York UNIX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for UNIX skills within the York region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited UNIX over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Rank	-	24
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	30.77 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£250
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£364
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.46	£31.67
% change on same period last year	+2.48 %
Operating Systems York
Matching contract IT job ads	24	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.026 %
Daily rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum daily rate	£80	£246
Average daily rate	£85	£250
% change on same period last year	-65.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£90	£254
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.40	-
Average hourly rate	£10.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.60	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.11	£23.45
% change on same period last year	-5.72 %
UNIX North Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing UNIX across the York region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 %) Solaris 1 2 (100.00 %) Linux 1 2 (100.00 %) FTP 1 2 (100.00 %) DNS 1 2 (100.00 %) Sun 1 2 (100.00 %) Red Hat 1 2 (100.00 %) Java 2 1 (50.00 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the York 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.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) FTP 1 2 (100.00 %) DNS	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) UNIX Engineer 2 1 (50.00 %) Systems Engineer 2 1 (50.00 %) UNIX Systems Engineer
Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) Solaris 1 2 (100.00 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) Java	Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Sun 1 2 (100.00 %) Red Hat