The first table below looks at the demand for the UNIX Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX System Administrator (UNIX SA)
Rank 441 475 456
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -19
Contract jobs requiring a UNIX Systems Administrator 89 103 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.192% 0.177% 0.215%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.208% 0.191% 0.232%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 69 92
Average daily rate £400 £378 £436
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.96% -13.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £315 £350
% change year-on-year
+19.04% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Average hourly rate £27.00 £33.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% +88.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £33.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-18.18% +88.57%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

UNIX Systems Administrator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

UNIX Systems Administrator Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

UNIX Systems Administrator Daily Rate Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX Systems Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

UNIX Systems Administrator Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX Systems Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UNIX Systems Administrator Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX Systems Administrator
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 Systems Administrator within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +33 84 £400 -
London +17 63 £400 -0.31%
South East +17 10 £400 +14.28%
City of London -7 10 £450 +12.14%
Surrey +24 4 £425 -
Scotland -15 4 £400 +48.14%
Camberley - 4 £425 -
East of England +13 3 £375 +11.11%
West Midlands +10 3 £340 -
Buckinghamshire +5 3 - -
Hertfordshire - 3 £375 -
Amersham - 3 - -
Glasgow - 3 £400 -
Birmingham +11 2 £340 -
North West +9 2 £375 +25.00%
Docklands, London - 2 £369 -
South West +24 1 - -
Berkshire +14 1 £285 -32.94%
Manchester +11 1 £375 -
Edinburgh +8 1 - -
Middlesex +4 1 £375 +7.14%
Cheshire +1 1 - -
Slough -10 1 £285 -32.94%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £350 -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Stevenage - 1 £375 -
Knaresborough - 1 - -
Havant - 1 £350 -

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited UNIX Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title.

1 178 (100.00%) UNIX
2 145 (81.46%) Linux
3 124 (69.66%) Solaris
4 90 (50.56%) Finance
5 81 (45.51%) Veritas
6 78 (43.82%) Red Hat
7 76 (42.70%) Sun
8 70 (39.33%) SAN
9 66 (37.08%) Banking
10 62 (34.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 60 (33.71%) Shell Script
11 60 (33.71%) Oracle
12 59 (33.15%) AIX
13 57 (32.02%) Investment Banking
14 52 (29.21%) VMware
15 48 (26.97%) SUSE
15 48 (26.97%) Perl
16 46 (25.84%) EMC
17 40 (22.47%) Veritas Volume Manager
18 36 (20.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
19 27 (15.17%) Korn
20 25 (14.04%) HP
20 25 (14.04%) SCSA
21 24 (13.48%) Sybase
22 23 (12.92%) Symmetrix DMX
23 22 (12.36%) ITIL
23 22 (12.36%) RDF
24 21 (11.80%) Sun Certification
25 20 (11.24%) Migration
25 20 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure

UNIX Systems Administrator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited UNIX Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (2.247%) Middleware
2 1 (0.562%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.562%) JPA
2 1 (0.562%) RESTful
2 1 (0.562%) Regular Expression
2 1 (0.562%) JAX-RS
2 1 (0.562%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 14 (7.865%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.618%) Apache
3 7 (3.933%) SAS
4 5 (2.809%) Oracle Application Server
4 5 (2.809%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.809%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.685%) IIS
6 1 (0.562%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (0.562%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (2.247%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.247%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 70 (39.33%) SAN
2 13 (7.303%) LDAP
3 12 (6.742%) TCP/IP
4 11 (6.180%) NAS
5 6 (3.371%) DNS
6 3 (1.685%) DHCP
6 3 (1.685%) HTTP
6 3 (1.685%) Firewall
6 3 (1.685%) Internet
7 2 (1.124%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.562%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (0.562%) Network Security
8 1 (0.562%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.562%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.303%) Oracle Exadata
2 5 (2.809%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.562%) DB2
3 1 (0.562%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.562%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (0.562%) KDB
3 1 (0.562%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (0.562%) Hudson
1 1 (0.562%) Jenkins
General
1 90 (50.56%) Finance
2 66 (37.08%) Banking
3 57 (32.02%) Investment Banking
4 9 (5.056%) Financial Institution
5 5 (2.809%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (2.247%) Back Office
7 3 (1.685%) Retail
8 2 (1.124%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.562%) German Language
9 1 (0.562%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.92%) Symmetrix DMX
2 18 (10.11%) Clustering
3 14 (7.865%) Wiki
4 7 (3.933%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.371%) Equities
6 4 (2.247%) Thin Client
6 4 (2.247%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.685%) HACMP
8 2 (1.124%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.124%) LPAR
8 2 (1.124%) Open Source
9 1 (0.562%) CLARiiON
9 1 (0.562%) Derivative
9 1 (0.562%) PMI
9 1 (0.562%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 178 (100.00%) UNIX
2 145 (81.46%) Linux
3 124 (69.66%) Solaris
4 62 (34.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (33.15%) AIX
6 48 (26.97%) SUSE
7 17 (9.551%) HPUX
8 12 (6.742%) Windows
9 4 (2.247%) CentOS
10 3 (1.685%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.685%) Windows 2000 Server
10 3 (1.685%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.124%) Debian
12 1 (0.562%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.562%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.562%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (12.36%) ITIL
1 22 (12.36%) RDF
2 20 (11.24%) Migration
3 19 (10.67%) Software Deployment
4 18 (10.11%) Problem Management
5 17 (9.551%) Change Management
6 6 (3.371%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (3.371%) Project Management
7 5 (2.809%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (2.809%) Fund Management
7 5 (2.809%) Wealth Management
7 5 (2.809%) Business Transformation
8 4 (2.247%) Service Management
8 4 (2.247%) PRINCE2
8 4 (2.247%) ITSM
8 4 (2.247%) Data Security
8 4 (2.247%) Business Continuity
9 3 (1.685%) Test Scripting
9 3 (1.685%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (1.685%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (33.71%) Shell Script
2 48 (26.97%) Perl
3 27 (15.17%) Korn
4 8 (4.494%) SQL
4 8 (4.494%) Java
5 7 (3.933%) Python
6 6 (3.371%) C++
7 5 (2.809%) Bash shell
8 4 (2.247%) sed
8 4 (2.247%) C-shell
8 4 (2.247%) AWK
9 3 (1.685%) C
9 3 (1.685%) Bourne shell
10 2 (1.124%) Ruby
11 1 (0.562%) C#
11 1 (0.562%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (14.04%) SCSA
2 21 (11.80%) Sun Certification
3 10 (5.618%) RHCE
4 5 (2.809%) CCNA
4 5 (2.809%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (2.809%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.247%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.685%) RHCT
7 2 (1.124%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.124%) IBM Certification
7 2 (1.124%) Degree
7 2 (1.124%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.562%) PMP
8 1 (0.562%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.562%) OCA
8 1 (0.562%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.562%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.562%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.809%) SLA
2 4 (2.247%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.124%) QA
System Software
1 40 (22.47%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 36 (20.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 20 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (7.303%) NFS
5 6 (3.371%) Veritas File System
6 5 (2.809%) Active Directory
7 4 (2.247%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 4 (2.247%) Cronacle
8 2 (1.124%) Samba
8 2 (1.124%) vSphere
9 1 (0.562%) VMware ESX
9 1 (0.562%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.562%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 8 (4.494%) Puppet
2 4 (2.247%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 4 (2.247%) Nagios
2 4 (2.247%) Tivoli
3 3 (1.685%) HP SIM
3 3 (1.685%) NetBackup
3 3 (1.685%) HP Data Protector
3 3 (1.685%) ZABBIX
4 2 (1.124%) Cacti
5 1 (0.562%) Legato
5 1 (0.562%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.562%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 81 (45.51%) Veritas
2 78 (43.82%) Red Hat
3 76 (42.70%) Sun
4 60 (33.71%) Oracle
5 52 (29.21%) VMware
6 46 (25.84%) EMC
7 25 (14.04%) HP
8 24 (13.48%) Sybase
9 11 (6.180%) IBM
10 6 (3.371%) Cisco
11 5 (2.809%) NetApp
11 5 (2.809%) Citrix
11 5 (2.809%) Dell
12 3 (1.685%) Murex
12 3 (1.685%) Microsoft
12 3 (1.685%) Opsware
13 2 (1.124%) F5
13 2 (1.124%) JBoss
14 1 (0.562%) Hitachi
14 1 (0.562%) CheckPoint
Surrey
UNIX System Administrator - Banking - 450/day - SW London. My client, a Top Tier Leading Investment Bank, seeks to find an experienced UNIX System Administrator to work on a...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Camberley, Surrey
An opportunity has arisen for a skilled UNIX SA to join a global organisation as part of a projects team working closely with the Backup Storage projects for...
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Camberley, Surrey
Knowledge of AIX, HpUX. Ability to deploy and configure Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server... Required skills; Linux, RHEL, Solaris, Shell Scripting, AIX, HpUX, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas...
iKas International
Rate: £450 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013