Unix Contracts with Work from Home Options

Unix
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 87 119
Rank change year-on-year -56 +32 -2
Contract jobs citing Unix 217 649 959
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.44% 2.58% 2.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.94% 18.79% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 434 680
10th Percentile £334 £445 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 6
10th Percentile - £43.13 £62.50
25th Percentile - £51.25 £63.38
Median hourly rate - £58.05 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.05% +20.82%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £71.25
90th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -9.86% +42.86%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,557 3,454 5,394
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.36% 13.75% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 2,433 3,815
10th Percentile £221 £250 £298
25th Percentile £350 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £606
90th Percentile £682 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £470 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -7.84% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 101 158
10th Percentile £12.85 £19.00 £14.43
25th Percentile £14.27 £38.50 £17.94
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +28.15% +15.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%

Unix
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Unix trend for jobs with a WFH option

Unix
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unix.

Unix daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Unix over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Unix daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Unix.

Unix hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 21 (9.68%) nginx
2 14 (6.45%) Confluence
3 11 (5.07%) NetWeaver
4 6 (2.76%) JBoss
5 5 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.30%) Apache Spark
6 4 (1.84%) Apache
6 4 (1.84%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.84%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.38%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.92%) IIS
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.46%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.46%) SAS
9 1 (0.46%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.07%) SAP IBP
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle FAH
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.38%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.92%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.92%) Shopify
4 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.46%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.46%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 47 (21.66%) AWS
2 34 (15.67%) Azure
3 19 (8.76%) PaaS
4 17 (7.83%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 17 (7.83%) GCP
5 11 (5.07%) IaaS
6 9 (4.15%) SaaS
7 8 (3.69%) Serverless
8 6 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.84%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.84%) GitHub
10 3 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.38%) Apigee
10 3 (1.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (1.38%) Datadog
10 3 (1.38%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.68%) Firewall
2 9 (4.15%) DNS
3 8 (3.69%) FTP
4 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.84%) FIX Connectivity
6 3 (1.38%) DHCP
6 3 (1.38%) HTTP
6 3 (1.38%) Internet
6 3 (1.38%) LAN
6 3 (1.38%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.92%) DSL
7 2 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.92%) SAN
7 2 (0.92%) SNMP
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (0.46%) NAS
8 1 (0.46%) Network Security
8 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.29%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.53%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.07%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.07%) SAP BW
3 11 (5.07%) SAP HANA
4 9 (4.15%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.69%) Hadoop
6 7 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.76%) MySQL
7 6 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.30%) Apache Hive
8 5 (2.30%) Impala
8 5 (2.30%) KDB
8 5 (2.30%) Kdb+
8 5 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (2.30%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.84%) Big Data
9 4 (1.84%) DB2
9 4 (1.84%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 25 (11.52%) Git
2 19 (8.76%) JIRA
3 18 (8.29%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.69%) GitLab
4 8 (3.69%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.76%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.30%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (1.84%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.84%) Mockito
7 4 (1.84%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (1.84%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.38%) Maven
8 3 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (1.38%) Toad
9 2 (0.92%) Ant
9 2 (0.92%) JUnit
9 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.92%) Subversion
9 2 (0.92%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 69 (31.80%) Finance
2 35 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.14%) Front Office
4 22 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 20 (9.22%) Banking
6 12 (5.53%) Investment Banking
7 11 (5.07%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.69%) Marketing
9 5 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.84%) Retail
10 4 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.38%) German Language
11 3 (1.38%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.92%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.92%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.92%) Korean Language
