Unix Contracts in the West Midlands

Unix
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 53 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 -14 -17
Contract jobs citing Unix 46 78 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.25% 3.52% 5.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.86% 23.85% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 47 123
10th Percentile £425 £463 £405
25th Percentile £485 £515 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +9.09% +15.65%
75th Percentile £582 £586 £540
90th Percentile £748 £715 £575
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 290 327 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.20% 14.78% 18.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 203 445
10th Percentile £185 £185 £150
25th Percentile £275 £299 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £676 £699 £595
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 36
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.58 £11.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.23 £13.69
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% +12.46% +9.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £72.50 - £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the West Midlands

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 June 2024. 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
Herefordshire -4 15 £700 +7.69%
Birmingham +11 8 £525 +6.60% 4
Shropshire -24 8 £518 -4.07% 2
Worcestershire +6 6 £550 +4.76%
Warwickshire -6 5 £450 -37.93% 2
Coventry +6 1 £550 +4.76%
Dudley - 1 £425 -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) OpenEdge
2 1 (2.17%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) MFGPRO
1 1 (2.17%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
1 2 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (2.17%) Azure
2 1 (2.17%) GCP
2 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.78%) Intrusion Detection
1 16 (34.78%) Network Security
2 6 (13.04%) DHCP
2 6 (13.04%) DNS
2 6 (13.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.78%) Big Data
2 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.17%) Impala
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.17%) Pentaho
3 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Ant
2 2 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.17%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 21 (45.65%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.35%) Law
3 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Developer
2 7 (15.22%) SQL Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (13.04%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Lead
4 5 (10.87%) Network Operations Team Leader
4 5 (10.87%) Operations Team Leader
4 5 (10.87%) Team Leader
4 5 (10.87%) Unix Operations Team Leader
4 5 (10.87%) Unix Team Leader
5 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) 1st Line Support
7 1 (2.17%) Administrator
7 1 (2.17%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.78%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (10.87%) Middleware
3 2 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (2.17%) Guice
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Cyber Defence
1 16 (34.78%) Distributed Applications
2 12 (26.09%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
3 5 (10.87%) SCADA
4 3 (6.52%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.52%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.52%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (63.04%) Windows
2 27 (58.70%) Linux
3 16 (34.78%) Android
3 16 (34.78%) Apple iOS
4 6 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.17%) HPUX
6 1 (2.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Cybersecurity
1 21 (45.65%) SIEM
2 16 (34.78%) Actionable Insight
2 16 (34.78%) Data Engineering
2 16 (34.78%) Data Management
2 16 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
2 16 (34.78%) Information Security
2 16 (34.78%) Kalman Filter
2 16 (34.78%) Security Architecture
3 15 (32.61%) Security Operations
4 13 (28.26%) Analytics
5 12 (26.09%) Data Analysis
6 9 (19.57%) Agile
6 9 (19.57%) Scrum
7 7 (15.22%) Computer Science
7 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (15.22%) Software Testing
7 7 (15.22%) System Testing
8 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (13.04%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) Java
1 9 (19.57%) SQL
2 8 (17.39%) PL/SQL
3 7 (15.22%) Bash
3 7 (15.22%) Bourne shell
3 7 (15.22%) Korn
4 6 (13.04%) C#
5 2 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) HiveQL
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) Python
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 20 (43.48%) DV Cleared
3 7 (15.22%) Degree
4 5 (10.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (34.78%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (10.87%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (10.87%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.17%) HDFS
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) SCCM
2 5 (10.87%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (2.17%) Nagios
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Red Hat
2 9 (19.57%) Oracle
3 5 (10.87%) BMC
3 5 (10.87%) Veeam
3 5 (10.87%) VMware
4 1 (2.17%) Denodo
4 1 (2.17%) HP
4 1 (2.17%) Informatica
4 1 (2.17%) Progress
4 1 (2.17%) QAD
4 1 (2.17%) Talend