UNIX Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX 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 of the Operating Systems category for the West Midlands 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 45 33 32
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -1
Contract jobs citing UNIX 54 83 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 3.271% 3.720% 3.958%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.77% 19.81% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 38 40
Average daily rate £330 £301 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.81% +5.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £220 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £430 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 2
Average hourly rate £32.25 £33.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.27% +32.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £19.90 £22.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £38.10 £27.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
All Operating Systems
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 322 419 325
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 19.50% 18.78% 17.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 177 125
Average daily rate £275 £311 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.64% +10.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £192 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £433 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 65 63
Average hourly rate £15.10 £15.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +19.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £29.10 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
UNIX
England

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UNIX across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands UNIX Daily Rate Histogram

UNIX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands UNIX Hourly Rate Trend

UNIX
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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +11 17 £340 +6.25%
Shropshire -3 13 £328 -2.96%
Herefordshire +5 6 £253 -10.14%
Worcestershire -11 5 £168 -
Coventry -8 2 £250 +2.04%
Wolverhampton - 2 - -
Walsall - 1 £330 -
UNIX
England

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 73 (52.90%) Oracle
2 60 (43.48%) SQL
3 46 (33.33%) Windows
3 46 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 41 (29.71%) Linux
5 38 (27.54%) Java
6 24 (17.39%) SAN
7 23 (16.67%) RDBMS
7 23 (16.67%) AIX
8 22 (15.94%) Finance
9 21 (15.22%) J2EE
10 18 (13.04%) Solaris
11 17 (12.32%) VMware
12 16 (11.59%) C
12 16 (11.59%) NAS
13 15 (10.87%) Waterfall
14 14 (10.14%) PL/SQL
14 14 (10.14%) ITIL
14 14 (10.14%) Microsoft
14 14 (10.14%) Test Scripting
15 13 (9.420%) IBM
15 13 (9.420%) HP
15 13 (9.420%) Retail
16 12 (8.696%) User Acceptance Testing
16 12 (8.696%) Oracle RAC
17 11 (7.971%) C++
17 11 (7.971%) HPUX
18 10 (7.246%) Oracle Forms
18 10 (7.246%) Cisco
18 10 (7.246%) Telecoms

