Unix Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Unix
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Unix 7 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 2.56% 1.09% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 41.18% 10.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £320 £359 -
25th Percentile £356 £362 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £372 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% - -
75th Percentile £436 £384 -
90th Percentile £463 £390 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £418 £372 -
% change year-on-year +12.31% - -

All Operating Systems
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 17 20 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 6.23% 10.93% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 17
10th Percentile £320 £348 £189
25th Percentile £405 £375 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £225
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +77.78% -30.77%
75th Percentile £488 £463 £484
90th Percentile £495 £525 £493
Northamptonshire median daily rate £430 £400 £225
% change year-on-year +7.50% +77.78% -28.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Northampton

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Northampton over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Northampton

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Unix

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Hive
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JUnit
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
1 3 (42.86%) TeamCity
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Maven
2 2 (28.57%) Mockito
2 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio Developer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 2 (28.57%) JMS
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Code Coverage
3 2 (28.57%) Complex ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) KYC
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio
3 1 (14.29%) Teradata