Unix Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Unix
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 60 44
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +39
Contract jobs citing Unix 28 8 46
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 3.37% 1.01% 3.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% 12.12% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 35
10th Percentile £400 £466 £474
25th Percentile £506 £528 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £603 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% +0.42% -14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £648 £700
90th Percentile £711 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £590 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +1.72% -3.33% -9.43%

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 168 66 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 20.22% 8.34% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 46 117
10th Percentile £200 £183 £188
25th Percentile £375 £351 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £648 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £22.29 £18.57 £13.06
25th Percentile £23.78 £23.60 £16.61
Median hourly rate £27.50 £34.35 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -19.93% +82.49% -5.90%
75th Percentile £114.38 £46.48 £21.31
90th Percentile £165.75 £52.34 £22.40
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £20.66
% change year-on-year +43.71% -15.27% +1.30%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Unix job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in West Yorkshire

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Unix

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 20 October 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 +9 25 £650 +3.17% 2
Halifax - 3 - -
Unix
Yorkshire

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
1 6 (21.43%) GCP
2 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (7.14%) dbt
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.14%) Bigtable
2 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) GIS
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.57%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Mockito
2 3 (10.71%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Developer
1 20 (71.43%) Java Developer
2 13 (46.43%) Senior
3 12 (42.86%) Senior Developer
3 12 (42.86%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Data Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Digital Developer
6 2 (7.14%) GCP Architect
6 2 (7.14%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Agile Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Digital Transformation
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Agile Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Agile Java Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Kafka
2 12 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
2 12 (42.86%) JAX-RS
3 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.57%) J2EE
4 1 (3.57%) JPA
4 1 (3.57%) JWT
4 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (85.71%) Linux
2 18 (64.29%) Mac OS X
3 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) Agile
1 19 (67.86%) Microservices
2 18 (64.29%) BDD
2 18 (64.29%) TDD
2 18 (64.29%) Test Automation
3 17 (60.71%) Continuous Deployment
4 12 (42.86%) Pair Programming
4 12 (42.86%) Responsive Web Design
4 12 (42.86%) Web Design
5 10 (35.71%) Web Development
6 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 7 (25.00%) DevOps
8 4 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (10.71%) Data Ingestion
9 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
9 3 (10.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 3 (10.71%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) Bash
3 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) Search Processing Language
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Scala
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) HIPAA
1 3 (10.71%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Ansible
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Control-M
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Splunk
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle