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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 93 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 -45 +3
Contract jobs citing Unix 27 42 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.35% 1.56% 4.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.15% 10.22% 23.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 94
10th Percentile £358 £425 £451
25th Percentile £404 £470 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £536 £540
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% -0.74% +9.09%
75th Percentile £490 £578 £669
90th Percentile £500 £750 £715
England median daily rate £500 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

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 266 411 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.29% 15.27% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 268 381
10th Percentile £150 £150 £160
25th Percentile £200 £200 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £448
Median % change year-on-year - -16.29% +19.47%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £575
90th Percentile £565 £629 £690
England median daily rate £473 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -0.53% -7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 42 34
10th Percentile £15.11 £12.86 £11.80
25th Percentile £15.58 £14.27 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.13 £17.86 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% +0.79% +4.24%
75th Percentile £19.88 £23.31 £22.25
90th Percentile £24.76 £23.75 £36.43
England median hourly rate £21.28 £22.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -3.27% -41.33% +70.45%

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 19 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 19 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 -15 21 £460 -14.18% 26
East Midlands +17 6 £401 -19.90% 6
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
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) GCP
2 2 (7.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) SAN
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%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
2 7 (25.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 7 (25.93%) 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%) JUnit
4 2 (7.41%) LoadRunner
4 2 (7.41%) Mockito
4 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
4 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) Git
5 1 (3.70%) Toad
General
1 6 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Administrator
2 5 (18.52%) Developer
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
5 2 (7.41%) Ab Initio Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Support
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) QA Leader
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
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
5 2 (7.41%) Unix Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 2 (7.41%) Hibernate
2 2 (7.41%) J2EE
2 2 (7.41%) JMS
2 2 (7.41%) Spring
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%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Linux
2 8 (29.63%) AIX
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Agile
2 7 (25.93%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) Scrum
4 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Data Transformation
5 4 (14.81%) Storage Management
6 3 (11.11%) Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Test Scripting
7 2 (7.41%) Business Development
7 2 (7.41%) Data Extraction
7 2 (7.41%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Operations Management
7 2 (7.41%) Pair Programming
7 2 (7.41%) Performance Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.41%) Test Management
7 2 (7.41%) Test Strategy
7 2 (7.41%) Time Management
7 2 (7.41%) Use Case
7 2 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Shell Script
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) Java
4 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
4 4 (14.81%) Python
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 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) ISEB
3 3 (11.11%) ISTQB
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.41%) Degree
4 2 (7.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) QA
1 4 (14.81%) SLA
2 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%) Grafana
2 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) IBM
2 8 (29.63%) Oracle
2 8 (29.63%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Atlassian
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.41%) Ab Initio
5 2 (7.41%) AppDynamics
5 2 (7.41%) BMC
5 2 (7.41%) Google
5 2 (7.41%) Splunk
6 1 (3.70%) HP
6 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.70%) SAP
6 1 (3.70%) Teradata
6 1 (3.70%) webMethods