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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 74 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 -26 -3
Contract jobs citing Unix 21 40 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.54% 2.12% 3.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.05% 16.95% 25.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 57
10th Percentile £370 £423 £420
25th Percentile £425 £440 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £536 £540
Median % change year-on-year -14.18% -0.74% +9.09%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £554
90th Percentile £495 £770 £693
England median daily rate £492 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -10.55% -1.79% +1.82%

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 190 236 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.89% 12.49% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 160 221
10th Percentile £145 £181 £163
25th Percentile £193 £254 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £410 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% -13.68% +17.28%
75th Percentile £511 £550 £588
90th Percentile £639 £678 £694
England median daily rate £467 £470 £513
% change year-on-year -0.74% -8.29% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 10
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.99 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.67 £18.50 £15.49
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.33
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +29.85% +5.02%
75th Percentile £19.63 £23.75 £18.69
90th Percentile £24.19 £43.25 £30.13
England median hourly rate £21.28 £22.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year -3.93% -42.47% +77.91%

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 22 May 2025.

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 22 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
Warwickshire +3 11 £475 +5.56% 2
Shropshire 0 8 £460 -11.20% 23
Staffordshire - 1 £495 - 11
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 5 (23.81%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) JIRA
2 6 (28.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 6 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 5 (23.81%) GitLab
4 2 (9.52%) Git
5 1 (4.76%) CA Gen
5 1 (4.76%) ClearCase
5 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.76%) Toad
General
1 6 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Automotive
2 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Unix Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Unix Systems Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Support
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Unix Support
4 2 (9.52%) Unix Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Operations Support Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Test Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) Laravel
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) RESTful
2 1 (4.76%) Vue
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Linux
2 6 (28.57%) AIX
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
2 4 (19.05%) Storage Management
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.52%) Agile
4 2 (9.52%) ITSM
4 2 (9.52%) Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Operations Management
4 2 (9.52%) Service Management
4 2 (9.52%) Synthetic Monitoring
4 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
4 2 (9.52%) Test Scripting
4 2 (9.52%) Test Strategy
5 1 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.76%) MVC
5 1 (4.76%) OO
5 1 (4.76%) Regression Testing
5 1 (4.76%) Scrum
5 1 (4.76%) Time Management
5 1 (4.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Shell Script
2 8 (38.10%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.52%) Java
4 2 (9.52%) Perl
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) COBOL
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) ISEB
3 2 (9.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Tivoli
1 4 (19.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (9.52%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (9.52%) Grafana
2 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) IBM
2 6 (28.57%) VMware
3 5 (23.81%) Atlassian
3 5 (23.81%) Oracle
4 2 (9.52%) BMC
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (4.76%) webMethods