Unix Contracts in England

Unix
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 165 140 89
Rank change year-on-year -25 -51 +21
Contract jobs citing Unix 405 614 1,388
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.66% 1.65% 2.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.86% 12.11% 16.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 421 983
10th Percentile £363 £350 £419
25th Percentile £425 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 21
10th Percentile £38.89 £22.08 £40.00
25th Percentile £45.88 £23.80 £51.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -30.43% -11.54%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £67.50 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year +31.25% -31.73% -9.86%

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,414 5,072 8,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.02% 13.64% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,320 3,461 5,863
10th Percentile £200 £181 £193
25th Percentile £313 £289 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 369 384
10th Percentile £15.26 £12.75 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.17 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%
75th Percentile £64.38 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 -46 212 £550 -8.33% 211
North of England +31 71 £525 +8.58% 34
South East -5 53 £494 +16.18% 65
North West +22 36 £447 -18.73% 19
Yorkshire +16 32 £650 +52.94% 10
Midlands +7 27 £460 -14.18% 12
West Midlands -6 21 £468 -12.78% 8
East of England +32 18 £450 +28.57% 22
South West +31 7 £453 -7.18% 13
East Midlands +15 6 £454 -9.20% 4
North East 0 3 £563 - 5
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 23 (5.68%) Confluence
2 19 (4.69%) nginx
3 16 (3.95%) Apache
4 12 (2.96%) Traefik
4 12 (2.96%) WebSphere
5 10 (2.47%) Tomcat
6 9 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (1.98%) Apache Spark
8 7 (1.73%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (1.73%) SharePoint
9 6 (1.48%) NetWeaver
9 6 (1.48%) SAS
10 5 (1.23%) OpenStack
10 5 (1.23%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.99%) CICS
11 4 (0.99%) CMS
11 4 (0.99%) Drupal
11 4 (0.99%) JBoss
11 4 (0.99%) WordPress
12 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.21%) MS Visio
3 12 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (3.21%) Kondor
2 6 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (1.48%) SAP IBP
3 4 (0.99%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.49%) Actimize
5 2 (0.49%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.25%) iTrent
6 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.25%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.25%) Shopify
6 1 (0.25%) Summit
6 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 91 (22.47%) AWS
2 53 (13.09%) Azure
3 27 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (5.19%) Entra ID
5 20 (4.94%) GCP
6 19 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
9 13 (3.21%) Serverless
10 12 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.47%) GitHub
12 9 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.23%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.23%) OneDrive
15 4 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.90%) SAN
2 29 (7.16%) DNS
3 26 (6.42%) VPN
4 25 (6.17%) TCP/IP
5 19 (4.69%) Firewall
5 19 (4.69%) LAN
5 19 (4.69%) MPLS
5 19 (4.69%) WAN
6 18 (4.44%) Wireshark
7 16 (3.95%) ATM
7 16 (3.95%) Ethernet
7 16 (3.95%) Frame Relay
7 16 (3.95%) GPRS
7 16 (3.95%) GSM
7 16 (3.95%) LTE
7 16 (3.95%) SDH
7 16 (3.95%) UMTS
8 15 (3.70%) HTTP
9 11 (2.72%) HTTPS
10 10 (2.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.16%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 21 (5.19%) Oracle Database
3 21 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 16 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.95%) DB2
5 11 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.72%) RDBMS
6 10 (2.47%) Big Data
6 10 (2.47%) Hadoop
6 10 (2.47%) MySQL
7 9 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (1.98%) Metadata
9 7 (1.73%) KDB
10 6 (1.48%) MS Access
10 6 (1.48%) Oracle Database 10g
10 6 (1.48%) SAP BW
10 6 (1.48%) SAP HANA
11 5 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 63 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 36 (8.89%) GitLab
2 36 (8.89%) JIRA
3 33 (8.15%) Git
4 13 (3.21%) Subversion
5 11 (2.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (2.47%) Toad
7 9 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
7 9 (2.22%) Maven
7 9 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
8 8 (1.98%) JUnit
9 7 (1.73%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.23%) Jasmine
10 5 (1.23%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.99%) Ant
11 4 (0.99%) Mocha
11 4 (0.99%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.99%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.99%) WinRunner
General
1 141 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 100 (24.69%) Finance
3 60 (14.81%) Banking
4 51 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.19%) Front Office
6 20 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.69%) Telecoms
8 12 (2.96%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.98%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.98%) Military
10 7 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.48%) French Language
12 5 (1.23%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.99%) Legal
13 4 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.74%) Automotive
14 3 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.74%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 59 (14.57%) Developer
