The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Engineer
Rank 477 512 499
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -13
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Engineer 77 77 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.158% 0.133% 0.141%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.172% 0.143% 0.153%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 40 40
Average daily rate £425 £473 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.05% +36.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £268 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £500 £288
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +73.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £26.25 £67.50 £47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.11% +43.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £67.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
-61.11% +43.61%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44867 53712 57592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.50% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25887 29609 31515
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 2132 2587 2980
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

UNIX Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

UNIX Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

UNIX Engineer Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

UNIX Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UNIX Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Engineer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 18 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
England +14 76 £425 -10.05% 15
London +30 40 £425 +6.25% 3
South East +26 11 £425 - 2
South West +10 11 £450 -10.00% 1
Gloucestershire +20 9 £450 -10.00%
City of London +7 9 £450 +12.50% 2
North West +14 6 £300 -
Surrey - 6 £425 -
East of England - 4 £238 - 6
Berkshire - 3 - - 1
Cambridgeshire - 3 £238 - 4
Cheltenham +7 2 - -
Yorkshire -5 2 £200 -41.60% 2
Cambridge - 2 £273 - 4
Reading - 2 - -
Scotland -13 1 £365 -
Manchester - 1 £300 -
Nottingham - 1 - -
Oxford - 1 £500 -
York - 1 - - 2
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 1
Docklands, London - 1 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £500 -
South Yorkshire - - - -
Hampshire - - - - 1
Hertfordshire - - - - 1
South Wales - - - -

UNIX Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 139 (100.00%) UNIX
2 115 (82.73%) Linux
3 81 (58.27%) Solaris
3 81 (58.27%) Perl
4 79 (56.83%) Red Hat
5 62 (44.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 56 (40.29%) SAN
7 46 (33.09%) Shell Script
8 42 (30.22%) Clustering
9 37 (26.62%) DNS
10 36 (25.90%) Veritas
11 34 (24.46%) Banking
12 32 (23.02%) VMware
13 31 (22.30%) EMC
13 31 (22.30%) C
14 27 (19.42%) VMware Infrastructure
15 26 (18.71%) Finance
16 25 (17.99%) Security Cleared
17 24 (17.27%) AIX
17 24 (17.27%) HP
17 24 (17.27%) Sun
18 23 (16.55%) HPUX
19 22 (15.83%) DHCP
19 22 (15.83%) DV Cleared
20 20 (14.39%) Veritas Volume Manager
21 19 (13.67%) NAS
21 19 (13.67%) NFS
21 19 (13.67%) Oracle
22 18 (12.95%) IBM
22 18 (12.95%) Investment Banking

