Unix Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Unix
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 20 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing Unix 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 0.43% 1.59% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.85% 8.33% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +53.85% -55.17%
75th Percentile £538 - £338
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 £325
% change year-on-year +5.00% +53.85% -55.17%

All Operating Systems
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 26 24 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 11.06% 19.05% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 12
10th Percentile - £141 £106
25th Percentile £190 £185 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £420 £313
Median % change year-on-year -47.62% +34.40% -29.78%
75th Percentile £423 £500 £409
90th Percentile £455 £512 £475
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £200 £420 £325
% change year-on-year -52.38% +29.23% -20.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile - - £13.70
25th Percentile £12.95 - £14.27
Median hourly rate £13.08 - £14.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.18%
75th Percentile £13.21 - £14.38
90th Percentile £13.24 - £14.72
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £13.25 - £14.27
% change year-on-year - - +20.93%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Unix

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet