Unix Contracts in Berkshire

Unix
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 68 78
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing Unix 36 44 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.82% 2.43% 2.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.19% 18.33% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 32
10th Percentile - £317 £375
25th Percentile £280 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £538 £480
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +11.92% +20.06%
75th Percentile £438 £606 £551
90th Percentile £623 £625 £621
South East median daily rate £425 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% -1.54% +51.16%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 273 240 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.82% 13.23% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 161 230
10th Percentile £205 £275 £142
25th Percentile £220 £363 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £515 £490
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +5.10% +15.29%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £618
90th Percentile £608 £700 £656
South East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 5
10th Percentile £56.40 £21.65 £34.75
25th Percentile £56.50 £37.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.03% +63.75%
75th Percentile £63.30 £72.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £66.50 £81.37 £79.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +5.26%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -27 17 £425 -22.73% 2
Slough +23 10 £285 -9.52% 1
Bracknell - 5 - -
Maidenhead - 3 £425 -
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Azure
1 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (8.33%) Azure Functions
1 3 (8.33%) GitHub
1 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
1 3 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.78%) SAN
2 6 (16.67%) Firewall
3 4 (11.11%) FTP
4 1 (2.78%) HTTP
4 1 (2.78%) Internet
4 1 (2.78%) RNC
4 1 (2.78%) SGSN
4 1 (2.78%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle Database 11g
2 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (8.33%) Power BI
4 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.78%) GIS
5 1 (2.78%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) LoadRunner
2 2 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.33%) Automotive
3 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Data Centre Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Break Fix Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Consultant
3 4 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Test Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Junior
4 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) Tester
5 2 (5.56%) Data Centre Technician
5 2 (5.56%) Data Technician
5 2 (5.56%) ETL Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (2.78%) OpenLayers
2 1 (2.78%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Data Centre
1 10 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Operational Technology
2 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Smart Meter
3 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (19.44%) Windows
3 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 8 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 7 (19.44%) ETL
4 6 (16.67%) Break/Fix
4 6 (16.67%) Data Centre Operations
5 4 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 4 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (11.11%) ITIL
5 4 (11.11%) Migration
5 4 (11.11%) Revenue Assurance
5 4 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (8.33%) Data Modelling
6 3 (8.33%) Dimensional Modelling
6 3 (8.33%) Impact Assessments
6 3 (8.33%) Performance Testing
6 3 (8.33%) Refactoring
6 3 (8.33%) Scrum
6 3 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) SQL
2 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 3 (8.33%) Python
4 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) Groovy
5 1 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) SLA
2 3 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Ansible
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.56%) Packer
1 2 (5.56%) RSA Archer
1 2 (5.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (41.67%) Oracle
2 8 (22.22%) HP
3 7 (19.44%) Dell
4 4 (11.11%) Informatica
5 3 (8.33%) Ab Initio
5 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.56%) VMware
7 1 (2.78%) BMC
7 1 (2.78%) Ericsson
7 1 (2.78%) Mapinfo
7 1 (2.78%) Micro Focus
7 1 (2.78%) Nokia
7 1 (2.78%) OpenText
7 1 (2.78%) Remedy