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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 94 122
Rank change year-on-year -55 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing Unix 218 613 946
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.47% 2.49% 2.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.23% 18.43% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 405 671
10th Percentile £334 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £628 £623 £638
90th Percentile £750 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 6
10th Percentile - £48.25 £62.50
25th Percentile - £51.88 £63.38
Median hourly rate - £58.59 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.23% +16.30%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £71.25
90th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.57 £65.00
% change year-on-year -32.85% -8.35% +52.94%

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 1,532 3,327 5,352
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.36% 13.52% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 2,347 3,799
10th Percentile £225 £242 £300
25th Percentile £356 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £610
90th Percentile £681 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 102 145
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.70
25th Percentile £14.20 £25.71 £18.63
Median hourly rate £16.85 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.91% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £37.85 £67.50 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £67.95
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +28.57%

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 17 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 (9.63%) nginx
2 15 (6.88%) Confluence
3 11 (5.05%) NetWeaver
4 6 (2.75%) JBoss
5 5 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.83%) Apache
6 4 (1.83%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.83%) 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%) Apache Spark
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 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.05%) 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%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.46%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.46%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.39%) AWS
2 33 (15.14%) Azure
3 17 (7.80%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 17 (7.80%) GCP
3 17 (7.80%) PaaS
4 8 (3.67%) IaaS
4 8 (3.67%) Serverless
5 6 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.29%) SaaS
7 4 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.83%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.83%) Datadog
7 4 (1.83%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.38%) Apigee
8 3 (1.38%) AWS Control Tower
8 3 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.38%) OCI
8 3 (1.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.55%) Firewall
2 10 (4.59%) DNS
3 8 (3.67%) FTP
4 6 (2.75%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.83%) FIX Connectivity
5 4 (1.83%) Internet
6 3 (1.38%) DHCP
6 3 (1.38%) HTTP
6 3 (1.38%) LAN
6 3 (1.38%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.38%) SNMP
7 2 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.92%) SAN
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (0.46%) Network Security
8 1 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.80%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.50%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.05%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.05%) SAP BW
3 11 (5.05%) SAP HANA
4 9 (4.13%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.67%) Hadoop
6 7 (3.21%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.75%) MySQL
7 6 (2.75%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.29%) KDB
8 5 (2.29%) Kdb+
8 5 (2.29%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.83%) DB2
9 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (1.83%) Power BI
10 3 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 26 (11.93%) Git
2 19 (8.72%) JIRA
3 18 (8.26%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.13%) GitLab
4 9 (4.13%) TeamCity
5 7 (3.21%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.75%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (2.29%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.83%) Mockito
8 4 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.83%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.38%) Maven
9 3 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (1.38%) Toad
10 2 (0.92%) Ant
10 2 (0.92%) JUnit
10 2 (0.92%) Subversion
10 2 (0.92%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.46%) Gatling
11 1 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 74 (33.94%) Finance
2 35 (16.06%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (10.09%) Front Office
4 22 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.72%) Banking
6 12 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.13%) Marketing
8 6 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.29%) Retail
10 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.83%) 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 62 (28.44%) Developer
2 24 (11.01%) Senior
3 19 (8.72%) Consultant
4 15 (6.88%) Analyst
4 15 (6.88%) Full Stack Developer
5 14 (6.42%) Architect
6 12 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (5.50%) Java Developer
6 12 (5.50%) Network Engineer
6 12 (5.50%) SQL Developer
6 12 (5.50%) Vulnerability Specialist
7 11 (5.05%) Lead
7 11 (5.05%) SAP Basis Consultant
7 11 (5.05%) SAP Consultant
8 10 (4.59%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (4.13%) Linux Scripter
9 9 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.13%) Unix Engineer
9 9 (4.13%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 8 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.09%) HTML
2 19 (8.72%) CSS
2 19 (8.72%) Sass
3 17 (7.80%) Laravel
4 16 (7.34%) XML
5 11 (5.05%) SAP Basis
5 11 (5.05%) SAP Fiori
5 11 (5.05%) WebSockets
6 8 (3.67%) LDAP
6 8 (3.67%) Middleware
6 8 (3.67%) Spring
7 7 (3.21%) Kafka
8 6 (2.75%) JSON
8 6 (2.75%) Node.js
8 6 (2.75%) REST
9 5 (2.29%) SOAP
10 4 (1.83%) .NET
10 4 (1.83%) AWS SAM
10 4 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.83%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.13%) Equities
2 9 (4.13%) Replication
3 8 (3.67%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.67%) Fixed Income
3 8 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.21%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.75%) Derivative
6 5 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.29%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.38%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 137 (62.84%) Linux
2 76 (34.86%) Windows
3 14 (6.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.13%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.75%) Android
5 6 (2.75%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.29%) Solaris
7 4 (1.83%) VMS
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 44 (20.18%) Agile
2 40 (18.35%) Test Automation
3 36 (16.51%) DevOps
4 31 (14.22%) CI/CD
5 27 (12.39%) Microservices
5 27 (12.39%) TDD
6 26 (11.93%) Performance Tuning
7 25 (11.47%) Migration
8 24 (11.01%) OO
8 24 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (10.09%) ITIL
10 21 (9.63%) Data Modelling
11 19 (8.72%) Computer Science
11 19 (8.72%) Full Stack Development
11 19 (8.72%) Scrum
11 19 (8.72%) Web Development
12 18 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (7.80%) Analytics
13 17 (7.80%) Risk Management
14 15 (6.88%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (29.36%) SQL
2 53 (24.31%) Python
3 32 (14.68%) Java
4 29 (13.30%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.39%) Perl
6 22 (10.09%) Shell Script
7 19 (8.72%) PL/SQL
8 18 (8.26%) Bash
9 17 (7.80%) PHP
10 14 (6.42%) PowerShell
11 11 (5.05%) C++
12 10 (4.59%) C#
13 8 (3.67%) Go
14 5 (2.29%) Scala
15 4 (1.83%) Bourne shell
15 4 (1.83%) C
15 4 (1.83%) Korn
15 4 (1.83%) VBA
16 2 (0.92%) AWK
16 2 (0.92%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (17.43%) Degree
2 22 (10.09%) Security Cleared
3 19 (8.72%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.59%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (3.67%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.83%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.83%) 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%) AWS 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%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) Accessibility
1 11 (5.05%) SLA
2 9 (4.13%) QA
3 6 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.92%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.92%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.46%) EMIR
5 1 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) MiFID
5 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (8.26%) Docker
2 13 (5.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.50%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.67%) HDFS
5 7 (3.21%) NFS
6 5 (2.29%) 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 28 (12.84%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.01%) Ansible
3 16 (7.34%) Terraform
4 6 (2.75%) Progress Chef
4 6 (2.75%) Puppet
5 5 (2.29%) Grafana
5 5 (2.29%) SCCM
6 3 (1.38%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.92%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
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%) CFEngine
8 1 (0.46%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.46%) SCOM
Vendors
1 43 (19.72%) Oracle
2 17 (7.80%) VMware
3 14 (6.42%) SAP
4 13 (5.96%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.96%) Qualys
5 12 (5.50%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.67%) Google
7 7 (3.21%) IBM
7 7 (3.21%) Isilon
8 6 (2.75%) Cisco
8 6 (2.75%) Dell
9 5 (2.29%) Bloomberg
9 5 (2.29%) ION Trading
9 5 (2.29%) Juniper
9 5 (2.29%) Splunk
10 4 (1.83%) F5
10 4 (1.83%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.83%) MarketAxess
10 4 (1.83%) Tradeweb
11 3 (1.38%) Microgen