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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 71 89
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 -11
Contract jobs citing Unix 16 47 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.85% 2.34% 2.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.31% 10.02% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 30
10th Percentile - £363 £400
25th Percentile £325 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £443
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -3.95% -1.67%
75th Percentile £591 £472 £514
90th Percentile £638 £675 £554
England median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £40.44
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £41.76
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
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 219 469 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.57% 23.34% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 316 325
10th Percentile £175 £163 £160
25th Percentile £235 £224 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £495
90th Percentile £650 £700 £608
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 63 86
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £14.38
Median hourly rate £36.00 £17.47 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +106.07% -19.68% +31.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.88 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.42 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.21% +70.09% +23.87%

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 12 May 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

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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 12 May 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 9 £350 -17.65% 7
Cambridgeshire -9 4 £625 +38.89% 11
Bedfordshire -3 2 £375 -42.31% 1
Essex +6 1 - - 4
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 4 (25.00%) NetWeaver
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) 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 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Subversion
3 1 (6.25%) CMake
General
1 2 (12.50%) Multimedia
2 1 (6.25%) Advertising
2 1 (6.25%) Electronics
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Consultant
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
1 4 (25.00%) Verification Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Unix Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) C Developer
4 1 (6.25%) C/C++ Developer
4 1 (6.25%) C++ Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) JSON
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Basis
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
1 4 (25.00%) YAML
2 2 (12.50%) GStreamer
2 2 (12.50%) LDAP
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) FFmpeg
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) ASIC
1 4 (25.00%) FPGA
1 4 (25.00%) Verilog
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) Digital TV
3 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (6.25%) MPEG
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Solaris
3 3 (18.75%) Windows
4 2 (12.50%) AIX
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (25.00%) SAP Security
3 3 (18.75%) Change Management
3 3 (18.75%) OO
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
3 3 (18.75%) UVM
3 3 (18.75%) Validation
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (6.25%) Capacity Management
5 1 (6.25%) Code Quality
5 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Development
5 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning
5 1 (6.25%) Mathematics
5 1 (6.25%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
2 4 (25.00%) C
2 4 (25.00%) C++
2 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (25.00%) SystemVerilog
2 4 (25.00%) Tcl
3 3 (18.75%) Assembly Language
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SAP Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
1 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) HDFS
2 1 (6.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (18.75%) Rancher
1 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Satellite
1 3 (18.75%) SCOM
1 3 (18.75%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 3 (18.75%) Cadence
2 3 (18.75%) Dell
2 3 (18.75%) HP
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 3 (18.75%) Synopsys
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) Xilinx
3 1 (6.25%) Isilon