Unix Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Unix
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 107 102
Rank change year-on-year -69 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Unix 138 277 513
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.36% 2.12% 2.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.37% 18.39% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 190 343
10th Percentile £350 £325 £376
25th Percentile £388 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -0.46%
75th Percentile £594 £597 £625
90th Percentile £725 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £550
% change year-on-year -1.38% -7.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £48.50
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £64.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - £75.80
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £27.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +99.09% -58.49% -2.57%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,116 1,506 2,807
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.04% 11.55% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 1,027 1,974
10th Percentile £276 £250 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £662 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 27 109
10th Percentile £15.66 £12.75 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.88 £13.23 £24.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +147.62% -50.00% -2.33%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -12.73% -31.25% +73.91%

Unix
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Unix trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Unix
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Unix over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

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 remote working options 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 5 (3.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 5 (3.62%) Oracle Workflow
1 5 (3.62%) WebLogic
2 4 (2.90%) Apache
3 3 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.17%) Confluence
3 3 (2.17%) JBoss
4 2 (1.45%) CICS
4 2 (1.45%) SAS
4 2 (1.45%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.45%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.72%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (3.62%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.72%) Kondor
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.72%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 36 (26.09%) AWS
2 22 (15.94%) Azure
3 8 (5.80%) GitHub
4 6 (4.35%) GCP
4 6 (4.35%) OpenShift
5 5 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.17%) OCI
7 2 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.45%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.72%) Apigee
8 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.72%) Cohesity
8 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.80%) SAN
1 8 (5.80%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.35%) Firewall
2 6 (4.35%) HTTP
3 5 (3.62%) DNS
4 4 (2.90%) SSL
5 3 (2.17%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.17%) VPN
6 2 (1.45%) DHCP
6 2 (1.45%) Internet
6 2 (1.45%) SSH
7 1 (0.72%) BGP
7 1 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.72%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.72%) MPLS
7 1 (0.72%) NAS
7 1 (0.72%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.42%) Relational Database
2 12 (8.70%) DB2
2 12 (8.70%) Oracle Database
3 11 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.80%) MySQL
5 6 (4.35%) Redis
6 5 (3.62%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.62%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.90%) MS Access
8 3 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.17%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.45%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.45%) Big Data
9 2 (1.45%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.45%) Impala
9 2 (1.45%) InfluxDB
9 2 (1.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 22 (15.94%) Git
2 16 (11.59%) JIRA
3 15 (10.87%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.42%) JUnit
5 11 (7.97%) Maven
6 9 (6.52%) GitLab
6 9 (6.52%) SonarQube
7 8 (5.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (4.35%) Mockito
8 6 (4.35%) Postman
8 6 (4.35%) REST Assured
8 6 (4.35%) SoapUI
8 6 (4.35%) Subversion
8 6 (4.35%) Xcode
8 6 (4.35%) XCTest
9 5 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.17%) Gradle
10 3 (2.17%) IntelliJ
10 3 (2.17%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.45%) WinRunner
General
1 52 (37.68%) Finance
2 38 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.77%) Banking
4 13 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.80%) Financial Institution
6 7 (5.07%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.17%) Front Office
7 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.45%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.45%) Law
9 1 (0.72%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.72%) Back Office
9 1 (0.72%) French Language
9 1 (0.72%) German Language
9 1 (0.72%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.72%) Korean Language
9 1 (0.72%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (20.29%) Developer