12 2 (0.92%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 65 (29.95%) Developer
2 21 (9.68%) Senior
3 19 (8.76%) Consultant
4 16 (7.37%) Analyst
5 15 (6.91%) Full Stack Developer
6 13 (5.99%) Architect
7 12 (5.53%) SQL Developer
7 12 (5.53%) Vulnerability Specialist
8 11 (5.07%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.07%) SAP Basis Consultant
8 11 (5.07%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (4.61%) Lead
10 9 (4.15%) Applications Support
10 9 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.15%) Network Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Linux Scripter
12 7 (3.23%) Implementation Specialist
12 7 (3.23%) Unix Linux Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.22%) HTML
2 19 (8.76%) CSS
2 19 (8.76%) Sass
3 17 (7.83%) Laravel
4 14 (6.45%) XML
5 11 (5.07%) SAP Basis
5 11 (5.07%) SAP Fiori
5 11 (5.07%) WebSockets
6 8 (3.69%) LDAP
6 8 (3.69%) Middleware
6 8 (3.69%) Spring
7 7 (3.23%) Kafka
8 6 (2.76%) JSON
8 6 (2.76%) Node.js
8 6 (2.76%) REST
9 5 (2.30%) SOAP
10 4 (1.84%) AWS SAM
10 4 (1.84%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.38%) OpenAPI
11 3 (1.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.15%) Equities
2 9 (4.15%) Replication
3 8 (3.69%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.69%) Fixed Income
4 7 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.30%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.30%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.30%) Derivative
5 5 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.84%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.84%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.84%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.38%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 134 (61.75%) Linux
2 77 (35.48%) Windows
3 14 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.15%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.69%) Solaris
6 7 (3.23%) VMS
7 5 (2.30%) Android
7 5 (2.30%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.38%) Mac OS X
8 3 (1.38%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.92%) AIX
9 2 (0.92%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.92%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.92%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.46%) CentOS
10 1 (0.46%) HPUX
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (17.97%) Test Automation
2 37 (17.05%) Agile
3 34 (15.67%) DevOps
4 33 (15.21%) CI/CD
5 27 (12.44%) Microservices
5 27 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (11.98%) Migration
6 26 (11.98%) Performance Tuning
7 25 (11.52%) TDD
8 22 (10.14%) OO
9 21 (9.68%) ITIL
10 19 (8.76%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (8.76%) Full Stack Development
10 19 (8.76%) Web Development
11 18 (8.29%) Data Modelling
11 18 (8.29%) Scrum
12 16 (7.37%) Analytics
12 16 (7.37%) Configuration Management
13 15 (6.91%) Risk Management
14 14 (6.45%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (30.41%) SQL
2 55 (25.35%) Python
3 30 (13.82%) Java
4 27 (12.44%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.52%) Perl
6 21 (9.68%) Shell Script
7 19 (8.76%) Bash
8 18 (8.29%) PL/SQL
9 17 (7.83%) PHP
10 14 (6.45%) PowerShell
11 10 (4.61%) C#
12 9 (4.15%) C++
12 9 (4.15%) Scala
13 8 (3.69%) Go
14 4 (1.84%) Bourne shell
14 4 (1.84%) Korn
14 4 (1.84%) VBA
15 2 (0.92%) AWK
15 2 (0.92%) C
15 2 (0.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (15.67%) Degree
2 25 (11.52%) Security Cleared
3 23 (10.60%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.15%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.69%) SAP Certification
6 7 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.84%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.84%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.38%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (1.38%) ISEB
9 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.46%) CCIE
10 1 (0.46%) CCNP
10 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.46%) CISSP
10 1 (0.46%) HNC
10 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.07%) Accessibility
1 11 (5.07%) SLA
2 9 (4.15%) QA
3 6 (2.76%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.92%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.46%) MiFID
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (6.91%) Docker
2 13 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.53%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.69%) HDFS
5 7 (3.23%) NFS
6 5 (2.30%) vSphere
7 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.46%) KVM
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (11.06%) Ansible
1 24 (11.06%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.37%) Terraform
3 8 (3.69%) Progress Chef
4 6 (2.76%) Puppet
5 5 (2.30%) Grafana
5 5 (2.30%) SCCM
6 3 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.92%) CFEngine
7 2 (0.92%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.92%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.92%) PowerBroker
7 2 (0.92%) Salt
7 2 (0.92%) TIBCO Hawk
7 2 (0.92%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.92%) WSUS
8 1 (0.46%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 47 (21.66%) Oracle
2 17 (7.83%) VMware
3 15 (6.91%) SAP
4 14 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.99%) Qualys
6 12 (5.53%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.69%) Google
8 7 (3.23%) IBM
8 7 (3.23%) Isilon
9 6 (2.76%) Dell
10 4 (1.84%) Bloomberg
10 4 (1.84%) Cisco
10 4 (1.84%) ION Trading
10 4 (1.84%) Juniper
10 4 (1.84%) MarketAxess
10 4 (1.84%) Tradeweb
11 3 (1.38%) F5
11 3 (1.38%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.38%) Microgen
11 3 (1.38%) Splunk