The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 20 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 Warwickshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank - 15 16
Contract jobs citing UNIX 0 10 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire - 4.016% 5.797%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 21.28% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 5
Average daily rate - £263 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -28.08%
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
All Operating Systems
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
46 47 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 22.44% 18.88% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 20 18
Average daily rate £250 £275 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -3.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £98 £189 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £476 £350 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 10
Average hourly rate £12.50 £14.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% -3.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £17.50 £26.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +4.93%
UNIX
West Midlands

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire UNIX Jobs Demand Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing UNIX across the Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire UNIX Daily Rate 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 7 (100.00%) AIX
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (85.71%) BPEL
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle BPEL
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle BI EE
3 5 (71.43%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (71.43%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (71.43%) Workflow
3 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (71.43%) RDBMS
3 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (14.29%) Middleware
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (14.29%) Linux
5 1 (14.29%) SOA
5 1 (14.29%) LAN
5 1 (14.29%) WAN
5 1 (14.29%) VMware

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 Development
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle BPEL
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle 11g
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle BI EE
2 5 (71.43%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DBA
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) SOA Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) AIX
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) BPEL
2 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (71.43%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Shell Script
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) VMware