Unix Contracts in the North West

Unix
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 84 83
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Unix 31 73 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.12% 2.27% 2.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.88% 13.42% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 50 66
10th Percentile £464 £325 £325
25th Percentile £478 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -9.05% +37.50%
75th Percentile £583 £569 £647
90th Percentile £623 £642 £675
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £38.95 -
25th Percentile - £39.63 £46.19
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year - -10.29% +7.67%
75th Percentile - £52.06 £48.56
90th Percentile - £60.28 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% -11.54% +52.94%

All Operating Systems
North West

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 349 544 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.63% 16.93% 18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 374 536
10th Percentile £170 £173 £156
25th Percentile £285 £313 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £476 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.99% +11.88% +16.68%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £588
90th Percentile £825 £650 £650
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 48 39
10th Percentile - £14.69 £14.15
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.64 £15.74
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +62.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £18.19 £44.56 £28.75
90th Percentile £41.18 £49.52 £44.71
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -10 17 £536 +19.17% 1
Manchester +2 10 £615 +21.72% 2
Cumbria - 4 £473 -
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 1 (3.23%) Apache
1 1 (3.23%) JBoss
1 1 (3.23%) NetWeaver
1 1 (3.23%) nginx
1 1 (3.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP IBP
1 1 (3.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure
3 7 (22.58%) SaaS
4 3 (9.68%) GitHub
4 3 (9.68%) IaaS
4 3 (9.68%) PaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.23%) Cohesity
5 1 (3.23%) dbt
5 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) DSL
2 2 (6.45%) HTTP
3 1 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database 12c
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.45%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) Metadata
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) SAP BW
3 1 (3.23%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 9 (29.03%) JIRA
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.45%) Gatling
4 2 (6.45%) Git
4 2 (6.45%) JMeter
4 2 (6.45%) Selenium
4 2 (6.45%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 14 (45.16%) Finance
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.90%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Python Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Backup Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Build Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) ETL Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Python Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) Django
1 4 (12.90%) FastAPI
1 4 (12.90%) Flask
1 4 (12.90%) Middleware
2 3 (9.68%) XML
3 2 (6.45%) .NET
3 2 (6.45%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (6.45%) CSS
3 2 (6.45%) HTML
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) Web Services
4 1 (3.23%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (3.23%) SAP Basis
4 1 (3.23%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Public Cloud
2 7 (22.58%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.45%) Derivative
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (54.84%) Linux
1 17 (54.84%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Mac OS X
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
1 9 (29.03%) DevOps
1 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (22.58%) Agile
2 7 (22.58%) Knowledge Transfer
2 7 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (22.58%) Project Delivery
2 7 (22.58%) Server Building
3 6 (19.35%) API Development
4 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (16.13%) Observability
4 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
5 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (12.90%) TDD
6 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
6 3 (9.68%) Microservices
6 3 (9.68%) OO
6 3 (9.68%) OOP
6 3 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (9.68%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) Java
1 7 (22.58%) Python
1 7 (22.58%) Ruby
2 6 (19.35%) Shell Script
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.45%) Groovy
5 2 (6.45%) Perl
5 2 (6.45%) PHP
5 2 (6.45%) Scala
6 1 (3.23%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 14 (45.16%) Ansible
2 12 (38.71%) Progress Chef
3 7 (22.58%) CFEngine
3 7 (22.58%) PowerBroker
3 7 (22.58%) Puppet
4 6 (19.35%) Terraform
5 1 (3.23%) Grafana
5 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.23%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle
2 7 (22.58%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Brocade
4 1 (3.23%) IBM
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) NetApp
4 1 (3.23%) PagerDuty
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Temenos