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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 76 60
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Unix 8 13 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.36% 1.17% 2.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.79% 15.29% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 19
10th Percentile £526 - £363
25th Percentile £565 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £668 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +48.44% +5.88% -16.67%
75th Percentile £778 £500 £624
90th Percentile £784 £590 £625
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -20.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 58 85 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 9.88% 7.66% 14.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 56 120
10th Percentile £356 £226 £205
25th Percentile £500 £438 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £605 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% +24.10% -4.41%
75th Percentile £700 £608 £623
90th Percentile - £638 £689
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £431
% change year-on-year +5.26% +10.14% -13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £48.63
25th Percentile - £69.06 £50.31
Median hourly rate - £69.38 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +26.14% -
75th Percentile - £69.69 £59.06
90th Percentile - - £60.38
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £61.60 £53.00
% change year-on-year -69.37% +16.23% -41.92%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Reading over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Reading

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Unix

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 3 (37.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) OCI
2 2 (25.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) PuTTY
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (12.50%) Toad
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) DBA
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle DBA
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Forensic Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Remedy Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) NETCONF
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) RESTCONF
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) YAML
1 1 (12.50%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) IoT
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Workflow
2 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Database Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) ERP
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Proactive Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) SOA
2 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Forensics
3 2 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
3 2 (25.00%) Document Management
3 2 (25.00%) E-Discovery
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (25.00%) CCSP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CISM
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) GCFA
1 2 (25.00%) GCFE
1 2 (25.00%) GCIH
1 2 (25.00%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (25.00%) EnCase
2 2 (25.00%) FTK
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (25.00%) Darktrace
3 2 (25.00%) Remedy
4 1 (12.50%) BMC
4 1 (12.50%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) CyberArk
4 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk