Unix Contracts in Yorkshire

Unix
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 60 76 81
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 +32
Contract jobs citing Unix 32 24 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.15% 1.42% 2.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.55% 7.25% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 33
10th Percentile £376 £400 £453
25th Percentile £450 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -19.05% +2.94%
75th Percentile £738 £475 £625
90th Percentile £744 £530 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% -30.43% -11.54%

All Operating Systems
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 220 331 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.63% 19.60% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 242 224
10th Percentile £178 £163 £153
25th Percentile £243 £275 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
75th Percentile £575 £505 £550
90th Percentile £725 £588 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 9
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.57 £12.73
25th Percentile £16.50 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%
75th Percentile £19.75 £23.75 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.12 - £34.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Yorkshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Yorkshire

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Yorkshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Yorkshire

Unix
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Yorkshire +14 16 £525 +23.53% 3
West Yorkshire +17 15 £725 +65.71% 2
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (15.63%) nginx
1 5 (15.63%) Traefik
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) AWS
2 12 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (21.88%) Amazon ECS
3 7 (21.88%) AWS Fargate
4 6 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 6 (18.75%) GCP
4 6 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (6.25%) Azure
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (18.75%) DNS
3 3 (9.38%) HTTPS
4 2 (6.25%) HTTP
4 2 (6.25%) IMAP
4 2 (6.25%) Kerberos
4 2 (6.25%) Network Security
4 2 (6.25%) POP3
4 2 (6.25%) SMTP
4 2 (6.25%) SSH
4 2 (6.25%) SSL
5 1 (3.13%) Firewall
5 1 (3.13%) NAS
5 1 (3.13%) SAN
5 1 (3.13%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
2 2 (6.25%) Hazelcast
3 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) Jenkins
2 12 (37.50%) GitLab
3 3 (9.38%) JIRA
4 2 (6.25%) Jaeger
5 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 7 (21.88%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Military
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Senior
2 9 (28.13%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.25%) IT Architect
6 2 (6.25%) LDAP Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Developer
7 1 (3.13%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.13%) Unix Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (34.38%) cloud-init
2 9 (28.13%) Kafka
3 6 (18.75%) Keycloak
4 3 (9.38%) Middleware
4 3 (9.38%) PySpark
5 2 (6.25%) Anaconda
5 2 (6.25%) gRPC
5 2 (6.25%) JWT
5 2 (6.25%) LDAP
5 2 (6.25%) Pandas
5 2 (6.25%) SAML
6 1 (3.13%) LAPP Stack
6 1 (3.13%) RESTful
6 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) PKI
2 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.25%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.13%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.13%) Robotics
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (81.25%) Linux
2 13 (40.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (37.50%) CentOS
4 7 (21.88%) Windows
5 1 (3.13%) AIX
5 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.13%) Solaris
5 1 (3.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) CI/CD
2 15 (46.88%) DevOps
3 13 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (28.13%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Identity Management
6 7 (21.88%) Observability
6 7 (21.88%) Secrets Management
7 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
7 6 (18.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 6 (18.75%) Static Application Security Testing
8 5 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (15.63%) Mobile Device Management
9 4 (12.50%) Agile
9 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
10 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 3 (9.38%) Knowledge Transfer
10 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 15 (46.88%) Bash
3 12 (37.50%) Go
4 4 (12.50%) ActionScript
4 4 (12.50%) ActionScript 2.0
5 2 (6.25%) C
5 2 (6.25%) Groovy
5 2 (6.25%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) SQL
6 1 (3.13%) JCL
6 1 (3.13%) Korn
6 1 (3.13%) Perl
6 1 (3.13%) REXX
6 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.25%) IBM Certification
4 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (40.63%) Terraform
3 12 (37.50%) Packer
4 9 (28.13%) Grafana
5 8 (25.00%) Istio
6 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
7 6 (18.75%) Consul
7 6 (18.75%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (18.75%) linkerd
7 6 (18.75%) Rancher
7 6 (18.75%) ZABBIX
8 5 (15.63%) HAProxy
9 4 (12.50%) Ansible
10 3 (9.38%) Control-M
10 3 (9.38%) Puppet
11 2 (6.25%) Kiali
11 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
12 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (3.13%) Nagios
12 1 (3.13%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Splunk
2 6 (18.75%) Okta
3 5 (15.63%) Apple
3 5 (15.63%) ESET
3 5 (15.63%) Veritas
4 4 (12.50%) IBM
5 3 (9.38%) AppDynamics
5 3 (9.38%) IBM Sterling
5 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.25%) Commvault
6 2 (6.25%) ForgeRock
6 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.25%) xMatters
7 1 (3.13%) EMC
7 1 (3.13%) NetApp
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle
7 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.13%) VMware