The first table below looks at the demand for POSIX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited POSIX over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Application Development category.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX (POSIX)
Rank 514 576 584
Rank change year-on-year
+62 +8
Contract jobs citing POSIX 20 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.042% 0.017% 0.003%
As % of the Application Development category 0.156% 0.066% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 1
Average daily rate £325 £250 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% -41.17%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12831 15156 16571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.23% 25.57% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8032 8869 9678
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 395 571
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

POSIX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing POSIX within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

POSIX Jobs Demand Trend

POSIX
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing POSIX within the UK.

POSIX Daily Rate Trend

POSIX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing POSIX within the UK.

POSIX Hourly Rate Trend

POSIX
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing POSIX within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +66 20 £325 +30.00%
Yorkshire - 16 £325 -
West Yorkshire - 16 £325 -
Leeds - 16 £325 -
London +24 2 £325 +30.00%
South East +18 2 - -
Surrey - 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 - -
Staines - 1 - -

POSIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing POSIX 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 POSIX.

1 26 (96.30%) Linux
2 20 (74.07%) Python
2 20 (74.07%) Bash shell
3 19 (70.37%) RDBMS
3 19 (70.37%) Apache
4 18 (66.67%) C++
4 18 (66.67%) PHP
4 18 (66.67%) MySQL
4 18 (66.67%) HTTP
4 18 (66.67%) Configuration Management
4 18 (66.67%) TDD
4 18 (66.67%) Ruby
4 18 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
4 18 (66.67%) Kanban
4 18 (66.67%) nginx
4 18 (66.67%) SimpleDB
4 18 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (66.67%) Amazon S3
4 18 (66.67%) Amazon AWS
4 18 (66.67%) Puppet
4 18 (66.67%) MongoDB
4 18 (66.67%) NoSQL
4 18 (66.67%) Node.js
4 18 (66.67%) Redis
4 18 (66.67%) Route 53
4 18 (66.67%) Couchbase
4 18 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (62.96%) DNS
5 17 (62.96%) Web Services
6 16 (59.26%) Internet

POSIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing POSIX 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 POSIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (66.67%) Node.js
2 17 (62.96%) Web Services
3 5 (18.52%) LAMP
4 2 (7.407%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 19 (70.37%) Apache
2 18 (66.67%) nginx
2 18 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 18 (66.67%) Amazon AWS
2 18 (66.67%) Route 53
3 5 (18.52%) CM System
4 1 (3.704%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 18 (66.67%) HTTP
2 17 (62.96%) DNS
3 16 (59.26%) Internet
4 2 (7.407%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.704%) SSH
5 1 (3.704%) DVB
5 1 (3.704%) DHCP
5 1 (3.704%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.704%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (70.37%) RDBMS
2 18 (66.67%) MySQL
2 18 (66.67%) SimpleDB
2 18 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 18 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 18 (66.67%) Redis
2 18 (66.67%) Couchbase
2 18 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) ClearCase
2 1 (3.704%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.704%) NUnit
2 1 (3.704%) Subversion
2 1 (3.704%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 7 (25.93%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.704%) Banking
2 1 (3.704%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (88.89%) Software Engineer
2 2 (7.407%) Developer
2 2 (7.407%) Software Developer
3 1 (3.704%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (3.704%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (3.704%) PHP Programmer
3 1 (3.704%) Python Developer
3 1 (3.704%) Web Programmer
3 1 (3.704%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (3.704%) Software Programmer
3 1 (3.704%) Web Developer
3 1 (3.704%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (3.704%) DBA
3 1 (3.704%) Programmer
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (3.704%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (3.704%) PHP Developer
3 1 (3.704%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) DTV
2 2 (7.407%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.704%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 26 (96.30%) Linux
2 2 (7.407%) UNIX
2 2 (7.407%) Windows
3 1 (3.704%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.704%) VMS
3 1 (3.704%) AIX
3 1 (3.704%) HPUX
3 1 (3.704%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 18 (66.67%) TDD
1 18 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 18 (66.67%) Kanban
2 16 (59.26%) Scrum
3 2 (7.407%) Security Testing
3 2 (7.407%) Network Design
3 2 (7.407%) Test Automation
4 1 (3.704%) Software Architecture
4 1 (3.704%) Load Balancing
4 1 (3.704%) Test Management
4 1 (3.704%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.704%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) Python
1 20 (74.07%) Bash shell
2 18 (66.67%) C++
2 18 (66.67%) PHP
2 18 (66.67%) Ruby
3 6 (22.22%) C
4 1 (3.704%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.704%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.704%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.407%) Degree
2 1 (3.704%) OCP
2 1 (3.704%) Oracle Certification
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Puppet
2 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (3.704%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (3.704%) Perforce
2 1 (3.704%) IBM
2 1 (3.704%) HP
2 1 (3.704%) BMC
2 1 (3.704%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.704%) JBoss
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