Unix Specialist Contracts

Unix Specialist
UK

The median Unix Specialist daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 691 -
Rank change year-on-year +116 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Specialist 7 12 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.021% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.022% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £545 -

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 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Unix Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix Specialist in the UK

Unix Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Unix Specialist in the UK

Unix Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix Specialist in the UK

Unix Specialist
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 Unix Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
Work from Home +114 7 £475 -12.84%
England +93 7 £475 -11.63%
London - 7 £475 -

Unix Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Unix Specialist 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 Unix Specialist in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Unix
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Qualys
1 7 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Security Patching
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
3 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
3 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (57.14%) Puppet
3 4 (57.14%) Progress Chef
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (28.57%) ITSM
5 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (28.57%) SLA
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECR

Unix Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Route 53
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Unix
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 7 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (71.43%) Configuration Management
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) ITSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) Progress Chef
2 4 (57.14%) Puppet
3 2 (28.57%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Qualys
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
4 2 (28.57%) SaltStack