POSIX Contracts in the Midlands

Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring POSIX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited POSIX 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 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing POSIX 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £66 - -
25th Percentile £68 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £70 - -
75th Percentile £73 - -
90th Percentile £74 - -
England median daily rate £363 - £750
% change year-on-year - - +48.51%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

POSIX falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 319 384 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.67% 13.93% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 272 464
10th Percentile £319 £276 £313
25th Percentile £400 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £660 £725 £700
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.13 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for POSIX in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for POSIX in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing POSIX within the 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
East Midlands - 2 £70 -
POSIX
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) NetBeans
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) MISRA
1 2 (100.00%) MISRA C
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) IEC 61508
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) QNX