Unix Contracts in England

Unix
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 89 110
Rank change year-on-year -49 +21 -11
Contract jobs citing Unix 619 1,281 1,738
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.70% 2.67% 2.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.42% 16.48% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 901 1,150
10th Percentile £350 £413 £404
25th Percentile £420 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 9
10th Percentile £22.21 £50.25 £41.91
25th Percentile £23.80 £53.13 £46.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% -9.86% +62.50%
75th Percentile - £73.73 £82.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £75.20 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.57 £65.00
% change year-on-year -32.85% -8.35% +52.94%

All Operating Systems
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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,984 7,773 11,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.71% 16.19% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,408 5,483 7,569
10th Percentile £185 £193 £173
25th Percentile £300 £325 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £644 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 369 528
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.82 £13.34
25th Percentile £15.21 £17.72 £15.76
Median hourly rate £22.15 £38.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year -42.47% +77.91% +23.66%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £39.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.07% +76.00% +28.57%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in England

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in England

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in England

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in England

Unix
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unix in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unix in England

Unix
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 21 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
London -36 368 £600 +2.56% 88
South East +5 110 £425 -22.73% 30
North of England -44 50 £470 -10.48% 17
Midlands -39 41 £536 -0.74% 9
West Midlands -26 40 £536 -0.74% 3
Yorkshire -10 25 £425 -27.66% 7
South West +4 22 £488 -11.36% 13
North West -14 22 £523 +5.56% 10
East of England -17 16 £463 +8.82% 19
North East -14 3 - -
South Coast - 3 £500 -
East Midlands -22 1 £500 -23.08% 6
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 30 (4.85%) nginx
2 22 (3.55%) Confluence
3 16 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.78%) Apache
4 11 (1.78%) JBoss
4 11 (1.78%) NetWeaver
5 8 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.29%) IIS
5 8 (1.29%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.65%) MQSeries
8 3 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.48%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.32%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (2.75%) ION MarketView
2 12 (1.94%) ION Anvil
3 11 (1.78%) SAP IBP
4 7 (1.13%) Temenos T24
5 4 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle FAH
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.48%) Shopify
7 2 (0.32%) Advent Geneva
7 2 (0.32%) BusinessWorks
7 2 (0.32%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.32%) Front Arena
7 2 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.16%) Magento
8 1 (0.16%) MFGPRO
Cloud Services
1 110 (17.77%) AWS
2 87 (14.05%) Azure
3 29 (4.68%) GCP
3 29 (4.68%) PaaS
4 19 (3.07%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 18 (2.91%) Serverless
6 16 (2.58%) Power Platform
7 15 (2.42%) GitHub
8 11 (1.78%) IaaS
9 9 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (1.29%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.13%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.97%) Azure Functions
13 5 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (0.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (11.15%) Firewall
2 40 (6.46%) DNS
3 33 (5.33%) TCP/IP
4 30 (4.85%) SAN
5 27 (4.36%) DHCP
6 24 (3.88%) FTP
7 20 (3.23%) HTTP
8 19 (3.07%) LAN
8 19 (3.07%) Network Security
9 17 (2.75%) Internet
10 16 (2.58%) Intrusion Detection
11 15 (2.42%) VPN
11 15 (2.42%) WAN
11 15 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (2.10%) FIX Connectivity
13 12 (1.94%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (1.94%) MPLS
13 12 (1.94%) SSH
14 10 (1.62%) SSL
15 8 (1.29%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 46 (7.43%) MongoDB
3 40 (6.46%) Relational Database
4 30 (4.85%) RDBMS
5 26 (4.20%) Oracle Database
6 20 (3.23%) Big Data
7 19 (3.07%) Hadoop
8 18 (2.91%) NoSQL
9 17 (2.75%) KDB
9 17 (2.75%) MySQL
9 17 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (2.58%) Power BI
11 11 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.78%) SAP BW
11 11 (1.78%) SAP HANA
12 10 (1.62%) DB2
13 9 (1.45%) Kdb+
14 7 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (1.13%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 64 (10.34%) Git
2 58 (9.37%) JIRA
3 43 (6.95%) Jenkins
4 27 (4.36%) GitLab
5 24 (3.88%) TeamCity
6 21 (3.39%) Cucumber
6 21 (3.39%) Mockito
7 13 (2.10%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.10%) Selenium
8 11 (1.78%) Artifactory
8 11 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (1.62%) Maven
9 10 (1.62%) Subversion
10 8 (1.29%) Gatling
10 8 (1.29%) JUnit
10 8 (1.29%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.81%) Ant
11 5 (0.81%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.65%) JMeter
12 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 196 (31.66%) Finance
2 129 (20.84%) Social Skills
3 100 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (14.38%) Banking
5 45 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 40 (6.46%) Front Office
7 35 (5.65%) Investment Banking
8 20 (3.23%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.58%) Marketing
10 15 (2.42%) Retail
11 14 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.78%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.62%) Billing