UNIX Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited UNIX Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (3.597%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.439%) Middleware
3 1 (0.719%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (0.719%) XML
3 1 (0.719%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (0.719%) Qt
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.597%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.878%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.158%) Apache
3 3 (2.158%) SAS
4 2 (1.439%) FileNet
5 1 (0.719%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.719%) Exchange Server 5.5
5 1 (0.719%) Exchange Server 2000
5 1 (0.719%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.719%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.719%) nginx
5 1 (0.719%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.719%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.719%) IIS
5 1 (0.719%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.719%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.439%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 56 (40.29%) SAN
2 37 (26.62%) DNS
3 22 (15.83%) DHCP
4 19 (13.67%) NAS
5 13 (9.353%) LDAP
6 5 (3.597%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.158%) Firewall
8 2 (1.439%) DECnet
8 2 (1.439%) WAN
8 2 (1.439%) SSL
9 1 (0.719%) HTTP
9 1 (0.719%) SMTP
9 1 (0.719%) LAN
9 1 (0.719%) Internet
9 1 (0.719%) BIG-IP
9 1 (0.719%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.597%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (2.158%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.439%) MarkLogic
3 2 (1.439%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (1.439%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.719%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (0.719%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.719%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (0.719%) Subversion
1 1 (0.719%) Git (software)
1 1 (0.719%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (24.46%) Banking
2 26 (18.71%) Finance
3 18 (12.95%) Investment Banking
4 5 (3.597%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.158%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.439%) Front Office
6 2 (1.439%) Legal
6 2 (1.439%) Marketing
7 1 (0.719%) French Language
7 1 (0.719%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.719%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 42 (30.22%) Clustering
2 11 (7.914%) CLARiiON
3 9 (6.475%) Equities
4 6 (4.317%) Open Source
5 5 (3.597%) Symmetrix DMX
5 5 (3.597%) Wiki
6 2 (1.439%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.439%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.719%) LPAR
7 1 (0.719%) Firmware
7 1 (0.719%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.719%) PKI
7 1 (0.719%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.719%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 139 (100.00%) UNIX
2 115 (82.73%) Linux
3 81 (58.27%) Solaris
4 62 (44.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (17.27%) AIX
6 23 (16.55%) HPUX
7 14 (10.07%) Windows
8 11 (7.914%) SUSE
9 4 (2.878%) VMS
10 3 (2.158%) Windows 7
10 3 (2.158%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (2.158%) Windows 2000 Server
11 2 (1.439%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.719%) Tru64
12 1 (0.719%) FreeBSD
12 1 (0.719%) CentOS
12 1 (0.719%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.719%) Debian
12 1 (0.719%) OpenBSD
12 1 (0.719%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (10.79%) Migration
2 12 (8.633%) Load Balancing
2 12 (8.633%) Configuration Management
3 11 (7.914%) ITIL
4 8 (5.755%) High Availability
5 7 (5.036%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (4.317%) Problem Management
7 5 (3.597%) Change Management
8 4 (2.878%) RDF
9 3 (2.158%) Service Management
10 2 (1.439%) Service Delivery
10 2 (1.439%) SOA
10 2 (1.439%) Workflow
10 2 (1.439%) Electronic Trading
10 2 (1.439%) Capacity Planning
10 2 (1.439%) Network Management
10 2 (1.439%) Change Control
11 1 (0.719%) Continuous Improvement
11 1 (0.719%) Data Migration
11 1 (0.719%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 81 (58.27%) Perl
2 46 (33.09%) Shell Script
3 31 (22.30%) C
4 17 (12.23%) Python
5 11 (7.914%) C++
6 10 (7.194%) Java
7 7 (5.036%) SQL
7 7 (5.036%) Ruby
7 7 (5.036%) Korn
8 3 (2.158%) Bash shell
9 2 (1.439%) C-shell
9 2 (1.439%) DCL
10 1 (0.719%) PHP
10 1 (0.719%) C#
Qualifications
1 25 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.83%) DV Cleared
3 11 (7.914%) Oracle Certification
4 9 (6.475%) OCA
5 3 (2.158%) Degree
6 2 (1.439%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.439%) RHCE
6 2 (1.439%) OCP
7 1 (0.719%) CISSP
7 1 (0.719%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.158%) SLA
2 1 (0.719%) QA
System Software
1 27 (19.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (14.39%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 19 (13.67%) NFS
4 16 (11.51%) VMware ESX
5 8 (5.755%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.158%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.439%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.719%) vSphere
8 1 (0.719%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.719%) PowerHA
8 1 (0.719%) Samba
8 1 (0.719%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 11 (7.914%) Puppet
2 8 (5.755%) Tivoli
3 7 (5.036%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 4 (2.878%) Nagios
5 3 (2.158%) NetBackup
5 3 (2.158%) BladeLogic
5 3 (2.158%) Netcool
6 2 (1.439%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.719%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.719%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 1 (0.719%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 79 (56.83%) Red Hat
2 36 (25.90%) Veritas
3 32 (23.02%) VMware
4 31 (22.30%) EMC
5 24 (17.27%) Sun
5 24 (17.27%) HP
6 19 (13.67%) Oracle
7 18 (12.95%) IBM
8 13 (9.353%) Cisco
8 13 (9.353%) F5
9 6 (4.317%) Sybase
10 5 (3.597%) Brocade
11 3 (2.158%) JBoss
11 3 (2.158%) Siebel
11 3 (2.158%) Informatica
11 3 (2.158%) NetApp
12 2 (1.439%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.439%) BMC
12 2 (1.439%) Business Objects
12 2 (1.439%) Microsoft
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