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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 88 72
Rank change year-on-year +21 -16 +3
Contract jobs citing Unix 26 36 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.22% 1.81% 2.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.35% 13.24% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 27 33
10th Percentile £405 - £317
25th Percentile - £280 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -25.58% +10.71%
75th Percentile £482 £438 £606
90th Percentile £585 £623 £625
South East median daily rate £494 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +16.18% -22.73% +15.79%

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 159 272 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.55% 13.71% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 194 162
10th Percentile £250 £205 £271
25th Percentile £400 £244 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £514
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.27% +4.31%
75th Percentile £661 £575 £623
90th Percentile £700 £608 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £56.40 £21.65
25th Percentile - £56.50 £37.25
Median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -16.03%
75th Percentile - £63.30 £72.50
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -3 16 £450 +57.89% 2
Reading +20 6 £586 +37.88% 6
Bracknell +16 3 £480 - 2
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 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.85%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
3 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (65.38%) MPLS
1 17 (65.38%) VPN
2 16 (61.54%) ATM
2 16 (61.54%) Ethernet
2 16 (61.54%) Frame Relay
2 16 (61.54%) GPRS
2 16 (61.54%) GSM
2 16 (61.54%) LAN
2 16 (61.54%) LTE
2 16 (61.54%) SAN
2 16 (61.54%) SDH
2 16 (61.54%) UMTS
2 16 (61.54%) WAN
2 16 (61.54%) Wireshark
3 1 (3.85%) BGP
3 1 (3.85%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (3.85%) PuTTY
3 1 (3.85%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.85%) HBase
4 1 (3.85%) HDInsight
4 1 (3.85%) Impala
4 1 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Maven
2 1 (3.85%) Subversion
2 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.85%) Toad
General
1 19 (73.08%) Social Skills
2 17 (65.38%) Telecoms
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) IP Engineer
1 15 (57.69%) Test Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Network Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Architect
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Data Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) IP Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) IP Network Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Network Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
1 1 (3.85%) JSON
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
1 1 (3.85%) NETCONF
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.85%) PySpark
1 1 (3.85%) REST
1 1 (3.85%) RESTCONF
1 1 (3.85%) SOAP
1 1 (3.85%) XML
1 1 (3.85%) YAML
1 1 (3.85%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (61.54%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) IoT
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (88.46%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) AIX
4 1 (3.85%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (65.38%) Regression Testing
3 16 (61.54%) Fault Management
3 16 (61.54%) Project Management
3 16 (61.54%) Test Strategy
4 4 (15.38%) Analytics
4 4 (15.38%) Data Governance
4 4 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 4 (15.38%) Migration
5 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
5 3 (11.54%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (11.54%) ETL
6 2 (7.69%) Agile
6 2 (7.69%) Coaching
6 2 (7.69%) Data Engineering
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Java
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) Perl
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) CCNP
1 16 (61.54%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (61.54%) ISEB
1 16 (61.54%) ISTQB
1 16 (61.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Flume
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 2 (7.69%) Puppet
2 2 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (80.77%) Microsoft
2 17 (65.38%) Cisco
3 16 (61.54%) Juniper
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) Remedy
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) BMC
5 1 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) Splunk
5 1 (3.85%) StreamSets