Unix Contracts in Sheffield

Unix
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 47 31
Rank change year-on-year +16 -16 +7
Contract jobs citing Unix 20 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.59% 2.28% 4.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 8.65% 37.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 15
10th Percentile £395 - £455
25th Percentile £450 £411 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.18% -19.05% +2.94%
75th Percentile £640 £434 £616
90th Percentile £710 £462 £690
South Yorkshire median daily rate £558 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +31.18% -19.05% +2.94%

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 80 104 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 22.35% 26.33% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 63 36
10th Percentile £150 £238 £381
25th Percentile £356 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £621 £534 £675
90th Percentile £711 £588 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +22.09% -14.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - - £11.65
25th Percentile £18.10 £21.25 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.25 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +43.55% -15.07%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £19.63
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -17.25% +41.94% -15.07%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Sheffield

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Sheffield

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Sheffield

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Sheffield

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) GCP
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) HTTPS
2 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (10.00%) HTTP
3 2 (10.00%) Kerberos
3 2 (10.00%) SSH
3 2 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (10.00%) Hazelcast
3 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) Jaeger
3 3 (15.00%) Postman
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Architect
3 2 (10.00%) LDAP Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Middleware
1 3 (15.00%) PySpark
2 2 (10.00%) Anaconda
2 2 (10.00%) gRPC
2 2 (10.00%) JWT
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) LDAP
2 2 (10.00%) Pandas
2 2 (10.00%) SAML
3 1 (5.00%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Replication
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.00%) Robotics
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (75.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (20.00%) AIX
3 4 (20.00%) Solaris
4 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (15.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) B2B
4 3 (15.00%) Data Management
4 3 (15.00%) Microservices
5 2 (10.00%) Cryptography
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Data Security
5 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Management
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) PLM
5 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) ActionScript
2 4 (20.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) Groovy
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) C
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Korn
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Ansible
3 5 (25.00%) Puppet
4 4 (20.00%) Control-M
5 3 (15.00%) Grafana
5 3 (15.00%) Istio
5 3 (15.00%) Kiali
6 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (5.00%) Nagios
7 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (20.00%) Splunk
1 4 (20.00%) Veritas
2 3 (15.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (15.00%) IBM
2 3 (15.00%) IBM Sterling
2 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
2 3 (15.00%) xMatters
3 2 (10.00%) Commvault
3 2 (10.00%) ForgeRock
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft