Unix Contracts in the Thames Valley

Unix
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 69 100 89
Rank change year-on-year +31 -11 +4
Contract jobs citing Unix 33 45 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.18% 1.68% 2.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.71% 11.51% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 48
10th Percentile £375 £280 £323
25th Percentile £450 £284 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -21.30% +13.68%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £623
90th Percentile £593 £621 £738
South East median daily rate £494 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +16.18% -22.73% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year - -25.78% -1.54%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 210 391 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.90% 14.56% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 281 318
10th Percentile £213 £193 £213
25th Percentile £329 £213 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £700 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 26 16
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile - £19.13 £19.52
Median hourly rate £14.20 £38.75 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -63.35% -20.43% +143.50%
75th Percentile £18.58 £57.13 £62.97
90th Percentile £23.63 £61.60 £78.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the Thames Valley

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +21 26 £450 +12.50% 11
Oxfordshire +9 5 £550 - 6
Buckinghamshire +10 2 £375 -16.67% 3
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (3.03%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (51.52%) MPLS
1 17 (51.52%) VPN
2 16 (48.48%) ATM
2 16 (48.48%) Ethernet
2 16 (48.48%) Frame Relay
2 16 (48.48%) GPRS
2 16 (48.48%) GSM
2 16 (48.48%) LAN
2 16 (48.48%) LTE
2 16 (48.48%) SAN
2 16 (48.48%) SDH
2 16 (48.48%) UMTS
2 16 (48.48%) WAN
2 16 (48.48%) Wireshark
3 1 (3.03%) BGP
3 1 (3.03%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (3.03%) PuTTY
3 1 (3.03%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.06%) MS Access
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.03%) Big Data
4 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.03%) HBase
4 1 (3.03%) HDInsight
4 1 (3.03%) Impala
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
4 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) Maven
3 1 (3.03%) Subversion
3 1 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.03%) Toad
General
1 24 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 17 (51.52%) Telecoms
3 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Automotive
5 1 (3.03%) Advertising
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) IP Engineer
1 15 (45.45%) Test Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Administrator
5 2 (6.06%) Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Architect
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Data Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.06%) IP Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) IP Network Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Network Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Test Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Middleware
1 2 (6.06%) Web Services
2 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.03%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) NETCONF
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.03%) PySpark
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) RESTCONF
2 1 (3.03%) SOAP
2 1 (3.03%) XML
2 1 (3.03%) YAML
2 1 (3.03%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (48.48%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.09%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.06%) Robotics
3 2 (6.06%) Self-Driving Car
4 1 (3.03%) CMDB
4 1 (3.03%) IoT
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 28 (84.85%) Linux
2 6 (18.18%) Windows
3 4 (12.12%) AIX
4 3 (9.09%) CentOS
4 3 (9.09%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (6.06%) HPUX
5 2 (6.06%) Solaris
5 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (51.52%) Regression Testing
3 16 (48.48%) Fault Management
3 16 (48.48%) Project Management
3 16 (48.48%) Test Strategy
4 4 (12.12%) Agile
4 4 (12.12%) Analytics
4 4 (12.12%) Configuration Management
4 4 (12.12%) Data Governance
4 4 (12.12%) Data Migration
4 4 (12.12%) Logistics
4 4 (12.12%) Migration
5 3 (9.09%) Data Modelling
5 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (9.09%) ETL
5 3 (9.09%) Integration Testing
5 3 (9.09%) Microservices
5 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
5 3 (9.09%) Validation
5 3 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Java
2 9 (27.27%) SQL
3 4 (12.12%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Korn
5 1 (3.03%) Perl
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (48.48%) CCNP
1 16 (48.48%) Cisco Certification
1 16 (48.48%) ISEB
1 16 (48.48%) ISTQB
1 16 (48.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.06%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Flume
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Ansible
1 4 (12.12%) Progress Chef
1 4 (12.12%) Puppet
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (6.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (69.70%) Microsoft
2 17 (51.52%) Cisco
3 16 (48.48%) Juniper
4 2 (6.06%) Citrix
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) Remedy
4 2 (6.06%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) BMC
5 1 (3.03%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.03%) Google
5 1 (3.03%) HP
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk
5 1 (3.03%) StreamSets