Unix Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Unix
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 34 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 3 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.90% 1.43% 8.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.88% 11.11% 44.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £720
Median % change year-on-year - - +69.41%
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile - - £758
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £750 - £720
% change year-on-year - - +69.41%

All Operating Systems
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 34 27 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 15.25% 12.86% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 17 46
10th Percentile £181 £328 £241
25th Percentile £206 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £688
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -27.27% +52.78%
75th Percentile £555 £638 £760
90th Percentile £625 £650 £842
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £340 £450 £625
% change year-on-year -24.44% -28.00% +47.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £17.50 -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Newcastle upon Tyne

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Unix in Newcastle upon Tyne

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Newcastle upon Tyne

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (100.00%) nginx
1 2 (100.00%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) cloud-init
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 2 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Consul
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) linkerd
1 2 (100.00%) Packer
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Rancher
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) ESET
1 2 (100.00%) Okta
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk