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 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 66 76 66
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 +51
Contract jobs citing Unix 26 25 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.48% 1.50% 2.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.21% 7.65% 17.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 43
10th Percentile £403 £400 £463
25th Percentile £450 £411 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -27.66% +15.20%
75th Percentile £660 £502 £700
90th Percentile £712 £536 -
England median daily rate £492 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -10.55% -1.79% +1.82%

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 213 327 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.32% 19.66% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 236 227
10th Percentile £175 £163 £153
25th Percentile £260 £275 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £414 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% -8.06% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £573
90th Percentile £648 £588 £688
England median daily rate £467 £470 £513
% change year-on-year -0.74% -8.29% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 14
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.65 £12.35
25th Percentile £16.44 £14.52 £14.00
Median hourly rate £18.21 £18.27 £19.64
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -6.95% +10.19%
75th Percentile £19.56 £23.75 £22.19
90th Percentile £19.76 - £23.38
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 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 22 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 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
South Yorkshire +19 17 £558 +31.18% 23
West Yorkshire +8 8 £619 +37.50% 30
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 3 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (11.54%) Apache Spark
1 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
2 1 (3.85%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
1 9 (34.62%) GCP
2 5 (19.23%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (15.38%) Azure
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (7.69%) dbt
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) HTTPS
2 2 (7.69%) HTTP
2 2 (7.69%) Kerberos
2 2 (7.69%) SSH
2 2 (7.69%) SSL
2 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) Firewall
3 1 (3.85%) NAS
3 1 (3.85%) SAN
3 1 (3.85%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.69%) Bigtable
2 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.69%) Hazelcast
2 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) GitLab
2 5 (19.23%) JIRA
3 3 (11.54%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) Jaeger
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (19.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) GCP Architect
4 2 (7.69%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (7.69%) IT Architect
4 2 (7.69%) LDAP Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Systems Architect
5 1 (3.85%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.85%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) cloud-init
1 5 (19.23%) Kafka
2 3 (11.54%) Middleware
2 3 (11.54%) PySpark
3 2 (7.69%) .NET
3 2 (7.69%) Anaconda
3 2 (7.69%) gRPC
3 2 (7.69%) JWT
3 2 (7.69%) LDAP
3 2 (7.69%) Pandas
3 2 (7.69%) SAML
4 1 (3.85%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.85%) LAPP Stack
4 1 (3.85%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.69%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.85%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.85%) PKI
4 1 (3.85%) Robotics
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Windows
3 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (19.23%) CentOS
5 1 (3.85%) AIX
5 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.85%) Solaris
5 1 (3.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 10 (38.46%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
5 5 (19.23%) Data Protection
6 4 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (11.54%) B2B
7 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (11.54%) Identity Management
7 3 (11.54%) Microservices
8 2 (7.69%) Analytics
8 2 (7.69%) Change Management
8 2 (7.69%) Configuration Management
8 2 (7.69%) ETL
8 2 (7.69%) ITIL
8 2 (7.69%) Mentoring
8 2 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) Bash
3 5 (19.23%) Go
3 5 (19.23%) Java
4 4 (15.38%) ActionScript
4 4 (15.38%) ActionScript 2.0
4 4 (15.38%) SQL
5 3 (11.54%) Groovy
5 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.69%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (7.69%) C
6 2 (7.69%) Scala
7 1 (3.85%) JCL
7 1 (3.85%) