Unix Contracts in Berkshire

Unix
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 93 78
Rank change year-on-year +21 -15 +7
Contract jobs citing Unix 22 22 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.84% 1.12% 2.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.10% 10.14% 14.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 27
10th Percentile £365 £306 £308
25th Percentile - £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -12.82% -2.50%
75th Percentile £475 £458 £614
90th Percentile £575 £575 £625
South East median daily rate £550 £425 £506
% change year-on-year +29.41% -16.05% +6.58%

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 156 217 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.03% 11.02% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 133 168
10th Percentile £270 £207 £300
25th Percentile £396 £313 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £506
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -1.04% +1.25%
75th Percentile £669 £608 £623
90th Percentile £700 £621 £700
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile - £56.43 £34.58
25th Percentile - £56.50 £47.73
Median hourly rate £18.87 £61.60 £54.38
Median % change year-on-year -69.37% +13.29% -27.50%
75th Percentile £21.77 £63.39 £67.66
90th Percentile £23.50 £69.03 £75.69
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.38% -13.64% +223.53%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Berkshire

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 5 July 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 +8 15 £450 +57.89% 3
Reading +19 6 £543 +27.76% 6
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 (13.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (13.64%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (4.55%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) MPLS
1 15 (68.18%) VPN
2 14 (63.64%) ATM
2 14 (63.64%) Ethernet
2 14 (63.64%) Frame Relay
2 14 (63.64%) GPRS
2 14 (63.64%) GSM
2 14 (63.64%) LAN
2 14 (63.64%) LTE
2 14 (63.64%) SAN
2 14 (63.64%) SDH
2 14 (63.64%) UMTS
2 14 (63.64%) WAN
2 14 (63.64%) Wireshark
3 1 (4.55%) BGP
3 1 (4.55%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (4.55%) FCAPS
3 1 (4.55%) PuTTY
3 1 (4.55%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) Subversion
2 1 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.55%) Toad
General
1 16 (72.73%) Telecoms
2 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) IP Engineer
1 13 (59.09%) Test Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) DBA
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) IP Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) IP Network Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Network Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Network Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Remedy Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Support Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) Middleware
1 1 (4.55%) NETCONF
1 1 (4.55%) REST
1 1 (4.55%) RESTCONF
1 1 (4.55%) SOAP
1 1 (4.55%) XML
1 1 (4.55%) YAML
1 1 (4.55%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 14 (63.64%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (72.73%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) CentOS
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (68.18%) Test Strategy
3 14 (63.64%) Fault Management
3 14 (63.64%) Project Management
3 14 (63.64%) Regression Testing
4 5 (22.73%) Workflow
5 4 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (13.64%) Database Tuning
6 3 (13.64%) ERP
6 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (13.64%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (13.64%) SOA
6 3 (13.64%) Task Automation
7 2 (9.09%) Agile
7 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
8 1 (4.55%) Penetration Testing
8 1 (4.55%) Problem Management
8 1 (4.55%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (4.55%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Perl
3 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) CCNP
1 14 (63.64%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (63.64%) ISEB
1 14 (63.64%) ISTQB
1 14 (63.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.55%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Cisco
1 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (63.64%) Juniper
3 4 (18.18%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) Remedy
5 1 (4.55%) BMC
5 1 (4.55%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.55%) Nokia
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) VMware