Senior Unix Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North West

Senior Unix Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Unix Engineer daily rate in the North West is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Unix Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.031% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - -
England median daily rate £725 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,935 1,797 2,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 92.77% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,746 1,212 1,735
10th Percentile £240 £263 £284
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £583
90th Percentile £664 £652 £675
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 105 267
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.58 £11.04
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.23 £30.40 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year +48.78% +14.03% -13.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.58 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.75 £82.28 £60.00
England median hourly rate £43.61 £33.00 £34.11
% change year-on-year +32.15% -3.24% -21.71%

Senior Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Senior Unix Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Senior Unix Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Unix Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 April 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
Cheshire - 1 £506 -
Senior Unix Engineer
England

Senior Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 9 April 2026, Senior 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 West region featuring Senior Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

Senior Unix Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat