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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 60 24
Rank change year-on-year -11 -36 +43
Contract jobs citing Unix 5 3 43
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.55% 0.52% 6.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.26% 3.70% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 30
10th Percentile - - £426
25th Percentile - £175 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £200 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -63.64% +37.50%
75th Percentile - £225 £675
90th Percentile - - £765
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -8.48% -5.64% +1.85%

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 54 81 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.99% 13.99% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 59 68
10th Percentile £181 £141 £190
25th Percentile £210 £179 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £371 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -13.61% +18.72%
75th Percentile £469 £488 £648
90th Percentile £638 £502 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £450 £456
% change year-on-year +2.78% -1.37% +14.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.50
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile - - £21.63
90th Percentile - - £22.90
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £24.66 £19.00
% change year-on-year +156.02% +29.79% -5.00%

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
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Mockito
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) AIX Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (20.00%) JAX-RS
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Clustering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Perl
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
1 2 (40.00%) PowerHA
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) VMware