The first part of the table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems 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.

UNIX
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank171717
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching contract IT job ads353644414182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK6.049 %7.382 %7.577 %
As % of the Operating Systems category29.75 %35.50 %41.80 %
Number of daily rates quoted195325012193
Average daily rate£400£438£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57 %-2.77 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£273£280£287
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£350£330
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %+6.06 %
Number of hourly rates quoted9287133
Average hourly rate£31.25£30.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.16 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.50£11.80£13.65
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£57.50£40.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.50£30.00£25.97
% change year-on-year
+8.33 %+15.51 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
118871251010005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK20.34 %20.80 %18.13 %
Number of daily rates quoted593361134469
Average daily rate£350£375£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£215£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted118512361035
Average hourly rate£17.50£17.00£16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.94 %+6.25 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.21£11.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£37.50£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.00£16.50£15.50
% change year-on-year
+3.03 %+6.45 %

UNIX
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

UNIX Demand Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Trend

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

UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

UNIX Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

UNIX Hourly Rate Histogram

UNIX
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-13301£400-11.11 %
LondonNo change01826£425-12.82 %
City of LondonNo change0542£450-10.00 %
South EastDown-11478£350-
North WestDown-1263£350-4.10 %
East of EnglandUp+6218£350+12.90 %
South WestUp+6217£475+26.66 %
BerkshireDown-8127£325-7.14 %
ScotlandDown-6120£328-4.23 %
YorkshireUp+1106£291-8.26 %
GloucestershireUp+15101£500+50.94 %
SurreyDown-3100£400+6.66 %
ManchesterUp+1697£349-12.75 %
CheshireDown-295£363-
HampshireDown-992£375+17.37 %
West MidlandsNo change085£300+5.35 %
BuckinghamshireNo change083£315-2.77 %
West YorkshireUp+476£325+5.26 %
East MidlandsDown-171£411+14.07 %
CheltenhamUp+1470£475+52.00 %
ReadingUp+1167£280-29.55 %
Milton KeynesDown-366£300+1.69 %
GloucesterUp+1465£488-
CambridgeshireUp+1460£375+20.96 %
LeedsUp+957£325+2.36 %
StroudNew entry-57£500-
GlasgowDown-454£325-10.34 %
HertfordshireDown-550£400+14.28 %
CambridgeUp+847£344+2.61 %
CirencesterNew entry-44£500-

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing UNIX 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 UNIX.

12827 (41.34 %)Linux
22483 (36.31 %)Oracle
32217 (32.42 %)Windows
42198 (32.14 %)SQL
51779 (26.02 %)Java
61638 (23.95 %)Finance
71210 (17.70 %)Solaris
81144 (16.73 %)Shell Script
91135 (16.60 %)Banking
101102 (16.12 %)Perl
11701 (10.25 %)AIX
12675 (9.871 %)XML
13659 (9.637 %)Security Cleared
14655 (9.579 %)Red Hat
15641 (9.374 %)ITIL
16627 (9.169 %)C++
17599 (8.760 %)SAN
18584 (8.541 %)Middleware
19578 (8.453 %)SQL Server
20571 (8.350 %)Investment Banking
21551 (8.058 %)TCP/IP
22550 (8.043 %)Microsoft
22550 (8.043 %)PL/SQL
23546 (7.985 %)WebSphere
24536 (7.839 %)IBM
25529 (7.736 %)Migration
26493 (7.210 %)HP
27487 (7.122 %)J2EE
28486 (7.107 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
29476 (6.961 %)Apache

