Unix Engineer Contracts

Unix Engineer
UK

The median Unix Engineer daily rate in the UK is £519 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 597 748
Rank change year-on-year +35 +151 -86
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 25 109 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.19% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.20% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 81 56
10th Percentile £280 £413 £341
25th Percentile £381 £513 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £545 £455
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +19.78% +9.31%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £576
90th Percentile £571 £694 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £393
% change year-on-year -7.14% +33.76% -0.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Unix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Engineer in the UK

Unix Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Unix Engineer in the UK

Unix Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix Engineer in the UK

Unix Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix Engineer in the UK

Unix Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 May 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
UK excluding London +25 18 £488 -7.14% 8
England +74 16 £538 -1.38% 7
Scotland +11 8 - - 1
Work from Home +69 7 - -
London +65 7 £538 -10.42%
South East +20 4 £350 -49.09%
East of England +10 3 £550 +41.94% 2
South West - 2 £488 - 3
Wales +20 1 £500 -4.76%

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Unix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Unix
2 21 (84.00%) Linux
3 9 (36.00%) VMware
3 9 (36.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (36.00%) ITIL
3 9 (36.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (32.00%) Perl
4 8 (32.00%) Python
4 8 (32.00%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) OO
5 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (24.00%) HP
5 6 (24.00%) Dell
6 5 (20.00%) SCOM
6 5 (20.00%) Hyper-V
6 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (20.00%) Change Management
6 5 (20.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 5 (20.00%) IBM
6 5 (20.00%) Solaris
6 5 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
6 5 (20.00%) Ansible
6 5 (20.00%) Rancher
7 4 (16.00%) tcpdump
7 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) FTP
7 4 (16.00%) HTTP

Unix Engineer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) MQSeries
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 4 (16.00%) FTP
2 4 (16.00%) HTTP
2 4 (16.00%) HTTPS
2 4 (16.00%) IPsec
2 4 (16.00%) Network Security
2 4 (16.00%) tcpdump
2 4 (16.00%) VPN
2 4 (16.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) CA Gen
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
1 2 (8.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (8.00%) Automotive
1 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Advertising
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) LDAP
2 1 (4.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Unix
2 21 (84.00%) Linux
3 5 (20.00%) Solaris
4 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) ITIL
2 8 (32.00%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) OO
4 5 (20.00%) Change Management
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (16.00%) Customer Service
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (8.00%) Exploratory Testing
6 2 (8.00%) Functional Testing
6 2 (8.00%) Project Planning
6 2 (8.00%) Scrum
6 2 (8.00%) SDLC
6 2 (8.00%) Server Management
6 2 (8.00%) TDD
7 1 (4.00%) Open Source
7 1 (4.00%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Perl
1 8 (32.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.00%) C
3 2 (8.00%) Natural
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) HNC
2 2 (8.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (8.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (16.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Ansible
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.00%) Rancher
1 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 5 (20.00%) SCOM
1 5 (20.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 2 (8.00%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Red Hat
1 9 (36.00%) VMware
2 6 (24.00%) Dell
2 6 (24.00%) HP
3 5 (20.00%) IBM
4 4 (16.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (8.00%) BMC
5 2 (8.00%) CA