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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 90 121
Rank change year-on-year -59 +31 -2
Contract jobs citing Unix 220 640 954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.47% 2.54% 2.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.26% 18.63% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 425 678
10th Percentile £334 £425 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £548 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 6
10th Percentile - £43.13 £62.50
25th Percentile - £51.25 £63.38
Median hourly rate - £58.05 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -12.05% +16.30%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £71.25
90th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -9.86% +47.73%

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 1,543 3,436 5,402
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.33% 13.64% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 2,422 3,830
10th Percentile £225 £243 £300
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £606
90th Percentile £683 £725 £683
UK median daily rate £465 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.92% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 105 152
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.27 £25.71 £19.66
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +22.22% +28.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £60.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.62%

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 13 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 (9.55%) nginx
2 14 (6.36%) Confluence
3 11 (5.00%) NetWeaver
4 6 (2.73%) JBoss
5 5 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.82%) Apache
6 4 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.82%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.36%) Cloud Foundry
7 3 (1.36%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.91%) IIS
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
9 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.45%) SAS
9 1 (0.45%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.00%) SAP IBP
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle FAH
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.36%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.91%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.91%) Shopify
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.45%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.45%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.45%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.64%) AWS
2 37 (16.82%) Azure
3 19 (8.64%) PaaS
4 17 (7.73%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 17 (7.73%) GCP
5 11 (5.00%) IaaS
6 8 (3.64%) SaaS
6 8 (3.64%) Serverless
7 6 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.82%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.36%) Apigee
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Control Tower
9 3 (1.36%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (1.36%) Datadog
9 3 (1.36%) GitHub
9 3 (1.36%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.00%) Firewall
2 9 (4.09%) DNS
3 8 (3.64%) FTP
4 6 (2.73%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.82%) FIX Connectivity
5 4 (1.82%) Internet
6 3 (1.36%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.36%) DHCP
6 3 (1.36%) HTTP
6 3 (1.36%) LAN
6 3 (1.36%) PuTTY
7 2 (0.91%) DSL
7 2 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.91%) SAN
7 2 (0.91%) SNMP
8 1 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.45%) IOS XR
8 1 (0.45%) MPLS
8 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.45%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 11 (5.00%) SAP BW
3 11 (5.00%) SAP HANA
4 9 (4.09%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.64%) Hadoop
6 7 (3.18%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.73%) MySQL
7 6 (2.73%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.27%) KDB
8 5 (2.27%) Kdb+
8 5 (2.27%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.82%) DB2
9 4 (1.82%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database 11g
10 3 (1.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (11.36%) Git
2 20 (9.09%) JIRA
3 18 (8.18%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.64%) GitLab
4 8 (3.64%) TeamCity
5 6 (2.73%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.73%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (1.82%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.82%) Mockito
6 4 (1.82%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (1.82%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.36%) Maven
7 3 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.36%) Toad
8 2 (0.91%) Ant
8 2 (0.91%) JUnit
8 2 (0.91%) Subversion
8 2 (0.91%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 74 (33.64%) Finance
2 36 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 22 (10.00%) Front Office
6 19 (8.64%) Banking
7 12 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (4.09%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.09%) Marketing
9 6 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.27%) Retail
11 4 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.36%) German Language
12 3 (1.36%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.91%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.91%) Billing
13 2 (0.91%) French Language
13 2 (0.91%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 62 (28.18%) Developer
