South Yorkshire UNIX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Cleethorpes Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elgin Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moray Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Pudsey Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	5
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	41	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.069 %
As % of the category below	29.50 %	35.79 %
Daily rates quoted	3	15
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£319
Average daily rate	£333	£339
% change on same period last year	-1.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£363
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.04	£36.08
Average hourly rate	£30.21	£36.38
% change on same period last year	-16.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.37	£36.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.35	£31.77
% change on same period last year	+1.82 %
Operating Systems South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	139	190
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.185 %	0.192 %
Daily rates quoted	17	29
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£303
Average daily rate	£288	£335
% change on same period last year	-14.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£337
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.42	£28.21
Average hourly rate	£26.10	£28.68
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.79	£29.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.08	£23.44
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
UNIX Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Sheffield	-2	37	£333	+0.69 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 55 (46.61 %) Solaris 2 51 (43.22 %) Sun 3 39 (33.05 %) VERITAS 3 39 (33.05 %) Change Management 4 37 (31.36 %) SAN 5 29 (24.58 %) EMC 6 28 (23.73 %) Oracle 7 26 (22.03 %) ITIL 8 22 (18.64 %) Linux 9 21 (17.80 %) HPUX 10 20 (16.95 %) Windows 11 18 (15.25 %) NetBackup 12 15 (12.71 %) NFS 13 12 (10.17 %) Firewall 13 12 (10.17 %) SQL

14 10 (8.475 %) Cisco 15 9 (7.627 %) SLA 15 9 (7.627 %) AIX 15 9 (7.627 %) HP 16 8 (6.780 %) Oracle 8/8i 17 7 (5.932 %) Government 18 6 (5.085 %) Finance 18 6 (5.085 %) Symantec 18 6 (5.085 %) PL/SQL 18 6 (5.085 %) Korn 19 5 (4.237 %) Load Balancing 19 5 (4.237 %) Network Design 19 5 (4.237 %) Oracle RAC 19 5 (4.237 %) Performance Management 19 5 (4.237 %) Brocade

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (1.695 %) WebServices 1 2 (1.695 %) XML 1 2 (1.695 %) Middleware 1 2 (1.695 %) WSRP 1 2 (1.695 %) JSR 168 2 1 (0.847 %) XHTML 2 1 (0.847 %) HTML 2 1 (0.847 %) ASP 2 1 (0.847 %) CSS 2 1 (0.847 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.390 %) Oracle Application Server 2 2 (1.695 %) Tuxedo 2 2 (1.695 %) OpenROAD 2 2 (1.695 %) PowerExchange 2 2 (1.695 %) Oracle Workflow 3 1 (0.847 %) WebLogic 3 1 (0.847 %) Apache
Applications 1 3 (2.542 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.847 %) Photoshop 2 1 (0.847 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (0.847 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 37 (31.36 %) SAN 2 12 (10.17 %) Firewall 3 5 (4.237 %) LAN 4 4 (3.390 %) VPN 4 4 (3.390 %) Internet 5 3 (2.542 %) SSH 5 3 (2.542 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (1.695 %) DNS 7 1 (0.847 %) FTP 7 1 (0.847 %) HTTP 7 1 (0.847 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (6.780 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 5 (4.237 %) RDBMS 2 5 (4.237 %) Oracle 10g 2 5 (4.237 %) PowerCenter 2 5 (4.237 %) ETL 3 3 (2.542 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 3 (2.542 %) DB2 4 1 (0.847 %) OLAP 4 1 (0.847 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (0.847 %) Ingres 4 1 (0.847 %) Data Mart 4 1 (0.847 %) Oracle OLAP 4 1 (0.847 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (0.847 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (0.847 %) Flash	General 1 7 (5.932 %) Government 2 6 (5.085 %) Finance 3 4 (3.390 %) Telecoms 3 4 (3.390 %) Health 3 4 (3.390 %) Legal 4 1 (0.847 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 30 (25.42 %) Administrator 2 27 (22.88 %) Support Engineer 3 21 (17.80 %) Solaris Administrator 4 13 (11.02 %) Developer 4 13 (11.02 %) Systems Administrator 5 11 (9.322 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 5 11 (9.322 %) UNIX Administrator 6 10 (8.475 %) Project Engineer 7 8 (6.780 %) Systems Engineer 7 8 (6.780 %) Systems Support 7 8 (6.780 %) Systems Support Engineer 8 6 (5.085 %) DBA 8 6 (5.085 %) Oracle DBA 9 5 (4.237 %) Oracle Developer 9 5 (4.237 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 9 5 (4.237 %) Informatica Developer 9 5 (4.237 %) Analyst 10 4 (3.390 %) Coordinator 10 4 (3.390 %) Architect 10 4 (3.390 %) Solutions Architect	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.390 %) Data Integration 2 3 (2.542 %) Credit Risk 3 2 (1.695 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.847 %) Statistics 4 1 (0.847 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.847 %) HACMP 4 1 (0.847 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 55 (46.61 %) Solaris 2 22 (18.64 %) Linux 3 21 (17.80 %) HPUX 4 20 (16.95 %) Windows 5 9 (7.627 %) AIX 6 2 (1.695 %) Windows NT 7 1 (0.847 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 39 (33.05 %) Change Management 2 26 (22.03 %) ITIL 3 5 (4.237 %) RAD 3 5 (4.237 %) ITSM 3 5 (4.237 %) Service Delivery 3 5 (4.237 %) Network Design 3 5 (4.237 %) Load Balancing 3 5 (4.237 %) Performance Management 4 4 (3.390 %) Incident Management 4 4 (3.390 %) Risk Assessment 4 4 (3.390 %) Business Intelligence 5 3 (2.542 %) Workflow 5 3 (2.542 %) Validation 5 3 (2.542 %) Problem Management 6 1 (0.847 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (0.847 %) Migration 6 1 (0.847 %) Process Management
Programming Languages 1 12 (10.17 %) SQL 2 6 (5.085 %) PL/SQL 2 6 (5.085 %) Korn 3 4 (3.390 %) C 3 4 (3.390 %) Java 4 2 (1.695 %) VB 5 1 (0.847 %) ActionScript 5 1 (0.847 %) JavaScript 5 1 (0.847 %) Perl 5 1 (0.847 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 3 (2.542 %) CCNP 1 3 (2.542 %) CCNA 1 3 (2.542 %) CCDP 1 3 (2.542 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (1.695 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (7.627 %) SLA	System Software 1 18 (15.25 %) NetBackup 2 15 (12.71 %) NFS 3 5 (4.237 %) Oracle RMAN 3 5 (4.237 %) Oracle RAC 4 2 (1.695 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 5 (4.237 %) OpenView 1 5 (4.237 %) Netcool 1 5 (4.237 %) Netcool/OMNIbus	Vendors 1 51 (43.22 %) Sun 2 39 (33.05 %) VERITAS 3 29 (24.58 %) EMC 4 28 (23.73 %) Oracle 5 10 (8.475 %) Cisco 6 9 (7.627 %) HP 7 6 (5.085 %) Symantec 8 5 (4.237 %) Informatica 8 5 (4.237 %) NetApp 8 5 (4.237 %) Brocade 9 4 (3.390 %) Siebel 9 4 (3.390 %) VMware 9 4 (3.390 %) IBM 9 4 (3.390 %) Microsoft 10 3 (2.542 %) Cognos 10 3 (2.542 %) Intel 11 1 (0.847 %) Citrix 11 1 (0.847 %) Remedy