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing UNIX 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 UNIX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1675 (9.871 %)XML
2584 (8.541 %)Middleware
3546 (7.985 %)WebSphere
4487 (7.122 %)J2EE
5392 (5.733 %)HTML
6357 (5.221 %).NET
7338 (4.943 %)Web Services
8321 (4.694 %)Spring
9268 (3.919 %)CSS
10198 (2.896 %)JMS
11183 (2.676 %)JSP
12157 (2.296 %)Hibernate
13125 (1.828 %)Ajax
14119 (1.740 %)XSLT
15116 (1.696 %)Servlets
16115 (1.682 %)JDBC
17108 (1.579 %)EJB
18103 (1.506 %)STL
1993 (1.360 %)SOAP
2089 (1.302 %)jQuery
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1476 (6.961 %)Apache
2363 (5.309 %)WebLogic
3310 (4.533 %)Tomcat
4252 (3.685 %)WebSphere Application Server
5192 (2.808 %)IIS
6188 (2.749 %)WebSphere MQ
7127 (1.857 %)IBM HTTP Server
8119 (1.740 %)MS Exchange
9117 (1.711 %)SAS
10107 (1.565 %)SharePoint
1183 (1.214 %)Oracle Application Server
1278 (1.141 %)TIBCO EMS
1370 (1.024 %)MQSeries
1469 (1.009 %)Rendezvous
1566 (0.965 %)Oracle Workflow
1653 (0.775 %)Exchange Server 2003
1752 (0.760 %)Oracle 10gAS
1850 (0.731 %)CMS
1949 (0.717 %)ESB
1949 (0.717 %)Oracle Service Bus
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1250 (3.656 %)MS Excel
2212 (3.100 %)MS Office
385 (1.243 %)MS Visio
481 (1.185 %)MS Project
555 (0.804 %)MS PowerPoint
610 (0.146 %)MATLAB
78 (0.117 %)Spreadsheet
87 (0.102 %)Acrobat
96 (0.088 %)FreeHand
105 (0.073 %)Photoshop
114 (0.058 %)Fireworks
122 (0.029 %)FastStats
131 (0.015 %)Quicktime
131 (0.015 %)SPSS
131 (0.015 %)S-PLUS
131 (0.015 %)Stata
131 (0.015 %)CATIA
131 (0.015 %)Adobe Illustrator
131 (0.015 %)DOC1
131 (0.015 %)InfoPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
199 (1.448 %)Oracle EBS
279 (1.155 %)Oracle EBS R12
368 (0.994 %)RMDS
459 (0.863 %)Oracle 11i
548 (0.702 %)Oracle Applications
632 (0.468 %)ION MarketView
730 (0.439 %)BusinessWorks
825 (0.366 %)Oracle BPM
923 (0.336 %)TIBCO iProcess
1022 (0.322 %)Summit
1022 (0.322 %)Teamcenter
1118 (0.263 %)Oracle Financials
1215 (0.219 %)Oracle iProcurement
1215 (0.219 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
1313 (0.190 %)SAP IS-U
1411 (0.161 %)Kondor+
1510 (0.146 %)3000 Xtra
1510 (0.146 %)Demantra
1510 (0.146 %)Global One
169 (0.132 %)Capstone
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1599 (8.760 %)SAN
2551 (8.058 %)TCP/IP
3432 (6.318 %)Firewall
4354 (5.177 %)LDAP
5332 (4.855 %)DNS
6316 (4.621 %)Internet
7218 (3.188 %)NAS
8217 (3.173 %)HTTP
9214 (3.130 %)SSL
10177 (2.588 %)WAN
11166 (2.428 %)LAN
12141 (2.062 %)DHCP
13106 (1.550 %)Network Security
1486 (1.258 %)SMTP
1579 (1.155 %)VPN
1670 (1.024 %)FTP
1766 (0.965 %)VLAN
1861 (0.892 %)HTTPS
1954 (0.790 %)SNMP
2053 (0.775 %)ATM
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1578 (8.453 %)SQL Server
2373 (5.455 %)Oracle 11g
3345 (5.045 %)Oracle 10g
4339 (4.958 %)DB2
5338 (4.943 %)RDBMS
6263 (3.846 %)MySQL
7232 (3.393 %)Oracle 8/8i
8220 (3.217 %)Data Warehouse
9202 (2.954 %)ETL
10138 (2.018 %)Oracle Reports
1183 (1.214 %)Oracle 9i
1279 (1.155 %)SQLPlus
1373 (1.068 %)SQL Server 2005
1472 (1.053 %)Sybase ASE
1562 (0.907 %)SQL Server 2008
1660 (0.877 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1759 (0.863 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1759 (0.863 %)TOAD
1857 (0.834 %)DataStage
1953 (0.775 %)Oracle BI EE
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1266 (3.890 %)Subversion
