Unix Engineer Contracts in Dorset

Unix Engineer
South West > Dorset

The median Unix Engineer daily rate in Dorset is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 1.22% - 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 - £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £400
75th Percentile £494 - £410
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £488 - £400

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Dorset

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Dorset. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Dorset with a recognized job title 162 199 180
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.78% 91.71% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 116 98
10th Percentile £172 £160 £194
25th Percentile £175 £239 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £484
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -4.39% +20.94%
75th Percentile £630 £575 £575
90th Percentile £803 £650 £650
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 47 37
10th Percentile £11.87 £13.55 £20.75
25th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £15.62 £54.83 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.51% +1.54% +13.68%
75th Percentile £47.83 £61.35 £60.93
90th Percentile £57.50 £68.56 £79.52
South West median hourly rate £53.00 £65.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year -18.46% +38.30% +9.30%

Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Job postings that featured Unix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Engineer in Dorset

Unix Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Unix Engineer in Dorset

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Unix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Dorset region featuring Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (50.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) Samba
2 1 (50.00%) VMware

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 (50.00%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Samba
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware