Unix Contracts in the Thames Valley

Unix
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 84 90
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Unix 43 62 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.62% 2.15% 2.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.29% 14.06% 15.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 45 47
10th Percentile - £317 £370
25th Percentile £280 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £452 £623 £588
90th Percentile £480 £738 £650
South East median daily rate £425 £540 £475
% change year-on-year -21.30% +13.68% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £58.59 £72.50
% change year-on-year -53.06% -19.19% +83.54%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 350 441 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.15% 15.32% 15.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 304 389
10th Percentile £200 £200 £150
25th Percentile £250 £347 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £580
90th Percentile £608 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.78% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 22
10th Percentile £18.00 £18.08 -
25th Percentile £22.51 £18.29 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +142.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £59.00 £65.31 £42.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.82 £66.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -17.39% +228.57% -19.54%

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 7 June 2024.

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 7 June 2024. 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 -14 32 £338 -35.71% 8
Buckinghamshire +26 10 £450 +5.88% 2
Oxfordshire +2 1 - - 7
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 4 (9.30%) NetWeaver
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) SAP IBP
2 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.30%) Azure
1 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (9.30%) Azure Functions
1 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
1 4 (9.30%) Serverless
2 2 (4.65%) AWS
2 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (23.26%) SAN
2 6 (13.95%) Firewall
3 4 (9.30%) FTP
4 1 (2.33%) DHCP
4 1 (2.33%) DNS
4 1 (2.33%) HTTP
4 1 (2.33%) InfiniBand
4 1 (2.33%) Internet
4 1 (2.33%) RNC
4 1 (2.33%) SGSN
4 1 (2.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle Database
2 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (9.30%) Power BI
3 4 (9.30%) SAP BW
3 4 (9.30%) SAP HANA
4 2 (4.65%) Apache Hive
4 2 (4.65%) Big Data
4 2 (4.65%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.65%) Impala
4 2 (4.65%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) GIS
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Git
1 2 (4.65%) GitLab
1 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
1 2 (4.65%) Maven
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.65%) Automotive
3 2 (4.65%) Banking
3 2 (4.65%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (4.65%) Finance
3 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.65%) Retail
4 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (18.60%) Consultant
1 8 (18.60%) Data Centre Engineer
2 5 (11.63%) Break Fix Engineer
2 5 (11.63%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Data Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 4 (9.30%) SAP Consultant
3 4 (9.30%) Senior
3 4 (9.30%) Test Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Test Specialist
5 2 (4.65%) Data Centre Technician
5 2 (4.65%) ETL Consultant
5 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (4.65%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) XML
2 4 (9.30%) SAP Basis
2 4 (9.30%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (4.65%) Kafka
3 2 (4.65%) Spring
4 1 (2.33%) Ajax
4 1 (2.33%) Anaconda
4 1 (2.33%) HTML
4 1 (2.33%) jQuery
4 1 (2.33%) OpenLayers
4 1 (2.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) Data Centre
1 10 (23.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.30%) Smart Meter
3 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.65%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.33%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (41.86%) Linux
2 7 (16.28%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) Incident Management
2 8 (18.60%) ETL
2 8 (18.60%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (18.60%) Software Testing
3 6 (13.95%) Break/Fix
3 6 (13.95%) Data Centre Operations
4 5 (11.63%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (11.63%) Data Engineering
4 5 (11.63%) Problem Management
5 4 (9.30%) Analytics
5 4 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (9.30%) Data Modelling
5 4 (9.30%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (9.30%) ETL Development
5 4 (9.30%) ITIL
5 4 (9.30%) Migration
5 4 (9.30%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (9.30%) SAP Security
5 4 (9.30%) Scrum
5 4 (9.30%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) SQL
2 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
3 4 (9.30%) Python
4 3 (6.98%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) Bash
5 2 (4.65%) Scala
6 1 (2.33%) Groovy
6 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.33%) JCL
6 1 (2.33%) Perl
6 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) SAP Certification
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.26%) SLA
2 4 (9.30%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.65%) vSphere
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) NFS
2 1 (2.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Control-M
3 2 (4.65%) Packer
3 2 (4.65%) RSA Archer
3 2 (4.65%) vRealize
4 1 (2.33%) CFEngine
4 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Oracle
2 7 (16.28%) Dell
2 7 (16.28%) HP
3 4 (9.30%) Ab Initio
3 4 (9.30%) Informatica
3 4 (9.30%) SAP
4 2 (4.65%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) VMware
5 1 (2.33%) BMC
5 1 (2.33%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.33%) Mapinfo
5 1 (2.33%) Nokia
5 1 (2.33%) Remedy