Unix Contracts in the East of England

Unix
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 74 91
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 -19
Contract jobs citing Unix 16 49 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.84% 2.37% 2.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.14% 9.98% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 33 27
10th Percentile - £363 £400
25th Percentile £325 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £435
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -2.30% -3.33%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £519
90th Percentile £638 £674 £564
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £51.63 - £40.44
25th Percentile £52.19 £51.25 £41.76
Median hourly rate £56.25 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -19.23% -
75th Percentile £62.19 £53.75 £85.00
90th Percentile £63.88 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% -11.54% +52.94%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 the East of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 224 491 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.79% 23.75% 22.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 333 317
10th Percentile £175 £160 £158
25th Percentile £235 £210 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £494
90th Percentile £650 £700 £618
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 65 89
10th Percentile £13.57 - £13.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.75 £20.40
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -12.99% +23.64%
75th Percentile £62.50 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +20.21%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the East of England

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the East of England

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the East of England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the East of England

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the East of England

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the East of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Hertfordshire -19 10 £350 -17.65% 5
Bedfordshire -1 3 £375 -40.00% 2
Cambridgeshire -7 2 £625 +38.89% 14
Essex +2 1 - - 6
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (31.25%) Apache
2 4 (25.00%) NetWeaver
3 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
4 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Kerberos
2 1 (6.25%) DVB
2 1 (6.25%) FTP
2 1 (6.25%) RTMP
2 1 (6.25%) RTP
2 1 (6.25%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SAP BW
1 4 (25.00%) SAP HANA
2 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
3 2 (12.50%) Big Data
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) Subversion
4 1 (6.25%) CMake
4 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 2 (12.50%) Multimedia
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Advertising
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Consultant
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Unix Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Verification Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) C Developer
4 1 (6.25%) C/C++ Developer
4 1 (6.25%) C++ Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) ETL Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Basis
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
2 3 (18.75%) LDAP
2 3 (18.75%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) GStreamer
3 2 (12.50%) JSON
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) YAML
4 1 (6.25%) FFmpeg
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) ASIC
1 2 (12.50%) FPGA
1 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (12.50%) Verilog
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Digital TV
2 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.25%) MPEG
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Solaris
3 4 (25.00%) Windows
4 3 (18.75%) AIX
4 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (25.00%) ITIL
1 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (25.00%) Problem Management
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Security
2 3 (18.75%) High Availability
2 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
3 2 (12.50%) ETL
3 2 (12.50%) OO
3 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
3 2 (12.50%) Performance Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Tech Ops
3 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
3 2 (12.50%) Validation
3 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) C
3 3 (18.75%) C++
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) Assembly Language
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) SystemVerilog
4 2 (12.50%) Tcl
5 1 (6.25%) Korn
5 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) HDFS
3 1 (6.25%) NFS
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Rancher
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (12.50%) SCOM
2 2 (12.50%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Cadence
3 2 (12.50%) Dell
3 2 (12.50%) HP
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (12.50%) Synopsys
3 2 (12.50%) Xilinx
4 1 (6.25%) Isilon
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Qualys