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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 34 60
Rank change year-on-year -22 +26 +9
Contract jobs citing Unix 23 35 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.95% 5.56% 0.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.17% 35.35% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 27 5
10th Percentile £288 £425 -
25th Percentile - £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% +43.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £438 £694 £521
90th Percentile £468 £765 -
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £529 £500
% change year-on-year -8.59% +5.75% -7.41%

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 120 99 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.38% 15.74% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 68 53
10th Percentile £150 £190 £183
25th Percentile £213 £241 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £417 £400
Median % change year-on-year +13.91% +4.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £538 £648 £469
90th Percentile £619 £733 £568
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £435 £400
% change year-on-year +9.29% +8.65% -19.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £11.44 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £18.57 £18.50
% change year-on-year +15.59% +0.35% +10.66%

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 18 January 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 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (60.87%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (17.39%) MySQL
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (73.91%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Site Engineer
1 14 (60.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 14 (60.87%) Splunk Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) DBA
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Storage Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (4.35%) Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (60.87%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.70%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 15 (65.22%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (78.26%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Change Management
2 15 (65.22%) Dashboard Development
2 15 (65.22%) Observability
3 14 (60.87%) Computer Science
3 14 (60.87%) Containerisation
3 14 (60.87%) Data Ingestion
3 14 (60.87%) Data Modelling
3 14 (60.87%) DevOps
3 14 (60.87%) Incident Response
3 14 (60.87%) Knowledge Transfer
3 14 (60.87%) Migration
3 14 (60.87%) Performance Metrics
3 14 (60.87%) Proactive Monitoring
3 14 (60.87%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (60.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 14 (60.87%) Validation
4 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Python
2 14 (60.87%) Bash
3 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Degree
2 14 (60.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) GPFS
2 2 (8.70%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 14 (60.87%) Ansible
2 14 (60.87%) Kibana
2 14 (60.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Splunk
2 7 (30.43%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) IBM
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace