Unix Contracts in Manchester

Unix
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 57 86 94
Rank change year-on-year +29 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing Unix 22 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.38% 0.66% 1.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.71% 5.43% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 18
10th Percentile £382 £507 £404
25th Percentile £418 £566 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £505
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +21.72% -14.36%
75th Percentile £624 £639 £601
90th Percentile £730 £656 £700
North West median daily rate £447 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.73% +10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £38.80
25th Percentile - - £39.25
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - £46.00
North West median hourly rate - - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - -10.29%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 140 184 281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.12% 12.13% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 134 203
10th Percentile £174 £300 £196
25th Percentile £212 £350 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £513 £663 £619
90th Percentile £611 £850 £673
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile - £17.14 £13.96
25th Percentile - £17.72 £26.00
Median hourly rate £13.00 £25.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.51% -8.18% +50.68%
75th Percentile £14.60 - £39.80
90th Percentile £23.24 £61.60 £47.50
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (4.55%) SAS
Business Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) HBase
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) Pentaho
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) GitLab
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Jasmine
2 3 (13.64%) Mocha
2 3 (13.64%) Subversion
3 2 (9.09%) Grunt
3 2 (9.09%) gulp
4 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.55%) ERwin
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Applications Engineer
1 7 (31.82%) Applications Support
1 7 (31.82%) Applications Support Engineer
1 7 (31.82%) Support Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Support
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Linux Developer
5 1 (4.55%) QA Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) REST
1 5 (22.73%) SOAP
2 4 (18.18%) cloud-init
2 4 (18.18%) Node.js
3 3 (13.64%) CSS
3 3 (13.64%) HTML
3 3 (13.64%) HTML5
3 3 (13.64%) jQuery
3 3 (13.64%) Mustache
3 3 (13.64%) Sass
4 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (22.73%) Derivative
2 5 (22.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) CentOS
2 4 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (13.64%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Service Delivery
2 7 (31.82%) Cash Management
2 7 (31.82%) Incident Management
2 7 (31.82%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (27.27%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 5 (22.73%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (13.64%) Front End Development
6 3 (13.64%) Responsive Web Design
6 3 (13.64%) TDD
6 3 (13.64%) User Experience
6 3 (13.64%) Web Accessibility
6 3 (13.64%) Web Design
7 2 (9.09%) Open Source
7 2 (9.09%) SDLC
7 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) Bash
3 4 (18.18%) Go
3 4 (18.18%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Basel III
1 5 (22.73%) MiFID
2 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.64%) WCAG
3 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.55%) NCSC
3 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Packer
3 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) Consul
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Istio
4 1 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (4.55%) linkerd
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.55%) Rancher
4 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Sybase
2 7 (31.82%) Bloomberg
2 7 (31.82%) Refinitiv
3 6 (27.27%) Oracle
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) Informatica
5 1 (4.55%) Okta
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk