The first table below looks at the demand for UNIX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Windsor region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Windsor 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UNIX
Rank 9 16 12
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -4
Contract jobs citing UNIX 2 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 7.143% 5.634% 5.085%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.33% 28.57% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £550 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.23% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.38%
All Operating Systems
Windsor
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
6 14 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Windsor 21.43% 19.72% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £550 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.23% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
UNIX
Berkshire

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Windsor 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 Windsor region.

Windsor UNIX Daily Rate Trend

UNIX
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) ColdFusion
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Blog
1 2 (100.00%) Social Network
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Sphinx
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Windsor 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Sphinx
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) ColdFusion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blog
1 2 (100.00%) Social Network
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby