Unix Contracts in Manchester

Unix
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 94 83
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 -17
Contract jobs citing Unix 10 24 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.66% 1.27% 2.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.43% 8.54% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 37
10th Percentile £507 £404 £362
25th Percentile £566 £480 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £505 £590
Median % change year-on-year +21.72% -14.36% +44.17%
75th Percentile £639 £601 £650
90th Percentile £656 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £42.50 £47.38
% change year-on-year - -10.29% +7.67%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 184 281 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.13% 14.84% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 203 344
10th Percentile £300 £196 £150
25th Percentile £350 £382 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £663 £619 £606
90th Percentile £850 £673 £661
North West median daily rate £438 £476 £425
% change year-on-year -7.99% +11.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 20
10th Percentile £17.14 £13.96 £11.36
25th Percentile £17.72 £26.00 £15.99
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.50 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +50.68% +12.45%
75th Percentile - £39.80 £21.63
90th Percentile £61.60 £47.50 £28.75
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.00
% change year-on-year -45.39% +62.78% +5.88%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Bolton - 1 £480 -
Unix
North West

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (30.00%) IaaS
1 3 (30.00%) PaaS
1 3 (30.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (20.00%) Gatling
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) JMeter
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
1 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) NetBackup Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
2 2 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (20.00%) Derivative
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (30.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) OOP
3 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Groovy
2 2 (20.00%) Scala
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Brocade
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) NetApp
2 1 (10.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (10.00%) VMware