Unix Contracts in South Yorkshire

Unix
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 -14
Contract jobs citing Unix 10 24 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.19% 4.52% 2.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.19% 30.38% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 12
10th Percentile £411 £459 £415
25th Percentile £415 £500 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +3.96% +6.32%
75th Percentile £442 £592 £525
90th Percentile £530 £683 £573
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -19.05% +2.94% -2.86%

All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 139 79 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 30.48% 14.88% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 59 87
10th Percentile £199 £160 £130
25th Percentile £403 £246 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +11.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £521 £575 £515
90th Percentile £588 £678 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £415 £440 £375
% change year-on-year -5.68% +17.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £18.15 £11.65 £11.61
25th Percentile £21.25 £12.63 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £17.43
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -11.07% -18.93%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.63 £20.29
90th Percentile - £21.35 £22.99
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.35 £19.39 £17.50
% change year-on-year +10.15% +10.77% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in South Yorkshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in South Yorkshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in South Yorkshire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Sheffield -13 9 £425 -19.05% 3
Unix
Yorkshire

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Anthos
2 2 (20.00%) Datadog
2 2 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Database Specialist
1 4 (40.00%) DBA
1 4 (40.00%) MongoDB DBA
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
1 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
1 8 (80.00%) Task Automation
2 6 (60.00%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (60.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Bash
2 9 (90.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) Go
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Istio
1 2 (20.00%) Kiali
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
1 2 (20.00%) VMware