2 23 (10.45%) Senior
3 20 (9.09%) Consultant
4 16 (7.27%) Analyst
5 15 (6.82%) Full Stack Developer
6 13 (5.91%) Architect
7 12 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.45%) SQL Developer
7 12 (5.45%) Vulnerability Specialist
8 11 (5.00%) Java Developer
8 11 (5.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
8 11 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
9 10 (4.55%) Lead
9 10 (4.55%) Network Engineer
10 9 (4.09%) Applications Support
11 8 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (3.64%) Linux Scripter
11 8 (3.64%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (3.18%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.18%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.55%) HTML
2 19 (8.64%) CSS
2 19 (8.64%) Sass
3 17 (7.73%) Laravel
4 15 (6.82%) XML
5 11 (5.00%) SAP Basis
5 11 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
5 11 (5.00%) WebSockets
6 8 (3.64%) LDAP
6 8 (3.64%) Middleware
6 8 (3.64%) Spring
7 7 (3.18%) Kafka
8 6 (2.73%) JSON
8 6 (2.73%) Node.js
8 6 (2.73%) REST
9 5 (2.27%) SOAP
10 4 (1.82%) AWS SAM
10 4 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.36%) IBM Integration Bus
11 3 (1.36%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.09%) Equities
2 9 (4.09%) Replication
3 8 (3.64%) Algorithms
3 8 (3.64%) Fixed Income
4 7 (3.18%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.73%) Derivative
6 5 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.36%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 135 (61.36%) Linux
2 79 (35.91%) Windows
3 14 (6.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.09%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.64%) Solaris
6 7 (3.18%) VMS
7 5 (2.27%) Android
7 5 (2.27%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.36%) Mac OS X
8 3 (1.36%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.91%) AIX
9 2 (0.91%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.91%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.91%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.45%) CentOS
10 1 (0.45%) HPUX
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (19.09%) Agile
2 39 (17.73%) Test Automation
3 38 (17.27%) DevOps
4 33 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 27 (12.27%) Microservices
5 27 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (11.82%) Migration
6 26 (11.82%) Performance Tuning
6 26 (11.82%) TDD
7 22 (10.00%) ITIL
7 22 (10.00%) OO
8 20 (9.09%) Data Modelling
9 19 (8.64%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (8.64%) Full Stack Development
9 19 (8.64%) Web Development
10 18 (8.18%) Computer Science
10 18 (8.18%) Scrum
11 17 (7.73%) Risk Management
12 16 (7.27%) Analytics
13 15 (6.82%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (29.55%) SQL
2 51 (23.18%) Python
3 31 (14.09%) Java
4 28 (12.73%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.36%) Perl
6 22 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 19 (8.64%) Bash
7 19 (8.64%) PL/SQL
8 17 (7.73%) PHP
9 14 (6.36%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.55%) C#
10 10 (4.55%) C++
11 8 (3.64%) Go
12 5 (2.27%) Scala
13 4 (1.82%) Bourne shell
13 4 (1.82%) Korn
13 4 (1.82%) VBA
14 3 (1.36%) C
15 2 (0.91%) AWK
15 2 (0.91%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (17.27%) Degree
2 25 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 22 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.55%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (3.64%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.82%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.36%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (1.36%) ISEB
9 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.45%) CEH
10 1 (0.45%) CISSP
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.45%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.45%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 11 (5.00%) SLA
2 9 (4.09%) QA
3 6 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.73%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.91%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) EMIR
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) MiFID
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (8.18%) Docker
2 13 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.45%) Active Directory
4 8 (3.64%) HDFS
5 7 (3.18%) NFS
6 5 (2.27%) vSphere
7 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.45%) KVM
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (12.27%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.91%) Ansible
3 15 (6.82%) Terraform
4 7 (3.18%) Progress Chef
4 7 (3.18%) Puppet
5 5 (2.27%) Grafana
5 5 (2.27%) SCCM
6 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.91%) CFEngine
7 2 (0.91%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.91%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.91%) PowerBroker
7 2 (0.91%) Salt
7 2 (0.91%) TIBCO Hawk
7 2 (0.91%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.91%) WSUS
8 1 (0.45%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 47 (21.36%) Oracle
2 17 (7.73%) VMware
3 15 (6.82%) SAP
4 14 (6.36%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.91%) Qualys
6 12 (5.45%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.64%) Google
8 7 (3.18%) IBM
8 7 (3.18%) Isilon
9 6 (2.73%) Dell
10 5 (2.27%) Bloomberg
10 5 (2.27%) Cisco
10 5 (2.27%) ION Trading
10 5 (2.27%) Juniper
11 4 (1.82%) F5
11 4 (1.82%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.82%) MarketAxess
11 4 (1.82%) Splunk
11 4 (1.82%) Tradeweb
12 3 (1.36%) Microgen