Unix Contracts in Reading

Unix
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 54 74 49
Rank change year-on-year +20 -25 +16
Contract jobs citing Unix 6 17 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.01% 1.43% 3.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.52% 10.43% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 29
10th Percentile £432 £341 £325
25th Percentile £490 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +37.88% -22.73% +15.59%
75th Percentile £621 £622 £606
90th Percentile £642 £642 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £400 £538
% change year-on-year +12.50% -25.58% +10.71%

All Operating Systems
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 63 163 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 10.55% 13.67% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 140 101
10th Percentile £228 £205 £325
25th Percentile £400 £213 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £542 £588
Median % change year-on-year +15.42% -7.83% +11.90%
75th Percentile £700 £608 £638
90th Percentile - - £763
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £425 £514
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.27% +4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £56.33 £49.00
25th Percentile - £56.44 £51.25
Median hourly rate - £60.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.60% -
75th Percentile - £65.94 £72.84
90th Percentile - £67.63 £77.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -16.03%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Reading

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Reading

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Reading

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Reading

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) PuTTY
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) HBase
1 1 (16.67%) HDInsight
1 1 (16.67%) Impala
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (16.67%) Toad
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) NETCONF
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) RESTCONF
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) YAML
1 1 (16.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
1 1 (16.67%) IoT
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) AIX
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
3 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) MapReduce
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Flume
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (33.33%) Puppet
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Remedy
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) BMC
3 1 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (16.67%) Databricks
3 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) StreamSets