2 1 (6.250 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 6 (37.50 %) Windows 2 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (6.250 %) Linux 3 1 (6.250 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) E-Commerce 1 3 (18.75 %) Stakeholder Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Penetration Testing 2 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.250 %) Test Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL 2 1 (6.250 %) Shell Script 2 1 (6.250 %) JCL 2 1 (6.250 %) Korn
Vendors 1 3 (18.75 %) Citrix 2 1 (6.250 %) Teradata 2 1 (6.250 %) Blue Coat 2 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 2 1 (6.250 %) IBM