Unix Contracts in South Yorkshire

Unix
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 46 33
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 +12
Contract jobs citing Unix 16 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.29% 2.19% 4.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 21.92% 7.14% 30.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 18
10th Percentile £410 £411 £459
25th Percentile £450 £415 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% +3.96%
75th Percentile £655 £442 £592
90th Percentile £711 £530 £683
Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +52.94% -19.05% +2.94%

All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 73 140 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.57% 30.63% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 91 59
10th Percentile £150 £200 £160
25th Percentile £335 £403 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £521 £575
90th Percentile £711 £588 £678
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £415 £440
% change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile - £18.15 £11.65
25th Percentile £18.10 £21.25 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +45.16% -11.07%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £19.63
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
% change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in South Yorkshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in South Yorkshire

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in South Yorkshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in South Yorkshire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Sheffield +12 16 £525 +23.53% 4
Unix
Yorkshire

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) GCP
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) HTTPS
2 2 (12.50%) HTTP
2 2 (12.50%) Kerberos
2 2 (12.50%) SSH
2 2 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 2 (12.50%) Hazelcast
2 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Jaeger
3 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Technical Architect
3 2 (12.50%) IT Architect
3 2 (12.50%) LDAP Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.25%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Middleware
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
2 2 (12.50%) Anaconda
2 2 (12.50%) gRPC
2 2 (12.50%) JWT
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) LDAP
2 2 (12.50%) Pandas
2 2 (12.50%) SAML
3 1 (6.25%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.25%) Robotics
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) AIX
3 1 (6.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 4 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (18.75%) B2B
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Data Extraction
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (12.50%) High Availability
4 2 (12.50%) Key Management
4 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 2 (12.50%) Microservices
4 2 (12.50%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) ActionScript
2 4 (25.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 3 (18.75%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) C
4 2 (12.50%) Groovy
4 2 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Korn
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
2 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Control-M
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
3 2 (12.50%) Istio
3 2 (12.50%) Kiali
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 2 (12.50%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) Nagios
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Veritas
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
2 3 (18.75%) IBM Sterling
2 3 (18.75%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 2 (12.50%) Commvault
3 2 (12.50%) ForgeRock
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) xMatters
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat