Unix Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Unix Engineer
England > North of England

The median Unix Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 - 212
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 4 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% - 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £367 - £353
25th Percentile £373 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £403 - £538
90th Percentile £406 - -
England median daily rate £475 £538 £548
% change year-on-year -11.63% -1.83% +17.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Unix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Engineer in the North of England

Unix Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Unix Engineer in the North of England

Unix Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Unix Engineer 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 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
North West - 2 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £405 -
North East - 1 £375 -
Unix Engineer
England

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Unix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 4 (100.00%) Unix
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) NAS
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) AIX
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (50.00%) KVM
3 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) HPUX
3 2 (50.00%) Solaris
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (50.00%) CentOS
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) NAS
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
2 3 (75.00%) AIX
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) CentOS
3 2 (50.00%) HPUX
3 2 (50.00%) Solaris
3 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (25.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) KVM
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas