Unix Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Unix
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 36 46 69
Rank change year-on-year +10 +23 -10
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.85% 1.68% 1.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.25% 10.81% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile - £393 £369
25th Percentile - £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £725
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -37.93% +56.76%
75th Percentile - £475 £750
90th Percentile - - £760
South East median daily rate £494 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +16.18% -22.73% +15.79%

All Operating Systems
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 32 74 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 13.56% 15.55% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 52 108
10th Percentile £195 £178 £230
25th Percentile £325 £225 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -10.00% +20.48%
75th Percentile £536 £541 £550
90th Percentile - £550 £592
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 0
Median hourly rate £14.20 £23.17 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.70% - -
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 Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Buckinghamshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Buckinghamshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Buckinghamshire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +7 2 £375 -16.67% 3
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MS Access
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Logistics
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft