The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 currently tracked.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Developer
Rank 509 543 518
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -25
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Developer 24 30 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.052% 0.051% 0.116%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.056% 0.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 37
Average daily rate £575 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.77% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £343 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £547 £599
UK excluding London average daily rate - £400 £270
% change year-on-year
- +48.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £37.00 - £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 - £29.00
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

UNIX Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

UNIX Developer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

UNIX Developer Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

UNIX Developer Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UNIX Developer Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +57 24 £575 +27.77%
London +15 22 £575 +27.77%
City of London +13 2 £575 +5.99%
West Midlands - 2 - -
Birmingham - 2 - -

UNIX Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited UNIX Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 41 (100.00%) UNIX
2 36 (87.80%) C++
3 20 (48.78%) Shell Script
4 19 (46.34%) Oracle
5 16 (39.02%) RDBMS
6 15 (36.59%) Linux
7 14 (34.15%) OO
8 12 (29.27%) Python
8 12 (29.27%) Perl
9 11 (26.83%) STL
10 10 (24.39%) C
11 9 (21.95%) Solaris
11 9 (21.95%) Fixed Income
12 8 (19.51%) Front Office
12 8 (19.51%) Multithreading
13 7 (17.07%) Java
14 5 (12.20%) J2EE
14 5 (12.20%) AIX
14 5 (12.20%) CGI
14 5 (12.20%) Oracle Forms
14 5 (12.20%) ProC
14 5 (12.20%) Finance
14 5 (12.20%) Ruby
15 3 (7.317%) Investment Banking
15 3 (7.317%) Equities
15 3 (7.317%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 3 (7.317%) SAN
15 3 (7.317%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
15 3 (7.317%) Degree
15 3 (7.317%) Banking

UNIX Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited UNIX Developer 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (26.83%) STL
2 5 (12.20%) CGI
2 5 (12.20%) J2EE
3 2 (4.878%) Node.js
4 1 (2.439%) REST
4 1 (2.439%) Qt
4 1 (2.439%) HTML
4 1 (2.439%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.439%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.317%) SAN
2 1 (2.439%) 3G
2 1 (2.439%) TELNET
2 1 (2.439%) 2G
2 1 (2.439%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (39.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Oracle Forms
1 5 (12.20%) ProC
General
1 8 (19.51%) Front Office
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
3 3 (7.317%) Banking
3 3 (7.317%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.439%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Fixed Income
2 3 (7.317%) Equities
2 3 (7.317%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (7.317%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.878%) Mathematics
3 2 (4.878%) Physics
3 2 (4.878%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.439%) Streaming Video
4 1 (2.439%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 41 (100.00%) UNIX
2 15 (36.59%) Linux
3 9 (21.95%) Solaris
4 5 (12.20%) AIX
5 2 (4.878%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (34.15%) OO
2 8 (19.51%) Multithreading
3 2 (4.878%) Software Engineering
4 1 (2.439%) Business Analysis
4 1 (2.439%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (2.439%) Web Development
4 1 (2.439%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (2.439%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (2.439%) Validation
4 1 (2.439%) Migration
4 1 (2.439%) Scrum
4 1 (2.439%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (87.80%) C++
2 20 (48.78%) Shell Script
3 12 (29.27%) Python
3 12 (29.27%) Perl
4 10 (24.39%) C
5 7 (17.07%) Java
6 5 (12.20%) Ruby
7 2 (4.878%) SQL
7 2 (4.878%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.878%) C#
8 1 (2.439%) COBOL
8 1 (2.439%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.439%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (7.317%) Degree
Vendors
1 19 (46.34%) Oracle
2 1 (2.439%) JBoss
2 1 (2.439%) Progress
2 1 (2.439%) Nortel
2 1 (2.439%) Ericsson
2 1 (2.439%) TIBCO
2 1 (2.439%) Micro Focus
2 1 (2.439%) Nokia Siemens Networks