Unix Contracts in Hertfordshire

Unix
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 38 64
Rank change year-on-year -20 +26 -15
Contract jobs citing Unix 12 35 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.40% 4.55% 1.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.23% 15.42% 5.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 28 4
10th Percentile - £361 £475
25th Percentile £325 £381 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £509
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -16.50% -18.56%
75th Percentile £494 £476 £582
90th Percentile £558 £673 £705
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -8.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £39.55
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% -

All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 130 227 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.12% 29.52% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 182 76
10th Percentile £262 £186 £161
25th Percentile £332 £266 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £471 £375
Median % change year-on-year +16.71% +25.67% -
75th Percentile £575 £636 £491
90th Percentile £675 £700 £628
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 34
10th Percentile £54.00 £16.76 £20.30
25th Percentile - £24.73 £47.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +129.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £58.75 £18.53 £22.00
% change year-on-year +217.14% -15.80% +23.94%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Hertfordshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Hertfordshire

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Hertfordshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Hertfordshire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Watford - 5 £350 - 2
Stevenage -28 4 £550 +37.50% 3
Hatfield - 1 £350 -
Hertford - 1 - -
Unix
East of England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (41.67%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 5 (41.67%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DVB
1 1 (8.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SAP BW
1 5 (41.67%) SAP HANA
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (8.33%) Advertising
1 1 (8.33%) Electronics
1 1 (8.33%) Multimedia
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Consultant
1 5 (41.67%) Linux Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 5 (41.67%) SAP Consultant
1 5 (41.67%) Unix Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Unix Linux Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Implementation Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) SAP Basis
1 5 (41.67%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (8.33%) GStreamer
2 1 (8.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Digital TV
1 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Solaris
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Change Management
1 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
1 5 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
1 5 (41.67%) SAP Security
2 4 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (8.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Vision
3 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Physics
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SAP Certification
3 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
1 5 (41.67%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) HDFS
2 1 (8.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
1 5 (41.67%) Rancher
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Satellite
1 5 (41.67%) SCOM
1 5 (41.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Dell
1 5 (41.67%) HP
1 5 (41.67%) IBM
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
1 5 (41.67%) SAP
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Isilon