AWK
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWK skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 594 708 842
Rank change year-on-year +114 +134 -181
Contract jobs citing AWK 6 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.008% 0.016%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.047% 0.024% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile - - £291
25th Percentile £425 £463 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £403
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +18.01% +3.87%
75th Percentile £850 £488 £418
90th Percentile - - £467
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £403
% change year-on-year - - +7.33%

All Programming Languages
UK

AWK is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,854 20,901 32,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.49% 35.02% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,130 15,092 23,463
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £760 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 471 514
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.52
% change year-on-year - +26.21% +16.52%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWK in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for AWK in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWK in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for AWK in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWK within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England +106 6 £625 +31.58% 4
London +109 4 £800 +68.42% 1
Work from Home +119 2 - - 3
UK excluding London +65 2 £450 - 3
South East +17 2 £450 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Murex Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Unix Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 2 (33.33%) Server Hardening
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Bourne shell
3 2 (33.33%) Korn
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) RHCE
1 2 (33.33%) RHCSA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (33.33%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Murex
2 2 (33.33%) EMC
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Veritas