Unix Contracts in the East Midlands

Unix
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 50 65 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 +18
Contract jobs citing Unix 6 1 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.12% 0.13% 3.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.57% 0.59% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 33
10th Percentile £312 - £513
25th Percentile £391 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% -23.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £500 - £700
90th Percentile - - £715
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 70 170 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.06% 21.99% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 102 148
10th Percentile £173 £122 £125
25th Percentile £200 £150 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £325 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.15% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £476 £504 £538
90th Percentile £530 £575 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 29
10th Percentile £14.29 £12.75 £11.69
25th Percentile £15.09 £14.27 £12.70
Median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -4.06% -4.22%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £24.59 £21.88 £29.23
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire +2 4 £391 -21.80%
Nottinghamshire - 2 £500 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Introscope
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) J2EE
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Business Development
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
3 1 (16.67%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) CA Wily
1 2 (33.33%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
2 2 (33.33%) AppDynamics
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle