The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wakefield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Operating Systems category for the Wakefield region.

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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank - 8 2
Contract jobs citing UNIX 0 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wakefield - 5.000% 33.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 20.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £213
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Wakefield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
13 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wakefield 56.52% 25.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £250 £294 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.89% +38.23%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
UNIX
West Yorkshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX across the Wakefield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Wakefield UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UNIX across the Wakefield region.

Wakefield UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield region 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.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Internet
2 3 (75.00%) MS Office
2 3 (75.00%) MCP
2 3 (75.00%) HNC
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
2 3 (75.00%) MCSA
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Vista
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Linux

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield region 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.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) Internet
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Support
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Support Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Vista
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (75.00%) MCP
1 3 (75.00%) HNC
1 3 (75.00%) MCSE
1 3 (75.00%) MCSA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle