Senior Unix Administrator Contracts

Senior Unix Administrator
UK

The median Senior Unix Administrator daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 721 829
Rank change year-on-year +137 +108 -150
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Unix Administrator 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.002% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £342
25th Percentile £425 - £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £405
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £475 - £435
90th Percentile - - £444
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £450
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Unix Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Unix Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Unix Administrator in the UK

Senior Unix Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Unix Administrator in the UK

Senior Unix Administrator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Unix Administrator in the UK

Senior Unix Administrator
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Unix Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +121 2 £450 -
UK excluding London - 2 £450 -
South East - 2 £450 -

Senior Unix Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior Unix Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Unix Administrator in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) RHCE
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) AWK
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Bourne shell
1 2 (100.00%) yum
1 2 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) RHCSA
1 2 (100.00%) Server Hardening

Senior Unix Administrator Skill Set
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 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Server Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) AWK
1 2 (100.00%) Bourne shell
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) RHCE
1 2 (100.00%) RHCSA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (100.00%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) EMC
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas