Unix Contracts in England

Unix
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 90 110
Rank change year-on-year -52 +20 -13
Contract jobs citing Unix 608 1,388 1,764
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.64% 2.75% 2.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.05% 16.80% 15.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 988 1,165
10th Percentile £350 £413 £389
25th Percentile £425 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £800 £738 £706
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 11
10th Percentile £22.08 £40.00 £39.55
25th Percentile £23.80 £51.25 £44.34
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -11.54% +52.94%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £76.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -9.86% +47.73%

All Operating Systems
England

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in England

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in England

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in England

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in England

Unix
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unix in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unix in England

Unix
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 -31 349 £600 +1.69% 91
South East +10 107 £425 -22.73% 30
North of England -32 58 £484 -7.90% 12
West Midlands -34 41 £536 -0.74% 7
Midlands -60 41 £536 -0.74% 14
North West -22 31 £550 +9.95% 5
Yorkshire +1 24 £425 -19.05% 7
South West +11 22 £488 -11.36% 19
East of England -16 16 £350 -17.65% 24
North East -7 3 - -
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Unix
UK

Unix
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 28 (4.61%) nginx
2 22 (3.62%) Confluence
3 17 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (2.47%) Apache
5 10 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.64%) JBoss
5 10 (1.64%) NetWeaver
5 10 (1.64%) Tomcat
6 9 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (1.32%) IIS
8 5 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.66%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.49%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.16%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
12 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.97%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (2.47%) ION MarketView
2 12 (1.97%) ION Anvil
3 10 (1.64%) SAP IBP
4 7 (1.15%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.49%) Shopify
8 2 (0.33%) Advent Geneva
8 2 (0.33%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.33%) Fidessa
8 2 (0.33%) Front Arena
8 2 (0.33%) SAP GTS
9 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 96 (15.79%) AWS
2 82 (13.49%) Azure
3 26 (4.28%) GCP
3 26 (4.28%) PaaS
4 18 (2.96%) GitHub
4 18 (2.96%) Serverless
5 17 (2.80%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 14 (2.30%) Power Platform
7 12 (1.97%) IaaS
7 12 (1.97%) SaaS
8 10 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.32%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (1.15%) Entra ID
12 6 (0.99%) Azure Functions
13 5 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 63 (10.36%) Firewall
2 40 (6.58%) DNS
3 33 (5.43%) SAN
3 33 (5.43%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.61%) DHCP
5 25 (4.11%) FTP
6 21 (3.45%) HTTP
6 21 (3.45%) LAN
7 20 (3.29%) Network Security
8 17 (2.80%) Intrusion Detection
8 17 (2.80%) WAN
9 15 (2.47%) VPN
9 15 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (2.30%) FIX Connectivity
11 13 (2.14%) MPLS
12 11 (1.81%) Internet
12 11 (1.81%) SSH
13 9 (1.48%) DSL
13 9 (1.48%) IPsec
13 9 (1.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.06%) MongoDB
1 49 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.92%) Relational Database
3 30 (4.93%) Oracle Database
4 24 (3.95%) RDBMS
5 23 (3.78%) Big Data
6 21 (3.45%) Hadoop
7 19 (3.13%) KDB
8 18 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (2.80%) MySQL
10 15 (2.47%) NoSQL
11 14 (2.30%) Power BI
12 11 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.64%) DB2
13 10 (1.64%) Kdb+
13 10 (1.64%) SAP BW
13 10 (1.64%) SAP HANA
14 8 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (1.15%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 66 (10.86%) JIRA
2 58 (9.54%) Git
3 45 (7.40%) Jenkins
4 26 (4.28%) GitLab
5 21 (3.45%) Mockito
6 20 (3.29%) TeamCity
7 18 (2.96%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.97%) Selenium
9 11 (1.81%) Maven
10 10 (1.64%) Subversion
11 9 (1.48%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.32%) Gatling
12 8 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.99%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.99%) JUnit
13 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.82%) Ant
14 5 (0.82%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
14 5 (0.82%) WebDriver
General
1 180 (29.61%) Finance
2 124 (20.39%) Social Skills
3 104 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (13.65%) Banking
5 41 (6.74%) Front Office
5 41 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.92%) Investment Banking
7 20 (3.29%) Telecoms
8 16 (2.63%) Marketing
9 15 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.81%) Back Office
11 10 (1.64%) Billing
11 10 (1.64%) Retail
12 8 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.82%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 154 (25.33%) Developer
2 63 (10.36%) Senior
3 44 (7.24%) Analyst
4 42 (6.91%) Java Developer
5 30 (4.93%) Consultant
6 26 (4.28%) Linux Engineer
7 25 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (3.62%) Lead
8 22 (3.62%) Senior Developer
8 22 (3.62%) SQL Developer
