Unix Contracts in Northern Ireland

Unix
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Unix 8 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.46% 1.37% 2.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.86% 6.67% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile - £98 £615
25th Percentile - £159 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £266 £650
Median % change year-on-year +54.06% -59.06% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £380 -
90th Percentile - £444 -
UK median daily rate £498 £506 £550
% change year-on-year -1.68% -8.00% -

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 35 30 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.15% 20.55% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 24
10th Percentile £157 £167 £164
25th Percentile £200 £183 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £200 £400
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -50.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £375 £488 £450
90th Percentile £410 £575 £635
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £16.56 - -
25th Percentile £18.42 £12.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +36.46% +23.31%
75th Percentile £24.50 - -
90th Percentile - £31.88 -
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.73% -35.29% +88.89%

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 5 August 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
County Antrim -10 7 £410 +54.06% 4
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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
1 4 (50.00%) Internet
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Relational Database
2 4 (50.00%) DB2
2 4 (50.00%) MySQL
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (25.00%) HBase
3 2 (25.00%) Impala
3 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Data Mart
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Back Office
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Account Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Account Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Murex Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (25.00%) JSON
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) JMS
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Application Security
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (25.00%) SOA
2 2 (25.00%) Storyboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Perl
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Murex