Unix Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Unix
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 38 53 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 -7 +13
Contract jobs citing Unix 7 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.54% 0.40% 2.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 4.00% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £363 £613 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -27.36% +38.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £506
90th Percentile £568 - -
East of England median daily rate £450 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £53.75 £56.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.44% +7.14% -19.23%

All Operating Systems
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 35 50 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 12.68% 10.10% 25.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 78
10th Percentile £186 £156 £150
25th Percentile £313 £200 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £273 £363
Median % change year-on-year +56.88% -24.83% -14.71%
75th Percentile £471 £477 £484
90th Percentile £573 £629 £510
East of England median daily rate £383 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 25 41
10th Percentile - £13.57 -
25th Percentile - £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate - £14.16 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year - -2.95% +0.62%
75th Percentile - £25.18 £18.88
90th Percentile - £66.25 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
% change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Cambridgeshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Cambridgeshire

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Cambridgeshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Cambridgeshire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Cambridgeshire 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
Peterborough - 4 £375 - 2
Cambridge +11 1 £575 -8.00% 8
Huntingdon - 1 - -
Unix
East of England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
1 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
1 1 (14.29%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Unix Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) FPGA
1 1 (14.29%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) AIX
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Data Collection
2 1 (14.29%) FPGA Design
2 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (14.29%) Tcl
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Perfecto Mobile
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) VMware
1 1 (14.29%) Xilinx