The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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 22 12 19
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +7
Contract jobs citing UNIX 4 30 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 2.857% 11.86% 7.944%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.33% 36.59% 44.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 6
Average daily rate - £325 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 £29.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.16% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.38%
All Operating Systems
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
30 82 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 21.43% 32.41% 17.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 16
Average daily rate £313 £260 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.19% -5.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £245 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 4
Average hourly rate £12.50 £17.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +29.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
UNIX
East of England

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk 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
Ipswich -5 1 - -
Stowmarket - - - -
Bury St Edmunds - - - -
Haverhill - - - -
UNIX
East of England

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Solaris
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Automated Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Management
2 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Ionix
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Statspack
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10gAS
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Brio
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Delphi
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (16.67%) Client/Server

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10gAS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Intranet
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (16.67%) ProC
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Validation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Validation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Validation
1 2 (33.33%) Automated Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Test Management
1 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) Delphi
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (16.67%) Ionix
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Brio
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Sun
1 1 (16.67%) EMC
1 1 (16.67%) Hyperion
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat