Unix Contracts in the North West

Unix
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 84 106 90
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 -12
Contract jobs citing Unix 36 31 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.83% 1.13% 2.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.20% 8.73% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 47
10th Percentile £357 £464 £324
25th Percentile £376 £478 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £610 £583 £568
90th Percentile £655 £623 £655
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £38.95
25th Percentile - - £39.63
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 295 355 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.99% 12.89% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 226 368
10th Percentile £156 £174 £173
25th Percentile £208 £284 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £476
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
75th Percentile £510 £582 £575
90th Percentile £593 £825 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 65 47
10th Percentile £13.00 - £15.53
25th Percentile £13.60 £10.95 £21.83
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%
75th Percentile £23.22 £18.75 £45.38
90th Percentile £80.59 £40.30 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the North West

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in the North West

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the North West

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the North West

Unix
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 Unix within the North West 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
Manchester +29 22 £525 -14.63% 11
Cheshire -11 6 £375 -30.16% 5
Lancashire - 4 £438 - 10
Cumbria -1 2 - -
Merseyside - 2 £600 -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.33%) CICS
2 3 (8.33%) WebSphere
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (5.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.78%) Camunda
4 1 (2.78%) JBoss
4 1 (2.78%) SAS
Business Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Kondor
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (41.67%) AWS
2 11 (30.56%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) Entra ID
3 5 (13.89%) GCP
4 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 3 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) Serverless
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) SAN
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) NAS
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) DHCP
3 1 (2.78%) HTTP
3 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.33%) DB2
2 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database 10g
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.78%) HBase
4 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.78%) Pentaho
4 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.78%) SQLite
4 1 (2.78%) SQLPlus
4 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) GitLab
4 3 (8.33%) Jasmine
4 3 (8.33%) Mocha
4 3 (8.33%) Subversion
5 2 (5.56%) Grunt
5 2 (5.56%) gulp
5 2 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (5.56%) Selenium
5 2 (5.56%) SOAtest
5 2 (5.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.78%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.78%) ERwin
6 1 (2.78%) JIRA
6 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.78%) Toad
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 8 (22.22%) Banking
3 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.11%) Legal
6 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.56%) General Ledger
7 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Applications Support
2 7 (19.44%) Applications Support Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Support Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Systems Support
3 5 (13.89%) Systems Support Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Applications Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle Applications Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Node.js
1 5 (13.89%) REST
1 5 (13.89%) SOAP
2 4 (11.11%) cloud-init
2 4 (11.11%) CSS
2 4 (11.11%) HTML
2 4 (11.11%) HTML5
3 3 (8.33%) jQuery
3 3 (8.33%) Middleware
3 3 (8.33%) Mustache
3 3 (8.33%) Sass
3 3 (8.33%) Web Services
4 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (5.56%) J2EE
4 2 (5.56%) JSON
4 2 (5.56%) Kafka
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.56%) XML
5 1 (2.78%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (13.89%) Derivative
2 5 (13.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (8.33%) Mainframe
4 3 (8.33%) VSAM
5 2 (5.56%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.78%) PKI
6 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (61.11%) Linux
2 6 (16.67%) CentOS
3 5 (13.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (13.89%) Windows
4 4 (11.11%) Solaris
4 4 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (8.33%) Mac OS X
6 2 (5.56%) AIX
6 2 (5.56%) HPUX
6 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Agile
2 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (22.22%) DevOps
3 8 (22.22%) Service Delivery
4 7 (19.44%) Cash Management
4 7 (19.44%) Incident Management
4 7 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (16.67%) High Availability
6 5 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (13.89%) Knowledge Transfer
6 5 (13.89%) Risk Management
7 4 (11.11%) E-Discovery
7 4 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 4 (11.11%) RBAC
7 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 3 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (8.33%) Responsive Web Design
8 3 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) SQL
2 13 (36.11%) Python
3 10 (27.78%) Java
4 6 (16.67%) Bash
5 5 (13.89%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.11%) Go
6 4 (11.11%) Perl
6 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 3 (8.33%) COBOL
7 3 (8.33%) JCL
7 3 (8.33%) PL/SQL
7 3 (8.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) MCSE
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Basel III
1 5 (13.89%) MiFID
2 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) WCAG
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.56%) Docker
4 2 (5.56%) KVM
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Packer
2 4 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 4 (11.11%) WSUS
3 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.56%) Ansible
4 2 (5.56%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) Consul
5 1 (2.78%) Grafana
5 1 (2.78%) Istio
5 1 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.78%) Kibana
5 1 (2.78%) linkerd
5 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Rancher
5 1 (2.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Sybase
2 11 (30.56%) Oracle
3 7 (19.44%) Bloomberg
3 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
3 7 (19.44%) Refinitiv
4 6 (16.67%) VMware
5 4 (11.11%) Citrix
6 3 (8.33%) Informatica
6 3 (8.33%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.56%) Ab Initio
7 2 (5.56%) Parasoft
7 2 (5.56%) Splunk
8 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
8 1 (2.78%) Okta
8 1 (2.78%) TIBCO