Scotland UNIX Systems Administrator Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the Scotland region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

UNIX System Administrator
Location Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Buckinghamshire Camberley Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Salisbury Scotland South East South West Suffolk Surrey UK Uxbridge Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	82	100
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	21	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	0.896 %	0.663 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£282
Average daily rate	£367	£294
% change on same period last year	+24.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£353
% change on same period last year	+5.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.57	£30.53
% change on same period last year	+26.34 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2344	3468
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.124 %	3.460 %
Daily rates quoted	538	682
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£300
Average daily rate	£317	£317
% change on same period last year	+0.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	156	207
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.32	£19.42
Average hourly rate	£23.36	£20.57
% change on same period last year	+13.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.41	£21.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
UNIX Systems Administrator UK

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.

UNIX Systems Administrator
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Systems Administrator across the Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Systems Administrator across the Scotland region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Edinburgh	+6	10	-	-
Glasgow	+14	7	£367	+7.84 %
West Lothian	-	2	-	-

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UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited UNIX Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 34 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 25 (73.53 %) Solaris 3 14 (41.18 %) VERITAS 4 11 (32.35 %) Shell Script 5 9 (26.47 %) Linux 6 8 (23.53 %) HPUX 6 8 (23.53 %) Sun 7 7 (20.59 %) SAN 7 7 (20.59 %) AIX 8 5 (14.71 %) Red Hat Linux 9 4 (11.76 %) Clustering 9 4 (11.76 %) NetBackup 9 4 (11.76 %) Finance 9 4 (11.76 %) Oracle 9 4 (11.76 %) Perl

9 4 (11.76 %) Apache 9 4 (11.76 %) EMC 9 4 (11.76 %) Red Hat 10 3 (8.824 %) Sun Certification 10 3 (8.824 %) HP 10 3 (8.824 %) LDAP 10 3 (8.824 %) NFS 10 3 (8.824 %) Banking 11 2 (5.882 %) Load Balancing 11 2 (5.882 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 2 (5.882 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 2 (5.882 %) Investment Banking 11 2 (5.882 %) Samba 11 2 (5.882 %) Disaster Recovery 11 2 (5.882 %) Firewall

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited UNIX Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.941 %) Middleware 1 1 (2.941 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 4 (11.76 %) Apache 2 1 (2.941 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 7 (20.59 %) SAN 2 3 (8.824 %) LDAP 3 2 (5.882 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (5.882 %) Firewall 4 1 (2.941 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (5.882 %) MySQL 1 2 (5.882 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 2 (5.882 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 4 (11.76 %) Finance 2 3 (8.824 %) Banking 3 2 (5.882 %) Investment Banking 3 2 (5.882 %) Electronics 4 1 (2.941 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (2.941 %) Home Office 4 1 (2.941 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (2.941 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 4 (11.76 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.941 %) Equities 2 1 (2.941 %) CLARiiON
Operating Systems 1 34 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 25 (73.53 %) Solaris 3 9 (26.47 %) Linux 4 8 (23.53 %) HPUX 5 7 (20.59 %) AIX 6 5 (14.71 %) Red Hat Linux 7 2 (5.882 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (5.882 %) Disaster Recovery 1 2 (5.882 %) Load Balancing 1 2 (5.882 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (2.941 %) Change Management 2 1 (2.941 %) Problem Management 2 1 (2.941 %) Workflow 2 1 (2.941 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 11 (32.35 %) Shell Script 2 4 (11.76 %) Perl 3 2 (5.882 %) PHP 3 2 (5.882 %) SQL 4 1 (2.941 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 3 (8.824 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.882 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (11.76 %) NetBackup 2 3 (8.824 %) NFS 3 2 (5.882 %) Samba 4 1 (2.941 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 2 (5.882 %) Tivoli 1 2 (5.882 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (2.941 %) Legato	Vendors 1 14 (41.18 %) VERITAS 2 8 (23.53 %) Sun 3 4 (11.76 %) EMC 3 4 (11.76 %) Red Hat 3 4 (11.76 %) Oracle 4 3 (8.824 %) HP 5 1 (2.941 %) StorageTek