Unix Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Unix Engineer
England > North of England

The median Unix Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 167 -
Rank change year-on-year -36 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 24 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.39% 0.12% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 0
10th Percentile £460 £367 -
25th Percentile £467 £373 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.40% - -
75th Percentile £502 £403 -
90th Percentile £535 £406 -
England median daily rate £481 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +1.32% -11.63% -1.38%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 5,677 3,079 4,385
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 93.56% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,451 2,029 2,750
10th Percentile £300 £232 £263
25th Percentile £393 £367 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £572 £553 £580
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 164 394
10th Percentile £17.13 £12.87 £11.02
25th Percentile £25.49 £16.25 £12.53
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.94 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.73% +29.71% -36.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.19 £45.97
90th Percentile £78.75 £82.56 £60.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £31.35 £36.50
% change year-on-year +49.94% -14.12% -17.64%

Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Unix Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Unix Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Unix Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Unix Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Unix Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Unix Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unix Engineer in the North of England

Unix Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Unix Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Unix Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Unix Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
North West -15 24 £481 - 7
Unix Engineer
England

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 7 May 2026, Unix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Unix
2 23 (95.83%) Solaris
3 22 (91.67%) Migration
4 21 (87.50%) Oracle
5 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
6 19 (79.17%) High Availability
6 19 (79.17%) SC Cleared
7 18 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (66.67%) Python
9 12 (50.00%) Project Delivery
10 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (20.83%) Linux
11 4 (16.67%) AIX
11 4 (16.67%) Change Management
11 4 (16.67%) Cisco
11 4 (16.67%) CISSP
11 4 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (16.67%) GRC
11 4 (16.67%) HP
11 4 (16.67%) HPUX
11 4 (16.67%) ITIL
11 4 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (16.67%) Performance Management
11 4 (16.67%) RBAC
11 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
11 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (16.67%) RHCE
11 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (16.67%) Runbook
11 4 (16.67%) Security Hardening

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 4 (16.67%) Banking
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.33%) Clustering
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Unix
2 23 (95.83%) Solaris
3 5 (20.83%) Linux
4 4 (16.67%) AIX
4 4 (16.67%) HPUX
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (16.67%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Migration
2 19 (79.17%) High Availability
3 18 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (50.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.67%) Change Management
6 4 (16.67%) ITIL
6 4 (16.67%) Performance Management
6 4 (16.67%) RBAC
6 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (16.67%) Runbook
6 4 (16.67%) Security Hardening
6 4 (16.67%) Storage Management
6 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (79.17%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) CISSP
3 4 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (16.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 21 (87.50%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco
2 4 (16.67%) HP
2 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft