Unix Contracts in Warwickshire

Unix
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 29 40 38
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Unix 13 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 4.21% 1.48% 2.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.00% 15.63% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £453 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £725
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -37.93% +7.41%
75th Percentile £572 £475 £738
90th Percentile £788 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £468 £536 £540
% change year-on-year -12.78% -0.74% +10.20%

All Operating Systems
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 50 32 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 16.18% 9.47% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 21
10th Percentile £311 £150 £185
25th Percentile £419 £161 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £369 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -26.25% +33.33%
75th Percentile £551 £475 £688
90th Percentile £638 £638 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £505
% change year-on-year -5.88% -15.84% +24.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 1
10th Percentile £18.65 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £18.88 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +25.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £19.88 £23.75 £18.50
90th Percentile £19.95 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £16.94
% change year-on-year -19.42% +32.86% +2.64%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Warwickshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Warwickshire

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Warwickshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Warwickshire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Warwickshire 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
Warwick +4 12 £475 +5.56% 1
Unix
West Midlands

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
2 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Unix Administrator
2 4 (30.77%) Unix Systems Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Support
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Unix Support
3 2 (15.38%) Unix Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Support Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) AIX
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Storage Management
3 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
3 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
3 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
3 2 (15.38%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
3 2 (15.38%) Information Governance
3 2 (15.38%) Information Security
3 2 (15.38%) ITSM
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
3 2 (15.38%) SDLC
3 2 (15.38%) Security Hardening
3 2 (15.38%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) SIEM
3 2 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
2 2 (15.38%) Perl
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (15.38%) CCSP
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CISSP
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Tivoli
1 4 (30.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (15.38%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (15.38%) CASB
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) BMC
3 2 (15.38%) TOWER Software