13 10 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.45%) Back Office
15 8 (1.29%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 151 (24.39%) Developer
2 63 (10.18%) Senior
3 44 (7.11%) Java Developer
4 42 (6.79%) Analyst
5 35 (5.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (5.33%) Consultant
7 29 (4.68%) Lead
8 27 (4.36%) Linux Engineer
9 23 (3.72%) Architect
10 22 (3.55%) Senior Developer
10 22 (3.55%) SQL Developer
11 21 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (3.07%) Applications Support
12 19 (3.07%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (2.58%) DBA
13 16 (2.58%) Full Stack Developer
13 16 (2.58%) Network Engineer
13 16 (2.58%) Unix Engineer
14 15 (2.42%) Business Analyst
14 15 (2.42%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.59%) Kafka
2 43 (6.95%) XML
3 39 (6.30%) FIX Protocol
4 38 (6.14%) HTML
4 38 (6.14%) Spring
5 31 (5.01%) CSS
6 29 (4.68%) JSON
6 29 (4.68%) Middleware
7 23 (3.72%) Web Services
8 22 (3.55%) ActiveMQ
8 22 (3.55%) Sass
9 21 (3.39%) LDAP
10 20 (3.23%) Laravel
11 19 (3.07%) REST
12 17 (2.75%) JAX-RS
13 16 (2.58%) WebSockets
14 15 (2.42%) J2EE
15 14 (2.26%) Apache NiFi
16 13 (2.10%) Hibernate
16 13 (2.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.62%) Data Centre
2 39 (6.30%) Management Information System
3 33 (5.33%) Linux Command Line
4 32 (5.17%) Fixed Income
5 28 (4.52%) Replication
6 23 (3.72%) Derivative
6 23 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 22 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (3.39%) Product Ownership
9 16 (2.58%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.58%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.42%) Equities
11 14 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
12 12 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.94%) Distributed Applications
12 12 (1.94%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.78%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.62%) Client/Server
14 10 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 366 (59.13%) Linux
2 193 (31.18%) Windows
3 49 (7.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (4.52%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.72%) Mac OS X
6 20 (3.23%) Android
6 20 (3.23%) Apple iOS
7 17 (2.75%) Solaris
8 11 (1.78%) VMS
9 6 (0.97%) AIX
10 4 (0.65%) CentOS
10 4 (0.65%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.48%) HPUX
11 3 (0.48%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.48%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.48%) Windows XP
11 3 (0.48%) zOS
12 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (21.65%) Agile
2 86 (13.89%) DevOps
3 81 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (12.28%) CI/CD
4 76 (12.28%) Test Automation
5 74 (11.95%) Migration
6 73 (11.79%) TDD
7 60 (9.69%) ITIL
8 58 (9.37%) Microservices
8 58 (9.37%) Scrum
9 55 (8.89%) Computer Science
10 45 (7.27%) Performance Tuning
11 42 (6.79%) Data Modelling
12 41 (6.62%) Analytics
13 40 (6.46%) Capacity Management
14 39 (6.30%) BDD
14 39 (6.30%) Risk Management
15 36 (5.82%) Incident Management
15 36 (5.82%) Web Development
16 35 (5.65%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 199 (32.15%) SQL
2 161 (26.01%) Python
3 155 (25.04%) Java
4 91 (14.70%) Shell Script
5 61 (9.85%) Perl
6 55 (8.89%) PowerShell
7 47 (7.59%) JavaScript
8 45 (7.27%) Bash
9 38 (6.14%) C#
10 32 (5.17%) PL/SQL
11 25 (4.04%) PHP
12 16 (2.58%) C++
12 16 (2.58%) T-SQL
13 15 (2.42%) C
13 15 (2.42%) Scala
14 11 (1.78%) Go
15 9 (1.45%) Bourne shell
15 9 (1.45%) Korn
16 8 (1.29%) ProC
17 6 (0.97%) AWK
Qualifications
1 103 (16.64%) Degree
2 101 (16.32%) Security Cleared
3 68 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.88%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.23%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.29%) CCNA
9 8 (1.29%) SAP Certification
10 7 (1.13%) ISTQB
10 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.65%) CISSP
12 4 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.65%) MCSE
12 4 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.48%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.46%) QA
2 27 (4.36%) SLA
3 13 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (1.78%) NIST
5 11 (1.78%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.45%) EMIR
7 8 (1.29%) MiFID
8 7 (1.13%) Dodd-Frank
9 6 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.81%) GDPR
11 4 (0.65%) ISO 15022
11 4 (0.65%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 53 (8.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (7.92%) Docker
4 19 (3.07%) HDFS
5 17 (2.75%) vSphere
6 16 (2.58%) Hyper-V
7 15 (2.42%) NFS
8 13 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (1.29%) VMware NSX
9 8 (1.29%) VMware Workstation
10 5 (0.81%) Firmware
10 5 (0.81%) Samba
10 5 (0.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.32%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.32%) KVM
11 2 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.32%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 78 (12.60%) Ansible
2 76 (12.28%) Kubernetes
3 41 (6.62%) Terraform
4 30 (4.85%) SCCM
5 22 (3.55%) Puppet
6 16 (2.58%) Grafana
7 15 (2.42%) Prometheus
8 14 (2.26%) NetBackup
9 12 (1.94%) SCOM
10 11 (1.78%) Netcool
11 9 (1.45%) Packer
11 9 (1.45%) Progress Chef
12 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Clustering
12 8 (1.29%) Nagios
12 8 (1.29%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (1.13%) SCVMM
13 7 (1.13%) vCenter Server
13 7 (1.13%) vRealize
14 6 (0.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 6 (0.97%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 122 (19.71%) Oracle
2 66 (10.66%) VMware
3 49 (7.92%) Microsoft
4 43 (6.95%) Red Hat
5 32 (5.17%) IBM
6 29 (4.68%) SAP
7 26 (4.20%) ION Trading
8 23 (3.72%) Dell
9 21 (3.39%) Cisco
10 18 (2.91%) F5
10 18 (2.91%) Google
11 16 (2.58%) Bloomberg
12 15 (2.42%) CyberArk
12 15 (2.42%) HP
12 15 (2.42%) Qualys
13 14 (2.26%) Juniper
13 14 (2.26%) ServiceNow
13 14 (2.26%) Splunk
13 14 (2.26%) Veritas
14 13 (2.10%) Isilon