Unix Contracts in the West Midlands

Unix
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 34 45
Rank change year-on-year -34 +11 -22
Contract jobs citing Unix 41 140 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.13% 5.88% 4.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.80% 33.90% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 101 103
10th Percentile £424 £462 £383
25th Percentile £455 £513 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £540 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +10.20% +20.99%
75th Percentile £580 - £538
90th Percentile £760 £602 £540
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 244 413 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.68% 17.35% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 277 449
10th Percentile £185 £171 £150
25th Percentile £251 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £505 £405
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% +24.69% +11.72%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £519
90th Percentile £698 £694 £600
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 36
10th Percentile £14.83 £14.71 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.25 £13.84
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.94 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.86% +2.64% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £48.13 £25.75 £23.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Herefordshire -3 12 £750 +15.38% 3
Shropshire -15 9 £518 -4.07%
Worcestershire +12 6 £550 +4.76% 2
Birmingham +3 6 £514 +4.37% 2
Warwickshire +2 5 £450 -37.93%
Coventry +10 1 £550 +4.76%
Dudley - 1 £425 -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (2.44%) Confluence
1 1 (2.44%) OpenEdge
1 1 (2.44%) SAS
1 1 (2.44%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) MFGPRO
1 1 (2.44%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
1 2 (4.88%) AWS
2 1 (2.44%) Azure
2 1 (2.44%) GCP
2 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (31.71%) Intrusion Detection
1 13 (31.71%) Network Security
2 6 (14.63%) DHCP
2 6 (14.63%) DNS
2 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) Big Data
2 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.44%) Impala
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) Pentaho
3 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Ant
2 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.88%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
3 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 18 (43.90%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
2 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.88%) Law
3 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Developer
2 8 (19.51%) SQL Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Project Manager
4 3 (7.32%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) IT Manager
5 2 (4.88%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.88%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (2.44%) Administrator
6 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (2.44%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Telephony Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (12.20%) Middleware
3 2 (4.88%) Spring
4 1 (2.44%) Guice
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Cyber Defence
1 13 (31.71%) Distributed Applications
2 9 (21.95%) Management Information System
3 5 (12.20%) Data Centre
3 5 (12.20%) Onboarding
3 5 (12.20%) SCADA
4 3 (7.32%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (58.54%) Windows
2 23 (56.10%) Linux
3 13 (31.71%) Android
3 13 (31.71%) Apple iOS
4 6 (14.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (12.20%) Windows Server
6 2 (4.88%) Windows 10
7 1 (2.44%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Cybersecurity
1 18 (43.90%) SIEM
2 13 (31.71%) Actionable Insight
2 13 (31.71%) Data Engineering
2 13 (31.71%) Data Management
2 13 (31.71%) Information Security
2 13 (31.71%) Kalman Filter
2 13 (31.71%) Security Architecture
3 12 (29.27%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (26.83%) Security Operations
5 10 (24.39%) Agile
5 10 (24.39%) Scrum
6 9 (21.95%) Analytics
7 8 (19.51%) Data Analysis
7 8 (19.51%) Software Testing
7 8 (19.51%) System Testing
8 7 (17.07%) Computer Science
9 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (14.63%) Virtual Environments
9 6 (14.63%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) Java
2 9 (21.95%) SQL
3 8 (19.51%) PL/SQL
4 7 (17.07%) Bash
4 7 (17.07%) Bourne shell
4 7 (17.07%) Korn
5 6 (14.63%) C#
6 2 (4.88%) Perl
7 1 (2.44%) HiveQL
7 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 16 (39.02%) DV Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) Degree
4 5 (12.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (12.20%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (12.20%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) SCCM
2 5 (12.20%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Oracle
1 9 (21.95%) Red Hat
2 5 (12.20%) BMC
2 5 (12.20%) Veeam
2 5 (12.20%) VMware
3 1 (2.44%) Denodo
3 1 (2.44%) HP
3 1 (2.44%) Informatica
3 1 (2.44%) Progress
3 1 (2.44%) QAD
3 1 (2.44%) Talend