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 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 94 70
Rank change year-on-year +18 -24 +26
Contract jobs citing Unix 12 19 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.17% 0.97% 2.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.61% 8.23% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 34
10th Percentile £338 - £363
25th Percentile £425 £325 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £484
90th Percentile £531 £638 £672
England median daily rate £475 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -11.21% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £40.91 - -
25th Percentile £47.56 £55.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year +37.50% -31.73% -21.88%

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 214 231 429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.92% 11.79% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 141 299
10th Percentile £180 £194 £163
25th Percentile £225 £258 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £561 £575 £550
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
England median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 40 49
10th Percentile £15.40 £13.93 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.05 £14.16 £13.29
Median hourly rate £23.61 £58.75 £18.53
Median % change year-on-year -59.81% +217.14% -15.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £71.35 £66.25 £66.00
England median hourly rate £18.87 £22.51 £45.06
% change year-on-year -16.17% -50.04% +109.56%

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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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +20 10 £450 +28.57% 15
Cambridgeshire +8 2 £575 -8.00% 19
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 (33.33%) NetWeaver
2 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) SpaceWire
2 1 (8.33%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SAP BW
1 4 (33.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
General
1 2 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aviation
2 1 (8.33%) Avionics
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Consultant
1 4 (33.33%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 4 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Electrical Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Information Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Information Systems Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) SAP Basis
1 4 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) CAN bus
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) FPGA
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 4 (33.33%) SAP Security
2 3 (25.00%) Data Acquisition
2 3 (25.00%) System Testing
2 3 (25.00%) TestOps
2 3 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Data Collection
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) Feasibility Study
4 1 (8.33%) FPGA Design
4 1 (8.33%) Information Management
4 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
1 5 (41.67%) Tcl
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) C
2 4 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) VBA
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Twitter
3 1 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Xilinx