2 52 (12.84%) Senior
3 45 (11.11%) Analyst
4 31 (7.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (5.93%) Architect
6 22 (5.43%) Administrator
6 22 (5.43%) Senior DevOps
7 21 (5.19%) Support Engineer
8 20 (4.94%) Applications Support
8 20 (4.94%) Linux Engineer
8 20 (4.94%) Pensions Analyst
9 18 (4.44%) Consultant
9 18 (4.44%) Test Engineer
9 18 (4.44%) Unix Engineer
10 17 (4.20%) Java Developer
10 17 (4.20%) Lead
10 17 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.95%) Network Engineer
12 15 (3.70%) IP Engineer
13 13 (3.21%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.65%) Web Services
2 29 (7.16%) Kafka
3 26 (6.42%) Middleware
4 22 (5.43%) cloud-init
5 19 (4.69%) SOAP
6 17 (4.20%) AngularJS
6 17 (4.20%) HTML
6 17 (4.20%) XML
7 15 (3.70%) RESTful
8 14 (3.46%) CSS
8 14 (3.46%) Keycloak
8 14 (3.46%) REST
9 12 (2.96%) J2EE
10 11 (2.72%) jQuery
11 10 (2.47%) HTML5
11 10 (2.47%) Spring
12 8 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (1.98%) Node.js
13 7 (1.73%) JSON
13 7 (1.73%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (4.20%) Derivative
3 16 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
3 16 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (3.70%) PKI
5 13 (3.21%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.96%) Equities
6 12 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (2.47%) FPGA
7 10 (2.47%) Verilog
8 9 (2.22%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.98%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.73%) Enterprise Storage
10 7 (1.73%) Mainframe
10 7 (1.73%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 264 (65.19%) Linux
2 82 (20.25%) Windows
3 47 (11.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 33 (8.15%) CentOS
5 31 (7.65%) AIX
6 17 (4.20%) Solaris
7 9 (2.22%) Windows Server
8 7 (1.73%) HPUX
9 6 (1.48%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.23%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.99%) CatOS
11 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
13 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.49%) Rocky
13 2 (0.49%) zOS
14 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (19.26%) Agile
3 74 (18.27%) DevOps
4 73 (18.02%) CI/CD
5 50 (12.35%) Test Automation
6 46 (11.36%) Migration
7 36 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (8.64%) High Availability
9 33 (8.15%) SDLC
10 31 (7.65%) ITIL
11 29 (7.16%) Data Migration
12 26 (6.42%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (6.42%) Performance Tuning
13 24 (5.93%) Cloud Security
13 24 (5.93%) Validation
14 23 (5.68%) Microservices
14 23 (5.68%) Observability
14 23 (5.68%) Problem Management
14 23 (5.68%) Test Strategy
15 22 (5.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 147 (36.30%) SQL
2 137 (33.83%) Python
3 87 (21.48%) Java
4 70 (17.28%) Shell Script
5 54 (13.33%) Bash
6 28 (6.91%) JavaScript
6 28 (6.91%) Perl
7 27 (6.67%) PL/SQL
8 26 (6.42%) Go
9 17 (4.20%) C
10 14 (3.46%) Tcl
11 12 (2.96%) ActionScript
11 12 (2.96%) ActionScript 2.0
12 11 (2.72%) Groovy
13 10 (2.47%) SystemVerilog
14 9 (2.22%) PowerShell
15 8 (1.98%) COBOL
15 8 (1.98%) PHP
16 6 (1.48%) C++
16 6 (1.48%) REXX
Qualifications
1 54 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 50 (12.35%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (5.43%) CCNP
5 21 (5.19%) ISTQB
6 20 (4.94%) Degree
6 20 (4.94%) ISEB
7 18 (4.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 16 (3.95%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (0.99%) CCSE
11 4 (0.99%) MCSE
11 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.49%) CISSP
13 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.46%) NCSC
1 14 (3.46%) QA
2 9 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.73%) SLA
5 6 (1.48%) MiFID
6 5 (1.23%) Basel III
6 5 (1.23%) WCAG
7 4 (0.99%) NIST
8 3 (0.74%) GDPR
8 3 (0.74%) SEPA
9 2 (0.49%) GMP
9 2 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.25%) EMIR
10 1 (0.25%) HL7
10 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (9.14%) Docker
2 27 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.42%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.99%) NFS
8 3 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.74%) vSphere
9 2 (0.49%) HDFS
9 2 (0.49%) KVM
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.49%) RACF
9 2 (0.49%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.49%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.25%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.25%) Firmware
10 1 (0.25%) Samba
10 1 (0.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 57 (14.07%) Kubernetes
2 47 (11.60%) Ansible
3 46 (11.36%) Terraform
4 24 (5.93%) Packer
5 19 (4.69%) Grafana
5 19 (4.69%) Puppet
6 18 (4.44%) Prometheus
7 16 (3.95%) Istio
7 16 (3.95%) Progress Chef
7 16 (3.95%) ZABBIX
8 14 (3.46%) Consul
8 14 (3.46%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (3.46%) linkerd
8 14 (3.46%) Rancher
9 13 (3.21%) HAProxy
10 7 (1.73%) Tivoli
11 6 (1.48%) Control-M
12 5 (1.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 5 (1.23%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 80 (19.75%) Oracle
2 60 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 40 (9.88%) Splunk
4 34 (8.40%) VMware
5 33 (8.15%) IBM
6 31 (7.65%) Cisco
7 27 (6.67%) Red Hat
8 22 (5.43%) Juniper
9 20 (4.94%) Sybase
10 17 (4.20%) Veritas
11 15 (3.70%) Apple
11 15 (3.70%) Okta
12 14 (3.46%) AppDynamics
13 12 (2.96%) ESET
14 11 (2.72%) Bloomberg
14 11 (2.72%) Citrix
14 11 (2.72%) Dynatrace
15 10 (2.47%) IBM Sterling
15 10 (2.47%) Informatica
15 10 (2.47%) Xilinx