Unix Contracts in the South West

Unix
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 133 135 133
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -32
Contract jobs citing Unix 24 24 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.73% 0.71% 0.96%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.25% 3.63% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 21
10th Percentile £362 £520 £263
25th Percentile - £525 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £571 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.12% +34.24% -19.05%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £500
90th Percentile £695 £733 £613
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £53.75 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% - -
75th Percentile - £65.94 -
90th Percentile £71.93 £74.38 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -21.88% +89.87%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 565 661 725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.13% 19.51% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 453 441
10th Percentile £175 £181 £155
25th Percentile £363 £288 £218
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £646
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 76 69
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.46 £16.34
25th Percentile £42.00 £53.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £65.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.96% +19.09% +161.90%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the South West

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the South West

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the South West

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the South West

Unix
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unix in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Unix in the South West

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the South West 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
Bristol -3 10 £450 -30.77% 8
Somerset - 8 - - 2
Gloucestershire -2 3 £650 +18.18%
Dorset - 1 £488 - 3
Cornwall - 1 £396 -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (4.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) NEC Housing
2 1 (4.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.17%) Google Analytics
2 1 (4.17%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) DHCP
1 10 (41.67%) DNS
2 8 (33.33%) LAN
2 8 (33.33%) MPLS
2 8 (33.33%) SAN
2 8 (33.33%) WAN
2 8 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (12.50%) Firewall
3 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.17%) 4G
4 1 (4.17%) 5G
4 1 (4.17%) HTTP
4 1 (4.17%) IPv4
4 1 (4.17%) OSPF
4 1 (4.17%) SIGTRAN
4 1 (4.17%) SS7
4 1 (4.17%) VLAN
4 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) DataStage
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (33.33%) Aerospace
4 3 (12.50%) Local Government
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Billing
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Analyst
1 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 8 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Test Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Test Automation Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.17%) C Developer
6 1 (4.17%) DataStage Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Applications Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) CSS
1 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.17%) HTML
1 1 (4.17%) Lucene
1 1 (4.17%) SPML
1 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Data Centre
2 8 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 8 (33.33%) Clustering
3 3 (12.50%) Housing Association
4 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (12.50%) VMS
3 3 (12.50%) Windows 2000
3 3 (12.50%) Windows XP
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
1 9 (37.50%) Data Protection
2 8 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 8 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 8 (33.33%) Business Transformation
2 8 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 8 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 8 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 8 (33.33%) Migration
2 8 (33.33%) Network Management
2 8 (33.33%) Server Management
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.83%) Virtual Environments
5 3 (12.50%) API Development
5 3 (12.50%) Data Extraction
5 3 (12.50%) Database Optimisation
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Housing Management
6 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) PL/SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
4 4 (16.67%) Java
5 2 (8.33%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) C
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) PHP
6 1 (4.17%) ProC
6 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) GIAC
4 1 (4.17%) PhD
4 1 (4.17%) RHCE
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (54.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
2 8 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
3 4 (16.67%) Docker
4 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) SCCM
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (33.33%) Nagios
2 8 (33.33%) NetBackup
3 4 (16.67%) Ansible
3 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 3 (12.50%) Terraform
5 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) VMware
2 8 (33.33%) Hitachi
2 8 (33.33%) NetApp
3 6 (25.00%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 3 (12.50%) Juniper
4 3 (12.50%) NEC
5 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
5 2 (8.33%) Veeam
6 1 (4.17%) Adobe
6 1 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (4.17%) Nokia
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow