Unix Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Unix
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 74 95
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 -7
Contract jobs citing Unix 23 29 32
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.56% 1.91% 1.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.75% 15.85% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 9 25
10th Percentile £204 £200 £299
25th Percentile £365 £394 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +12.50% -3.96%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £623
90th Percentile £591 £596 -
South East median daily rate £208 £420 £400
% change year-on-year -50.60% +5.00% -20.00%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 214 183 312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.55% 12.05% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 115 235
10th Percentile £204 £200 £148
25th Percentile £275 £253 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £404 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +1.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £500 £608 £581
90th Percentile £588 £681 £623
South East median daily rate £434 £435 £400
% change year-on-year -0.34% +8.75% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 14
10th Percentile £17.58 - £31.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £55.28
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +2.65% +0.51%
75th Percentile £24.33 £57.62 £64.06
90th Percentile £81.20 - £68.22
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £58.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.69% +7.05% +197.30%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Unix job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Unix

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Bracknell 0 7 £425 - 1
Windsor -2 5 £208 +3.75% 1
Slough 0 4 £416 +3.03% 7
Reading -7 4 £610 +25.03% 3
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Tomcat
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (8.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle BRM
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) OCI
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (26.09%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) Google Workspace
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Broadband
1 3 (13.04%) GPRS
1 3 (13.04%) GSM
1 3 (13.04%) SAN
2 1 (4.35%) FCAPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (26.09%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (26.09%) Couchbase
1 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
2 5 (21.74%) MySQL
2 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.04%) Billing
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Front Office
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Data Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Technical Support
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre Technician
3 3 (13.04%) Data Technician
3 3 (13.04%) Designer
3 3 (13.04%) Solutions Designer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) DBA
4 2 (8.70%) Forensic Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Replication
2 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.04%) IPTV
4 2 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (8.70%) IoT
4 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (26.09%) High Availability
2 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (26.09%) Security Patching
3 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 5 (21.74%) OO
3 5 (21.74%) OOP
4 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
4 4 (17.39%) Process Improvement
5 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
5 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
5 3 (13.04%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
6 2 (8.70%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (8.70%) Incident Response
6 2 (8.70%) Preventative Maintenance
6 2 (8.70%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) SQL
2 10 (43.48%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) Java
4 7 (30.43%) Perl
5 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 5 (21.74%) PL/SQL
5 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Server+ Certification
3 2 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.70%) CCSP
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.70%) CISM
3 2 (8.70%) CISSP
3 2 (8.70%) GCFA
3 2 (8.70%) GCFE
3 2 (8.70%) GCIH
3 2 (8.70%) GREM
4 1 (4.35%) BC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 2 (8.70%) EnCase
2 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 2 (8.70%) FTK
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Oracle
2 6 (26.09%) Confluent
2 6 (26.09%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (8.70%) Darktrace
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Nokia