Unix Contracts in Berkshire

Unix
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 73 79
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing Unix 32 43 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.67% 2.44% 2.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.80% 17.00% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 28
10th Percentile - £315 £384
25th Percentile £280 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year -38.64% +11.62% +23.19%
75th Percentile £438 £614 £578
90th Percentile £472 £625 £599
South East median daily rate £425 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £37.50 £58.59 £72.50
% change year-on-year -36.00% -19.19% +83.54%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

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 advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 250 253 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.02% 14.33% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 165 196
10th Percentile £205 £270 £143
25th Percentile £276 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £487
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% +5.86% +15.01%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £589
90th Percentile £608 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £470 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +1.62% +2.78% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £56.38 £21.49 £30.13
25th Percentile £56.50 £32.13 £50.94
Median hourly rate £61.60 £54.38 £66.58
Median % change year-on-year +13.29% -18.33% +319.81%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £73.06
90th Percentile £65.18 £81.98 £81.72
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.64% +214.29% -20.45%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Berkshire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Reading -32 14 £425 -26.09% 5
Slough +21 10 £285 -9.52% 1
Bracknell - 5 - -
Maidenhead - 2 £425 -
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (3.13%) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.38%) Azure
1 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (9.38%) Azure Functions
1 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
1 3 (9.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) SAN
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 4 (12.50%) FTP
4 1 (3.13%) HTTP
4 1 (3.13%) Internet
4 1 (3.13%) RNC
4 1 (3.13%) SGSN
4 1 (3.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (9.38%) Power BI
4 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) GIS
5 1 (3.13%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
1 12 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.25%) Automotive
2 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Break Fix Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Consultant
3 4 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Test Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Data Centre Technician
5 2 (6.25%) Data Technician
5 2 (6.25%) ETL Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Junior
5 2 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Revenue Assurance Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) XML
2 1 (3.13%) OpenLayers
2 1 (3.13%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Data Centre
1 10 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Smart Meter
3 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.25%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 8 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 7 (21.88%) ETL
4 6 (18.75%) Break/Fix
4 6 (18.75%) Data Centre Operations
5 4 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (12.50%) ITIL
5 4 (12.50%) Migration
5 4 (12.50%) Revenue Assurance
5 4 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (9.38%) Analytics
6 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (9.38%) Data Modelling
6 3 (9.38%) Dimensional Modelling
6 3 (9.38%) ETL Development
6 3 (9.38%) Performance Improvement
6 3 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (9.38%) Scrum
6 3 (9.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 3 (9.38%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) Groovy
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) SLA
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Ansible
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.25%) Packer
1 2 (6.25%) RSA Archer
1 2 (6.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) Dell
2 7 (21.88%) HP
3 4 (12.50%) Informatica
4 3 (9.38%) Ab Initio
5 2 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) VMware
6 1 (3.13%) BMC
6 1 (3.13%) Ericsson
6 1 (3.13%) Mapinfo
6 1 (3.13%) Nokia
6 1 (3.13%) Remedy