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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 95 119
Rank change year-on-year -49 +24 +2
Contract jobs citing Unix 220 587 976
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.50% 2.46% 2.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.99% 18.21% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 391 678
10th Percentile £332 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £486 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% +13.68%
75th Percentile £619 £621 £638
90th Percentile £750 £700 £721
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 £59.57 £66.00
% change year-on-year -32.85% -9.74% +32.00%

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 1,572 3,223 5,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.71% 13.50% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,083 2,259 3,809
10th Percentile £230 £243 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +1.94% +10.75%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £619
90th Percentile £682 £731 £691
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 112 126
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.10 £14.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +28.83% +24.96%
75th Percentile £27.68 £68.94 £65.28
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £45.06 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.06% +102.49% +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 9 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 20 (9.09%) Confluence
2 15 (6.82%) nginx
3 12 (5.45%) NetWeaver
4 7 (3.18%) JBoss
5 4 (1.82%) Apache
5 4 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.82%) IIS
5 4 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.82%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.36%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.91%) CMS
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.45%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.45%) SAS
8 1 (0.45%) StreamWeaver
Applications
1 12 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.45%) EngageOne
Business Applications
1 12 (5.45%) 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%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.91%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.91%) Shopify
4 1 (0.45%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.45%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 49 (22.27%) AWS
2 32 (14.55%) Azure
3 18 (8.18%) PaaS
4 17 (7.73%) GCP
5 11 (5.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 8 (3.64%) IaaS
7 7 (3.18%) Serverless
8 5 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.27%) SaaS
9 4 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.82%) Datadog
9 4 (1.82%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.36%) Apigee
10 3 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.36%) GitHub
10 3 (1.36%) OCI
10 3 (1.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.45%) Firewall
2 10 (4.55%) DNS
3 8 (3.64%) FTP
4 5 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (2.27%) Internet
4 5 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.82%) FIX Connectivity
6 3 (1.36%) DHCP
6 3 (1.36%) HTTP
6 3 (1.36%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.36%) SNMP
7 2 (0.91%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.91%) LAN
7 2 (0.91%) SAN
7 2 (0.91%) SSL
8 1 (0.45%) BGP
8 1 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.45%) MPLS
8 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.45%) Oracle Database
2 12 (5.45%) SAP BW
2 12 (5.45%) SAP HANA
3 11 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.64%) Hadoop
6 7 (3.18%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.73%) MySQL
7 6 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.73%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.82%) DB2
9 4 (1.82%) KDB
9 4 (1.82%) Kdb+
9 4 (1.82%) Power BI
10 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.91%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 26 (11.82%) Git
2 23 (10.45%) JIRA
3 18 (8.18%) Jenkins
4 12 (5.45%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.55%) TeamCity
6 9 (4.09%) GitLab
7 6 (2.73%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.82%) Mockito
9 4 (1.82%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.36%) Maven
10 3 (1.36%) Toad
11 2 (0.91%) Ant
11 2 (0.91%) JUnit
11 2 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
11 2 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.91%) Subversion
11 2 (0.91%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.45%) Selenium
General
1 75 (34.09%) Finance
2 32 (14.55%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.55%) Front Office
5 20 (9.09%) Banking
6 18 (8.18%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.64%) Marketing
9 7 (3.18%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.73%) Retail
11 4 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.36%) German Language
12 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.36%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.91%) Arabic Language
13 2 (0.91%) French Language
13 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.91%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.91%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 57 (25.91%) Developer
2 23 (10.45%) Senior
3 21 (9.55%) Consultant
4 19 (8.64%) Analyst
5 13 (5.91%) Architect
5 13 (5.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (5.45%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 12 (5.45%) SAP Consultant
6 12 (5.45%) SQL Developer
6 12 (5.45%) Vulnerability Specialist
7 11 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
7 11 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 11 (5.00%) Lead
7 11 (5.00%) Network Engineer
8 9 (4.09%) Applications Support
8 9 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (3.64%) Unix Engineer
10 7 (3.18%) Implementation Specialist
10 7 (3.18%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.18%) HTML
2 15 (6.82%) XML
3 13 (5.91%) CSS
3 13 (5.91%) Sass
4 12 (5.45%) SAP Basis
4 12 (5.45%) SAP Fiori
5 11 (5.00%) Laravel
6 9 (4.09%) Kafka
6 9 (4.09%) Middleware
7 8 (3.64%) Spring
7 8 (3.64%) WebSockets
8 7 (3.18%) LDAP
8 7 (3.18%) REST
9 6 (2.73%) Node.js
10 5 (2.27%) JSON
10 5 (2.27%) SOAP
11 4 (1.82%) .NET
11 4 (1.82%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (1.82%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (1.82%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.91%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.09%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.09%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.09%) Replication
3 8 (3.64%) Equities
3 8 (3.64%) Fixed Income
4 7 (3.18%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.18%) Derivative
4 7 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.36%) Online Banking
7 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 136 (61.82%) Linux
2 77 (35.00%) Windows
3 16 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.09%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.18%) Android
5 7 (3.18%) Apple iOS
5 7 (3.18%) Solaris
6 4 (1.82%) VMS
7 3 (1.36%) Mac OS X
7 3 (1.36%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.91%) AIX
8 2 (0.91%) Windows 2000
8 2 (0.91%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.45%) CentOS
9 1 (0.45%) HPUX
9 1 (0.45%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (0.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (20.45%) Agile
2 39 (17.73%) DevOps
3 38 (17.27%) Test Automation
4 30 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 27 (12.27%) Migration
6 26 (11.82%) Performance Tuning
7 25 (11.36%) OO
8 23 (10.45%) Microservices
8 23 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (10.00%) Computer Science
10 21 (9.55%) ITIL
10 21 (9.55%) TDD
11 20 (9.09%) Data Modelling
12 19 (8.64%) Scrum
13 17 (7.73%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (7.27%) Analytics
14 16 (7.27%) Risk Management
15 15 (6.82%) Problem Management
15 15 (6.82%) Roadmaps
15 15 (6.82%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 72 (32.73%) SQL
2 59 (26.82%) Python
3 31 (14.09%) Java
4 27 (12.27%) Perl
5 25 (11.36%) Shell Script
6 22 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 20 (9.09%) PL/SQL
8 18 (8.18%) Bash
9 14 (6.36%) PowerShell
10 11 (5.00%) C++
10 11 (5.00%) PHP
11 9 (4.09%) C#
12 7 (3.18%) Go
13 4 (1.82%) Bourne shell
13 4 (1.82%) Korn
13 4 (1.82%) Scala
13 4 (1.82%) VBA
14 3 (1.36%) C
15 2 (0.91%) AWK
15 2 (0.91%) XPath
Qualifications
1 40 (18.18%) Degree
2 18 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.09%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.64%) SAP Certification
7 7 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.36%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.91%) ISEB
10 2 (0.91%) 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 (5.00%) SLA
2 8 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.64%) QA
3 7 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.18%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.91%) EMIR
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%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (10.45%) Docker
2 14 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
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%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 28 (12.73%) Kubernetes
2 26 (11.82%) Ansible
3 18 (8.18%) Terraform
4 6 (2.73%) Grafana
4 6 (2.73%) Puppet
5 5 (2.27%) Progress Chef
5 5 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.27%) SCCM
6 3 (1.36%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.91%) Packer
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%) Nessus
8 1 (0.45%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 46 (20.91%) Oracle
2 17 (7.73%) VMware
3 15 (6.82%) Red Hat
3 15 (6.82%) SAP
4 14 (6.36%) Microsoft
5 13 (5.91%) Qualys
6 8 (3.64%) Google
6 8 (3.64%) IBM
7 7 (3.18%) Isilon
8 6 (2.73%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.73%) Bloomberg
8 6 (2.73%) Cisco
8 6 (2.73%) Dell
8 6 (2.73%) ION Trading
8 6 (2.73%) Splunk
9 5 (2.27%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.27%) Juniper
10 4 (1.82%) F5
10 4 (1.82%) Temenos
10 4 (1.82%) Tradeweb