Unix Contracts in Worcestershire

Unix
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Unix 1 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Worcestershire 1.41% 6.74% 1.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.56% 54.55% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £519 -
25th Percentile £584 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £651 £575 £475
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -5.55% +1.85% +2.86%

All Operating Systems
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 11 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 25.35% 12.36% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 16
10th Percentile £382 £152 £163
25th Percentile £525 £158 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £329
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +67.30% +19.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £509
90th Percentile £635 - £597
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.77 -
25th Percentile - £31.47 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.66 £45.80 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +147.54% +37.04%
75th Percentile - £61.97 £19.25
90th Percentile - £69.79 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.66 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +29.79% -5.00% +21.95%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Worcestershire

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Unix

Unix
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Malvern -7 1 £617 +12.18%
Unix
West Midlands

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware