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 £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 - 162
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 49 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.64% - 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% - 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 0 1
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £438 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.92%
75th Percentile £543 - £575
90th Percentile £552 - -
England median daily rate £497 £725 £450
% change year-on-year -31.45% +61.11% -6.98%

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 6,958 3,744 3,817
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.28% 91.67% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,973 2,475 2,108
10th Percentile £313 £250 £263
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £571 £575
90th Percentile £675 £671 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 705 215 233
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.11 £15.25
25th Percentile £24.00 £17.31 £18.00
Median hourly rate £40.13 £22.63 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.33% -30.37% +31.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.97 £70.72
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 - 49 £488 - 4
Unix Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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 49 (100.00%) Unix
2 42 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 42 (85.71%) Solaris
3 41 (83.67%) SC Cleared
4 30 (61.22%) Oracle
5 25 (51.02%) Migration
6 22 (44.90%) High Availability
7 19 (38.78%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (32.65%) Linux
9 14 (28.57%) Python
10 12 (24.49%) Project Delivery
11 9 (18.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (10.20%) AIX
13 5 (10.20%) HP
13 5 (10.20%) HPUX
13 5 (10.20%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (10.20%) SUSE
14 4 (8.16%) CentOS
14 4 (8.16%) Change Management
14 4 (8.16%) CISSP
14 4 (8.16%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (8.16%) GRC
14 4 (8.16%) ITIL
14 4 (8.16%) Oracle ZFS
14 4 (8.16%) Performance Management
14 4 (8.16%) RBAC
14 4 (8.16%) Red Hat
14 4 (8.16%) RHCE

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 5 (10.20%) Banking
1 5 (10.20%) Finance
2 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (10.20%) Clustering
3 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.04%) FPGA
5 1 (2.04%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 49 (100.00%) Unix
2 42 (85.71%) Solaris
3 16 (32.65%) Linux
4 9 (18.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (10.20%) AIX
5 5 (10.20%) HPUX
5 5 (10.20%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (10.20%) SUSE
6 4 (8.16%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) Migration
2 22 (44.90%) High Availability
3 19 (38.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (24.49%) Project Delivery
5 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.16%) Change Management
7 4 (8.16%) ITIL
7 4 (8.16%) Performance Management
7 4 (8.16%) RBAC
7 4 (8.16%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.16%) Runbook
7 4 (8.16%) Security Hardening
7 4 (8.16%) Storage Management
7 4 (8.16%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (8.16%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Automation
9 1 (2.04%) Low Latency
9 1 (2.04%) Performance Tuning
9 1 (2.04%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (2.04%) Bash
2 1 (2.04%) Korn
2 1 (2.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 41 (83.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) CISSP
3 4 (8.16%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (8.16%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) GRC
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Oracle ZFS
2 3 (6.12%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 30 (61.22%) Oracle
2 5 (10.20%) HP
3 4 (8.16%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.04%) Mellanox
5 1 (2.04%) Solarflare