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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 82 94
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing Unix 19 27 28
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.46% 1.69% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.45% 14.75% 9.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 21
10th Percentile £367 £200 £308
25th Percentile £410 £353 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% +9.38% -20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £450 £438
90th Percentile £715 £465 £623
South East median daily rate £338 £408 £400
% change year-on-year -17.33% +2.06% -17.79%

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 166 183 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.73% 11.44% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 114 205
10th Percentile £219 £200 £149
25th Percentile £255 £326 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% +6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £519 £608 £615
90th Percentile £585 £682 £646
South East median daily rate £428 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 13
10th Percentile £16.72 - £29.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £55.87 £48.40
Median hourly rate £20.79 £56.75 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +4.00% -39.38%
75th Percentile - £58.49 £61.25
90th Percentile £23.50 £65.21 £68.35
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -69.81% +13.64% +223.53%

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 1 November 2025.

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 1 November 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
Bracknell 0 6 £423 -0.59%
Reading 0 6 £750 +66.67% 1
Slough +1 4 £416 +3.03% 13
Windsor -7 1 £223 +11.25%
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 3 (15.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle BRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) OCI
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (31.58%) Serverless
3 2 (10.53%) Google Workspace
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) SAN
2 1 (5.26%) BGP
2 1 (5.26%) Broadband
2 1 (5.26%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (5.26%) FCAPS
2 1 (5.26%) GPRS
2 1 (5.26%) GSM
2 1 (5.26%) MPLS
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) NoSQL
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (31.58%) Couchbase
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.26%) MySQL
5 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.53%) Banking
1 2 (10.53%) Front Office
2 1 (5.26%) Billing
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Data Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Data Centre Technician
3 3 (15.79%) Data Technician
3 3 (15.79%) DBA
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Forensic Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Designer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Support
5 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Network Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) NETCONF
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) RESTCONF
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
2 1 (5.26%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) YAML
2 1 (5.26%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Replication
2 5 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
4 2 (10.53%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (10.53%) IoT
4 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.26%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Mac OS
4 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) High Availability
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (31.58%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (31.58%) Security Patching
3 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (21.05%) Workflow
4 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (15.79%) Database Tuning
4 3 (15.79%) ERP
4 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.79%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (15.79%) SOA
4 3 (15.79%) Task Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.53%) Cyber Resilience
5 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Shell Script
4 4 (21.05%) Perl
4 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
5 2 (10.53%) Java
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Server+ Certification
2 2 (10.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CCSP
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CISM
2 2 (10.53%) CISSP
2 2 (10.53%) GCFA
2 2 (10.53%) GCFE
2 2 (10.53%) GCIH
2 2 (10.53%) GREM
3 1 (5.26%) BC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (10.53%) EnCase
3 2 (10.53%) FTK
4 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Confluent
1 6 (31.58%) IBM
2 5 (26.32%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (10.53%) Darktrace
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Nokia
4 1 (5.26%) VMware