Unix Contracts in Northern Ireland

Unix
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +5
Contract jobs citing Unix 4 4 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.70% 1.96% 9.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.05% 9.76% 36.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £475 £615 £331
25th Percentile £484 £638 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £488
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +33.33% +12.72%
75th Percentile £522 - £500
90th Percentile £531 - £600
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 21 41 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.19% 20.10% 25.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 32
10th Percentile £168 £156 -
25th Percentile £198 £183 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £503 £425 £488
90th Percentile £519 £640 £500
UK median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £14.15 £11.06
25th Percentile - £14.74 £11.53
Median hourly rate £12.25 £17.61 £13.62
Median % change year-on-year -30.44% +29.30% -14.12%
75th Percentile £31.88 £20.37 £16.27
90th Percentile - £20.90 £17.07
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £32.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -32.31% +47.73% +23.01%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Northern Ireland

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Unix in Northern Ireland

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Northern Ireland

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 19 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
County Antrim +3 4 £500 -23.08% 3
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) Impala
3 2 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Python Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Big Data Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
1 4 (100.00%) SQL