Unix Contracts in Sheffield

Unix
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 -13
Contract jobs citing Unix 9 22 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.39% 4.85% 2.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.41% 36.67% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 10
10th Percentile - £458 £435
25th Percentile £411 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +3.96% +12.22%
75th Percentile £434 £606 £515
90th Percentile £462 £685 £576
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 107 60 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 28.38% 13.22% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 42 64
10th Percentile £233 £326 £134
25th Percentile £412 £463 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +8.11% +15.63%
75th Percentile £538 £645 £566
90th Percentile £588 £699 £676
South Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -14.00% +11.11% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile - £11.65 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £12.63 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% +5.08% -40.14%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.63 £18.00
90th Percentile - £21.35 £18.90
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £17.43
% change year-on-year +45.16% -11.07% -18.93%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Sheffield

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Sheffield

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Sheffield

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (11.11%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
1 8 (88.89%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) Anthos
2 1 (11.11%) Datadog
2 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Database Specialist
1 4 (44.44%) DBA
1 4 (44.44%) MongoDB DBA
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Performance Tuning
1 8 (88.89%) Roadmaps
2 7 (77.78%) Task Automation
3 6 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) OO
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Bash
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Istio
1 1 (11.11%) Kiali
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk
1 1 (11.11%) VMware