Unix Contracts in the UK excluding London

Unix
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 89 103
Rank change year-on-year -51 +14 -13
Contract jobs citing Unix 320 645 747
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.56% 2.76% 2.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.89% 14.38% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 454 460
10th Percentile £325 £381 £362
25th Percentile £400 £463 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +9.09% +15.65%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £550
90th Percentile £638 £715 £635
UK median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 8
10th Percentile - £40.00 £30.84
25th Percentile - £51.25 £41.76
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £56.19
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +2.34% +27.70%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.75 £83.13
90th Percentile £69.38 £68.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -9.86% +42.86%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,235 4,485 5,862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.80% 19.20% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,159 3,106 3,820
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £259 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £672 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 335 455
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.36 £15.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.38 £60.66 £49.51
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.74 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unix in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +11 112 £425 -22.73% 29
Scotland -10 68 £500 -9.09% 12
North of England -42 50 £470 -10.48% 20
Midlands -47 42 £536 -0.74% 17
West Midlands -34 41 £536 -0.74% 7
Yorkshire -13 24 £425 -27.66% 8
North West -23 23 £525 +6.11% 11
South West +1 21 £488 -11.36% 12
East of England -17 17 £463 +8.82% 23
Wales +17 8 £685 +30.48% 1
North East -10 3 - - 1
South Coast - 3 £500 -
East Midlands -18 1 £500 -23.08% 10
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.81%) NetWeaver
3 7 (2.19%) Apache
3 7 (2.19%) Confluence
4 5 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (1.56%) SAS
4 5 (1.56%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.94%) JBoss
6 3 (0.94%) nginx
7 2 (0.63%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.63%) WildFly
8 1 (0.31%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.31%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.31%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (2.81%) SAP IBP
2 4 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle FAH
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.31%) Magento
4 1 (0.31%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.31%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.31%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.31%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.00%) AWS
2 44 (13.75%) Azure
3 20 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 11 (3.44%) GCP
4 11 (3.44%) Power Platform
5 9 (2.81%) IaaS
6 7 (2.19%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (1.88%) Serverless
8 5 (1.56%) GitHub
9 4 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.25%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.25%) PaaS
10 3 (0.94%) SaaS
10 3 (0.94%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 38 (11.88%) SAN
2 34 (10.63%) Firewall
3 27 (8.44%) DNS
4 24 (7.50%) DHCP
4 24 (7.50%) TCP/IP
5 17 (5.31%) LAN
6 15 (4.69%) WAN
7 14 (4.38%) Network Security
8 13 (4.06%) Intrusion Detection
9 10 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
9 10 (3.13%) HTTP
10 9 (2.81%) MPLS
11 8 (2.50%) iSCSI
11 8 (2.50%) NAS
11 8 (2.50%) SSL
11 8 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.88%) FTP
12 6 (1.88%) VPN
13 5 (1.56%) VLAN
14 4 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.75%) Oracle Database
2 21 (6.56%) MongoDB
3 18 (5.63%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.31%) Big Data
4 17 (5.31%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.44%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (3.13%) Oracle Database 11g
6 10 (3.13%) Power BI
7 9 (2.81%) MySQL
7 9 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.81%) SAP BW
7 9 (2.81%) SAP HANA
8 8 (2.50%) Oracle Database 12c
8 8 (2.50%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.88%) DB2
10 5 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (1.56%) Metadata
10 5 (1.56%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.56%) Oracle8/8i Database
Development Applications
1 41 (12.81%) Git
2 33 (10.31%) Jenkins
3 23 (7.19%) JIRA
4 16 (5.00%) GitLab
5 8 (2.50%) Maven
5 8 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (2.19%) Subversion
7 6 (1.88%) Gradle
8 4 (1.25%) Ant
8 4 (1.25%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.25%) Gatling
8 4 (1.25%) JMeter
8 4 (1.25%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.25%) Selenium
8 4 (1.25%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.94%) JUnit
9 3 (0.94%) TestRail
9 3 (0.94%) Toad
10 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.63%) CircleCI
General
1 72 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 56 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (14.06%) Finance
4 24 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.19%) Banking
6 14 (4.38%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.81%) Billing
7 9 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.50%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.50%) Marketing
8 8 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.88%) Automotive
10 5 (1.56%) Retail
11 4 (1.25%) Law
11 4 (1.25%) Legal
12 3 (0.94%) Front Office
12 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 56 (17.50%) Developer
2 35 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (10.94%) Linux Engineer
3 32 (10.00%) Senior
4 24 (7.50%) Analyst
5 18 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (5.63%) Java Developer
5 18 (5.63%) Unix Engineer
6 16 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
7 15 (4.69%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 14 (4.38%) Consultant
9 13 (4.06%) DBA
9 13 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (4.06%) Security Engineer
10 12 (3.75%) Test Engineer
11 11 (3.44%) SQL Developer
12 10 (3.13%) Architect
12 10 (3.13%) Lead
12 10 (3.13%) Python Engineer
13 9 (2.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.38%) Apache NiFi
1 14 (4.38%) Spring
1 14 (4.38%) XML
2 11 (3.44%) Middleware
3 9 (2.81%) Kafka
3 9 (2.81%) REST
3 9 (2.81%) SAP Basis
3 9 (2.81%) SAP Fiori
4 7 (2.19%) .NET
4 7 (2.19%) HTML
5 6 (1.88%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (1.88%) RESTful
6 5 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.56%) CSS
6 5 (1.56%) Flash
6 5 (1.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 5 (1.56%) Web Services
7 4 (1.25%) JSON
7 4 (1.25%) POSIX
7 4 (1.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.44%) Data Centre
2 20 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.38%) Client/Server
5 13 (4.06%) Cyber Defence
5 13 (4.06%) Distributed Applications
6 11 (3.44%) Data Structures
7 10 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 10 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (3.13%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.81%) Clustering
8 9 (2.81%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.50%) Replication
10 7 (2.19%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.19%) Smart Meter
11 6 (1.88%) Cloud Native
11 6 (1.88%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.56%) SCADA
13 4 (1.25%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 188 (58.75%) Linux
2 112 (35.00%) Windows
3 35 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (7.50%) Windows Server
5 15 (4.69%) VMS
6 14 (4.38%) Solaris
7 13 (4.06%) Android
7 13 (4.06%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.88%) Data ONTAP
8 6 (1.88%) Mac OS X
9 5 (1.56%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.25%) AIX
10 4 (1.25%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.94%) HPUX
11 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.94%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.94%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (18.75%) Agile
2 48 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (14.38%) Migration
4 39 (12.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (11.88%) CI/CD
5 38 (11.88%) Computer Science
6 37 (11.56%) DevOps
6 37 (11.56%) ITIL
6 37 (11.56%) Performance Tuning
7 32 (10.00%) Scrum
8 31 (9.69%) Cybersecurity
9 26 (8.13%) Capacity Planning
10 24 (7.50%) OO
11 23 (7.19%) Containerisation
11 23 (7.19%) Software Testing
12 22 (6.88%) Data Migration
12 22 (6.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (6.56%) Data Protection
14 20 (6.25%) SIEM
15 18 (5.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 79 (24.69%) SQL
2 69 (21.56%) Python
3 61 (19.06%) Shell Script
4 55 (17.19%) Java
5 39 (12.19%) Bash
6 32 (10.00%) Perl
7 30 (9.38%) PowerShell
8 29 (9.06%) PL/SQL
9 16 (5.00%) C
10 11 (3.44%) Groovy
11 9 (2.81%) Bourne shell
11 9 (2.81%) Korn
11 9 (2.81%) Scala
12 8 (2.50%) C#
12 8 (2.50%) C++
12 8 (2.50%) ProC
12 8 (2.50%) Ruby
13 7 (2.19%) JavaScript
14 4 (1.25%) PHP
14 4 (1.25%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 67 (20.94%) Degree
2 62 (19.38%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.69%) SC Cleared
4 24 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.69%) Master's Degree
6 14 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.06%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (2.50%) SAP Certification
9 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.88%) CCNA
10 6 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.25%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.25%) MCSE
12 4 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.94%) HNC
13 3 (0.94%) RHCE
14 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.63%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.69%) SLA
2 13 (4.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 8 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.19%) NIST
5 5 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.56%) GDPR
5 5 (1.56%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 5 (1.56%) QA
6 4 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (11.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (8.13%) Docker
3 22 (6.88%) Active Directory
4 17 (5.31%) vSphere
5 13 (4.06%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (2.81%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (2.50%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.50%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (2.50%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (1.88%) NFS
9 5 (1.56%) Firmware
9 5 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (1.25%) GPFS
11 2 (0.63%) HDFS
11 2 (0.63%) XenApp
12 1 (0.31%) Samba
12 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 40 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 38 (11.88%) Ansible
3 26 (8.13%) SCCM
4 20 (6.25%) Terraform
5 17 (5.31%) NetBackup
6 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (2.50%) Nagios
6 8 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
6 8 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
7 7 (2.19%) Data Guard
7 7 (2.19%) Packer
7 7 (2.19%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.19%) vRealize
8 6 (1.88%) Grafana
8 6 (1.88%) Netcool
9 5 (1.56%) IBM BigFix
9 5 (1.56%) Rancher
9 5 (1.56%) SCOM
9 5 (1.56%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 82 (25.63%) Oracle
2 47 (14.69%) VMware
3 24 (7.50%) Red Hat
4 19 (5.94%) IBM
5 18 (5.63%) Microsoft
5 18 (5.63%) Veritas
6 16 (5.00%) Dell
6 16 (5.00%) HP
7 15 (4.69%) NetApp
8 13 (4.06%) SAP
9 9 (2.81%) Google
10 8 (2.50%) BMC
10 8 (2.50%) Hitachi
10 8 (2.50%) ServiceNow
10 8 (2.50%) Splunk
10 8 (2.50%) Veeam
11 7 (2.19%) Brocade
12 6 (1.88%) EMC
12 6 (1.88%) Remedy
13 5 (1.56%) Sybase