Unix Contracts in Manchester

Unix
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 91 83
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 -11
Contract jobs citing Unix 12 24 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.84% 1.33% 2.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.98% 9.02% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 34
10th Percentile £499 £381 £425
25th Percentile £538 £426 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% -16.67% +39.37%
75th Percentile £656 £566 £655
90th Percentile £665 £615 £675
North West median daily rate £523 £496 £550
% change year-on-year +5.29% -9.77% +29.41%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 172 266 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.07% 14.74% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 190 365
10th Percentile £300 £189 £157
25th Percentile £375 £342 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -4.90% +29.03%
75th Percentile £800 £575 £625
90th Percentile £850 £650 £663
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 23
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.96 £15.25
25th Percentile £21.31 £16.85 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +30.00% +23.23%
75th Percentile £42.31 £27.38 £72.50
90th Percentile £66.75 £39.60 £79.80
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -45.39% +46.50% +26.98%

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 27 May 2024.

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
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 May 2024. 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
Bolton - 1 £480 - 2
Unix
North West

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) IaaS
1 3 (25.00%) PaaS
1 3 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Cohesity
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (16.67%) Gatling
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) JMeter
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
1 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (8.33%) Mockito
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) NetBackup Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Storage and Backup Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (25.00%) Middleware
3 2 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) JAX-RS
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (25.00%) Derivative
3 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 4 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 4 (33.33%) Microservices
2 4 (33.33%) OOP
2 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (25.00%) BDD
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (25.00%) OO
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (16.67%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Groovy
2 2 (16.67%) Scala
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) NetBackup
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Brocade
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) NetApp
2 1 (8.33%) PagerDuty
2 1 (8.33%) VMware