Unix Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Unix
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Unix 18 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.96% - 0.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% - 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £405 - £360
25th Percentile £413 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £514
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.37%
75th Percentile £438 - £521
90th Percentile £528 - £557
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £460 £536
% change year-on-year -0.22% -14.18% -0.74%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 72 62 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.83% 12.47% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 48 48
10th Percentile £176 £106 £190
25th Percentile £250 £150 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £278 £350
Median % change year-on-year +53.15% -20.71% -15.66%
75th Percentile £510 £500 £487
90th Percentile £618 £690 £684
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +14.75% -8.57% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £14.52
25th Percentile - - £15.47
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +5.77% +0.06%
75th Percentile - - £20.56
90th Percentile - - £22.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £64.07 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +253.38% -19.42% +29.85%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Unix job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Birmingham

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Unix

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
1 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) SAN
2 3 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Site Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Splunk Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Storage Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) AIX Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Server Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) Unix Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking Systems Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Splunk Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (16.67%) Flash
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Management Information System
2 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
3 3 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (16.67%) Replication
4 2 (11.11%) Clustering
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) AIX
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Migration
2 9 (50.00%) Validation
3 8 (44.44%) Dashboard Development
3 8 (44.44%) Observability
4 7 (38.89%) Change Management
4 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
4 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
4 7 (38.89%) Data Ingestion
4 7 (38.89%) Data Modelling
4 7 (38.89%) DevOps
4 7 (38.89%) Incident Response
4 7 (38.89%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (38.89%) Performance Metrics
4 7 (38.89%) Proactive Monitoring
4 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (38.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) ITIL
6 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 2 (11.11%) Data Centre Operations
7 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) Perl
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) GPFS
2 3 (16.67%) NFS
3 2 (11.11%) Firmware
3 2 (11.11%) PowerHA
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 7 (38.89%) Kibana
2 7 (38.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Splunk
2 5 (27.78%) IBM
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle
4 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.11%) Remedy
6 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (5.56%) VMware