Unix Developer Contracts

Unix Developer
UK

The median Unix Developer daily rate in the UK is £780 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 706 837
Rank change year-on-year +130 +131 -165
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Developer 10 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.016% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.017% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 14
10th Percentile £593 - £504
25th Percentile £758 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £800 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £780 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Unix Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Unix Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Developer in the UK

Unix Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix Developer.

Daily rate trend for Unix Developer in the UK

Unix Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix Developer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix Developer in the UK

Unix Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Unix Developer in the UK

Unix Developer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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
England +117 5 £800 -
London +110 5 £800 -
UK excluding London +71 4 £780 -
Scotland +41 4 £780 -
Work from Home +123 3 £750 -

Unix Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Unix Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Unix Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Unix
2 9 (90.00%) Java
3 8 (80.00%) Python
4 5 (50.00%) Perl
4 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
5 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (40.00%) KDB
5 4 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
5 4 (40.00%) Bash
5 4 (40.00%) API Design
5 4 (40.00%) Analytics
5 4 (40.00%) Kdb+
5 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (40.00%) Degree
5 4 (40.00%) C#
5 4 (40.00%) Linux
5 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (40.00%) Front Office
5 4 (40.00%) Finance
5 4 (40.00%) Equities
5 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (30.00%) HTTP
6 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (30.00%) SSL
6 3 (30.00%) Banking
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Unix Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) ColdFusion
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (30.00%) HTTP
1 3 (30.00%) NetScaler
1 3 (30.00%) SSL
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) KDB
1 4 (40.00%) Kdb+
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Mockito
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Front Office
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) JAX-RS
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Unix
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) API Design
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (30.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) BDD
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (10.00%) Responsive Web Design
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Web Design
5 1 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 8 (80.00%) Python
3 5 (50.00%) Perl
4 4 (40.00%) Bash
4 4 (40.00%) C#
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) RainStor