UNIX Contracts in Worcestershire
 
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 Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire 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 19 10 8
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -2
Contract jobs citing UNIX 4 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 4.444% 5.357% 8.197%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.39% 25.00% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
Average daily rate £254 - £163
90% offered a daily rate of more than £155 - £147
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 - £280
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
Worcestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 23 12 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 25.56% 21.43% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 9
Average daily rate £168 £325 £204
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-48.46% +59.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £300 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £375 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 5
Average hourly rate £19.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.03% -47.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
UNIX
West Midlands

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Worcester -8 2 £348 -
Kidderminster - 2 £159 -
UNIX
West Midlands

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (81.82%) Linux
3 8 (72.73%) ITIL
3 8 (72.73%) Cisco
3 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
4 7 (63.64%) Firewall
5 6 (54.55%) Oracle
6 5 (45.45%) LAN
6 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
6 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (36.36%) NAS
7 4 (36.36%) F5
7 4 (36.36%) Degree
7 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
7 4 (36.36%) MPLS
7 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (36.36%) Juniper
7 4 (36.36%) SAN
7 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
7 4 (36.36%) Project Management
7 4 (36.36%) Service Management
7 4 (36.36%) MySQL
7 4 (36.36%) WAN
7 4 (36.36%) SNMP
7 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
7 4 (36.36%) MS Office
8 3 (27.27%) CCNA
8 3 (27.27%) Network Management
8 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
8 3 (27.27%) GCSC

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) MS Office
2 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) LAN
3 4 (36.36%) NAS
3 4 (36.36%) MPLS
3 4 (36.36%) SAN
3 4 (36.36%) WAN
3 4 (36.36%) SNMP
3 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
4 2 (18.18%) TACACS
5 1 (9.091%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
General
1 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) German Language
3 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.091%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Network Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Systems Support
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Implementation Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Services Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Service Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (81.82%) Linux
3 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Project Management
2 4 (36.36%) Service Management
3 3 (27.27%) Network Management
3 3 (27.27%) Six Sigma
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
1 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
1 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) CCNA
2 3 (27.27%) GCSC
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Oracle
3 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
4 4 (36.36%) F5
4 4 (36.36%) Juniper
5 2 (18.18%) Northgate
5 2 (18.18%) JBoss
6 1 (9.091%) IBM
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