UNIX Contracts in Yorkshire
 
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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 24 29 30
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +1
Contract jobs citing UNIX 119 106 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 6.240% 4.641% 4.204%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.02% 23.56% 21.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 66 35
Average daily rate £350 £291 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.17% -8.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £189 £183 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £375 £432
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.66% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £13.75 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
All Operating Systems
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 517 450 356
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 27.11% 19.70% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 211 136
Average daily rate £315 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £152 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 71 56
Average hourly rate £12.88 £13.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.96% -18.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
UNIX
England

UNIX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +8 91 £400 +23.07%
South Yorkshire -3 11 £189 -44.07%
North Yorkshire +3 6 £375 +38.88%
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
UNIX
England

UNIX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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.

1 106 (49.77%) Oracle
2 88 (41.31%) Linux
3 82 (38.50%) Windows
4 55 (25.82%) SQL
5 46 (21.60%) Java
6 45 (21.13%) ITIL
6 45 (21.13%) Finance
7 39 (18.31%) Oracle 11g
8 35 (16.43%) SQL Server
9 34 (15.96%) Apache
10 32 (15.02%) Perl
11 28 (13.15%) Red Hat
12 27 (12.68%) Firewall
13 26 (12.21%) HP
13 26 (12.21%) Oracle 10g
13 26 (12.21%) Solaris
13 26 (12.21%) WebSphere
14 25 (11.74%) IBM
14 25 (11.74%) Shell Script
14 25 (11.74%) VMware
15 24 (11.27%) Tomcat
15 24 (11.27%) WebLogic
15 24 (11.27%) Retail
15 24 (11.27%) Security Cleared
16 23 (10.80%) J2EE
16 23 (10.80%) E-Commerce
17 21 (9.859%) Web Services
17 21 (9.859%) XML
17 21 (9.859%) .NET
18 20 (9.390%) PL/SQL

