AWK Contracts

AWK
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring AWK skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWK 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 578 689 839
Rank change year-on-year +111 +150 -123
Contract jobs citing AWK 6 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.014% 0.010%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.046% 0.042% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile - - £159
25th Percentile £425 £463 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £475 £284
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +67.11% -28.94%
75th Percentile £850 £488 £401
90th Percentile - - £458
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - £265
% change year-on-year - - -33.75%

All Programming Languages
UK

AWK falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13,173 18,905 31,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.16% 34.04% 36.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,279 13,615 23,014
10th Percentile £350 £381 £388
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £663
90th Percentile £765 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 534 437 496
10th Percentile £31.55 £30.45 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year - +19.62% +16.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £79.19 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +24.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AWK as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AWK in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWK.

Daily rate trend for AWK in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWK in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWK.

Hourly rate trend for AWK in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWK within the UK 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
England +84 6 £625 +31.58% 5
London +81 4 £800 +68.42% 1
Work from Home +115 2 - - 2
UK excluding London +28 2 £450 - 3
South East +14 2 £450 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Murex Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Unix Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 2 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 2 (33.33%) Server Hardening
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Bourne shell
3 2 (33.33%) Korn
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) RHCE
1 2 (33.33%) RHCSA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (33.33%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Murex
2 2 (33.33%) EMC
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) Veritas