Unix Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Unix
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 102 101
Rank change year-on-year -26 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing Unix 76 60 89
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.64% 1.68% 1.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.60% 11.56% 13.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 33 60
10th Percentile £313 £375 £452
25th Percentile £391 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.58% +20.00% -22.48%
75th Percentile £646 £738 £582
90th Percentile £700 £750 £625
England median daily rate £495 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -7.91% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £40.50 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £41.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -45.33% +35.14%
75th Percentile - £41.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £53.00 £57.75
% change year-on-year -47.17% -8.23% -17.50%

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 717 519 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.47% 14.49% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 291 427
10th Percentile £150 £163 £168
25th Percentile £200 £243 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £413 £420
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £551 £538
90th Percentile £612 £648 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 50
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £16.51
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.19 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.46 £21.30 £21.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +0.66% -4.92%
75th Percentile £61.25 £25.39 £45.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £55.73 £65.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -56.26% +76.92% +30.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Unix job vacancy trend in the North of England

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Unix

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 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Unix

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 15 December 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 -8 43 £471 -17.55% 17
Yorkshire -40 31 £613 -2.78% 11
North East -9 4 £500 -9.09% 2
Unix
England

Unix
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (15.79%) Apache
2 11 (14.47%) Confluence
2 11 (14.47%) SharePoint
2 11 (14.47%) WebSphere
3 8 (10.53%) IIS
3 8 (10.53%) iPlanet
3 8 (10.53%) JBoss
3 8 (10.53%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Kondor
2 1 (1.32%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.11%) AWS
2 9 (11.84%) OpenShift
3 7 (9.21%) Azure
3 7 (9.21%) GCP
4 3 (3.95%) IaaS
4 3 (3.95%) PaaS
4 3 (3.95%) SaaS
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.32%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.47%) SSH
2 8 (10.53%) Firewall
2 8 (10.53%) Kerberos
3 5 (6.58%) Network Security
4 4 (5.26%) HTTP
4 4 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.95%) DNS
5 3 (3.95%) SAN
5 3 (3.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.68%) MongoDB
2 13 (17.11%) Oracle Database
3 4 (5.26%) MySQL
3 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.32%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) DataStage
5 1 (1.32%) GIS
5 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.32%) Redis
5 1 (1.32%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (22.37%) Mockito
2 13 (17.11%) JIRA
3 10 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
4 8 (10.53%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (10.53%) Git
4 8 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (26.32%) Finance
2 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.21%) Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.32%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (36.84%) Developer
2 27 (35.53%) Java Developer
3 21 (27.63%) Senior
4 15 (19.74%) Senior Developer
4 15 (19.74%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (14.47%) Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) Architect
6 5 (6.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 4 (5.26%) DBA
7 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.95%) Applications Support
8 3 (3.95%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Digital Developer
9 2 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) ActiveMQ
1 17 (22.37%) JAX-RS
1 17 (22.37%) Kafka
2 11 (14.47%) LDAP
3 8 (10.53%) OAuth
3 8 (10.53%) OpenID
3 8 (10.53%) SAML
4 3 (3.95%) Middleware
5 2 (2.63%) RESTful
6 1 (1.32%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.32%) J2EE
6 1 (1.32%) JPA
6 1 (1.32%) JWT
6 1 (1.32%) Node.js
6 1 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Tandem
2 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.95%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (3.95%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (3.95%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.95%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 54 (71.05%) Linux
2 27 (35.53%) Windows
3 22 (28.95%) Mac OS X
4 9 (11.84%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.79%) Agile
1 31 (40.79%) Microservices
2 25 (32.89%) Test Automation
3 24 (31.58%) BDD
3 24 (31.58%) TDD
4 22 (28.95%) Continuous Deployment
5 18 (23.68%) Pair Programming
6 17 (22.37%) ITIL
7 16 (21.05%) Web Development
8 15 (19.74%) CI/CD
8 15 (19.74%) Responsive Web Design
8 15 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (19.74%) Web Design
9 14 (18.42%) Change Management
9 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (17.11%) DevOps
11 12 (15.79%) Containerisation
12 11 (14.47%) Computer Science
12 11 (14.47%) Cryptography
12 11 (14.47%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 30 (39.47%) Java
2 18 (23.68%) Python
3 12 (15.79%) Shell Script
4 8 (10.53%) Groovy
5 5 (6.58%) SQL
6 4 (5.26%) Bash
6 4 (5.26%) PHP
7 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.95%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (14.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (14.47%) Degree
5 5 (6.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (5.26%) CISSP
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.95%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.95%) MCSA
7 3 (3.95%) MCSE
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.32%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) HIPAA
1 3 (3.95%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 12 (15.79%) Docker
2 8 (10.53%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 9 (11.84%) Tivoli
2 8 (10.53%) CA Single Sign-On
2 8 (10.53%) CA Wily
2 8 (10.53%) Progress Chef
3 6 (7.89%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.58%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (5.26%) Grafana
6 3 (3.95%) Ansible
6 3 (3.95%) CASB
6 3 (3.95%) Nessus
6 3 (3.95%) Terraform
7 1 (1.32%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 22 (28.95%) IBM
2 17 (22.37%) Oracle
3 16 (21.05%) Microsoft
4 15 (19.74%) Splunk
5 9 (11.84%) AppDynamics
6 8 (10.53%) Broadcom
7 6 (7.89%) Gemalto
7 6 (7.89%) Thales
8 3 (3.95%) Bloomberg
8 3 (3.95%) Citrix
8 3 (3.95%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.95%) F5
8 3 (3.95%) HP
8 3 (3.95%) Remedy
8 3 (3.95%) Tenable
8 3 (3.95%) VMware
9 1 (1.32%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.32%) Google
9 1 (1.32%) Informatica