Unix Contracts in County Antrim

Unix
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 18 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing Unix 8 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 5.33% 3.03% 2.40%
As % of the Operating Systems category 28.57% 16.67% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile - £475 £615
25th Percentile - £484 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -23.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £410 £522 -
90th Percentile £498 £531 -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £325 £500 £650
% change year-on-year -35.00% -23.08% +30.00%

All Operating Systems
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 24 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 18.67% 18.18% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 23
10th Percentile £150 £181 £156
25th Percentile £163 £245 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £469 £400
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +17.19% -3.03%
75th Percentile £325 £530 £425
90th Percentile £410 £575 £640
Northern Ireland median daily rate £263 £469 £400
% change year-on-year -44.00% +17.19% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile - - £14.15
25th Percentile £22.50 - £14.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £12.25 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year +97.39% -30.44% +29.30%
75th Percentile - £31.88 £20.37
90th Percentile - - £20.90
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £24.18 £12.25 £17.61
% change year-on-year +97.39% -30.44% +29.30%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in County Antrim

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in County Antrim

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in County Antrim over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in County Antrim

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in County Antrim

Unix
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast -3 8 £325 -35.00% 6
Unix
Northern Ireland

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Hive
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Impala
2 2 (25.00%) HBase
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Ant
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) Maven
1 4 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Banking
3 4 (50.00%) Front Office
3 4 (50.00%) Wholesale Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (25.00%) Law
5 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Big Data Developer
4 1 (12.50%) DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (12.50%) Junior DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Oracle DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Derivative
1 4 (50.00%) Equities
1 4 (50.00%) Equity Derivative
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
2 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) OO
2 4 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Storyboarding
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Scala
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle