Unix Contracts in Leeds

Unix
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 46 50 77
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 +16
Contract jobs citing Unix 14 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 3.01% 1.63% 1.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.50% 11.11% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £542 £376 £465
25th Percentile £694 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -12.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £744 £463 £625
90th Percentile £750 £541 £685
West Yorkshire median daily rate £725 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +65.71% -12.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 - -

All Operating Systems
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 112 117 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 24.09% 14.64% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 89 95
10th Percentile £209 £258 £190
25th Percentile £350 £313 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £594
90th Percentile £765 £628 £683
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £400 £470
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +195.60% -82.66% +338.36%
75th Percentile £41.50 £16.07 -
90th Percentile - £17.39 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £14.52 £15.44
% change year-on-year +182.37% -5.96% -12.12%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Leeds

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Leeds

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Leeds

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Leeds

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (35.71%) nginx
1 5 (35.71%) Traefik
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) AWS
1 12 (85.71%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
3 6 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 6 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
1 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) IMAP
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) POP3
2 2 (14.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) GitLab
1 12 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Military
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (64.29%) Senior
2 9 (64.29%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (78.57%) cloud-init
2 7 (50.00%) Kafka
3 6 (42.86%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 12 (85.71%) CentOS
2 12 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 12 (85.71%) DevOps
1 12 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (50.00%) Secrets Management
4 6 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 6 (42.86%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 6 (42.86%) Identity Management
4 6 (42.86%) Observability
4 6 (42.86%) Static Application Security Testing
5 5 (35.71%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
8 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
8 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Bash
1 12 (85.71%) Go
1 12 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Packer
1 12 (85.71%) Terraform
2 7 (50.00%) Grafana
2 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 6 (42.86%) Consul
3 6 (42.86%) Istio
3 6 (42.86%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (42.86%) linkerd
3 6 (42.86%) Rancher
3 6 (42.86%) ZABBIX
4 5 (35.71%) HAProxy
5 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Splunk
2 6 (42.86%) Okta
3 5 (35.71%) Apple
3 5 (35.71%) ESET
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft