POSIX Contracts in England

Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring POSIX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited POSIX 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 478 - 642
Rank change year-on-year - - +124
Contract jobs citing POSIX 7 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% - 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% - 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £70 - £527
25th Percentile £138 - £627
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.51%
75th Percentile £428 - £775
90th Percentile £463 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £655 £592
% change year-on-year -38.95% +10.68% +17.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

POSIX falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

POSIX
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing POSIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for POSIX in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing POSIX in England.

Daily rate trend for POSIX in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for POSIX in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing POSIX in England.

Hourly rate trend for POSIX in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing POSIX within the 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
East of England - 4 £400 - 1
East Midlands - 2 £70 -
Midlands - 2 £70 -
London - 1 £475 - 1
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) 802.11
1 1 (14.29%) Broadband
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) DOCSIS
1 1 (14.29%) DSL
1 1 (14.29%) GPON
1 1 (14.29%) IPv4
1 1 (14.29%) IPv6
1 1 (14.29%) PPP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VoIP
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
1 2 (28.57%) Gerrit
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) NetBeans
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Yocto
2 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Device Driver
2 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
3 2 (28.57%) STB
4 1 (14.29%) Digital TV
4 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (14.29%) IoT
4 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
3 1 (14.29%) Physics
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C
2 4 (57.14%) C++
3 3 (42.86%) Go
4 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
5 1 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) MISRA
2 2 (28.57%) MISRA C
2 2 (28.57%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (14.29%) IEC 61508
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) QNX
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk