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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 70 98
Rank change year-on-year -30 +28 -20
Contract jobs citing Unix 24 23 13
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.28% 1.95% 0.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.87% 17.97% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 7
10th Percentile £310 £326 £409
25th Percentile £375 £405 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £581 - £475
90th Percentile £638 £545 £560
South East median daily rate £459 £450 £404
% change year-on-year +2.00% +11.39% -10.22%

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 173 128 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.22% 10.84% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 79 95
10th Percentile £300 £220 £214
25th Percentile £385 £369 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £500 £700 £608
90th Percentile £608 - £638
South East median daily rate £475 £483 £460
% change year-on-year -1.66% +5.00% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 3
10th Percentile £17.68 - £59.11
25th Percentile £23.15 - £60.05
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -69.37% +16.23%
75th Percentile £44.61 £22.01 £65.64
90th Percentile £66.28 £23.89 £68.07
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £18.87 £55.13
% change year-on-year +151.93% -65.77% +0.23%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -19 13 £548 +0.83%
Wokingham - 6 £392 -
Bracknell - 2 - -
Windsor -2 1 £225 +1.12%
Slough -8 1 £325 -27.78% 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 6 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (8.33%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) LTE
2 6 (25.00%) 5G
2 6 (25.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (25.00%) VoLTE
2 6 (25.00%) VoWiFi
2 6 (25.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (8.33%) DNS
3 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) HTTP
3 2 (8.33%) SSL
3 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.17%) 2G
4 1 (4.17%) 3G
4 1 (4.17%) 4G
4 1 (4.17%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Oracle Database
1 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (4.17%) Db2
5 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle8/8i Database
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle9i Database
5 1 (4.17%) SQLite
5 1 (4.17%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Introscope
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Developer 2000
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Advertising
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) DBA
2 10 (41.67%) Oracle DBA
3 8 (33.33%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Database Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared DBA
5 2 (8.33%) Middleware Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) SQL DBA
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared DBA
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms Test Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Web Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Web Applications Support
6 1 (4.17%) Web Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (8.33%) JDBC
2 2 (8.33%) JMS
2 2 (8.33%) Kafka
2 2 (8.33%) Middleware
2 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Clustering
1 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (4.17%) OpenVMS
4 1 (4.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) ITIL
2 11 (45.83%) High Availability
3 8 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (33.33%) Release Management
4 6 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Database Security
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (8.33%) Agile
6 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) Load Balancing
6 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (8.33%) Security Management
6 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
1 10 (41.67%) Shell Script
2 8 (33.33%) Korn
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 3 (12.50%) Bash
5 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.33%) Jython
6 2 (8.33%) Perl
7 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 7 (29.17%) Kubernetes
4 3 (12.50%) Data Guard
5 2 (8.33%) Ansible
5 2 (8.33%) CA Wily
5 2 (8.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Oracle
2 6 (25.00%) BT
2 6 (25.00%) Ericsson
2 6 (25.00%) Huawei
2 6 (25.00%) Nokia
3 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.33%) IBM
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) Remedy