Unix Contracts in Worcestershire

Unix
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 24 21
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Unix 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 8.00% 2.61% 0.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.00% 10.00% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £519 - -
25th Percentile £525 £513 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £313
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +68.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £319
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £536 £540 £490
% change year-on-year -0.74% +10.20% +20.99%

All Operating Systems
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 15 30 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 20.00% 26.09% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 24
10th Percentile £188 £204 £122
25th Percentile £198 £400 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £209
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +169.46% +41.53%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £256
90th Percentile - £675 £332
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £488 £405
% change year-on-year -17.95% +20.37% +10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £30.50 - -
25th Percentile £44.38 £16.54 £10.68
Median hourly rate £70.00 £16.94 £11.86
Median % change year-on-year +313.35% +42.79% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £17.33 £14.40
90th Percentile - - £15.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
% change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -1.49%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Worcestershire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Worcestershire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Worcestershire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Malvern +11 6 £550 +4.76%
Unix
West Midlands

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 6 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (83.33%) Information Management
2 5 (83.33%) Security Hardening
2 5 (83.33%) Security Monitoring
2 5 (83.33%) SIEM
2 5 (83.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (83.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) SCCM
2 5 (83.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Veeam
1 5 (83.33%) VMware