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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 71 98
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 -19
Contract jobs citing Unix 28 23 13
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.46% 1.94% 0.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.05% 16.79% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 15 7
10th Percentile £310 £326 £435
25th Percentile £321 £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £572 - £575
90th Percentile £638 £545 £650
South East median daily rate £431 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -4.17% +5.88% -5.56%

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 186 137 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.69% 11.53% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 85 99
10th Percentile £304 £233 £213
25th Percentile £385 £365 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -0.20% +14.51%
75th Percentile £500 £663 £608
90th Percentile £605 £700 £638
South East median daily rate £481 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +1.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 3
10th Percentile £19.75 - £59.11
25th Percentile £26.56 - £60.05
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -69.37% +16.23%
75th Percentile £49.31 - £65.64
90th Percentile £66.80 - £68.07
South East median hourly rate £38.72 £18.87 £57.25
% change year-on-year +105.19% -67.04% +4.09%

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 18 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 18 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 -17 15 £500 -7.92%
Wokingham - 8 £392 -
Bracknell - 2 - -
Windsor 0 1 £225 +1.12%
Slough -9 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 (21.43%) OpenStack
2 2 (7.14%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (7.14%) WebSphere
2 2 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (7.14%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (3.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) AWS
1 1 (3.57%) Azure
1 1 (3.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) LTE
2 6 (21.43%) 5G
2 6 (21.43%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (21.43%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (21.43%) VoLTE
2 6 (21.43%) VoWiFi
2 6 (21.43%) Wireshark
3 2 (7.14%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
3 2 (7.14%) HTTP
3 2 (7.14%) SSL
3 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.57%) 2G
4 1 (3.57%) 3G
4 1 (3.57%) 4G
4 1 (3.57%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) Oracle Database
1 13 (46.43%) SQL Server
2 9 (32.14%) Oracle Database 12c
3 6 (21.43%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.57%) Db2
6 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle9i Database
6 1 (3.57%) SQLite
6 1 (3.57%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) GitLab
1 2 (7.14%) Introscope
1 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Developer 2000
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Advertising
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) DBA
2 12 (42.86%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (35.71%) Support Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Database Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) SQL DBA
6 2 (7.14%) Administrator
6 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared DBA
6 2 (7.14%) Middleware Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared DBA
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 1 (3.57%) Support Specialist
7 1 (3.57%) Web Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Web Applications Support
7 1 (3.57%) Web Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (7.14%) JDBC
2 2 (7.14%) JMS
2 2 (7.14%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) Middleware
2 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (7.14%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Clustering
1 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (3.57%) OpenVMS
4 1 (3.57%) Solaris
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) ITIL
2 13 (46.43%) High Availability
3 11 (39.29%) Release Management
4 8 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (21.43%) Service Delivery
6 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Database Security
8 2 (7.14%) Agile
8 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 2 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (7.14%) DevOps
8 2 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (7.14%) Load Balancing
8 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
8 2 (7.14%) Migration
8 2 (7.14%) Security Hardening
8 2 (7.14%) Security Management
8 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Shell Script
2 11 (39.29%) Korn
3 10 (35.71%) Python
4 6 (21.43%) SQL
5 4 (14.29%) PL/SQL
6 3 (10.71%) Bash
6 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
7 2 (7.14%) Jython
7 2 (7.14%) Perl
8 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Oracle RMAN
2 11 (39.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (14.29%) Data Guard
5 2 (7.14%) Ansible
5 2 (7.14%) CA Wily
5 2 (7.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Oracle
2 6 (21.43%) BT
2 6 (21.43%) Ericsson
2 6 (21.43%) Huawei
2 6 (21.43%) Nokia
3 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) Remedy