Unix Contracts in Birmingham

Unix
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 55 70
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 10 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.37% 1.29% 0.66%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.67% 12.82% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 -
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -12.38% -2.78% +5.88%

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 75 78 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.99% 10.08% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 49 58
10th Percentile £111 £190 £192
25th Percentile £161 £200 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £623
90th Percentile £689 £675 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £401 £444 £430
% change year-on-year -9.62% +3.14% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £14.52 £15.54
25th Percentile - £15.47 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.51 £17.50 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +0.06% +9.31%
75th Percentile - £20.56 £27.50
90th Percentile - £22.48 £43.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £17.83 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.74% +12.50% +21.58%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Birmingham

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Birmingham

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Birmingham

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Electronics
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared DBA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared DBA
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Database Security
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) OCP
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SAP