Unix Contracts in the East of England

Unix
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 64 96 74
Rank change year-on-year +32 -22 +19
Contract jobs citing Unix 18 16 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.92% 0.84% 2.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.59% 7.05% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 33
10th Percentile £334 - £363
25th Percentile £378 £325 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% -2.30%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £506
90th Percentile £543 £638 £674
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £40.91 £51.63 -
25th Percentile £47.56 £52.19 £51.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £56.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +7.14% -19.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.19 £53.75
90th Percentile - £63.88 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% -30.43% -11.54%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 170 227 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.12% 11.89% 23.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 127 333
10th Percentile £178 £175 £160
25th Percentile £208 £238 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £570 £575
90th Percentile £561 £650 £700
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 65
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.72 -
25th Percentile £19.22 £14.00 £13.29
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.18 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year +108.50% +41.86% -12.99%
75th Percentile £65.38 £64.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £84.75 £66.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unix in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Unix in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +29 11 £450 +28.57% 11
Cambridgeshire +15 7 £454 -27.36% 10
Unix
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (22.22%) NetWeaver
2 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
1 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
1 1 (5.56%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) SpaceWire
2 1 (5.56%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SAP BW
1 4 (22.22%) SAP HANA
2 2 (11.11%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) Postman
1 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
1 2 (11.11%) Law
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Aviation
2 1 (5.56%) Avionics
2 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Consultant
1 4 (22.22%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 4 (22.22%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Electrical Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Information Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Information Systems Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Unix Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) SAP Basis
1 4 (22.22%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) CAN bus
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) FPGA
2 1 (5.56%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) AIX
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
1 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
1 4 (22.22%) SAP Security
1 4 (22.22%) Validation
2 3 (16.67%) Data Acquisition
2 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 3 (16.67%) System Testing
2 3 (16.67%) TestOps
3 2 (11.11%) Functional Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Information Management
3 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (5.56%) Data Collection
4 1 (5.56%) Feasibility Study
4 1 (5.56%) FPGA Design
4 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Tcl
3 4 (22.22%) Bash
3 4 (22.22%) C
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) VBA
5 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) SAP
2 2 (11.11%) EMC
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) Twitter
3 1 (5.56%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Xilinx