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 21 (15.22%) J2EE
2 7 (5.072%) WebSphere
3 6 (4.348%) Middleware
3 6 (4.348%) XML
4 5 (3.623%) CGI
5 2 (1.449%) Web Services
5 2 (1.449%) HTML
5 2 (1.449%) .NET
5 2 (1.449%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.725%) WCF
6 1 (0.725%) Oracle Streams
6 1 (0.725%) jQuery
6 1 (0.725%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (0.725%) soapUI
6 1 (0.725%) REST
6 1 (0.725%) XSLT
6 1 (0.725%) CSS
6 1 (0.725%) JSP
6 1 (0.725%) STL
6 1 (0.725%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 9 (6.522%) MS Exchange
2 8 (5.797%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.797%) Oracle BPEL
3 7 (5.072%) Oracle Workflow
3 7 (5.072%) WebLogic
3 7 (5.072%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (4.348%) Apache
4 6 (4.348%) Tomcat
4 6 (4.348%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (2.899%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 4 (2.899%) ESB
6 2 (1.449%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.449%) Exchange Server 5.5
6 2 (1.449%) CMS
6 2 (1.449%) SAS
7 1 (0.725%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (0.725%) Exchange Server 2000
7 1 (0.725%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 6 (4.348%) MS Office
2 2 (1.449%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.449%) Open Workbench
3 1 (0.725%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 9 (6.522%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.174%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (2.174%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.725%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.39%) SAN
2 16 (11.59%) NAS
3 9 (6.522%) WAN
4 8 (5.797%) LAN
4 8 (5.797%) Firewall
5 5 (3.623%) SNMP
5 5 (3.623%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.623%) MPLS
6 3 (2.174%) TACACS
7 2 (1.449%) X.500
7 2 (1.449%) Megaco
7 2 (1.449%) HTTP
7 2 (1.449%) DSL
7 2 (1.449%) SDH
8 1 (0.725%) VoIP
8 1 (0.725%) WLAN
8 1 (0.725%) DHCP
8 1 (0.725%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.725%) PSTN
8 1 (0.725%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 10 (7.246%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (6.522%) Oracle BI EE
4 6 (4.348%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.623%) MySQL
6 4 (2.899%) Oracle OWB
6 4 (2.899%) DB2
6 4 (2.899%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.449%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (1.449%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.725%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.725%) Oracle 9i
8 1 (0.725%) TOAD
8 1 (0.725%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (7.246%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (5.797%) ClearCase
3 6 (4.348%) ProC
4 5 (3.623%) Subversion
5 4 (2.899%) TortoiseSVN
6 3 (2.174%) COOL:Gen
6 3 (2.174%) ClearQuest
7 2 (1.449%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.725%) Maven
8 1 (0.725%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.725%) Ant
8 1 (0.725%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (15.94%) Finance
2 13 (9.420%) Retail
3 10 (7.246%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.348%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.623%) Banking
6 4 (2.899%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.174%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (2.174%) German Language
8 2 (1.449%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.725%) Front Office
9 1 (0.725%) Back Office
9 1 (0.725%) Billing
Job Titles
1 32 (23.19%) Developer
2 21 (15.22%) Analyst
3 15 (10.87%) DBA
3 15 (10.87%) Administrator
3 15 (10.87%) Oracle DBA
4 11 (7.971%) Support Engineer
5 9 (6.522%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (6.522%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (6.522%) Consultant
5 9 (6.522%) C Developer
6 8 (5.797%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (5.072%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 7 (5.072%) Test Analyst
7 7 (5.072%) Tester
7 7 (5.072%) Support Analyst
8 6 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (4.348%) Team Leader
8 6 (4.348%) UNIX Administrator
9 5 (3.623%) WebSphere Engineer
9 5 (3.623%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.623%) Management Information System
1 5 (3.623%) Computer Science
2 4 (2.899%) Replication
3 3 (2.174%) CLARiiON
3 3 (2.174%) Symmetrix
3 3 (2.174%) Clustering
3 3 (2.174%) Smart Meter
3 3 (2.174%) Symmetrix DMX
4 2 (1.449%) HP Superdome
5 1 (0.725%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.725%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.725%) Equities
5 1 (0.725%) Derivative
5 1 (0.725%) Statistics
5 1 (0.725%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 46 (33.33%) Windows
2 41 (29.71%) Linux
3 23 (16.67%) AIX
4 18 (13.04%) Solaris
5 11 (7.971%) HPUX
6 10 (7.246%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (5.797%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (5.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (3.623%) Windows 2000 Server
10 4 (2.899%) SUSE
10 4 (2.899%) zOS
10 4 (2.899%) Windows NT
11 1 (0.725%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.725%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.725%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.725%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (10.87%) Waterfall
2 14 (10.14%) Test Scripting
2 14 (10.14%) ITIL
3 12 (8.696%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (5.797%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (5.797%) Workflow
4 8 (5.797%) BPEL
4 8 (5.797%) Software Testing
5 7 (5.072%) Project Management
5 7 (5.072%) SOA
6 6 (4.348%) Incident Management
6 6 (4.348%) Configuration Management
7 5 (3.623%) System Testing
7 5 (3.623%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (3.623%) Data Analysis
8 4 (2.899%) Migration
8 4 (2.899%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (2.899%) Project Planning
8 4 (2.899%) Six Sigma
8 4 (2.899%) OO
Programming Languages
1 60 (43.48%) SQL
2 46 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 38 (27.54%) Java
4 16 (11.59%) C
5 14 (10.14%) PL/SQL
6 11 (7.971%) C++
7 8 (5.797%) Perl
8 3 (2.174%) C#
8 3 (2.174%) Korn
8 3 (2.174%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.449%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.725%) COBOL
10 1 (0.725%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.725%) Progress 4GL
10 1 (0.725%) Pascal
10 1 (0.725%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 10 (7.246%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.522%) ISEB
3 6 (4.348%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.623%) CCNA
4 5 (3.623%) Degree
5 4 (2.899%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.899%) IBM Certification
5 4 (2.899%) GCSC
5 4 (2.899%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.174%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.449%) OCP
7 2 (1.449%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.725%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.725%) CCNP
8 1 (0.725%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.072%) QA
2 4 (2.899%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (8.696%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (6.522%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.623%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (2.174%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 3 (2.174%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.449%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.725%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (3.623%) Data Guard
2 4 (2.899%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (1.449%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.449%) Tivoli
3 2 (1.449%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.449%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (0.725%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 1 (0.725%) Tivoli Remote Control
4 1 (0.725%) OpenView
4 1 (0.725%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (0.725%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.725%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 73 (52.90%) Oracle
2 17 (12.32%) VMware
3 14 (10.14%) Microsoft
4 13 (9.420%) HP
4 13 (9.420%) IBM
5 10 (7.246%) Cisco
6 9 (6.522%) EMC
7 8 (5.797%) webMethods
8 7 (5.072%) Red Hat
8 7 (5.072%) Sun
9 6 (4.348%) Veritas
10 5 (3.623%) Pega
10 5 (3.623%) F5
10 5 (3.623%) Juniper
11 4 (2.899%) Informatica
11 4 (2.899%) ION Trading
11 4 (2.899%) Symantec
12 3 (2.174%) Northgate
12 3 (2.174%) Sybase
12 3 (2.174%) JBoss
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