Unix Contracts in the South West

Unix
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 139 128
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 -35
Contract jobs citing Unix 21 36 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.66% 0.98% 1.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.26% 4.88% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 23
10th Percentile £311 £288 £288
25th Percentile £382 £497 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £584 £621 £481
90th Percentile £715 £701 £600
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile - £44.38 -
25th Percentile - £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -23.33% +87.50%
75th Percentile - £65.94 -
90th Percentile £71.93 £76.75 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% -11.54% +52.94%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 493 737 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.40% 20.00% 20.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 527 448
10th Percentile £172 £169 £154
25th Percentile £228 £270 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% +12.10%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £638
England median daily rate £460 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.68% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 91 76
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.13 £16.24
25th Percentile £40.00 £49.86 £25.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +124.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the South West

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in the South West

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the South West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the South West

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unix in the South West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unix in the South West

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Bristol +2 9 £385 -35.83% 8
Somerset - 8 - - 1
Dorset +5 2 £488 +178.57% 1
Gloucestershire 0 1 £750 +36.36% 2
Cornwall - 1 £396 -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.76%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
2 1 (4.76%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) DHCP
1 10 (47.62%) DNS
2 8 (38.10%) LAN
2 8 (38.10%) MPLS
2 8 (38.10%) SAN
2 8 (38.10%) WAN
2 8 (38.10%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (19.05%) Firewall
3 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
4 2 (9.52%) HTTP
5 1 (4.76%) 4G
5 1 (4.76%) FTP
5 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
5 1 (4.76%) IPsec
5 1 (4.76%) Network Security
5 1 (4.76%) SIGTRAN
5 1 (4.76%) SS7
5 1 (4.76%) tcpdump
5 1 (4.76%) VPN
5 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (38.10%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Billing
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Analyst
1 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (38.10%) IT Analyst
1 8 (38.10%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Test Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL Developer
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Test Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) CSS
1 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.76%) HTML
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
1 1 (4.76%) Lucene
1 1 (4.76%) SPML
1 1 (4.76%) Web Services
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Data Centre
2 8 (38.10%) Client/Server
2 8 (38.10%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (14.29%) VMS
3 3 (14.29%) Windows 2000
3 3 (14.29%) Windows XP
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 8 (38.10%) Application Packaging
2 8 (38.10%) Asset Management
2 8 (38.10%) Business Transformation
2 8 (38.10%) Capacity Management
2 8 (38.10%) Data Migration
2 8 (38.10%) Decision-Making
2 8 (38.10%) Migration
2 8 (38.10%) Network Management
2 8 (38.10%) Server Management
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (23.81%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (9.52%) Information Management
5 2 (9.52%) SIEM
5 2 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) Shell Script
3 3 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) C
5 1 (4.76%) COBOL
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) ProC
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) PhD
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 8 (38.10%) Virtual Servers
2 8 (38.10%) VMware Workstation
3 3 (14.29%) Docker
4 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
4 2 (9.52%) vSphere
5 1 (4.76%) Samba
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) SCCM
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (38.10%) Nagios
2 8 (38.10%) NetBackup
3 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
4 3 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (14.29%) Terraform
5 2 (9.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) VMware
2 8 (38.10%) Hitachi
2 8 (38.10%) NetApp
3 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 3 (14.29%) Juniper
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
4 2 (9.52%) Veeam
5 1 (4.76%) Adobe
5 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.76%) Google
5 1 (4.76%) Nokia
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow