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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 54 62
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Unix 23 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.67% 0.19% 0.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 23.23% 2.00% 7.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £355 - £360
25th Percentile £365 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £325 £514
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -36.77% +4.37%
75th Percentile £438 £338 £521
90th Percentile £468 - £557
West Midlands median daily rate £444 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -4.52% -11.52% -2.78%

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 99 50 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.50% 9.52% 10.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 41 54
10th Percentile £198 £160 £190
25th Percentile £371 £190 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £280 £413
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -32.12% +5.77%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £473
90th Percentile £618 £694 £699
West Midlands median daily rate £448 £430 £413
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.24% -17.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £14.35
25th Percentile - - £15.04
Median hourly rate £16.09 £18.51 £16.80
Median % change year-on-year -13.07% +10.21% +8.42%
75th Percentile - - £18.45
90th Percentile - - £19.08
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £18.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year +18.37% -4.58% +9.65%

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 25 March 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 1 (4.35%) AWS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) SAN
2 2 (8.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (17.39%) MySQL
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau
General
1 13 (56.52%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Site Engineer
1 10 (43.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 10 (43.48%) Splunk Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) DBA
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (17.39%) Storage Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) AIX Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Banking Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Server Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Unix Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Data Centre Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Splunk Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (13.04%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (13.04%) Replication
4 2 (8.70%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Change Management
2 12 (52.17%) Migration
2 12 (52.17%) Validation
3 11 (47.83%) Dashboard Development
3 11 (47.83%) Observability
4 10 (43.48%) Computer Science
4 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
4 10 (43.48%) Data Ingestion
4 10 (43.48%) Data Modelling
4 10 (43.48%) DevOps
4 10 (43.48%) Incident Response
4 10 (43.48%) Knowledge Transfer
4 10 (43.48%) Performance Metrics
4 10 (43.48%) Proactive Monitoring
4 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (43.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.04%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.70%) Perl
5 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (43.48%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (43.48%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) GPFS
2 3 (13.04%) NFS
3 2 (8.70%) Firmware
3 2 (8.70%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Ansible
2 10 (43.48%) Kibana
2 10 (43.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Splunk
2 8 (34.78%) Oracle
3 5 (21.74%) IBM
4 3 (13.04%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.70%) Remedy
6 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace