Unix Engineer Contracts in England

Unix Engineer
UK > England

The median Unix Engineer daily rate in England is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 615 715
Rank change year-on-year +81 +100 -128
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 14 53 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.10% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.11% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 42 47
10th Percentile £250 £383 £385
25th Percentile £416 £509 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £548 £460
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +19.02% +9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £692 £580
90th Percentile £575 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £519 £534 £450
% change year-on-year -2.81% +18.61% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +90 7 £538 -10.42%
South East +9 3 £350 -45.63% 1
East of England +6 2 £550 +41.94% 2
South West - 2 £488 -
Unix Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 14 (100.00%) Unix
2 11 (78.57%) Linux
3 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (57.14%) ITIL
3 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
3 8 (57.14%) VMware
4 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
5 4 (28.57%) VPN
5 4 (28.57%) HTTPS
5 4 (28.57%) IBM
5 4 (28.57%) HP
5 4 (28.57%) Dell
5 4 (28.57%) Solaris
5 4 (28.57%) FTP
5 4 (28.57%) HTTP
5 4 (28.57%) MQSeries
5 4 (28.57%) LDAP
5 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
5 4 (28.57%) Samba
5 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
5 4 (28.57%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 4 (28.57%) Change Management
5 4 (28.57%) Firewall
5 4 (28.57%) IPsec
5 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
5 4 (28.57%) tcpdump
5 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (28.57%) Wireshark
5 4 (28.57%) Rancher

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 4 (28.57%) MQSeries
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 4 (28.57%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) FTP
2 4 (28.57%) HTTP
2 4 (28.57%) HTTPS
2 4 (28.57%) IPsec
2 4 (28.57%) Network Security
2 4 (28.57%) tcpdump
2 4 (28.57%) VPN
2 4 (28.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) CA Gen
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) TestRail
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Advertising
2 1 (7.14%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) LDAP
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Unix
2 11 (78.57%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) Change Management
2 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.14%) Agile
3 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Functional Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Project Planning
3 1 (7.14%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Scrum
3 1 (7.14%) SDLC
3 1 (7.14%) TDD
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.14%) Natural
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) HNC
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 4 (28.57%) Samba
2 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Rancher
1 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Satellite
1 4 (28.57%) SCOM
1 4 (28.57%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 4 (28.57%) Dell
2 4 (28.57%) HP
2 4 (28.57%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) CA