Unix Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Unix
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 36 22 28
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Unix 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.37% 1.43% 0.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.04% 8.33% 3.13%
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 - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £478 £423 £325
% change year-on-year +13.02% +30.00% -50.00%

All Operating Systems
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 49 24 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 17.95% 17.14% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 17 15
10th Percentile £163 £141 £125
25th Percentile £190 £185 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £420 £325
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% +29.23% -20.97%
75th Percentile £238 £500 £488
90th Percentile £423 £512 £580
East Midlands median daily rate £215 £390 £215
% change year-on-year -44.87% +81.40% -42.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 8
10th Percentile - - £13.70
25th Percentile £12.95 - £14.27
Median hourly rate £13.25 - £14.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.93%
75th Percentile £14.13 - £14.38
90th Percentile £16.75 - £14.72
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.64 £16.93 £17.72
% change year-on-year +16.02% -4.47% +6.11%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Unix

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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
Nottingham -12 1 £525 +5.00% 2
Unix
East Midlands

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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