Unix Contracts in Wales

Unix
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 42 34 54
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 +18
Contract jobs citing Unix 1 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.34% 2.53% 1.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.44% 16.67% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £475 £388
25th Percentile - £574 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £167 £650 £488
Median % change year-on-year -74.30% +33.33% -9.72%
75th Percentile - £708 £538
90th Percentile - £727 £590
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +1.38%

All Operating Systems
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 41 60 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 13.99% 15.19% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 91
10th Percentile £180 £188 £140
25th Percentile £197 £266 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £438 £623 £538
90th Percentile £499 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £22.38 £12.67 £16.14
25th Percentile £28.13 £13.31 £18.84
Median hourly rate £37.50 £14.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +161.14% -58.97% -1.75%
75th Percentile £41.25 £31.18 £49.69
90th Percentile £49.38 £41.27 £54.38
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Wales

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Wales

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Wales

Unix
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales 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
South Wales -2 1 £167 -75.61% 1
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) tSQLt
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) RedGate