Unix Contracts in the Midlands

Unix
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 84 91 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 -51 +15
Contract jobs citing Unix 27 42 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.41% 1.52% 5.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.67% 10.02% 26.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 128
10th Percentile £400 £425 £462
25th Percentile £440 £470 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £536 £540
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% -0.74% +9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £578 £601
90th Percentile £563 £750 £693
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Operating Systems
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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 253 419 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.22% 15.20% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 268 433
10th Percentile £150 £145 £158
25th Percentile £200 £190 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £377 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -20.74% +26.67%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £558
90th Percentile £578 £612 £688
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 42 38
10th Percentile £15.16 £12.86 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.31 £14.27 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.50 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.05% +3.59%
75th Percentile £19.63 £23.75 £19.98
90th Percentile £24.21 - £30.61
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 Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the Midlands

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in the Midlands

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the Midlands

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the Midlands

Unix
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 Unix 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
West Midlands -6 21 £468 -12.78% 8
East Midlands +15 6 £454 -9.20% 4
Unix
England

Unix
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.70%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) SAN
2 2 (7.41%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle Database
2 2 (7.41%) IDMS
2 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
2 6 (22.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 6 (22.22%) Bitbucket
3 4 (14.81%) GitLab
4 2 (7.41%) CA Gen
4 2 (7.41%) Introscope
4 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.41%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) Git
5 1 (3.70%) Toad
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Administrator
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (14.81%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (14.81%) Unix Administrator
3 4 (14.81%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Ab Initio Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Security Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Security Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Unix Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 2 (7.41%) J2EE
2 2 (7.41%) Web Services
3 1 (3.70%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.70%) Laravel
3 1 (3.70%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) Vue
3 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Linux
2 10 (37.04%) AIX
3 3 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (25.93%) ITIL
3 4 (14.81%) Data Protection
3 4 (14.81%) Data Transformation
3 4 (14.81%) Migration
3 4 (14.81%) Scrum
3 4 (14.81%) Storage Management
4 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 3 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 3 (11.11%) Security Testing
4 3 (11.11%) Test Scripting
5 2 (7.41%) Business Development
5 2 (7.41%) Data Extraction
5 2 (7.41%) Operations Management
5 2 (7.41%) Pair Programming
5 2 (7.41%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (7.41%) Performance Testing
5 2 (7.41%) Test Management
5 2 (7.41%) Time Management
5 2 (7.41%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Shell Script
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
3 4 (14.81%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (7.41%) C
5 2 (7.41%) COBOL
5 2 (7.41%) Perl
5 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) ISEB
2 3 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (7.41%) CCSP
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.41%) CISSP
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) SLA
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Tivoli
1 4 (14.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (7.41%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (7.41%) CA Wily
2 2 (7.41%) CASB
2 2 (7.41%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (7.41%) Grafana
2 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) IBM
1 8 (29.63%) Oracle
1 8 (29.63%) VMware
2 4 (14.81%) Atlassian
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Ab Initio
3 2 (7.41%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.41%) BMC
3 2 (7.41%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) TOWER Software
4 1 (3.70%) HP
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) webMethods