Unix Contracts in the North of England

Unix
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 96 127 100
Rank change year-on-year +31 -27 +5
Contract jobs citing Unix 71 58 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.15% 1.22% 2.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.75% 8.00% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 42 100
10th Percentile £357 £411 £370
25th Percentile £403 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £484 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -7.90% +1.45%
75th Percentile £700 £580 £625
90th Percentile £745 £623 £720
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £38.95
25th Percentile £40.50 - £39.63
Median hourly rate £41.00 - £42.50
75th Percentile £41.50 - £52.06
90th Percentile - - £60.28
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% -30.43% -11.54%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 557 725 911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.90% 15.21% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 495 652
10th Percentile £163 £167 £165
25th Percentile £210 £275 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £575
90th Percentile £635 £650 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 80 57
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.95 £17.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £16.00 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -44.25% +63.35%
75th Percentile £19.75 £19.44 £43.75
90th Percentile £41.50 £30.68 £49.52
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
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 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 +22 36 £447 -18.73% 19
Yorkshire +16 32 £650 +52.94% 10
North East 0 3 £563 - 5
Unix
England

Unix
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 7 (9.86%) nginx
1 7 (9.86%) Traefik
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.23%) CICS
3 3 (4.23%) Confluence
3 3 (4.23%) WebSphere
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.41%) Apache
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.41%) Camunda
5 1 (1.41%) JBoss
5 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Kondor
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) AWS
2 18 (25.35%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (19.72%) Azure
4 13 (18.31%) Entra ID
5 11 (15.49%) GCP
6 10 (14.08%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (14.08%) AWS Fargate
7 9 (12.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (12.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.63%) OneDrive
9 3 (4.23%) GitHub
9 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.49%) TCP/IP
2 10 (14.08%) DNS
3 7 (9.86%) SAN
4 3 (4.23%) HTTP
4 3 (4.23%) HTTPS
4 3 (4.23%) NAS
5 2 (2.82%) IMAP
5 2 (2.82%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.82%) Network Security
5 2 (2.82%) POP3
5 2 (2.82%) SMTP
5 2 (2.82%) SSH
5 2 (2.82%) SSL
6 1 (1.41%) DHCP
6 1 (1.41%) Firewall
6 1 (1.41%) SNA
6 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.49%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.63%) Hadoop
4 3 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.23%) DB2
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database 10g
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database 11g
5 2 (2.82%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.82%) Hazelcast
5 2 (2.82%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.41%) Metadata
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (35.21%) Jenkins
2 18 (25.35%) GitLab
3 6 (8.45%) Git
4 4 (5.63%) JIRA
5 3 (4.23%) Jasmine
5 3 (4.23%) Mocha
5 3 (4.23%) Subversion
6 2 (2.82%) Grunt
6 2 (2.82%) gulp
6 2 (2.82%) Jaeger
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (2.82%) Selenium
6 2 (2.82%) SOAtest
6 2 (2.82%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.41%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (1.41%) ERwin
7 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.41%) Toad
General
1 18 (25.35%) Finance
2 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Banking
3 11 (15.49%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.63%) Legal
5 3 (4.23%) Military
6 2 (2.82%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.82%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Senior
2 15 (21.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (21.13%) Senior DevOps
3 11 (15.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Support Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Architect
7 7 (9.86%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Applications Support
7 7 (9.86%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Lead
8 5 (7.04%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Systems Support
8 5 (7.04%) Systems Support Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Unix Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (4.23%) Oracle Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Technical Architect
11 2 (2.82%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.94%) cloud-init
2 13 (18.31%) Kafka
3 9 (12.68%) Keycloak
4 6 (8.45%) Middleware
5 5 (7.04%) Node.js
5 5 (7.04%) REST
5 5 (7.04%) SOAP
6 4 (5.63%) CSS
6 4 (5.63%) HTML
6 4 (5.63%) HTML5
7 3 (4.23%) jQuery
7 3 (4.23%) Mustache
7 3 (4.23%) PySpark
7 3 (4.23%) Sass
7 3 (4.23%) Web Services
7 3 (4.23%) XML
8 2 (2.82%) Anaconda
8 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.82%) gRPC
8 2 (2.82%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) PKI
2 7 (9.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (9.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (7.04%) Derivative
3 5 (7.04%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.63%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.23%) VSAM
6 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.82%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (2.82%) Replication
7 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.41%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (70.42%) Linux
2 20 (28.17%) CentOS
2 20 (28.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (16.90%) Windows
4 5 (7.04%) Solaris
5 4 (5.63%) AIX
5 4 (5.63%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (4.23%) Mac OS X
7 2 (2.82%) HPUX
7 2 (2.82%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.85%) CI/CD
2 25 (35.21%) DevOps
3 20 (28.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (22.54%) Agile
4 16 (22.54%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (15.49%) Identity Management
6 10 (14.08%) Cloud Security
6 10 (14.08%) Observability
6 10 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (14.08%) Secrets Management
6 10 (14.08%) Service Delivery
7 9 (12.68%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 9 (12.68%) Static Application Security Testing
8 8 (11.27%) High Availability
8 8 (11.27%) Incident Management
8 8 (11.27%) Knowledge Transfer
9 7 (9.86%) Cash Management
9 7 (9.86%) Mobile Device Management
9 7 (9.86%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (8.45%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) Python
2 23 (32.39%) Bash
3 20 (28.17%) SQL
4 18 (25.35%) Go
5 12 (16.90%) Java
6 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.04%) Perl
6 5 (7.04%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.63%) ActionScript
7 4 (5.63%) ActionScript 2.0
7 4 (5.63%) JCL
7 4 (5.63%) REXX
8 3 (4.23%) COBOL
8 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.82%) C
9 2 (2.82%) Groovy
10 1 (1.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.63%) MCSE
4 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.82%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) NCSC
2 5 (7.04%) Basel III
2 5 (7.04%) MiFID
3 4 (5.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.23%) QA
4 3 (4.23%) WCAG
5 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.68%) Docker
3 8 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (8.45%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (5.63%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.82%) KVM
7 1 (1.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (1.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 21 (29.58%) Kubernetes
2 20 (28.17%) Terraform
3 18 (25.35%) Packer
4 12 (16.90%) Grafana
5 11 (15.49%) Istio
6 10 (14.08%) Prometheus
7 9 (12.68%) Consul
7 9 (12.68%) Jamf Pro
7 9 (12.68%) linkerd
7 9 (12.68%) Rancher
7 9 (12.68%) ZABBIX
8 7 (9.86%) HAProxy
9 6 (8.45%) Ansible
10 5 (7.04%) Progress Chef
10 5 (7.04%) Puppet
11 4 (5.63%) vCenter Server
11 4 (5.63%) WSUS
12 3 (4.23%) Control-M
13 2 (2.82%) Kiali
14 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) Splunk
2 12 (16.90%) Oracle
2 12 (16.90%) Sybase
3 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
4 9 (12.68%) Okta
5 8 (11.27%) VMware
6 7 (9.86%) Apple
6 7 (9.86%) Bloomberg
6 7 (9.86%) ESET
6 7 (9.86%) Refinitiv
7 5 (7.04%) IBM
7 5 (7.04%) Red Hat
7 5 (7.04%) Veritas
8 4 (5.63%) AppDynamics
8 4 (5.63%) Citrix
9 3 (4.23%) IBM Sterling
9 3 (4.23%) Informatica
10 2 (2.82%) Ab Initio
10 2 (2.82%) Commvault
10 2 (2.82%) ForgeRock