Unix Contracts in South Wales

Unix
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 53 72
Rank change year-on-year +21 +19 -24
Contract jobs citing Unix 9 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.65% 0.77% 0.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.00% 4.94% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £555 £519 £406
25th Percentile £608 £528 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.78% +18.42% -0.26%
75th Percentile £713 £603 £546
90th Percentile £729 £616 £563
Wales median daily rate £650 £563 £500
% change year-on-year +15.56% +12.50% +4.71%

All Operating Systems
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 50 81 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 14.75% 15.61% 18.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 66 116
10th Percentile £197 £149 £160
25th Percentile £354 £196 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £460 £427
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +7.72% +13.88%
75th Percentile £634 £538 £575
90th Percentile £703 £628 £652
Wales median daily rate £500 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +17.65% - +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 11
10th Percentile £12.67 £15.16 £12.24
25th Percentile £13.31 £18.84 £16.69
Median hourly rate £14.36 £35.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.97% -24.32% +129.81%
75th Percentile £31.18 £49.69 £47.40
90th Percentile £41.27 £54.38 -
Wales median hourly rate £14.36 £22.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year -36.18% -36.84% +137.50%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in South Wales over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 26 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
Bridgend 0 6 £685 +30.48%
Cardiff +9 3 £500 -16.67% 2
Unix
Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (11.11%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
2 1 (11.11%) CA Gen
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) NetApp Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Identity Management
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Refactoring
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Natural
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Brocade
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Dell
1 2 (22.22%) NetApp
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) Veritas
2 1 (11.11%) CA