Unix Contracts in Dorset

Unix
South West > Dorset

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 26 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -14
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 1.22% - 5.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.90% - 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £236
25th Percentile £481 - £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.43%
75th Percentile £494 - £410
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £488 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -11.36% +29.41% -15.00%

All Operating Systems
Dorset

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 Dorset with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 29 78 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 17.68% 35.94% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 49 20
10th Percentile £175 £160 £158
25th Percentile £175 £200 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £189 £450 £388
Median % change year-on-year -57.93% +16.13% +3.33%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £458
90th Percentile £769 £613 £550
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £440
% change year-on-year - +13.64% +12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 17
10th Percentile - £17.04 £33.40
25th Percentile - £17.31 £45.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £51.13 £48.74
Median % change year-on-year -72.62% +4.90% +261.04%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £55.65
90th Percentile - £59.06 £56.60
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £54.72
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.80% +118.86%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Dorset

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Dorset

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Dorset

Unix
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
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Unix Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
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