Unix Support Contracts

Unix Support
UK

The median Unix Support daily rate in the UK is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 682 850
Rank change year-on-year +115 +168 -187
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Support 12 18 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.030% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.032% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 7
10th Percentile - - £337
25th Percentile £450 £600 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £688 £438
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +57.14% +2.94%
75th Percentile £594 £700 £508
90th Percentile £644 - £613
UK excluding London median daily rate - £688 £389
% change year-on-year - +76.85% -

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Unix Support
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix Support in the UK

Unix Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Unix Support in the UK

Unix Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix Support in the UK

Unix Support
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Support within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
London +109 12 £563 -19.64%
England +109 12 £563 -18.18%
Work from Home +127 7 £500 -16.67%

Unix Support Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Unix Support 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 Support in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Unix
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (83.33%) Release Management
2 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 10 (83.33%) Python
2 10 (83.33%) Front Office
2 10 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 10 (83.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) Data Sharing
3 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 5 (41.67%) Banking
4 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
5 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
6 2 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
6 2 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
6 2 (16.67%) Derivative
6 2 (16.67%) Change Management
6 2 (16.67%) Fidessa
6 2 (16.67%) Linux
6 2 (16.67%) High Availability
6 2 (16.67%) Capacity Management
6 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
6 2 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (16.67%) FIX Connectivity

Unix Support 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Fidessa
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) FIX Connectivity
General
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (83.33%) Front Office
3 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Unix
2 10 (83.33%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Proactive Monitoring
1 10 (83.33%) Release Management
2 6 (50.00%) Data Sharing
2 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (16.67%) Capacity Management
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) PowerShell
1 10 (83.33%) Python
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos