South West UNIX Systems Administrator Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems Administrator role in IT contracts within the South West 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 8 September 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 Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hull Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Salisbury Scotland South East South West Surrey UK Uxbridge Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	138	137
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	7	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	0.162 %	0.639 %
Daily rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£399
Average daily rate	£363	£414
% change on same period last year	-12.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£429
UK excluding London average daily rate	£367	£345
% change on same period last year	+6.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.50	£31.36
% change on same period last year	+25.96 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4328	5948
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.866 %	5.889 %
Daily rates quoted	1331	1547
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£342
Average daily rate	£370	£361
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£356
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	586	737
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.65	£25.53
Average hourly rate	£27.46	£27.14
% change on same period last year	+1.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.28	£28.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-7.28 %
UNIX Systems Administrator England

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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

UNIX Systems Administrator
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 South West region.

UNIX Systems Administrator
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 South West region.

UNIX Systems Administrator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator within the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 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
Wiltshire	+5	4	£363	-3.33 %
Gloucestershire	0	3	-	-

UNIX Systems Administrator England

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 26 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 24 (92.31 %) Solaris 3 14 (53.85 %) Linux 4 12 (46.15 %) Security Cleared 5 11 (42.31 %) HPUX 6 9 (34.62 %) HP 6 9 (34.62 %) Red Hat Linux 6 9 (34.62 %) VMware 7 7 (26.92 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 7 (26.92 %) DV Cleared 7 7 (26.92 %) VERITAS 7 7 (26.92 %) AIX 7 7 (26.92 %) Sun 8 6 (23.08 %) Shell Script 8 6 (23.08 %) LDAP

9 5 (19.23 %) NetBackup 10 4 (15.38 %) Korn 10 4 (15.38 %) VMware ESX 10 4 (15.38 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 10 4 (15.38 %) Change Management 10 4 (15.38 %) Government 11 3 (11.54 %) IBM 11 3 (11.54 %) Finance 11 3 (11.54 %) SC Cleared 11 3 (11.54 %) Fujitsu 12 2 (7.692 %) Test Scripting 12 2 (7.692 %) Red Hat 12 2 (7.692 %) AutoSys 12 2 (7.692 %) Telecoms 12 2 (7.692 %) Infovista

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 Platforms 1 1 (3.846 %) Apache	Communications & Networking 1 6 (23.08 %) LDAP 2 2 (7.692 %) SMS 2 2 (7.692 %) DHCP 2 2 (7.692 %) FTP 2 2 (7.692 %) HTTP 2 2 (7.692 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.846 %) RDBMS	General 1 4 (15.38 %) Government 2 3 (11.54 %) Finance 3 2 (7.692 %) Telecoms 4 1 (3.846 %) Legal
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 26 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 24 (92.31 %) Solaris 3 14 (53.85 %) Linux 4 11 (42.31 %) HPUX 5 9 (34.62 %) Red Hat Linux 6 7 (26.92 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 7 (26.92 %) AIX 7 2 (7.692 %) Windows 7 2 (7.692 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (7.692 %) Windows NT 7 2 (7.692 %) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (46.15 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (26.92 %) DV Cleared 3 4 (15.38 %) Change Management 4 3 (11.54 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (7.692 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (3.846 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 6 (23.08 %) Shell Script 2 4 (15.38 %) Korn 3 1 (3.846 %) C 3 1 (3.846 %) Perl
System Software 1 5 (19.23 %) NetBackup 2 4 (15.38 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (7.692 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 4 (15.38 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 2 2 (7.692 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 9 (34.62 %) HP 1 9 (34.62 %) VMware 2 7 (26.92 %) Sun 2 7 (26.92 %) VERITAS 3 3 (11.54 %) IBM 3 3 (11.54 %) Fujitsu 4 2 (7.692 %) Red Hat 4 2 (7.692 %) Infovista 4 2 (7.692 %) Sophos 5 1 (3.846 %) BMC