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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 94 117
Rank change year-on-year -62 +23 +5
Contract jobs citing Unix 212 597 973
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.45% 2.46% 2.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.78% 18.18% 18.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 396 684
10th Percentile £329 £423 £400
25th Percentile £425 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £539
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +1.16% +13.42%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £638
90th Percentile £750 £700 £709
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +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% +23.65%

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 1,538 3,284 5,347
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.50% 13.55% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,308 3,820
10th Percentile £225 £245 £300
25th Percentile £360 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% +2.69% +10.54%
75th Percentile £591 £638 £618
90th Percentile £681 £731 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 107 128
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.85
25th Percentile £14.14 £25.71 £19.66
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £40.70 £68.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

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 2 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 16 (7.55%) nginx
2 15 (7.08%) Confluence
3 11 (5.19%) NetWeaver
4 7 (3.30%) JBoss
5 4 (1.89%) Apache
5 4 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.89%) IIS
5 4 (1.89%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.89%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.42%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (1.42%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.94%) CMS
7 2 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.47%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.47%) SAS
8 1 (0.47%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (5.19%) SAP IBP
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle FAH
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.42%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (1.42%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.94%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.94%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.94%) Shopify
4 1 (0.47%) MFGPRO
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.47%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 50 (23.58%) AWS
2 32 (15.09%) Azure
3 18 (8.49%) GCP
4 17 (8.02%) PaaS
5 12 (5.66%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 8 (3.77%) Serverless
7 7 (3.30%) IaaS
8 6 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.36%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.89%) Datadog
10 4 (1.89%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.89%) SaaS
11 3 (1.42%) Apigee
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.42%) GitHub
11 3 (1.42%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.32%) Firewall
2 10 (4.72%) DNS
3 8 (3.77%) FTP
4 5 (2.36%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (2.36%) Internet
4 5 (2.36%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.89%) FIX Connectivity
6 3 (1.42%) DHCP
6 3 (1.42%) HTTP
6 3 (1.42%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.42%) SNMP
7 2 (0.94%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.94%) LAN
7 2 (0.94%) SAN
7 2 (0.94%) SSL
8 1 (0.47%) BGP
8 1 (0.47%) MPLS
8 1 (0.47%) VPN
8 1 (0.47%) WAN
8 1 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.49%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.19%) MongoDB
2 11 (5.19%) SAP BW
2 11 (5.19%) SAP HANA
3 10 (4.72%) Oracle Database
3 10 (4.72%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.77%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.30%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.83%) MySQL
6 6 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.83%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.36%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.89%) DB2
8 4 (1.89%) KDB
8 4 (1.89%) Kdb+
8 4 (1.89%) Power BI
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (0.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (12.26%) Git
2 19 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.49%) JIRA
4 10 (4.72%) TeamCity
5 9 (4.25%) GitLab
6 8 (3.77%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.83%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.36%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.89%) Mockito
9 4 (1.89%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.42%) Maven
10 3 (1.42%) Toad
11 2 (0.94%) Ant
11 2 (0.94%) JUnit
11 2 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.94%) Subversion
11 2 (0.94%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.47%) Gerrit
12 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 72 (33.96%) Finance
2 32 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.91%) Front Office
4 19 (8.96%) Banking
5 18 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.77%) Marketing
8 7 (3.30%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.83%) Retail
10 5 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.89%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.42%) German Language
12 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.42%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.94%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.94%) Korean Language
13 2 (0.94%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 56 (26.42%) Developer
2 21 (9.91%) Senior
3 20 (9.43%) Consultant
4 18 (8.49%) Analyst
5 13 (6.13%) Architect
6 12 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (5.66%) Full Stack Developer
6 12 (5.66%) Lead
6 12 (5.66%) SQL Developer
6 12 (5.66%) Vulnerability Specialist
7 11 (5.19%) Java Developer
7 11 (5.19%) Network Engineer
7 11 (5.19%) SAP Basis Consultant
7 11 (5.19%) SAP Consultant
8 8 (3.77%) Applications Support
8 8 (3.77%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (3.30%) Linux Scripter
9 7 (3.30%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.49%) HTML
2 14 (6.60%) CSS
2 14 (6.60%) Sass
2 14 (6.60%) XML
3 12 (5.66%) Laravel
4 11 (5.19%) SAP Basis
4 11 (5.19%) SAP Fiori
5 9 (4.25%) Kafka
5 9 (4.25%) Middleware
5 9 (4.25%) WebSockets
6 8 (3.77%) Spring
7 7 (3.30%) LDAP
7 7 (3.30%) REST
8 6 (2.83%) Node.js
9 5 (2.36%) JSON
9 5 (2.36%) SOAP
10 4 (1.89%) .NET
10 4 (1.89%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (1.89%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.25%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.25%) Replication
3 8 (3.77%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.77%) Equities
3 8 (3.77%) Fixed Income
4 7 (3.30%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.30%) Derivative
4 7 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.36%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.36%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.42%) Online Banking
7 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.94%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 132 (62.26%) Linux
2 73 (34.43%) Windows
3 17 (8.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.25%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.30%) Android
5 7 (3.30%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.36%) Solaris
7 4 (1.89%) VMS
8 3 (1.42%) Mac OS X
8 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.94%) AIX
9 2 (0.94%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.94%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.47%) CentOS
10 1 (0.47%) HPUX
10 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (20.75%) Agile
2 38 (17.92%) DevOps
3 35 (16.51%) Test Automation
4 31 (14.62%) CI/CD
5 26 (12.26%) Migration
6 25 (11.79%) Performance Tuning
7 24 (11.32%) Microservices
7 24 (11.32%) OO
8 23 (10.85%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (9.91%) ITIL
9 21 (9.91%) TDD
10 20 (9.43%) Data Modelling
11 19 (8.96%) Computer Science
11 19 (8.96%) Scrum
12 18 (8.49%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (8.02%) Analytics
14 16 (7.55%) Risk Management
14 16 (7.55%) Web Development
15 15 (7.08%) Full Stack Development
15 15 (7.08%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 68 (32.08%) SQL
2 57 (26.89%) Python
3 31 (14.62%) Java
4 25 (11.79%) Perl
5 24 (11.32%) JavaScript
5 24 (11.32%) Shell Script
6 19 (8.96%) Bash
7 18 (8.49%) PL/SQL
8 14 (6.60%) PowerShell
9 12 (5.66%) PHP
10 11 (5.19%) C++
11 9 (4.25%) C#
12 8 (3.77%) Go
13 4 (1.89%) Bourne shell
13 4 (1.89%) Korn
13 4 (1.89%) Scala
13 4 (1.89%) VBA
14 3 (1.42%) C
15 2 (0.94%) AWK
15 2 (0.94%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 37 (17.45%) Degree
2 19 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.25%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.77%) SAP Certification
7 7 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.42%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.94%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (0.94%) ISEB
10 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.47%) CEH
11 1 (0.47%) CISSP
11 1 (0.47%) HNC
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.47%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.19%) SLA
2 9 (4.25%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.77%) QA
4 7 (3.30%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.94%) EMIR
6 2 (0.94%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.94%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.47%) GDPR
7 1 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (9.43%) Docker
2 14 (6.60%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.77%) HDFS
5 7 (3.30%) NFS
6 5 (2.36%) vSphere
7 3 (1.42%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 29 (13.68%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.26%) Ansible
3 18 (8.49%) Terraform
4 7 (3.30%) Grafana
5 6 (2.83%) Puppet
6 5 (2.36%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.36%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.36%) SCCM
7 3 (1.42%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (0.94%) Packer
8 2 (0.94%) Salt
8 2 (0.94%) TIBCO Hawk
8 2 (0.94%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.94%) WSUS
9 1 (0.47%) Nessus
9 1 (0.47%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.47%) SCOM
9 1 (0.47%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 42 (19.81%) Oracle
2 17 (8.02%) VMware
3 14 (6.60%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.60%) Red Hat
3 14 (6.60%) SAP
4 13 (6.13%) Qualys
5 8 (3.77%) Google
5 8 (3.77%) IBM
6 7 (3.30%) Isilon
7 6 (2.83%) Bloomberg
7 6 (2.83%) Cisco
7 6 (2.83%) Dell
7 6 (2.83%) ION Trading
7 6 (2.83%) Splunk
8 5 (2.36%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.36%) Juniper
9 4 (1.89%) F5
9 4 (1.89%) MarketAxess
9 4 (1.89%) Sitecore
9 4 (1.89%) Tradeweb