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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 103 93
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 -3
Contract jobs citing Unix 28 31 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.69% 1.17% 1.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.89% 9.54% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 44
10th Percentile £360 £338 £313
25th Percentile £375 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £444
Median % change year-on-year - +1.41% -11.25%
75th Percentile £528 £475 £623
90th Percentile £575 £498 £704
South East median daily rate £550 £425 £506
% change year-on-year +29.41% -16.05% +6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £27.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year - -53.06% -26.76%

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 257 325 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.55% 12.25% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 207 323
10th Percentile £200 £205 £196
25th Percentile £315 £291 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year - -4.26% -1.05%
75th Percentile £564 £604 £588
90th Percentile £700 £608 £675
South East median daily rate £490 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +3.16% +2.70% +0.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 13
10th Percentile - £16.19 -
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.00 £18.08
Median hourly rate £15.12 £47.50 £23.30
Median % change year-on-year -68.17% +103.86% +37.06%
75th Percentile £18.87 £59.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £24.32 £61.60 £68.13
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.27% -13.64% +223.53%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +25 21 £450 +2.86% 6
Buckinghamshire +3 5 £375 -16.67%
Oxfordshire -2 2 £550 +111.54% 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 3 (10.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (10.71%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (3.57%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) OCI
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) MPLS
1 14 (50.00%) SAN
1 14 (50.00%) VPN
2 13 (46.43%) ATM
2 13 (46.43%) Ethernet
2 13 (46.43%) Frame Relay
2 13 (46.43%) GPRS
2 13 (46.43%) GSM
2 13 (46.43%) LAN
2 13 (46.43%) LTE
2 13 (46.43%) SDH
2 13 (46.43%) UMTS
2 13 (46.43%) WAN
2 13 (46.43%) Wireshark
3 1 (3.57%) BGP
3 1 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (3.57%) FCAPS
3 1 (3.57%) PuTTY
3 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.57%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) MS Access
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.57%) Maven
2 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
2 1 (3.57%) Subversion
2 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.57%) Toad
General
1 18 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 15 (53.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Automotive
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) IP Engineer
1 12 (42.86%) Test Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior
4 5 (17.86%) IP Network Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Test Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Consultant
6 3 (10.71%) DBA
6 3 (10.71%) Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (7.14%) IP Consultant
7 2 (7.14%) IP Network Consultant
7 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Network Consultant
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Support Consultant
8 1 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Middleware
2 3 (10.71%) Web Services
3 2 (7.14%) SOAP
3 2 (7.14%) XML
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) NETCONF
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) RESTCONF
4 1 (3.57%) XML Messaging
4 1 (3.57%) YAML
4 1 (3.57%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.14%) Robotics
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Driving Car
3 1 (3.57%) CMDB
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (64.29%) Linux
2 6 (21.43%) Windows
3 2 (7.14%) CentOS
3 2 (7.14%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.57%) Debian
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (53.57%) Test Strategy
3 14 (50.00%) Regression Testing
4 13 (46.43%) Fault Management
4 13 (46.43%) Project Management
5 7 (25.00%) Agile
6 5 (17.86%) Logistics
6 5 (17.86%) Workflow
7 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 4 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 3 (10.71%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (10.71%) Database Tuning
8 3 (10.71%) ERP
8 3 (10.71%) Microservices
8 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (10.71%) SOA
8 3 (10.71%) System Integration Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.71%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Java
2 10 (35.71%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Perl
3 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Python
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) ISEB
1 14 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 13 (46.43%) CCNP
2 13 (46.43%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (46.43%) ISTQB
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (50.00%) Cisco
3 13 (46.43%) Juniper
4 4 (14.29%) Oracle
5 3 (10.71%) Citrix
6 2 (7.14%) Remedy
6 2 (7.14%) VMware
7 1 (3.57%) BMC
7 1 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (3.57%) Compaq
7 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
7 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.57%) HP
7 1 (3.57%) Nokia
7 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.57%) Splunk
7 1 (3.57%) Terracotta
7 1 (3.57%) webMethods