The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough 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 Slough 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 23 23 23
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Contract jobs citing UNIX 16 6 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 6.400% 2.927% 6.189%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.56% 12.24% 38.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 16
Average daily rate £300 £325 £276
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £300 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £405 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
All Operating Systems
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
45 49 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 18.00% 23.90% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 23
Average daily rate £300 £325 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +20.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
Average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
UNIX
Berkshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 (73.08%) Linux
2 12 (46.15%) Telecoms
3 10 (38.46%) Oracle
4 9 (34.62%) Degree
5 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
5 8 (30.77%) Solaris
5 8 (30.77%) HP
6 7 (26.92%) CCNA
6 7 (26.92%) ITIL
6 7 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (23.08%) HPUX
7 6 (23.08%) Bash shell
8 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
8 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
8 5 (19.23%) Windows
8 5 (19.23%) VBScript
8 5 (19.23%) Java
8 5 (19.23%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (19.23%) BMC
8 5 (19.23%) WSH
8 5 (19.23%) Middleware
8 5 (19.23%) Nagios
8 5 (19.23%) Project Management
9 3 (11.54%) Clustering
9 3 (11.54%) Teradata
9 3 (11.54%) Netcool
9 3 (11.54%) Netcool/OMNIbus
9 3 (11.54%) Finance
9 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (11.54%) RDBMS

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 5 (19.23%) WSH
1 5 (19.23%) Middleware
2 2 (7.692%) WebSphere
2 2 (7.692%) .NET
2 2 (7.692%) XML
3 1 (3.846%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.692%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (7.692%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.846%) Broadband
1 1 (3.846%) DNS
1 1 (3.846%) DSL
1 1 (3.846%) Firewall
1 1 (3.846%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.846%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.692%) DataStage
3 2 (7.692%) TOAD
3 2 (7.692%) DB2
4 1 (3.846%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.692%) ERwin
General
1 12 (46.15%) Telecoms
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 2 (7.692%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.846%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Developer
1 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Technical Leader
3 3 (11.54%) Teradata Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Consultant
4 2 (7.692%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (7.692%) Applications Developer
5 1 (3.846%) OSS Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Administrator
5 1 (3.846%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.846%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.846%) SQL Developer
5 1 (3.846%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (3.846%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.846%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Computer Science
2 3 (11.54%) Clustering
3 2 (7.692%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.692%) Grid Computing
3 2 (7.692%) iSeries
4 1 (3.846%) Open Source
4 1 (3.846%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Linux
2 8 (30.77%) Solaris
3 6 (23.08%) HPUX
4 5 (19.23%) Windows
5 1 (3.846%) SUSE
5 1 (3.846%) Nucleus RTOS
5 1 (3.846%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) ITIL
2 5 (19.23%) Project Management
3 2 (7.692%) Workflow
3 2 (7.692%) Migration
3 2 (7.692%) TOGAF
3 2 (7.692%) Automated Testing
3 2 (7.692%) PRINCE2
3 2 (7.692%) DSDM
3 2 (7.692%) Load Balancing
3 2 (7.692%) Lean Six Sigma
3 2 (7.692%) Problem Management
3 2 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (7.692%) PRINCE
3 2 (7.692%) Six Sigma
3 2 (7.692%) Waterfall
3 2 (7.692%) Web Application Development
4 1 (3.846%) Capacity Management
4 1 (3.846%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (3.846%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (3.846%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Bash shell
2 5 (19.23%) Java
2 5 (19.23%) VBScript
2 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 3 (11.54%) SQL
4 2 (7.692%) C
4 2 (7.692%) RPG
4 2 (7.692%) RPG IV
5 1 (3.846%) Perl
5 1 (3.846%) Python
5 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Degree
2 7 (26.92%) CCNA
2 7 (26.92%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (19.23%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (7.692%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Nagios
2 3 (11.54%) Netcool
2 3 (11.54%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 2 (7.692%) Control-M
3 2 (7.692%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.846%) Netcool/Webtop
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Oracle
2 8 (30.77%) HP
3 5 (19.23%) BMC
4 3 (11.54%) Teradata
5 2 (7.692%) Redknee
5 2 (7.692%) 3PAR
5 2 (7.692%) IBM
5 2 (7.692%) Symantec
5 2 (7.692%) BT
5 2 (7.692%) SAP
6 1 (3.846%) Cisco
6 1 (3.846%) Citrix
6 1 (3.846%) VMware
6 1 (3.846%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.846%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.846%) F5
6 1 (3.846%) Crossbeam