Unix Contracts with Work from Home Options

Unix
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 147 92 119
Rank change year-on-year -55 +27 -3
Contract jobs citing Unix 224 594 972
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 2.49% 2.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.25% 18.34% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 396 675
10th Percentile £330 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +0.46% +12.50%
75th Percentile £609 £621 £638
90th Percentile £750 £700 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 6
10th Percentile - £49.00 £62.50
25th Percentile - £51.88 £63.38
Median hourly rate - £58.59 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.23% +16.30%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £71.25
90th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.55 £66.00
% change year-on-year -33.94% -8.26% +32.00%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,572 3,239 5,309
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.65% 13.57% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,268 3,789
10th Percentile £229 £245 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.94% +9.57%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £620
90th Percentile £685 £731 £694
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 113 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £27.68 £68.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

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 12 June 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 17 (7.59%) Confluence
2 15 (6.70%) nginx
3 12 (5.36%) NetWeaver
4 7 (3.13%) JBoss
5 4 (1.79%) Apache
5 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.79%) IIS
5 4 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.79%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.34%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.89%) CMS
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.89%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.45%) SAS
8 1 (0.45%) StreamWeaver
8 1 (0.45%) WildFly
Applications
1 14 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.45%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 12 (5.36%) SAP IBP
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle FAH
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.34%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.89%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.89%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.89%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.89%) Shopify
4 1 (0.45%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.45%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.21%) AWS
2 35 (15.63%) Azure
3 18 (8.04%) PaaS
4 17 (7.59%) GCP
5 11 (4.91%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 9 (4.02%) IaaS
7 7 (3.13%) Serverless
8 6 (2.68%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.23%) SaaS
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.79%) Datadog
10 4 (1.79%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (1.34%) Apigee
11 3 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.34%) GitHub
11 3 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.34%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.27%) Firewall
2 10 (4.46%) DNS
3 8 (3.57%) FTP
4 5 (2.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (2.23%) Internet
4 5 (2.23%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.79%) FIX Connectivity
6 3 (1.34%) DHCP
6 3 (1.34%) HTTP
6 3 (1.34%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.34%) SNMP
7 2 (0.89%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.89%) LAN
7 2 (0.89%) SAN
7 2 (0.89%) SSL
8 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.45%) NAS
8 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.80%) Oracle Database
3 12 (5.36%) SAP BW
3 12 (5.36%) SAP HANA
4 11 (4.91%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.91%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 7 (3.13%) MySQL
6 7 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.68%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.79%) DB2
9 4 (1.79%) KDB
9 4 (1.79%) Kdb+
9 4 (1.79%) Power BI
10 3 (1.34%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 23 (10.27%) Git
2 20 (8.93%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.93%) JIRA
3 12 (5.36%) Bitbucket
4 11 (4.91%) GitLab
5 10 (4.46%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.68%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.23%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (2.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.79%) Mockito
8 4 (1.79%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.34%) Maven
9 3 (1.34%) Toad
10 2 (0.89%) Ant
10 2 (0.89%) JUnit
10 2 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.89%) Subversion
10 2 (0.89%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.45%) Gerrit
General
1 75 (33.48%) Finance
2 35 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.38%) Front Office
5 20 (8.93%) Banking
6 18 (8.04%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.57%) Marketing
10 7 (3.13%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.68%) Retail
12 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.34%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.89%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.89%) French Language
13 2 (0.89%) German Language
