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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 94 81
Rank change year-on-year +27 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing Unix 27 18 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.29% 1.06% 2.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.60% 11.04% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 6 24
10th Percentile £358 £408 £308
25th Percentile £410 £422 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £463 - £442
90th Percentile £605 £475 £625
South East median daily rate £420 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -1.18% - -13.53%

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 125 163 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.60% 9.57% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 102 187
10th Percentile £199 £215 £153
25th Percentile £293 £330 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £431 £410
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% +5.12% -18.00%
75th Percentile £505 £608 £595
90th Percentile £590 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £414
% change year-on-year - +8.76% -8.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile - - £47.50
25th Percentile - £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £18.87 £57.62 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -67.25% +15.86% -44.74%
75th Percentile £22.01 £61.29 £55.28
90th Percentile £23.89 £66.33 £56.06
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £56.75 £56.00
% change year-on-year -66.75% +1.33% +229.41%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Unix 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 20 September 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 20 September 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
Slough +10 13 £450 +11.39% 3
Reading +18 7 £668 +48.44% 2
Bracknell +3 5 £420 -1.18% 1
Windsor - 1 £223 -
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.70%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) OCI
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (18.52%) Serverless
3 2 (7.41%) Google Workspace
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) SAN
2 10 (37.04%) MPLS
2 10 (37.04%) VPN
3 9 (33.33%) ATM
3 9 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 9 (33.33%) Frame Relay
3 9 (33.33%) GPRS
3 9 (33.33%) GSM
3 9 (33.33%) LAN
3 9 (33.33%) LTE
3 9 (33.33%) SDH
3 9 (33.33%) UMTS
3 9 (33.33%) WAN
3 9 (33.33%) Wireshark
4 1 (3.70%) BGP
4 1 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (3.70%) FCAPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 5 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (18.52%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (18.52%) Couchbase
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
4 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Subversion
3 1 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (40.74%) Telecoms
2 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Front Office
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) IP Engineer
1 8 (29.63%) Test Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Network Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Data Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Data Centre Technician
5 3 (11.11%) Data Technician
5 3 (11.11%) DBA
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (11.11%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Forensic Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) IP Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) IP Network Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Network Consultant
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) JSON
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) NETCONF
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) RESTCONF
2 1 (3.70%) SOAP
2 1 (3.70%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) YAML
2 1 (3.70%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (18.52%) Replication
3 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.41%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (7.41%) IoT
4 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.70%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 19 (70.37%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) CentOS
3 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (37.04%) Test Strategy
3 9 (33.33%) Fault Management
3 9 (33.33%) Project Management
3 9 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 8 (29.63%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 5 (18.52%) High Availability
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) Security Patching
6 5 (18.52%) Workflow
7 4 (14.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (11.11%) Database Tuning
8 3 (11.11%) ERP
8 3 (11.11%) ITIL
8 3 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
8 3 (11.11%) Service Management
8 3 (11.11%) SOA
8 3 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Java
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 6 (22.22%) SQL
4 4 (14.81%) Perl
5 3 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (33.33%) CCNP
2 9 (33.33%) ISEB
2 9 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 9 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Server+ Certification
4 2 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.41%) CCSP
4 2 (7.41%) CISM
4 2 (7.41%) CISSP
4 2 (7.41%) GCFA
4 2 (7.41%) GCFE
4 2 (7.41%) GCIH
4 2 (7.41%) GREM
5 1 (3.70%) BC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (7.41%) EnCase
3 2 (7.41%) FTK
4 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (37.04%) Cisco
3 9 (33.33%) Juniper
4 5 (18.52%) Confluent
4 5 (18.52%) IBM
4 5 (18.52%) Oracle
5 2 (7.41%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (7.41%) Darktrace
6 1 (3.70%) BMC
6 1 (3.70%) Nokia
6 1 (3.70%) Remedy
6 1 (3.70%) VMware