POSIX Contracts in the UK excluding London

Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for POSIX skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited POSIX over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 418 -
Rank change year-on-year +37 - -
Contract jobs citing POSIX 7 29 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.12% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.66% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 0
10th Percentile - £453 -
25th Percentile £609 £473 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £554 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% - -
75th Percentile £722 £613 -
90th Percentile - £636 -
UK median daily rate £655 £592 £505
% change year-on-year +10.68% +17.23% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

POSIX is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,265 4,374 6,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 18.31% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,146 3,274 4,408
10th Percentile £324 £360 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £586
90th Percentile £692 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 91 145
10th Percentile £21.44 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +29.29% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

POSIX
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing POSIX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for POSIX in the UK excluding London

POSIX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing POSIX in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for POSIX in the UK excluding London

POSIX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing POSIX in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for POSIX in the UK excluding London

POSIX
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing POSIX within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Scotland +21 7 £655 +14.75%
POSIX
UK

POSIX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (57.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) DB2
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Python Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) NVMe
2 4 (57.14%) Client/Server
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Unix
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (57.14%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) SDLC
2 5 (71.43%) Capacity Management
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 5 (71.43%) Preventative Maintenance
2 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
2 5 (71.43%) Storage Management
3 4 (57.14%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (57.14%) OO
3 4 (57.14%) Storage Virtualisation
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Investment Management
4 3 (42.86%) Wealth Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) Perl
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) NFS
2 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 4 (57.14%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Brocade
1 4 (57.14%) EMC
1 4 (57.14%) Google
1 4 (57.14%) IBM
1 4 (57.14%) NetApp
1 4 (57.14%) Sybase
1 4 (57.14%) Veritas