Unix Contracts in South Wales

Unix
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 38 36
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +19
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.81% 1.40% 3.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.70% 8.33% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 14
10th Percentile £262 £514 £425
25th Percentile £268 £571 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 £685 £563
Median % change year-on-year -58.76% +21.78% +4.17%
75th Percentile £293 £713 £638
90th Percentile £297 £719 £646
Wales median daily rate £283 £593 £525
% change year-on-year -52.32% +12.86% -4.55%

All Operating Systems
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 23 60 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 9.35% 16.85% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 44 102
10th Percentile £171 £139 £155
25th Percentile £230 £218 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -38.62% -2.25% +2.56%
75th Percentile - £575 £600
90th Percentile £334 £682 £649
Wales median daily rate £300 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -38.62% -2.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £21.56 £13.52 £19.32
25th Percentile £26.13 £28.43 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% - +163.89%
75th Percentile £49.38 £49.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £54.25 £51.50 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £47.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.05% +35.71% +94.44%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in South Wales

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in South Wales

Unix
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Cardiff +3 2 £283 -43.50% 5
Unix
Wales

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operator
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Scheduling
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) BT
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Focus
2 1 (50.00%) Xerox