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UNIX Specialist Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX Specialist
Rank 517 565 564
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -1
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Specialist 24 14 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.049% 0.024% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.026% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 21
Average daily rate £425 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £338 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £403 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £379 £350
% change year-on-year
-10.23% +8.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 45063 52855 57510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.16% 92.46% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25972 29220 31540
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
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 2142 2525 2941
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 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.77 £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 Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

UNIX Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

UNIX Specialist Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

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

UNIX Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UNIX Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Specialist
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UNIX Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +38 20 £425 +21.42% 1
London +25 7 £450 +28.57% 1
South East +25 5 £425 +12.21%
City of London 0 4 £450 +28.57% 1
Scotland -14 4 £300 -
East of England - 2 - -
South West - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 £300 -
High Wycombe - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Cambridge - - - -
Coventry - - - -
Maidenhead - - - -
Reading - - - -
Swindon - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Wiltshire - - - -
West Midlands - - - -

UNIX Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 38 (100.00%) UNIX
2 26 (68.42%) Linux
3 23 (60.53%) AIX
4 19 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (47.37%) Red Hat
6 17 (44.74%) Shell Script
7 14 (36.84%) VMware
8 12 (31.58%) SAN
8 12 (31.58%) Solaris
9 11 (28.95%) Migration
9 11 (28.95%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (21.05%) HACMP
10 8 (21.05%) Windows
11 7 (18.42%) Oracle
11 7 (18.42%) Veritas
12 6 (15.79%) Clustering
12 6 (15.79%) HP
12 6 (15.79%) HPUX
12 6 (15.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 5 (13.16%) vSphere
13 5 (13.16%) Banking
13 5 (13.16%) Sun
13 5 (13.16%) Finance
14 4 (10.53%) Change Management
14 4 (10.53%) Configuration Management
14 4 (10.53%) IBM
14 4 (10.53%) Apache
14 4 (10.53%) QA
14 4 (10.53%) PowerHA
14 4 (10.53%) Open Source

UNIX Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (2.632%) Web Services
1 1 (2.632%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) Apache
2 2 (5.263%) CloudStack
3 1 (2.632%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.632%) Lync
3 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.632%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.632%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.632%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.632%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (7.895%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (31.58%) SAN
2 4 (10.53%) NAS
3 3 (7.895%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (7.895%) DNS
4 2 (5.263%) Firewall
4 2 (5.263%) BIG-IP
4 2 (5.263%) FWSM
5 1 (2.632%) NetScaler
5 1 (2.632%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.632%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.895%) MySQL
2 1 (2.632%) BODI
2 1 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (2.632%) ClearCase
General
1 5 (13.16%) Banking
1 5 (13.16%) Finance
2 3 (7.895%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.632%) French Language
3 1 (2.632%) German Language
3 1 (2.632%) Billing
3 1 (2.632%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) HACMP
2 6 (15.79%) Clustering
3 4 (10.53%) Open Source
3 4 (10.53%) LPAR
4 3 (7.895%) DLPAR
4 3 (7.895%) Equities
5 2 (5.263%) CLARiiON
5 2 (5.263%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 38 (100.00%) UNIX
2 26 (68.42%) Linux
3 23 (60.53%) AIX
4 19 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (31.58%) Solaris
6 8 (21.05%) Windows
7 6 (15.79%) HPUX
8 3 (7.895%) Tru64
9 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (2.632%) CentOS
9 1 (2.632%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Migration
2 4 (10.53%) Change Management
2 4 (10.53%) Configuration Management
3 2 (5.263%) Service Management
3 2 (5.263%) Project Management
3 2 (5.263%) ITIL
3 2 (5.263%) Load Balancing
4 1 (2.632%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (2.632%) Change Control
4 1 (2.632%) Problem Management
4 1 (2.632%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (2.632%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) Shell Script
2 3 (7.895%) PHP
3 1 (2.632%) Bash shell
3 1 (2.632%) Korn
3 1 (2.632%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.632%) SQL
3 1 (2.632%) Java
3 1 (2.632%) Perl
3 1 (2.632%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.632%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (2.632%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (15.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 5 (13.16%) vSphere
4 4 (10.53%) PowerHA
4 4 (10.53%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (7.895%) NFS
5 3 (7.895%) VMware ESX
6 2 (5.263%) vCloud
6 2 (5.263%) Veritas File System
7 1 (2.632%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (7.895%) Zenoss
1 3 (7.895%) Nagios
2 2 (5.263%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.632%) SCCM
3 1 (2.632%) SCOM
3 1 (2.632%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (2.632%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (2.632%) Control-M
3 1 (2.632%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Red Hat
2 14 (36.84%) VMware
3 7 (18.42%) Oracle
3 7 (18.42%) Veritas
4 6 (15.79%) HP
5 5 (13.16%) Sun
6 4 (10.53%) IBM
7 3 (7.895%) Cisco
7 3 (7.895%) NetApp
7 3 (7.895%) EMC
8 2 (5.263%) CheckPoint
8 2 (5.263%) F5
9 1 (2.632%) Sybase
9 1 (2.632%) Business Objects
9 1 (2.632%) JBoss
9 1 (2.632%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.632%) Symantec
9 1 (2.632%) McAfee
9 1 (2.632%) Citrix
9 1 (2.632%) BMC
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