Unix Contracts in West Yorkshire

Unix
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 47 64 85
Rank change year-on-year +17 +21 +17
Contract jobs citing Unix 15 13 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.74% 1.30% 1.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.50% 9.09% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 15
10th Percentile £457 £376 £440
25th Percentile £633 £400 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -12.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £741 £463 £625
90th Percentile £750 £541 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +52.94% -19.05% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 - -

All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 120 143 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.90% 14.31% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 110 126
10th Percentile £185 £178 £190
25th Percentile £313 £300 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £470
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £522 £575
90th Percentile £750 £619 £660
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £415 £440
% change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £14.52 £15.44
Median % change year-on-year +182.37% -5.96% -12.12%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.95 £33.29
90th Percentile - £17.34 £61.32
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
% change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in West Yorkshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in West Yorkshire

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in West Yorkshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in West Yorkshire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds +4 14 £725 +65.71% 1
Halifax - 1 £513 -
Unix
Yorkshire

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (33.33%) nginx
1 5 (33.33%) Traefik
2 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
1 12 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon ECS
2 7 (46.67%) AWS Fargate
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) IMAP
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) POP3
3 2 (13.33%) SMTP
4 1 (6.67%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) GitLab
1 12 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Military
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (60.00%) Senior
2 9 (60.00%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (73.33%) cloud-init
2 7 (46.67%) Kafka
3 6 (40.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) PKI
2 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
2 12 (80.00%) CentOS
2 12 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) DevOps
2 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (53.33%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (46.67%) Secrets Management
5 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 6 (40.00%) Identity Management
5 6 (40.00%) Observability
5 6 (40.00%) Static Application Security Testing
6 5 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
7 4 (26.67%) Agile
8 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
9 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
9 2 (13.33%) Threat Detection
10 1 (6.67%) Change Management
10 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 1 (6.67%) ITIL
10 1 (6.67%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Bash
1 12 (80.00%) Go
1 12 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) JCL
2 1 (6.67%) REXX
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) NCSC
2 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Packer
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
2 7 (46.67%) Grafana
2 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (46.67%) Prometheus
3 6 (40.00%) Consul
3 6 (40.00%) Istio
3 6 (40.00%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (40.00%) linkerd
3 6 (40.00%) Rancher
3 6 (40.00%) ZABBIX
4 5 (33.33%) HAProxy
5 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (6.67%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Splunk
2 6 (40.00%) Okta
3 5 (33.33%) Apple
3 5 (33.33%) ESET
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft