The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Somerset 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 28 23 29
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +6
Contract jobs citing UNIX 6 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 3.279% 4.624% 3.828%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.00% 44.44% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
Average daily rate £265 £300 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.66% +2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £270 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £404 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.38%
All Operating Systems
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
50 18 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 27.32% 10.40% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 19
Average daily rate £210 £280 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -4.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £265 £120
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £404 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 13
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +22.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.86 £11.60 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £18.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
UNIX
South West

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bath +4 4 £225 - 1
Taunton 0 2 £308 +5.12%
Yeovil - - - -
UNIX
South West

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 30 (76.92%) SQL
1 30 (76.92%) Oracle
2 29 (74.36%) Java
2 29 (74.36%) XML
3 27 (69.23%) ASP.NET
3 27 (69.23%) HTML
3 27 (69.23%) .NET
3 27 (69.23%) Microsoft
4 26 (66.67%) SharePoint
4 26 (66.67%) ASP
4 26 (66.67%) Ingres
4 26 (66.67%) VB
4 26 (66.67%) VB.NET
4 26 (66.67%) IIS
4 26 (66.67%) C#
4 26 (66.67%) C++
4 26 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 26 (66.67%) UML
5 24 (61.54%) ITIL
5 24 (61.54%) SQL Server
5 24 (61.54%) .NET Framework
6 22 (56.41%) Unit Testing
6 22 (56.41%) OpenROAD
7 19 (48.72%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (46.15%) ISEB
9 15 (38.46%) MSTest
9 15 (38.46%) NUnit
10 14 (35.90%) Subversion
10 14 (35.90%) Service Delivery
10 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 29 (74.36%) XML
2 27 (69.23%) ASP.NET
2 27 (69.23%) HTML
2 27 (69.23%) .NET
3 26 (66.67%) ASP
4 24 (61.54%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.564%) WebSphere
5 1 (2.564%) Ajax
5 1 (2.564%) CSS
5 1 (2.564%) JSP
5 1 (2.564%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 26 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 26 (66.67%) IIS
2 22 (56.41%) OpenROAD
3 3 (7.692%) Apache
4 2 (5.128%) WebLogic
4 2 (5.128%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.564%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.564%) MS Project
1 1 (2.564%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.128%) Internet
1 2 (5.128%) DHCP
1 2 (5.128%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.564%) Firewall
2 1 (2.564%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.564%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (66.67%) Ingres
2 24 (61.54%) SQL Server
3 10 (25.64%) SQLPlus
4 3 (7.692%) MySQL
5 2 (5.128%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.564%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (2.564%) DataStage
6 1 (2.564%) DB2
Development Applications
1 15 (38.46%) MSTest
1 15 (38.46%) NUnit
2 14 (35.90%) Subversion
3 12 (30.77%) CruiseControl
3 12 (30.77%) TeamCity
3 12 (30.77%) Team Foundation Server
3 12 (30.77%) Jenkins
3 12 (30.77%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (5.128%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (2.564%) Telecoms
1 1 (2.564%) Finance
Job Titles
1 27 (69.23%) Developer
2 19 (48.72%) Analyst
3 14 (35.90%) Analyst Developer
4 13 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 13 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 13 (33.33%) C# Developer
5 10 (25.64%) Senior Developer
5 10 (25.64%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (23.08%) Support Analyst
7 8 (20.51%) Senior Analyst Developer
8 6 (15.38%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 6 (15.38%) ASP.NET Developer
9 5 (12.82%) Senior Support Analyst
10 3 (7.692%) Senior C# Developer
10 3 (7.692%) Developer Analyst
10 3 (7.692%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (7.692%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
11 2 (5.128%) Support Engineer
11 2 (5.128%) Applications Support
11 2 (5.128%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.128%) Open Source
2 1 (2.564%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Windows
2 4 (10.26%) Linux
3 3 (7.692%) Solaris
4 2 (5.128%) FreeBSD
4 2 (5.128%) Mac OS X Server
5 1 (2.564%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.564%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (66.67%) UML
2 24 (61.54%) ITIL
3 22 (56.41%) Unit Testing
4 19 (48.72%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (35.90%) Service Delivery
6 10 (25.64%) Service Management
7 9 (23.08%) ITSM
8 2 (5.128%) Change Control
9 1 (2.564%) Data Mapping
9 1 (2.564%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (2.564%) TDD
9 1 (2.564%) E-Commerce
9 1 (2.564%) Data Modelling
9 1 (2.564%) ETL
9 1 (2.564%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 30 (76.92%) SQL
2 29 (74.36%) Java
3 26 (66.67%) VB
3 26 (66.67%) VB.NET
3 26 (66.67%) C#
3 26 (66.67%) C++
3 26 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.692%) C
5 2 (5.128%) Perl
5 2 (5.128%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.564%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (46.15%) ISEB
2 14 (35.90%) Security Cleared
3 9 (23.08%) MCTS
3 9 (23.08%) MCPD
3 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (23.08%) MCP
4 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.564%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Systems Management
1 2 (5.128%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (76.92%) Oracle
2 27 (69.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.128%) Netezza
4 1 (2.564%) ATG
4 1 (2.564%) Cramer
4 1 (2.564%) Cisco
4 1 (2.564%) Citrix
4 1 (2.564%) Informatica