UNIX Engineer Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Engineer
Rank 213 243 238
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -5
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Engineer 7 2 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.088% 0.020% 0.146%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.021% 0.158%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
Average daily rate £425 - £288
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £500 £318
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +57.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £67.50 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +43.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £30.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-13.93% -35.10%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 7336 9394 9506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.60% 92.47% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3629 4201 4116
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 724 798
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
UNIX Engineer
England

UNIX Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East UNIX Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UNIX Engineer across the South East region.

South East UNIX Engineer Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Engineer across the South East region.

South East UNIX Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Surrey - 4 £425 -
Berkshire - 3 - -
UNIX Engineer
England

UNIX Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) UNIX
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
3 7 (46.67%) Solaris
4 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (40.00%) EMC
5 5 (33.33%) SAN
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 4 (26.67%) HPUX
6 4 (26.67%) Windows
6 4 (26.67%) Oracle
6 4 (26.67%) VMware
6 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (20.00%) Veritas
7 3 (20.00%) HP
8 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
8 2 (13.33%) IBM
8 2 (13.33%) AIX
8 2 (13.33%) Perl
8 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
8 2 (13.33%) Apache
8 2 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (13.33%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (13.33%) Finance
8 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
8 2 (13.33%) Oracle 11g
8 2 (13.33%) Marketing
8 2 (13.33%) Brocade
8 2 (13.33%) NetBackup

UNIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) Qt
1 1 (6.667%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (6.667%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.667%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (13.33%) MarkLogic
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Marketing
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Clustering
1 1 (6.667%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) UNIX
2 9 (60.00%) Linux
3 7 (46.67%) Solaris
4 4 (26.67%) HPUX
4 4 (26.67%) Windows
4 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (13.33%) AIX
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (13.33%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (6.667%) FreeBSD
6 1 (6.667%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Network Management
3 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.667%) Lean Six Sigma
3 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
3 1 (6.667%) SOA
3 1 (6.667%) ITIL
3 1 (6.667%) Six Sigma
3 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Perl
1 2 (13.33%) Bash shell
2 1 (6.667%) C-shell
2 1 (6.667%) Korn
2 1 (6.667%) PHP
2 1 (6.667%) C
2 1 (6.667%) C#
2 1 (6.667%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (13.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (6.667%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
2 1 (6.667%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (40.00%) EMC
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Veritas
3 3 (20.00%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) IBM
4 2 (13.33%) Brocade
5 1 (6.667%) F5
5 1 (6.667%) Redknee
5 1 (6.667%) Crossbeam
5 1 (6.667%) Cisco
5 1 (6.667%) CheckPoint
Unix Engineer - Financial Services - Surrey
Surrey
Unix Engineer - Unix, Linux, Solaris, SAN, Storage Remediation, Veritas - Surrey My client is looking for an engineer to work on a large scale storage remediation project... Their current...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
UNIX ENGINEER- SAN/NAS - Investment Banking
Camberley, Surrey
A leading investment bank requires a senior UNIX engineer to work within their infrastructure area. The successful candidate will need: Requirements: * Deep knowledge of Linux and Solaris Operating...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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