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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 69 86
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 -17
Contract jobs citing Unix 38 26 36
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.07% 2.21% 1.82%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.90% 16.46% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 13 27
10th Percentile - £405 -
25th Percentile £204 - £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% +12.50% -25.58%
75th Percentile £439 £482 £438
90th Percentile £575 £585 £623
South East median daily rate £339 £494 £425
% change year-on-year -31.34% +16.18% -22.73%

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 239 158 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.05% 13.44% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 101 193
10th Percentile £204 £250 £205
25th Percentile £356 £400 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% +17.65% -17.07%
75th Percentile £492 £663 £575
90th Percentile £575 £700 £608
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile £20.23 - £56.40
25th Percentile £41.35 - £56.50
Median hourly rate £57.00 £24.66 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +131.14% -59.97% +12.00%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £63.30
90th Percentile £82.80 - £66.50
South East median hourly rate £47.52 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +69.71% -41.05% -11.21%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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
Reading -21 12 £377 -35.62% 1
Wokingham - 11 £392 -
Windsor - 10 £208 - 1
Bracknell 0 3 £433 -9.90%
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 4 (10.53%) OpenStack
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (5.26%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (5.26%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.26%) WebLogic
3 2 (5.26%) WebSphere
3 2 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (5.26%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle BRM
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.89%) OCI
2 1 (2.63%) AWS
2 1 (2.63%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) 5G
1 4 (10.53%) Diameter Protocol
1 4 (10.53%) LTE
1 4 (10.53%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (10.53%) VoLTE
1 4 (10.53%) VoWiFi
1 4 (10.53%) Wireshark
2 2 (5.26%) Broadband
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 2 (5.26%) GPRS
2 2 (5.26%) GSM
2 2 (5.26%) HTTP
2 2 (5.26%) SSL
2 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (39.47%) SQL Server
2 13 (34.21%) Oracle Database
3 9 (23.68%) MySQL
3 9 (23.68%) Relational Database
4 7 (18.42%) Oracle Database 12c
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) GitLab
1 2 (5.26%) Introscope
1 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Advertising
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Billing
5 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) DBA
2 14 (36.84%) Oracle DBA
3 11 (28.95%) Support Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Technical Support
5 4 (10.53%) Database Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) Administrator
7 2 (5.26%) Designer
7 2 (5.26%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Solutions Designer
7 2 (5.26%) SQL DBA
8 1 (2.63%) Applications Support
8 1 (2.63%) Applications Support Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Senior DBA
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 1 (2.63%) Senior SQL DBA
8 1 (2.63%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Technical Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (5.26%) JDBC
2 2 (5.26%) JMS
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) Middleware
2 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.26%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Clustering
1 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.26%) IPTV
1 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.63%) Life Science
2 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.63%) Replication
2 1 (2.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 20 (52.63%) Linux
2 13 (34.21%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (2.63%) OpenVMS
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) ITIL
2 13 (34.21%) Release Management
3 11 (28.95%) High Availability
4 9 (23.68%) Computer Science
4 9 (23.68%) OO
4 9 (23.68%) OOP
4 9 (23.68%) Process Improvement
5 8 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
9 3 (7.89%) Database Tuning
9 3 (7.89%) Workflow
10 2 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
10 2 (5.26%) Database Security
10 2 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
10 2 (5.26%) DevOps
10 2 (5.26%) Security Hardening
10 2 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) SQL
2 16 (42.11%) Python
3 14 (36.84%) Shell Script
4 13 (34.21%) Korn
4 13 (34.21%) Perl
5 11 (28.95%) Java
6 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
7 5 (13.16%) PL/SQL
8 3 (7.89%) Bash
9 2 (5.26%) Jython
9 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Degree
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.63%) OCP
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (2.63%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 15 (39.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.26%) Ansible
4 2 (5.26%) CA Wily
4 2 (5.26%) Data Guard
4 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (5.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 33 (86.84%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) BT
2 4 (10.53%) Ericsson
2 4 (10.53%) Huawei
2 4 (10.53%) Nokia
3 2 (5.26%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.26%) IBM
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Wonderware