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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 65 89
Rank change year-on-year -28 +24 -15
Contract jobs citing Unix 23 33 38
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.49% 2.51% 2.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.96% 19.08% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 31
10th Percentile - £200 £280
25th Percentile £204 £345 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £467 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% +16.75% -23.08%
75th Percentile £488 £507 £438
90th Percentile £591 £604 £623
South East median daily rate £208 £443 £425
% change year-on-year -53.11% +4.12% -15.00%

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 231 173 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.96% 13.15% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 102 243
10th Percentile £204 £200 £166
25th Percentile £281 £277 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £435 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.24% +8.69% -23.81%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £575
90th Percentile £575 £675 £615
South East median daily rate £447 £435 £425
% change year-on-year +2.76% +2.35% -11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 13
10th Percentile £17.15 £34.02 £29.15
25th Percentile £20.50 £48.07 £48.40
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% -2.16% +5.45%
75th Percentile £25.15 £57.62 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.60 - £68.35
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £59.13 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.84% +7.50% +140.23%

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 1 February 2026.

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 1 February 2026. 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
Windsor +5 9 £208 +3.75%
Bracknell -1 7 £425 -11.46%
Reading -13 4 £610 +8.36% 1
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) MySQL
1 9 (39.13%) Relational Database
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (26.09%) Couchbase
2 6 (26.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.04%) Billing
2 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Technical Support
2 6 (26.09%) Data Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Designer
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Designer
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) DBA
5 2 (8.70%) Forensic Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Test Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Replication
2 3 (13.04%) IPTV
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.70%) IoT
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (73.91%) Linux
2 12 (52.17%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Computer Science
1 9 (39.13%) OO
1 9 (39.13%) OOP
1 9 (39.13%) Process Improvement
2 8 (34.78%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (26.09%) High Availability
3 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (26.09%) Security Patching
4 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
6 2 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (8.70%) Database Tuning
6 2 (8.70%) Digital Forensics
6 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.70%) E-Discovery
6 2 (8.70%) ERP
6 2 (8.70%) Network Architecture
6 2 (8.70%) SOA
6 2 (8.70%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) SQL
2 14 (60.87%) Python
3 12 (52.17%) Java
4 11 (47.83%) Perl
5 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
6 5 (21.74%) PL/SQL
6 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (39.13%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CCSP
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CISM
2 2 (8.70%) CISSP
2 2 (8.70%) GCFA
2 2 (8.70%) GCFE
2 2 (8.70%) GCIH
2 2 (8.70%) GREM
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
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 15 (65.22%) 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