2227 (3.320 %)Ant
3199 (2.910 %)JUnit
4192 (2.808 %)Maven
5157 (2.296 %)Eclipse
6113 (1.653 %)JIRA
7102 (1.492 %)Oracle Forms
898 (1.433 %)ClearCase
979 (1.155 %)Hudson
1073 (1.068 %)LoadRunner
1157 (0.834 %)Selenium
1239 (0.570 %)QuickTest Pro
1338 (0.556 %)Git (software)
1436 (0.526 %)Jasmine
1436 (0.526 %)Balsamiq Mockups
1533 (0.483 %)Introscope
1533 (0.483 %)TeamCity
1632 (0.468 %)ClearQuest
1727 (0.395 %)Visual Studio
1825 (0.366 %)TestDirector
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11638 (23.95 %)Finance
21135 (16.60 %)Banking
3571 (8.350 %)Investment Banking
4355 (5.192 %)Telecoms
5325 (4.753 %)Front Office
6147 (2.150 %)Financial Institution
7118 (1.726 %)Retail
893 (1.360 %)Back Office
950 (0.731 %)French Language
1049 (0.717 %)Legal
1147 (0.687 %)Billing
1242 (0.614 %)Games
1325 (0.366 %)Manufacturing
1423 (0.336 %)Publishing
1522 (0.322 %)Retail Banking
1522 (0.322 %)Marketing
1616 (0.234 %)Military
1713 (0.190 %)Pharmaceutical
1713 (0.190 %)Music
1811 (0.161 %)Spanish Language
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11467 (21.45 %)Developer
21064 (15.56 %)Analyst
3687 (10.05 %)Administrator
4458 (6.698 %)Consultant
5442 (6.464 %)Java Developer
6441 (6.449 %)Architect
7377 (5.513 %)Support Analyst
8355 (5.192 %)Systems Administrator
9315 (4.607 %)DBA
10272 (3.978 %)UNIX Administrator
11267 (3.905 %)Applications Support
12190 (2.779 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
13186 (2.720 %)C++ Developer
14182 (2.662 %)Oracle DBA
15174 (2.545 %)Project Manager
15174 (2.545 %)Test Analyst
16164 (2.398 %)Senior Developer
17155 (2.267 %)Applications Support Analyst
18150 (2.194 %)UNIX Engineer
19140 (2.047 %)Oracle Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1307 (4.490 %)Clustering
2263 (3.846 %)Mainframe
3260 (3.802 %)Derivative
4251 (3.671 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5167 (2.442 %)Client/Server
6161 (2.354 %)Replication
7145 (2.121 %)Fixed Income
8122 (1.784 %)Open Source
9117 (1.711 %)Equities
10103 (1.506 %)Computer Science
11100 (1.462 %)Hedge funds
1299 (1.448 %)Credit Risk
1388 (1.287 %)PKI
1475 (1.097 %)Market Risk
1574 (1.082 %)HACMP
1672 (1.053 %)Equity Derivative
1771 (1.038 %)Management Information System
1866 (0.965 %)Grid Computing
1959 (0.863 %)Tandem
2045 (0.658 %)CLARiiON
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12827 (41.34 %)Linux
22217 (32.42 %)Windows
31210 (17.70 %)Solaris
4701 (10.25 %)AIX
5486 (7.107 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6304 (4.446 %)HPUX
7200 (2.925 %)Windows Server 2003
8173 (2.530 %)Windows Server 2008
9102 (1.492 %)Windows XP
1073 (1.068 %)SUSE
1073 (1.068 %)Windows 7
1172 (1.053 %)Windows NT
1255 (0.804 %)VMS
1353 (0.775 %)Windows 2000
1448 (0.702 %)CentOS
1547 (0.687 %)zOS
1640 (0.585 %)Oracle Linux
1738 (0.556 %)Windows Vista
1832 (0.468 %)Mac OS X
1921 (0.307 %)Ubuntu
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1641 (9.374 %)ITIL
2529 (7.736 %)Migration
3394 (5.762 %)Project Management
4385 (5.630 %)OO
5292 (4.270 %)Configuration Management
6254 (3.715 %)Agile Software Development
7237 (3.466 %)SOA
7237 (3.466 %)E-Commerce
8232 (3.393 %)Change Management
9218 (3.188 %)Multithreading
10196 (2.866 %)TDD
11183 (2.676 %)Business Intelligence
12178 (2.603 %)Load Balancing
13176 (2.574 %)Root Cause Analysis
14171 (2.501 %)UML
14171 (2.501 %)Disaster Recovery
14171 (2.501 %)Unit Testing
15170 (2.486 %)Service Management
16164 (2.398 %)Test Scripting
17161 (2.354 %)Release Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12198 (32.14 %)SQL
21779 (26.02 %)Java
31144 (16.73 %)Shell Script
41102 (16.12 %)Perl
5627 (9.169 %)C++
6550 (8.043 %)PL/SQL
7371 (5.426 %)C
8347 (5.075 %)Python
9345 (5.045 %)JavaScript
10258 (3.773 %)C#
11223 (3.261 %)Korn
12183 (2.676 %)VB
13181 (2.647 %)PHP
14180 (2.632 %)Bash shell
15108 (1.579 %)PowerShell
1676 (1.111 %)VBA
1763 (0.921 %)VBScript
1862 (0.907 %)VB.NET
1961 (0.892 %)Ruby
2055 (0.804 %)T-SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1659 (9.637 %)Security Cleared
2375 (5.484 %)SC Cleared
3321 (4.694 %)Degree
4196 (2.866 %)DV Cleared
5172 (2.515 %)ISEB
6102 (1.492 %)Cisco Certification
777 (1.126 %)Microsoft Certification
868 (0.994 %)CCNA
962 (0.907 %)MCSE
962 (0.907 %)CISSP
1043 (0.629 %)Oracle Certification
1141 (0.600 %)ISTQB
1235 (0.512 %)CISM
1235 (0.512 %)CCNP
1333 (0.483 %)OCP
1432 (0.468 %)HND
1530 (0.439 %)RHCE
1629 (0.424 %)ITIL Certification
1726 (0.380 %)MCP
1824 (0.351 %)PMI Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1252 (3.685 %)QA
2147 (2.150 %)SLA
340 (0.585 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
418 (0.263 %)ISO/IEC 27001
514 (0.205 %)ISO 9001
612 (0.175 %)Data Quality
79 (0.132 %)Solvency II
79 (0.132 %)PCI DSS
88 (0.117 %)TickIT
88 (0.117 %)BS7799
97 (0.102 %)COBIT
105 (0.073 %)ISO 9000
114 (0.058 %)JTAG
114 (0.058 %)Basel II
123 (0.044 %)HL7
132 (0.029 %)HIPAA
132 (0.029 %)GxP
141 (0.015 %)ISO/IEC 17799
141 (0.015 %)RosettaNet
141 (0.015 %)BS25999
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1318 (4.650 %)VMware Infrastructure
2242 (3.539 %)Active Directory
3124 (1.813 %)Oracle RAC
4108 (1.579 %)Oracle RMAN
595 (1.389 %)Veritas Cluster Server
692 (1.345 %)NFS
764 (0.936 %)vSphere
764 (0.936 %)VMware ESX
854 (0.790 %)Veritas Volume Manager
944 (0.643 %)Hyper-V
1036 (0.526 %)Sendmail
1127 (0.395 %)Xen
1226 (0.380 %)Samba
1321 (0.307 %)Terminal Services
1321 (0.307 %)SRDF
1420 (0.292 %)VMware ESXi
1518 (0.263 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1518 (0.263 %)Veritas File System
1616 (0.234 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1715 (0.219 %)XenApp
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1260 (3.802 %)Tivoli
2165 (2.413 %)NetBackup
3112 (1.638 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
4103 (1.506 %)Nagios
598 (1.433 %)Data Guard
682 (1.199 %)HP Quality Center
781 (1.185 %)Control-M
873 (1.068 %)OpenView
972 (1.053 %)CA Wily
1066 (0.965 %)BladeLogic
1164 (0.936 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1245 (0.658 %)CA SiteMinder
1339 (0.570 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1339 (0.570 %)Puppet
1435 (0.512 %)SCCM
1533 (0.483 %)OMEGAMON
1632 (0.468 %)Backup Exec
1727 (0.395 %)Legato
1727 (0.395 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1826 (0.380 %)Zenoss
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12483 (36.31 %)Oracle
2655 (9.579 %)Red Hat
3550 (8.043 %)Microsoft
4536 (7.839 %)IBM
5493 (7.210 %)HP
6456 (6.669 %)VMware
7409 (5.981 %)Sybase
8371 (5.426 %)Sun
9297 (4.343 %)Cisco
10255 (3.729 %)Veritas
11239 (3.495 %)Citrix
12223 (3.261 %)EMC
13184 (2.691 %)TIBCO
14179 (2.618 %)JBoss
15176 (2.574 %)NetApp
16167 (2.442 %)SAP
17143 (2.091 %)Business Objects
18137 (2.004 %)Remedy
19124 (1.813 %)BMC
20118 (1.726 %)Informatica