2 20 (14.49%) Senior
3 18 (13.04%) Java Developer
4 12 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (8.70%) Unix Engineer
5 11 (7.97%) Analyst
6 8 (5.80%) Administrator
6 8 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (5.80%) Unix Linux Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) Architect
7 6 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (2.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) DBA
9 4 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Pensions Analyst
9 4 (2.90%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.77%) Kafka
2 16 (11.59%) Spring
2 16 (11.59%) Spring Boot
3 13 (9.42%) REST
3 13 (9.42%) SOAP
4 12 (8.70%) Web Services
5 11 (7.97%) J2EE
6 10 (7.25%) Middleware
7 8 (5.80%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (5.07%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.07%) Hibernate
9 6 (4.35%) Bootstrap
9 6 (4.35%) CSS
9 6 (4.35%) CSS3
9 6 (4.35%) HTML5
9 6 (4.35%) JPA
9 6 (4.35%) LDAP
9 6 (4.35%) Material-UI
9 6 (4.35%) Spring MVC
9 6 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.07%) Data Centre
3 4 (2.90%) AI Agents
3 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.90%) Derivative
3 4 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (2.90%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.90%) Private Cloud
3 4 (2.90%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.90%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.17%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.17%) Replication
4 3 (2.17%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 91 (65.94%) Linux
2 38 (27.54%) Windows
3 12 (8.70%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.80%) AIX
6 4 (2.90%) Solaris
7 3 (2.17%) CentOS
7 3 (2.17%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.17%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.72%) Debian
8 1 (0.72%) HPUX
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (22.46%) Agile
2 29 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 21 (15.22%) DevOps
5 16 (11.59%) Microservices
6 15 (10.87%) Infrastructure Automation
6 15 (10.87%) Software Engineering
7 14 (10.14%) Mentoring
7 14 (10.14%) OO
7 14 (10.14%) Software Testing
7 14 (10.14%) Task Automation
8 13 (9.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (9.42%) ITIL
8 13 (9.42%) Migration
9 12 (8.70%) Computer Science
9 12 (8.70%) Configuration Management
9 12 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (7.97%) Concurrent Programming
10 11 (7.97%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 60 (43.48%) SQL
2 48 (34.78%) Python
3 31 (22.46%) Java
4 29 (21.01%) Shell Script
5 21 (15.22%) Perl
6 15 (10.87%) JavaScript
7 13 (9.42%) Bash
8 11 (7.97%) C++
8 11 (7.97%) PowerShell
9 9 (6.52%) PL/SQL
10 7 (5.07%) C#
11 6 (4.35%) Groovy
12 4 (2.90%) TypeScript
13 3 (2.17%) ActionScript
13 3 (2.17%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (2.17%) COBOL
13 3 (2.17%) JCL
14 2 (1.45%) Korn
14 2 (1.45%) REXX
14 2 (1.45%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 14 (10.14%) Degree
2 11 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.07%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.35%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.90%) MCP
6 2 (1.45%) IBM Certification
6 2 (1.45%) Server+ Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) CCDE
7 1 (0.72%) CISSP
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) MCSA
7 1 (0.72%) MCSE
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.72%) OCA
7 1 (0.72%) OCP
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.62%) QA
2 4 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (2.17%) SLA
4 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.45%) GMP
5 1 (0.72%) Basel III
5 1 (0.72%) MiFID
System Software
1 27 (19.57%) Docker
2 9 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.17%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.17%) vSphere
5 2 (1.45%) HDFS
5 2 (1.45%) KVM
5 2 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.72%) RACF
6 1 (0.72%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.04%) Terraform
3 16 (11.59%) Ansible
4 11 (7.97%) Puppet
5 5 (3.62%) Grafana
5 5 (3.62%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (3.62%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 4 (2.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (2.90%) Tivoli
7 3 (2.17%) Nagios
7 3 (2.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (1.45%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.45%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.72%) CASB
9 1 (0.72%) TADDM
9 1 (0.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (29.71%) Oracle
2 13 (9.42%) IBM
2 13 (9.42%) Splunk
3 11 (7.97%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.97%) VMware
4 10 (7.25%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.80%) Dynatrace
6 7 (5.07%) Sybase
7 6 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
7 6 (4.35%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.90%) Citrix
8 4 (2.90%) F5
9 3 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (2.17%) Cisco
9 3 (2.17%) IBM Sterling
9 3 (2.17%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.45%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.45%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.45%) Google
10 2 (1.45%) Veritas