Unix Contracts in Reading

Unix
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 48 66
Rank change year-on-year -37 +18 -13
Contract jobs citing Unix 15 40 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.29% 3.94% 2.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.49% 31.25% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 30 23
10th Percentile £334 £325 £375
25th Percentile £391 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £544 £486
Median % change year-on-year -21.84% +12.00% +37.19%
75th Percentile £515 £606 £581
90th Percentile £647 £625 £618
Berkshire median daily rate £375 £531 £471
% change year-on-year -29.41% +12.89% +19.51%

All Operating Systems
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 158 128 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 13.57% 12.62% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 96 153
10th Percentile £205 £319 £160
25th Percentile £213 £417 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £608 £633 £625
90th Percentile - £700 £674
Berkshire median daily rate £438 £505 £488
% change year-on-year -13.37% +3.59% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
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 £61.60 £55.00 £66.58
% change year-on-year +12.00% -17.40% +328.05%

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 7 May 2024.

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 (6.67%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) FTP
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) Internet
2 1 (6.67%) RNC
2 1 (6.67%) SGSN
2 1 (6.67%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 3 (20.00%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) GIS
4 1 (6.67%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 11 (73.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) ETL Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) ETL Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Informatica Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Network Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Test Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Unix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) OpenLayers
2 1 (6.67%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (20.00%) Smart Meter
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (13.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) ETL
2 4 (26.67%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (26.67%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Analytics
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) Data Science
3 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) ETL Development
3 3 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) Revenue Assurance
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) User Stories
4 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) Groovy
5 1 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (13.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Packer
1 2 (13.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Ab Initio
2 3 (20.00%) Informatica
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) BMC
4 1 (6.67%) Ericsson
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) Mapinfo
4 1 (6.67%) Micro Focus
4 1 (6.67%) Nokia
4 1 (6.67%) OpenText
4 1 (6.67%) Remedy