Unix Engineer Contracts in England

Unix Engineer
UK > England

The median Unix Engineer daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 528 600
Rank change year-on-year +61 +72 +117
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 18 14 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.038% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.041% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 42
10th Percentile £363 £250 £383
25th Percentile £403 £416 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £548
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -1.83% +17.11%
75th Percentile £775 £563 £692
90th Percentile - £575 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £519 £534
% change year-on-year -8.43% -2.81% +18.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Unix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Engineer in England

Unix Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Unix Engineer in England

Unix Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix Engineer in England

Unix Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix Engineer in England

Unix Engineer
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 Unix Engineer 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
London +39 8 £750 +39.53% 1
North of England - 4 £390 - 2
East of England +30 2 £313 -43.18%
North West - 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 £475 -
Midlands - 2 £475 -
North East - 1 £375 -
Yorkshire - 1 £405 -
Unix Engineer
UK

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Unix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Unix
2 13 (72.22%) Linux
3 9 (50.00%) Ansible
4 8 (44.44%) AIX
4 8 (44.44%) Shell Script
4 8 (44.44%) VMware
4 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (44.44%) High Availability
5 7 (38.89%) Python
6 6 (33.33%) SAN
6 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
6 6 (33.33%) DevOps
6 6 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 5 (27.78%) Canary Deployment
7 5 (27.78%) Terraform
7 5 (27.78%) AppDynamics
7 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
7 5 (27.78%) Docker
7 5 (27.78%) SDLC
7 5 (27.78%) Dynatrace
7 5 (27.78%) OpenStack
7 5 (27.78%) Splunk
7 5 (27.78%) nginx
7 5 (27.78%) Groovy
7 5 (27.78%) Apache
8 4 (22.22%) HTTP
8 4 (22.22%) IBM
8 4 (22.22%) HPUX
8 4 (22.22%) Solaris

Unix Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (27.78%) Apache
1 5 (27.78%) nginx
1 5 (27.78%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) SAN
2 4 (22.22%) HTTP
3 3 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (5.56%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Unix
2 13 (72.22%) Linux
3 8 (44.44%) AIX
4 4 (22.22%) HPUX
4 4 (22.22%) Solaris
5 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (16.67%) Windows
6 2 (11.11%) CentOS
6 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) High Availability
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
2 6 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Canary Deployment
3 5 (27.78%) SDLC
4 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Storage Management
4 3 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.11%) ITSM
5 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
5 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 2 (11.11%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (5.56%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) Groovy
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) Docker
3 2 (11.11%) KVM
4 1 (5.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Ansible
2 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
4 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 2 (11.11%) Tivoli
4 2 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Cobbler
5 1 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) VMware
2 5 (27.78%) AppDynamics
2 5 (27.78%) Dynatrace
2 5 (27.78%) Splunk
3 4 (22.22%) IBM
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (11.11%) HP
6 1 (5.56%) EMC
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.56%) NetApp
6 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.56%) Veritas