13 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.89%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 58 (25.89%) Developer
2 23 (10.27%) Senior
3 21 (9.38%) Consultant
4 20 (8.93%) Analyst
5 13 (5.80%) Architect
5 13 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (5.36%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 12 (5.36%) SAP Consultant
6 12 (5.36%) SQL Developer
6 12 (5.36%) Vulnerability Specialist
7 11 (4.91%) Full Stack Developer
7 11 (4.91%) Java Developer
7 11 (4.91%) Lead
7 11 (4.91%) Network Engineer
8 9 (4.02%) Applications Support
8 9 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (3.57%) Pensions Analyst
9 8 (3.57%) Unix Engineer
10 7 (3.13%) Linux Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.04%) HTML
2 15 (6.70%) XML
3 13 (5.80%) CSS
3 13 (5.80%) Sass
4 12 (5.36%) SAP Basis
4 12 (5.36%) SAP Fiori
5 11 (4.91%) Laravel
6 10 (4.46%) Kafka
7 9 (4.02%) Middleware
8 8 (3.57%) Spring
8 8 (3.57%) WebSockets
9 7 (3.13%) LDAP
9 7 (3.13%) REST
10 6 (2.68%) Node.js
11 5 (2.23%) JSON
11 5 (2.23%) SOAP
12 4 (1.79%) .NET
12 4 (1.79%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
12 4 (1.79%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.80%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.02%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.02%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.02%) Replication
3 8 (3.57%) Equities
3 8 (3.57%) Fixed Income
4 7 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.13%) Derivative
4 7 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.68%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.68%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.34%) Online Banking
8 3 (1.34%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.89%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 141 (62.95%) Linux
2 78 (34.82%) Windows
3 16 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.57%) Solaris
6 7 (3.13%) Android
6 7 (3.13%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.79%) VMS
8 3 (1.34%) Mac OS X
8 3 (1.34%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.89%) AIX
9 2 (0.89%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.89%) 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 (18.75%) Agile
2 40 (17.86%) Test Automation
3 38 (16.96%) DevOps
4 32 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 26 (11.61%) Migration
5 26 (11.61%) OO
5 26 (11.61%) Performance Tuning
5 26 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (10.27%) Microservices
7 22 (9.82%) Computer Science
7 22 (9.82%) ITIL
8 21 (9.38%) TDD
9 20 (8.93%) Data Modelling
10 17 (7.59%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (7.14%) Analytics
11 16 (7.14%) Risk Management
11 16 (7.14%) Scrum
12 15 (6.70%) Configuration Management
12 15 (6.70%) Problem Management
12 15 (6.70%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 76 (33.93%) SQL
2 64 (28.57%) Python
3 33 (14.73%) Java
4 28 (12.50%) Perl
5 23 (10.27%) JavaScript
5 23 (10.27%) Shell Script
6 20 (8.93%) PL/SQL
7 19 (8.48%) Bash
8 14 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.91%) C++
9 11 (4.91%) PHP
10 9 (4.02%) C#
11 7 (3.13%) Go
12 5 (2.23%) Scala
13 4 (1.79%) Bourne shell
13 4 (1.79%) Korn
13 4 (1.79%) VBA
14 3 (1.34%) C
15 2 (0.89%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.89%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (17.86%) Degree
2 18 (8.04%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.02%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.57%) SAP Certification
7 7 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.79%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.34%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.89%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.89%) ISEB
10 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CEH
11 1 (0.45%) CISSP
11 1 (0.45%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.45%) HNC
11 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.45%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.91%) SLA
2 8 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.57%) QA
3 7 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.89%) EMIR
4 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.89%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (9.82%) Docker
2 14 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.57%) HDFS
5 7 (3.13%) NFS
6 5 (2.23%) vSphere
7 3 (1.34%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (12.95%) Ansible
2 27 (12.05%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.48%) Terraform
4 8 (3.57%) Puppet
5 6 (2.68%) Grafana
5 6 (2.68%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.23%) SCCM
7 3 (1.34%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.89%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.89%) Packer
8 2 (0.89%) Salt
8 2 (0.89%) TIBCO Hawk
8 2 (0.89%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.89%) WSUS
9 1 (0.45%) Nagios
9 1 (0.45%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 45 (20.09%) Oracle
2 17 (7.59%) VMware
3 15 (6.70%) Red Hat
3 15 (6.70%) SAP
4 14 (6.25%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.80%) Qualys
6 8 (3.57%) IBM
7 7 (3.13%) Isilon
8 6 (2.68%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.68%) Bloomberg
8 6 (2.68%) Cisco
8 6 (2.68%) Dell
8 6 (2.68%) ION Trading
8 6 (2.68%) Splunk
9 5 (2.23%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.23%) Google
9 5 (2.23%) Juniper
10 4 (1.79%) F5
10 4 (1.79%) Temenos
10 4 (1.79%) Tradeweb