Unix Contracts in Birmingham

Unix
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 66 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 -28
Contract jobs citing Unix 6 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.79% 1.34% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.00% 10.71% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £360 - £337
25th Percentile £413 £463 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% -6.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £521 £524 £544
90th Percentile £557 £540 £573
West Midlands median daily rate £536 £540 £495
% change year-on-year -0.74% +9.09% +22.22%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

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 advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 75 112 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.82% 12.51% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 59 116
10th Percentile £190 £193 £165
25th Percentile £250 £313 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £423
Median % change year-on-year - -5.33% +20.71%
75th Percentile £519 £563 £533
90th Percentile £716 £731 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £407
% change year-on-year -15.04% +22.91% +12.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £15.54 £14.40
25th Percentile £14.94 £15.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.49 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.52% +2.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £17.75 £27.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £18.80 £43.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
% change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -1.49%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Birmingham

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Birmingham

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Birmingham

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Birmingham

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Rollout Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Rollout Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Telephony Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Telephony Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Guice
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) OO
1 2 (33.33%) OOD
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared