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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 89 113
Rank change year-on-year -53 +24 -17
Contract jobs citing Unix 613 1,388 1,752
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.65% 2.75% 2.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.06% 16.87% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 983 1,157
10th Percentile £350 £419 £390
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 £801 £738 £706
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £545
% change year-on-year - +0.92% +9.00%
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 5,081 8,230 11,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.31% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,461 5,866 7,654
10th Percentile £181 £193 £171
25th Percentile £285 £325 £315
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 £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.33% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 370 384 558
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.19 £17.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +21.06%
75th Percentile £59.88 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £39.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.02% +74.67% +26.69%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -40 354 £600 - 89
South East +3 107 £425 -22.73% 29
North of England -33 58 £484 -7.90% 13
West Midlands -33 41 £536 -0.74% 8
Midlands -57 41 £536 -0.74% 16
North West -12 31 £550 +10.00% 6
Yorkshire +1 24 £425 -19.05% 7
South West +1 22 £488 -11.36% 20
East of England -20 16 £350 -17.65% 27
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 (4.57%) nginx
2 22 (3.59%) Confluence
3 17 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (2.45%) Apache
5 10 (1.63%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.63%) JBoss
5 10 (1.63%) NetWeaver
5 10 (1.63%) Tomcat
6 9 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (1.31%) IIS
8 5 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.65%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.65%) 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 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.96%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (2.45%) ION MarketView
2 12 (1.96%) ION Anvil
3 10 (1.63%) SAP IBP
4 7 (1.14%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.65%) 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 (15.66%) AWS
2 82 (13.38%) Azure
3 27 (4.40%) GCP
3 27 (4.40%) PaaS
4 19 (3.10%) Serverless
5 18 (2.94%) GitHub
6 17 (2.77%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 14 (2.28%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.96%) IaaS
8 12 (1.96%) SaaS
9 10 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.31%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.14%) Entra ID
13 6 (0.98%) Azure Functions
14 5 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.44%) Firewall
2 40 (6.53%) DNS
3 33 (5.38%) SAN
3 33 (5.38%) TCP/IP
4 28 (4.57%) DHCP
5 25 (4.08%) FTP
6 21 (3.43%) HTTP
6 21 (3.43%) LAN
7 20 (3.26%) Network Security
8 17 (2.77%) Intrusion Detection
8 17 (2.77%) WAN
9 15 (2.45%) VPN
9 15 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (2.28%) FIX Connectivity
11 13 (2.12%) MPLS
12 12 (1.96%) Internet
13 11 (1.79%) SSH
14 9 (1.47%) DSL
14 9 (1.47%) IPsec
14 9 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (7.99%) MongoDB
1 49 (7.99%) SQL Server
2 37 (6.04%) Relational Database
3 30 (4.89%) Oracle Database
4 24 (3.92%) RDBMS
5 23 (3.75%) Big Data
6 21 (3.43%) Hadoop
7 20 (3.26%) KDB
8 18 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (2.77%) MySQL
10 15 (2.45%) NoSQL
11 14 (2.28%) Power BI
12 11 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.63%) DB2
13 10 (1.63%) Kdb+
13 10 (1.63%) SAP BW
13 10 (1.63%) SAP HANA
14 8 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (1.14%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 66 (10.77%) JIRA
2 60 (9.79%) Git
3 46 (7.50%) Jenkins
4 27 (4.40%) GitLab
5 21 (3.43%) Mockito
5 21 (3.43%) TeamCity
6 18 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.96%) Selenium
8 11 (1.79%) Maven
9 10 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 10 (1.63%) Subversion
10 8 (1.31%) Gatling
10 8 (1.31%) Rational DOORS
11 7 (1.14%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.98%) JUnit
12 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.82%) Ant
13 5 (0.82%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.82%) WebDriver
General
1 183 (29.85%) Finance
2 128 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 105 (17.13%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (13.87%) Banking
5 41 (6.69%) Front Office
5 41 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.87%) Investment Banking
7 20 (3.26%) Telecoms
8 16 (2.61%) Marketing
9 15 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.79%) Back Office
11 10 (1.63%) Billing
11 10 (1.63%) Retail
12 9 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.31%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.14%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.98%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.82%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 156 (25.45%) Developer
2 65 (10.60%) Senior
3 44 (7.18%) Analyst
4 43 (7.01%) Java Developer
5 30 (4.89%) Consultant
6 26 (4.24%) Linux Engineer
7 25 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
8 24 (3.92%) Lead
9 23 (3.75%) Senior Developer
10 22 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (3.59%) SQL Developer
11 21 (3.43%) Architect
12 19 (3.10%) Senior Java Developer
13 16 (2.61%) Applications Support
13 16 (2.61%) DBA
14 15 (2.45%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.28%) Implementation Specialist
15 14 (2.28%) Support Engineer
15 14 (2.28%) Systems Engineer
15 14 (2.28%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (6.53%) FIX Protocol
1 40 (6.53%) XML
2 39 (6.36%) Kafka
3 33 (5.38%) Spring
4 32 (5.22%) HTML
5 29 (4.73%) CSS
6 25 (4.08%) JSON
6 25 (4.08%) Middleware
7 21 (3.43%) ActiveMQ
7 21 (3.43%) LDAP
7 21 (3.43%) Web Services
8 20 (3.26%) Sass
9 18 (2.94%) Laravel
10 17 (2.77%) JAX-RS
10 17 (2.77%) REST
11 15 (2.45%) Apache NiFi
11 15 (2.45%) WebSockets
12 11 (1.79%) Hibernate
12 11 (1.79%) J2EE
13 10 (1.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.85%) Data Centre
2 41 (6.69%) Management Information System
3 34 (5.55%) Fixed Income
4 28 (4.57%) Linux Command Line
5 27 (4.40%) Replication
6 25 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (3.75%) Derivative
8 22 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (2.94%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.77%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.61%) Algorithms
11 16 (2.61%) Equities
11 16 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (2.45%) Virtual Team
13 13 (2.12%) Cyber Defence
13 13 (2.12%) Distributed Applications
14 12 (1.96%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.79%) Client/Server
15 11 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
15 11 (1.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 356 (58.08%) Linux
2 205 (33.44%) Windows
3 41 (6.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (4.73%) Windows Server
5 23 (3.75%) Mac OS X
6 19 (3.10%) Solaris
7 18 (2.94%) Android
7 18 (2.94%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.96%) VMS
9 6 (0.98%) AIX
10 4 (0.65%) CentOS
10 4 (0.65%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.65%) 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%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (19.58%) Agile
2 81 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (12.89%) CI/CD
4 76 (12.40%) Migration
5 75 (12.23%) DevOps
6 70 (11.42%) Test Automation
7 65 (10.60%) ITIL
8 64 (10.44%) TDD
9 57 (9.30%) Microservices
10 55 (8.97%) Scrum
11 47 (7.67%) Computer Science
12 44 (7.18%) Performance Tuning
13 43 (7.01%) Capacity Management
14 41 (6.69%) Data Modelling
15 39 (6.36%) Analytics
16 38 (6.20%) Risk Management
17 37 (6.04%) Disaster Recovery
18 36 (5.87%) BDD
19 35 (5.71%) Configuration Management
19 35 (5.71%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (30.51%) SQL
2 154 (25.12%) Python
3 152 (24.80%) Java
4 81 (13.21%) Shell Script
5 60 (9.79%) PowerShell
6 58 (9.46%) Perl
7 48 (7.83%) Bash
8 46 (7.50%) JavaScript
9 39 (6.36%) C#
10 33 (5.38%) PL/SQL
11 23 (3.75%) PHP
12 16 (2.61%) Scala
13 15 (2.45%) C++
14 14 (2.28%) T-SQL
15 12 (1.96%) C
15 12 (1.96%) Go
16 10 (1.63%) Korn
17 9 (1.47%) Bourne shell
18 8 (1.31%) ProC
18 8 (1.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 97 (15.82%) Degree
1 97 (15.82%) Security Cleared
2 65 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 23 (3.75%) DV Cleared
4 17 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (2.77%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.31%) CCNA
7 8 (1.31%) SAP Certification
8 7 (1.14%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.65%) MCSE
10 4 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.49%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.49%) CISSP
11 3 (0.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.87%) QA
2 27 (4.40%) SLA
3 14 (2.28%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 11 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.79%) NIST
6 9 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.31%) MiFID
8 7 (1.14%) Dodd-Frank
8 7 (1.14%) EMIR
8 7 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.82%) GDPR
9 5 (0.82%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 4 (0.65%) ISO 15022
11 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 53 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (7.83%) Active Directory
3 42 (6.85%) Docker
4 19 (3.10%) HDFS
5 17 (2.77%) vSphere
6 16 (2.61%) Hyper-V
7 15 (2.45%) NFS
8 12 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (1.31%) VMware NSX
10 8 (1.31%) VMware Workstation
11 6 (0.98%) Firmware
12 5 (0.82%) Samba
13 4 (0.65%) 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 79 (12.89%) Ansible
2 63 (10.28%) Kubernetes
3 39 (6.36%) Terraform
4 32 (5.22%) SCCM
5 25 (4.08%) Puppet
6 17 (2.77%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.61%) Grafana
8 15 (2.45%) NetBackup
9 14 (2.28%) SCOM
10 13 (2.12%) Prometheus
11 8 (1.31%) CFEngine
11 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Clustering
11 8 (1.31%) Nagios
11 8 (1.31%) SCVMM
12 7 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
12 7 (1.14%) Netcool
12 7 (1.14%) PowerBroker
12 7 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
12 7 (1.14%) Tivoli
12 7 (1.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 129 (21.04%) Oracle
2 68 (11.09%) VMware
3 51 (8.32%) Microsoft
4 39 (6.36%) Red Hat
5 33 (5.38%) SAP
6 26 (4.24%) IBM
7 24 (3.92%) ION Trading
8 23 (3.75%) Dell
9 18 (2.94%) Bloomberg
9 18 (2.94%) Google
9 18 (2.94%) Splunk
10 17 (2.77%) HP
11 16 (2.61%) Cisco
11 16 (2.61%) Qualys
12 14 (2.28%) F5
12 14 (2.28%) Murex
12 14 (2.28%) ServiceNow
13 13 (2.12%) Isilon
13 13 (2.12%) Veritas
14 11 (1.79%) Atlassian