9 21 (3.45%) Architect
10 18 (2.96%) Senior Java Developer
11 16 (2.63%) Applications Support
11 16 (2.63%) DBA
12 15 (2.47%) Business Analyst
13 14 (2.30%) Implementation Specialist
13 14 (2.30%) Support Engineer
13 14 (2.30%) Systems Engineer
13 14 (2.30%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (6.58%) XML
2 39 (6.41%) FIX Protocol
2 39 (6.41%) Kafka
3 32 (5.26%) HTML
3 32 (5.26%) Spring
4 29 (4.77%) CSS
5 25 (4.11%) JSON
6 24 (3.95%) Middleware
7 21 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
7 21 (3.45%) LDAP
7 21 (3.45%) Web Services
8 20 (3.29%) Sass
9 18 (2.96%) Laravel
10 17 (2.80%) JAX-RS
10 17 (2.80%) REST
11 15 (2.47%) Apache NiFi
11 15 (2.47%) WebSockets
12 11 (1.81%) Hibernate
12 11 (1.81%) J2EE
13 10 (1.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.91%) Data Centre
2 40 (6.58%) Management Information System
3 34 (5.59%) Fixed Income
4 28 (4.61%) Linux Command Line
5 27 (4.44%) Replication
6 24 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (3.78%) Derivative
8 20 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
9 17 (2.80%) Product Ownership
10 16 (2.63%) Equities
10 16 (2.63%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.47%) Algorithms
11 15 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (2.47%) Virtual Team
12 13 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
12 13 (2.14%) Distributed Applications
13 11 (1.81%) Client/Server
13 11 (1.81%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.81%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.64%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 351 (57.73%) Linux
2 204 (33.55%) Windows
3 41 (6.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (4.77%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.78%) Mac OS X
6 19 (3.13%) Solaris
7 17 (2.80%) Android
7 17 (2.80%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.97%) VMS
9 6 (0.99%) AIX
10 4 (0.66%) CentOS
10 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.66%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.49%) HPUX
11 3 (0.49%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.49%) Windows XP
11 3 (0.49%) zOS
12 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.16%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (19.57%) Agile
2 81 (13.32%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 75 (12.34%) Migration
5 74 (12.17%) DevOps
6 69 (11.35%) Test Automation
7 65 (10.69%) ITIL
8 64 (10.53%) TDD
9 57 (9.38%) Microservices
10 54 (8.88%) Scrum
11 45 (7.40%) Computer Science
12 44 (7.24%) Performance Tuning
13 43 (7.07%) Capacity Management
14 41 (6.74%) Data Modelling
15 39 (6.41%) Analytics
16 38 (6.25%) Risk Management
17 37 (6.09%) Disaster Recovery
18 36 (5.92%) BDD
19 35 (5.76%) Incident Management
20 34 (5.59%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (30.76%) SQL
2 153 (25.16%) Python
3 150 (24.67%) Java
4 81 (13.32%) Shell Script
5 60 (9.87%) PowerShell
6 57 (9.38%) Perl
7 48 (7.89%) Bash
8 46 (7.57%) JavaScript
9 39 (6.41%) C#
10 33 (5.43%) PL/SQL
11 23 (3.78%) PHP
12 16 (2.63%) Scala
13 15 (2.47%) C++
14 14 (2.30%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.97%) C
15 12 (1.97%) Go
16 10 (1.64%) Korn
17 9 (1.48%) Bourne shell
18 8 (1.32%) ProC
18 8 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 97 (15.95%) Security Cleared
2 94 (15.46%) Degree
3 65 (10.69%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.78%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.80%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.32%) CCNA
9 8 (1.32%) SAP Certification
10 7 (1.15%) ISTQB
10 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.66%) MCSE
12 4 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.49%) CISSP
13 3 (0.49%) ISEB
13 3 (0.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.92%) QA
2 27 (4.44%) SLA
3 14 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.81%) NIST
6 9 (1.48%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.32%) MiFID
8 7 (1.15%) Dodd-Frank
8 7 (1.15%) EMIR
8 7 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.82%) GDPR
9 5 (0.82%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 53 (8.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 42 (6.91%) Docker
4 19 (3.13%) HDFS
5 17 (2.80%) vSphere
6 16 (2.63%) Hyper-V
7 15 (2.47%) NFS
8 12 (1.97%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (1.32%) VMware NSX
10 8 (1.32%) VMware Workstation
11 6 (0.99%) Firmware
12 5 (0.82%) Samba
13 4 (0.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.33%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.33%) KVM
14 2 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 78 (12.83%) Ansible
2 61 (10.03%) Kubernetes
3 38 (6.25%) Terraform
4 32 (5.26%) SCCM
5 25 (4.11%) Puppet
6 17 (2.80%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.63%) Grafana
8 15 (2.47%) NetBackup
9 14 (2.30%) SCOM
10 13 (2.14%) Prometheus
11 8 (1.32%) CFEngine
11 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
11 8 (1.32%) Nagios
11 8 (1.32%) SCVMM
12 7 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
12 7 (1.15%) Netcool
12 7 (1.15%) Packer
12 7 (1.15%) PowerBroker
12 7 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
12 7 (1.15%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 129 (21.22%) Oracle
2 68 (11.18%) VMware
3 50 (8.22%) Microsoft
4 39 (6.41%) Red Hat
5 33 (5.43%) SAP
6 26 (4.28%) IBM
7 24 (3.95%) ION Trading
8 23 (3.78%) Dell
9 18 (2.96%) Bloomberg
9 18 (2.96%) Splunk
10 17 (2.80%) Google
10 17 (2.80%) HP
11 16 (2.63%) Cisco
11 16 (2.63%) Qualys
12 14 (2.30%) F5
12 14 (2.30%) Murex
12 14 (2.30%) ServiceNow
13 13 (2.14%) Isilon
13 13 (2.14%) Veritas
14 11 (1.81%) Atlassian