UNIX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 26 (12.21%) WebSphere
2 23 (10.80%) J2EE
3 21 (9.859%) Web Services
3 21 (9.859%) XML
3 21 (9.859%) .NET
4 12 (5.634%) Middleware
5 10 (4.695%) JDBC
6 9 (4.225%) Java EE
6 9 (4.225%) JMS
7 8 (3.756%) JSP
8 5 (2.347%) Servlets
8 5 (2.347%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.347%) HTML
9 4 (1.878%) SGML
9 4 (1.878%) LAMP
9 4 (1.878%) Oracle ADF
9 4 (1.878%) Grails
10 3 (1.408%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (1.408%) EJB
10 3 (1.408%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 34 (15.96%) Apache
2 24 (11.27%) Tomcat
2 24 (11.27%) WebLogic
3 20 (9.390%) IIS
4 8 (3.756%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (2.817%) IBM HTTP Server
6 5 (2.347%) Oracle Service Bus
6 5 (2.347%) MQSeries
7 4 (1.878%) Oracle Application Server
7 4 (1.878%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (1.408%) ATG Dynamo
8 3 (1.408%) Lotus Domino
9 2 (0.939%) SAS
9 2 (0.939%) MS Exchange
9 2 (0.939%) TeamSite
9 2 (0.939%) Lotus Notes
9 2 (0.939%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.939%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (0.939%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.939%) ESB
Applications
1 11 (5.164%) MS Office
2 8 (3.756%) MS Excel
3 6 (2.817%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.408%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (0.939%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.225%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (3.756%) Oracle Retail
3 6 (2.817%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.817%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (1.878%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.939%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.469%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.68%) Firewall
2 12 (5.634%) SAN
3 7 (3.286%) WAN
3 7 (3.286%) HTTP
3 7 (3.286%) VPN
4 6 (2.817%) DNS
5 5 (2.347%) Internet
5 5 (2.347%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.347%) LAN
6 4 (1.878%) FTP
7 3 (1.408%) NAS
7 3 (1.408%) VLAN
7 3 (1.408%) SSL
8 2 (0.939%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.939%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.939%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.939%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.939%) WAAS
9 1 (0.469%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.469%) FCoE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (18.31%) Oracle 11g
2 35 (16.43%) SQL Server
3 26 (12.21%) Oracle 10g
4 17 (7.981%) Oracle 8/8i
5 13 (6.103%) SQL Server 2008
5 13 (6.103%) DB2
5 13 (6.103%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (6.103%) RDBMS
6 12 (5.634%) MySQL
7 10 (4.695%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (4.695%) SQL Server 2005
8 8 (3.756%) Oracle 9i
9 7 (3.286%) Oracle BI EE
10 6 (2.817%) SQL Server 2000
11 4 (1.878%) SQLPlus
11 4 (1.878%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 12 (5.634%) Subversion
2 11 (5.164%) Maven
3 10 (4.695%) Ant
4 9 (4.225%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (3.286%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.286%) Introscope
6 6 (2.817%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (2.347%) CruiseControl
8 3 (1.408%) Hudson
9 2 (0.939%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.939%) JUnit
10 1 (0.469%) Eclipse
General
1 45 (21.13%) Finance
2 24 (11.27%) Retail
3 7 (3.286%) Banking
4 6 (2.817%) Marketing
5 4 (1.878%) Games
6 3 (1.408%) Retail Banking
6 3 (1.408%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.939%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.939%) Billing
7 2 (0.939%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.469%) Back Office
8 1 (0.469%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 39 (18.31%) Analyst
2 31 (14.55%) DBA
3 25 (11.74%) Developer
4 24 (11.27%) Oracle DBA
4 24 (11.27%) Administrator
5 23 (10.80%) Support Analyst
6 21 (9.859%) Applications Support
7 18 (8.451%) Architect
8 14 (6.573%) Applications Support Analyst
9 10 (4.695%) Infrastructure Architect
9 10 (4.695%) Consultant
10 9 (4.225%) Release Engineer
10 9 (4.225%) Configuration Engineer
11 7 (3.286%) Java Developer
12 6 (2.817%) Oracle Developer
12 6 (2.817%) Operations Analyst
12 6 (2.817%) Operations Support Analyst
13 5 (2.347%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 5 (2.347%) Systems Administrator
13 5 (2.347%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.286%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (3.286%) Clustering
2 5 (2.347%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.878%) NHS
4 3 (1.408%) DataPower
4 3 (1.408%) Client/Server
5 2 (0.939%) Firmware
5 2 (0.939%) Web 2.0
5 2 (0.939%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (0.939%) Computer Science
5 2 (0.939%) HP Superdome
6 1 (0.469%) EqualLogic
6 1 (0.469%) Data Integration
6 1 (0.469%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.469%) Celerra
6 1 (0.469%) LPAR
6 1 (0.469%) DLPAR
6 1 (0.469%) Beowulf
6 1 (0.469%) Grid Computing
6 1 (0.469%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 88 (41.31%) Linux
2 82 (38.50%) Windows
3 26 (12.21%) Solaris
4 17 (7.981%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (6.573%) HPUX
6 13 (6.103%) AIX
7 11 (5.164%) Windows 7
8 9 (4.225%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (4.225%) Windows XP
9 6 (2.817%) Windows 8
10 5 (2.347%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.878%) Windows 2000
11 4 (1.878%) Windows Vista
12 2 (0.939%) SUSE
13 1 (0.469%) CentOS
13 1 (0.469%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.469%) Debian
13 1 (0.469%) Fedora
13 1 (0.469%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (21.13%) ITIL
2 23 (10.80%) E-Commerce
3 15 (7.042%) SOA
4 13 (6.103%) Migration
5 11 (5.164%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (5.164%) Configuration Management
5 11 (5.164%) Service Delivery
6 9 (4.225%) Service Management
7 7 (3.286%) Test Management
7 7 (3.286%) Performance Management
7 7 (3.286%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (3.286%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (2.817%) RDF
8 6 (2.817%) Change Management
8 6 (2.817%) Integration Testing
8 6 (2.817%) Load Balancing
9 5 (2.347%) Database Security
9 5 (2.347%) Incident Management
9 5 (2.347%) E-business
9 5 (2.347%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 55 (25.82%) SQL
2 46 (21.60%) Java
3 32 (15.02%) Perl
4 25 (11.74%) Shell Script
5 20 (9.390%) PL/SQL
6 14 (6.573%) PHP
7 11 (5.164%) Bash shell
7 11 (5.164%) AWK
8 6 (2.817%) Python
8 6 (2.817%) Jython
9 4 (1.878%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.878%) COBOL
9 4 (1.878%) Groovy
10 3 (1.408%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
11 2 (0.939%) VBScript
11 2 (0.939%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.939%) sed
12 1 (0.469%) Ruby
12 1 (0.469%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.469%) C#
Qualifications
1 24 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.573%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.347%) MCSE
3 5 (2.347%) MCSA
3 5 (2.347%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.878%) MCP
4 4 (1.878%) HNC
4 4 (1.878%) Degree
5 3 (1.408%) ISEB
6 2 (0.939%) PMP
7 1 (0.469%) MCITP
7 1 (0.469%) MCTS
7 1 (0.469%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.469%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.469%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.469%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.469%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.469%) CISSP
7 1 (0.469%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.469%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.634%) SLA
2 4 (1.878%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.408%) Solvency II
4 2 (0.939%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.939%) QA
System Software
1 20 (9.390%) Oracle RAC
2 13 (6.103%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.225%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.756%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (1.878%) vSphere
6 2 (0.939%) NFS
6 2 (0.939%) VMware ESX
6 2 (0.939%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.469%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.469%) XenApp
7 1 (0.469%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.469%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.469%) Samba
7 1 (0.469%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.469%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 10 (4.695%) HP Quality Center
2 9 (4.225%) CA Wily
3 8 (3.756%) Tivoli
4 7 (3.286%) Splunk
4 7 (3.286%) OpenView
5 5 (2.347%) Data Guard
5 5 (2.347%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (1.878%) OVSD
7 3 (1.408%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 1 (0.469%) Puppet
8 1 (0.469%) SCCM
8 1 (0.469%) ServiceCenter
8 1 (0.469%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.469%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.469%) Nagios
8 1 (0.469%) Tivoli Remote Control
8 1 (0.469%) MOM
8 1 (0.469%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.469%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
Vendors
1 106 (49.77%) Oracle
2 28 (13.15%) Red Hat
3 26 (12.21%) HP
4 25 (11.74%) IBM
4 25 (11.74%) VMware
5 18 (8.451%) Microsoft
6 16 (7.512%) JBoss
7 7 (3.286%) Perforce
7 7 (3.286%) Cisco
8 6 (2.817%) Sun
9 5 (2.347%) Terracotta
9 5 (2.347%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.878%) Avaya
10 4 (1.878%) Informatica
11 3 (1.408%) ATG
11 3 (1.408%) Business Objects
11 3 (1.408%) NetApp
11 3 (1.408%) Intel
11 3 (1.408%) Citrix
12 2 (0.939%) EMC
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