UNIX Contracts in Scotland
 
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 Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 17 23 16
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -7
Contract jobs citing UNIX 193 123 187
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.913% 4.643% 6.667%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.03% 25.68% 37.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 52 70
Average daily rate £400 £325 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -6.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £271 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £399 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 2
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £96.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -71.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
All Operating Systems
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 551 479 505
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 22.59% 18.08% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 192 168
Average daily rate £360 £320 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £120 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 39 36
Average hourly rate £15.50 £24.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% +41.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.60 £31.70 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
UNIX
UK

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Glasgow +5 108 £365 +12.30%
Edinburgh 0 34 £400 +14.28%
Stirling +2 13 £400 -19.95%
Aberdeen +12 12 £350 -
West Lothian -3 4 £425 +30.76%
Renfrewshire - 1 £355 -
UNIX
UK

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 165 (44.96%) SQL
2 142 (38.69%) Java
2 142 (38.69%) Linux
3 127 (34.60%) Finance
4 126 (34.33%) Oracle
5 91 (24.80%) Windows
6 90 (24.52%) Sybase
6 90 (24.52%) Banking
7 71 (19.35%) Perl
8 70 (19.07%) Shell Script
9 64 (17.44%) SQL Server
10 63 (17.17%) XML
11 62 (16.89%) Spring
12 54 (14.71%) Solaris
12 54 (14.71%) WebSphere
13 52 (14.17%) C#
14 48 (13.08%) RDBMS
15 41 (11.17%) PL/SQL
16 40 (10.90%) Agile Software Development
17 37 (10.08%) AIX
18 35 (9.537%) JMS
19 34 (9.264%) C++
20 33 (8.992%) DB2
21 32 (8.719%) IBM
22 31 (8.447%) OO
23 27 (7.357%) Investment Banking
23 27 (7.357%) Multithreading
24 26 (7.084%) ETL
25 25 (6.812%) ITIL
25 25 (6.812%) Informatica

