Unix Contracts in Staffordshire

Unix
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unix 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 1.54% - 0.65%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% - 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - -
75th Percentile £498 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £536 £540
% change year-on-year -14.18% -0.74% +9.09%

All Operating Systems
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6 7 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 9.23% 6.31% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 24
10th Percentile £259 £183 -
25th Percentile £346 £263 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £375 £178
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% +111.27% +2.90%
75th Percentile £499 £388 £300
90th Percentile £500 £410 £375
West Midlands median daily rate £330 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% -15.79% +16.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.41%
75th Percentile - - £27.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -19.42% +26.98% +7.39%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Staffordshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Staffordshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Staffordshire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £495 - 2
Unix
West Midlands

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat