Unix Contracts in the Thames Valley

Unix
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 100 85 96
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Unix 41 61 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.57% 2.17% 2.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.20% 14.15% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 45 38
10th Percentile - £336 £371
25th Percentile £280 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +8.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £442 £623 £569
90th Percentile £476 £738 £599
South East median daily rate £425 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £58.59 £72.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -19.19% +83.54%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 366 431 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.02% 15.32% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 300 407
10th Percentile £191 £202 £145
25th Percentile £213 £347 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% +6.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £570
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £463 £463 £450
% change year-on-year - +2.78% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 21
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 -
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.40 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £38.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.74% +93.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.97 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.19 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +214.29% -20.45%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -23 32 £338 -38.64% 7
Buckinghamshire +17 8 £450 -13.25% 2
Oxfordshire +4 1 - - 5
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (9.76%) NetWeaver
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 4 (9.76%) SAP IBP
2 1 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.76%) Azure
1 4 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (9.76%) Azure Functions
1 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
1 4 (9.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) SAN
2 6 (14.63%) Firewall
3 4 (9.76%) FTP
4 1 (2.44%) DHCP
4 1 (2.44%) DNS
4 1 (2.44%) HTTP
4 1 (2.44%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.44%) Internet
4 1 (2.44%) RNC
4 1 (2.44%) SGSN
4 1 (2.44%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Oracle Database
2 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.76%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (9.76%) Power BI
3 4 (9.76%) SAP BW
3 4 (9.76%) SAP HANA
4 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.44%) GIS
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.44%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) GitLab
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 13 (31.71%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.88%) Automotive
3 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Consultant
1 8 (19.51%) Data Centre Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Break Fix Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Data Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 4 (9.76%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (9.76%) Test Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) Test Specialist
5 2 (4.88%) Data Centre Technician
5 2 (4.88%) ETL Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
5 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (4.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) XML
2 4 (9.76%) SAP Basis
2 4 (9.76%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.44%) Ajax
3 1 (2.44%) Anaconda
3 1 (2.44%) HTML
3 1 (2.44%) jQuery
3 1 (2.44%) OpenLayers
3 1 (2.44%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Data Centre
1 10 (24.39%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.76%) Smart Meter
3 2 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.88%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.44%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (39.02%) Linux
2 7 (17.07%) Windows
3 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (29.27%) Incident Management
2 8 (19.51%) ETL
2 8 (19.51%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (19.51%) Software Testing
3 6 (14.63%) Break/Fix
3 6 (14.63%) Data Centre Operations
4 5 (12.20%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (12.20%) Problem Management
5 4 (9.76%) Analytics
5 4 (9.76%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (9.76%) Data Modelling
5 4 (9.76%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (9.76%) ETL Development
5 4 (9.76%) ITIL
5 4 (9.76%) Migration
5 4 (9.76%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (9.76%) SAP Security
5 4 (9.76%) Scrum
5 4 (9.76%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (9.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) SQL
2 5 (12.20%) Shell Script
3 4 (9.76%) Python
4 2 (4.88%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) Groovy
5 1 (2.44%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.44%) JCL
5 1 (2.44%) Perl
5 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) SAP Certification
3 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) SLA
2 4 (9.76%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.88%) vSphere
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) NFS
2 1 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Ansible
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) Packer
2 2 (4.88%) RSA Archer
2 2 (4.88%) vRealize
3 1 (2.44%) CFEngine
3 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Oracle
2 7 (17.07%) Dell
2 7 (17.07%) HP
3 4 (9.76%) Ab Initio
3 4 (9.76%) Informatica
3 4 (9.76%) SAP
4 2 (4.88%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.44%) BMC
5 1 (2.44%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.44%) Mapinfo
5 1 (2.44%) Nokia
5 1 (2.44%) Remedy