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 63 (17.17%) XML
2 62 (16.89%) Spring
3 54 (14.71%) WebSphere
4 35 (9.537%) JMS
5 23 (6.267%) .NET
6 22 (5.995%) J2EE
6 22 (5.995%) JDBC
7 20 (5.450%) CSS
7 20 (5.450%) J2SE
8 18 (4.905%) Hibernate
9 17 (4.632%) HTML
10 16 (4.360%) JSP
10 16 (4.360%) Ajax
11 15 (4.087%) Spring MVC
12 14 (3.815%) XSLT
12 14 (3.815%) Web Services
13 12 (3.270%) Middleware
14 11 (2.997%) Struts
14 11 (2.997%) iBATIS
14 11 (2.997%) Spring Web Flow
Application Platforms
1 22 (5.995%) Tomcat
2 15 (4.087%) WebSphere Application Server
3 13 (3.542%) WebSphere MQ
4 11 (2.997%) MQSeries
5 9 (2.452%) Apache
6 8 (2.180%) WebLogic
6 8 (2.180%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (1.907%) Mule
8 5 (1.362%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
8 5 (1.362%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 4 (1.090%) WebSphere Portal
9 4 (1.090%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.817%) MS Exchange
10 3 (0.817%) SAS
10 3 (0.817%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.817%) PowerExchange
10 3 (0.817%) GlassFish
11 2 (0.545%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.545%) Drupal
11 2 (0.545%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 14 (3.815%) MS Excel
2 3 (0.817%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.817%) Fireworks
3 2 (0.545%) MS Office
3 2 (0.545%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (3.542%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (2.452%) Oracle Applications
3 5 (1.362%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.817%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.817%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.272%) Sentinel
5 1 (0.272%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.177%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.087%) DNS
3 11 (2.997%) LDAP
4 10 (2.725%) SAN
4 10 (2.725%) HTTP
4 10 (2.725%) Firewall
5 5 (1.362%) DHCP
5 5 (1.362%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.362%) NAS
6 4 (1.090%) WAN
6 4 (1.090%) LAN
6 4 (1.090%) Internet
7 3 (0.817%) Intranet
7 3 (0.817%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.817%) Network Security
8 2 (0.545%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.545%) Wireless
8 2 (0.545%) Connectrix
9 1 (0.272%) SMS
9 1 (0.272%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (17.44%) SQL Server
2 48 (13.08%) RDBMS
3 33 (8.992%) DB2
4 18 (4.905%) Oracle 8/8i
5 16 (4.360%) MySQL
5 16 (4.360%) Oracle 10g
6 13 (3.542%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.452%) SQL Server 2005
8 8 (2.180%) Sybase IQ
8 8 (2.180%) SQLPlus
8 8 (2.180%) Oracle 11g
8 8 (2.180%) Oracle 9i
9 7 (1.907%) Oracle BI EE
10 6 (1.635%) SQL Server 2008
10 6 (1.635%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.362%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.362%) Sybase ASE
11 5 (1.362%) Oracle Exadata
12 4 (1.090%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.090%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 21 (5.722%) JUnit
1 21 (5.722%) Selenium
2 18 (4.905%) CruiseControl
3 15 (4.087%) Subversion
4 12 (3.270%) JIRA
4 12 (3.270%) Eclipse
5 11 (2.997%) Maven
6 10 (2.725%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.452%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.907%) ClearCase
9 6 (1.635%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.817%) QuickTest Pro
10 3 (0.817%) Ant
10 3 (0.817%) WATIR
10 3 (0.817%) Hudson
10 3 (0.817%) Firebug
10 3 (0.817%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.817%) RSpec
11 2 (0.545%) JBehave
11 2 (0.545%) TestComplete
General
1 127 (34.60%) Finance
2 90 (24.52%) Banking
3 27 (7.357%) Investment Banking
4 10 (2.725%) Front Office
5 5 (1.362%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.545%) Financial Institution
6 2 (0.545%) Back Office
6 2 (0.545%) Aerospace
6 2 (0.545%) Retail Banking
6 2 (0.545%) Retail
7 1 (0.272%) Legal
7 1 (0.272%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 157 (42.78%) Developer
2 78 (21.25%) Java Developer
3 58 (15.80%) Analyst
4 41 (11.17%) Administrator
5 29 (7.902%) Support Analyst
6 28 (7.629%) Consultant
7 26 (7.084%) Applications Support
8 23 (6.267%) Applications Support Analyst
9 20 (5.450%) Systems Administrator
10 18 (4.905%) UNIX Administrator
11 17 (4.632%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.360%) DBA
13 14 (3.815%) Oracle DBA
14 13 (3.542%) C# Developer
15 12 (3.270%) UNIX Systems Administrator
15 12 (3.270%) Informatica Developer
15 12 (3.270%) UNIX Consultant
16 11 (2.997%) Sybase Developer
17 10 (2.725%) C++ Developer
18 9 (2.452%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.087%) Derivative
2 14 (3.815%) Equity Derivative
3 13 (3.542%) Mainframe
4 12 (3.270%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.997%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.725%) Fixed Income
6 10 (2.725%) Data Integration
7 7 (1.907%) N-Tier
8 6 (1.635%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.635%) Clustering
8 6 (1.635%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.817%) Mathematics
9 3 (0.817%) Equities
9 3 (0.817%) Symmetrix
9 3 (0.817%) W3C
9 3 (0.817%) Computer Science
10 2 (0.545%) Replication
10 2 (0.545%) EMC Centera
10 2 (0.545%) HACMP
10 2 (0.545%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 142 (38.69%) Linux
2 91 (24.80%) Windows
3 54 (14.71%) Solaris
4 37 (10.08%) AIX
5 13 (3.542%) HPUX
5 13 (3.542%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (3.270%) zOS
7 10 (2.725%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (2.180%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.090%) Windows XP
10 3 (0.817%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.817%) Tru64
11 2 (0.545%) SUSE
11 2 (0.545%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.545%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.272%) Windows 2000 Server
12 1 (0.272%) Windows 2000
12 1 (0.272%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (10.90%) Agile Software Development
2 31 (8.447%) OO
3 27 (7.357%) Multithreading
4 26 (7.084%) ETL
5 25 (6.812%) ITIL
6 24 (6.540%) Scrum
7 21 (5.722%) MVC
7 21 (5.722%) Unit Testing
8 20 (5.450%) Data Modelling
9 16 (4.360%) Extreme Programming
10 15 (4.087%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (3.815%) Test Automation
12 12 (3.270%) SOA
12 12 (3.270%) Web Application Development
13 10 (2.725%) OOP
14 9 (2.452%) Migration
14 9 (2.452%) Risk Management
14 9 (2.452%) Change Management
14 9 (2.452%) TDD
15 8 (2.180%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 165 (44.96%) SQL
2 142 (38.69%) Java
3 71 (19.35%) Perl
4 70 (19.07%) Shell Script
5 52 (14.17%) C#
6 41 (11.17%) PL/SQL
7 34 (9.264%) C++
8 23 (6.267%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.087%) VB
10 11 (2.997%) Python
11 8 (2.180%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.907%) Ruby
12 7 (1.907%) VBA
13 6 (1.635%) C
14 5 (1.362%) Scala
15 3 (0.817%) Korn
15 3 (0.817%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.545%) VBScript
16 2 (0.545%) PHP
16 2 (0.545%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 10 (2.725%) Degree
2 2 (0.545%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.545%) CCNA
2 2 (0.545%) CISSP
2 2 (0.545%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.272%) SCSA
3 1 (0.272%) ISEB
3 1 (0.272%) CCNP
3 1 (0.272%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.815%) SLA
1 14 (3.815%) QA
2 7 (1.907%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.545%) WAI
4 1 (0.272%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (3.270%) Oracle RMAN
2 9 (2.452%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (1.907%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.362%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.362%) SRDF
5 4 (1.090%) MetaFrame
6 3 (0.817%) Samba
7 2 (0.545%) VMware ESX
7 2 (0.545%) XenDesktop
7 2 (0.545%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.545%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.545%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.545%) NFS
8 1 (0.272%) vSphere
8 1 (0.272%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 9 (2.452%) Data Guard
2 7 (1.907%) Tivoli
3 5 (1.362%) Control-M
3 5 (1.362%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (1.090%) NetBackup
5 3 (0.817%) Puppet
5 3 (0.817%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 2 (0.545%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (0.545%) MOM
6 2 (0.545%) Netcool
6 2 (0.545%) OpenView Configuration Management
6 2 (0.545%) EMC TimeFinder
6 2 (0.545%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.545%) Backup Exec
6 2 (0.545%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.272%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.272%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
7 1 (0.272%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 126 (34.33%) Oracle
2 90 (24.52%) Sybase
3 32 (8.719%) IBM
4 25 (6.812%) Informatica
5 21 (5.722%) Microsoft
6 16 (4.360%) Red Hat
7 13 (3.542%) NetApp
8 12 (3.270%) Ab Initio
8 12 (3.270%) TIBCO
8 12 (3.270%) Sun
8 12 (3.270%) Citrix
9 11 (2.997%) EMC
9 11 (2.997%) HP
9 11 (2.997%) JBoss
10 7 (1.907%) VMware
11 6 (1.635%) Progress
11 6 (1.635%) Avaloq
12 4 (1.090%) Brocade
12 4 (1.090%) Netezza
12 4 (1.090%) Symantec
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