Unix Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Unix
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 44 48
Rank change year-on-year -30 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing Unix 10 13 6
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.47% 2.87% 1.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.35% 16.67% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £337 £553 £610
25th Percentile £358 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £580 £675
Median % change year-on-year -37.07% -14.07% +13.92%
75th Percentile £505 £591 £688
90th Percentile £626 £648 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £590 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +1.72% -3.33% -9.43%

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 136 78 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.00% 17.22% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 47 26
10th Percentile £316 £209 £190
25th Percentile £367 £405 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £669
90th Percentile £611 £630 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £16.28 £18.65
25th Percentile - £17.86 £18.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% +7.69% +32.20%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £20.66
% change year-on-year +43.71% -15.27% +3.28%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Unix job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in South Yorkshire

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Unix

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 23 October 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 -31 10 £365 -37.07% 6
Unix
Yorkshire

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) GCP
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) MySQL
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (40.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) Jaeger
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) DBA
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) AIX
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Solaris
2 3 (30.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (30.00%) Data Management
3 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Line Management
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) API Development
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
5 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) Control-M
2 1 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Istio
2 1 (10.00%) Kiali
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) MuleSoft
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) xMatters