Unix Contracts in the North of England

Unix
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 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 127 79 113
Rank change year-on-year -48 +34 -27
Contract jobs citing Unix 51 143 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.07% 2.58% 2.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.35% 16.16% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 108 84
10th Percentile £400 £407 £406
25th Percentile £422 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -4.55% +24.29%
75th Percentile £553 £625 £642
90th Percentile £630 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -4.23% +2.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £70.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -16.30% +64.71%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 694 885 1,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.62% 15.96% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 612 993
10th Percentile £165 £168 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £531 £575 £548
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £475 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 64 78
10th Percentile - £13.16 £12.75
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £15.42
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.25 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +32.88% +14.06%
75th Percentile £19.07 £43.48 £23.69
90th Percentile £48.00 £49.29 £71.50
England median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire -13 24 £425 -29.17% 11
North West -28 23 £525 +5.58% 16
North East -9 4 - -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (5.88%) nginx
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) JBoss
3 1 (1.96%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) SAP IBP
1 1 (1.96%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) AWS
2 16 (31.37%) Azure
3 9 (17.65%) GCP
4 5 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.84%) GitHub
6 3 (5.88%) IaaS
6 3 (5.88%) PaaS
6 3 (5.88%) SaaS
7 2 (3.92%) Anthos
7 2 (3.92%) Datadog
7 2 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.96%) Cohesity
8 1 (1.96%) dbt
8 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) HTTP
2 3 (5.88%) LAN
2 3 (5.88%) WAN
3 2 (3.92%) Firewall
3 2 (3.92%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.96%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (29.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.92%) Big Data
2 2 (3.92%) Informix
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.96%) Impala
3 1 (1.96%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.96%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.96%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.96%) Spark SQL
3 1 (1.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) GitLab
1 7 (13.73%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.80%) Git
3 4 (7.84%) Cucumber
3 4 (7.84%) Gatling
3 4 (7.84%) JIRA
3 4 (7.84%) JMeter
3 4 (7.84%) Selenium
3 4 (7.84%) WebDriver
4 3 (5.88%) Mockito
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Finance
3 4 (7.84%) Banking
3 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Developer
2 8 (15.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) Architect
4 6 (11.76%) DBA
4 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Database Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) MongoDB DBA
5 4 (7.84%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Test Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.92%) Informix DBA
7 2 (3.92%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Site Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Software Developer
8 1 (1.96%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) Kafka
2 7 (13.73%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (13.73%) XML
3 6 (11.76%) HTML
4 5 (9.80%) .NET
4 5 (9.80%) Spring
4 5 (9.80%) Web Services
5 4 (7.84%) J2EE
5 4 (7.84%) Middleware
6 3 (5.88%) JAX-RS
6 3 (5.88%) JSP
6 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.92%) CSS
7 2 (3.92%) XSLT
8 1 (1.96%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.96%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (1.96%) Node.js
8 1 (1.96%) RESTful
8 1 (1.96%) SAP Basis
8 1 (1.96%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Replication
2 5 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.88%) Derivative
5 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.96%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (66.67%) Linux
2 12 (23.53%) Windows
3 7 (13.73%) Mac OS X
4 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.92%) HPUX
5 2 (3.92%) Solaris
5 2 (3.92%) zOS
6 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Agile
2 14 (27.45%) Performance Tuning
2 14 (27.45%) TDD
3 11 (21.57%) DevOps
4 10 (19.61%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (17.65%) Migration
6 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
6 8 (15.69%) Computer Science
6 8 (15.69%) Roadmaps
6 8 (15.69%) Task Automation
7 7 (13.73%) BDD
7 7 (13.73%) Microservices
7 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
8 6 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
8 6 (11.76%) Waterfall
9 5 (9.80%) Containerisation
9 5 (9.80%) Design Patterns
9 5 (9.80%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) Java
2 13 (25.49%) Python
3 10 (19.61%) Bash
3 10 (19.61%) Shell Script
3 10 (19.61%) SQL
4 4 (7.84%) Groovy
4 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.84%) Scala
5 3 (5.88%) C
5 3 (5.88%) C++
6 2 (3.92%) Perl
6 2 (3.92%) PHP
6 2 (3.92%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.96%) Go
7 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) CCNA
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) Terraform
2 7 (13.73%) Prometheus
3 6 (11.76%) Ansible
4 5 (9.80%) Grafana
5 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.92%) Istio
6 2 (3.92%) Kiali
7 1 (1.96%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Oracle
2 5 (9.80%) PagerDuty
3 4 (7.84%) VMware
4 3 (5.88%) IBM
5 2 (3.92%) Splunk
5 2 (3.92%) Sun
6 1 (1.96%) Brocade
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco
6 1 (1.96%) Google
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.96%) NetApp
6 1 (1.96%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.96%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) Temenos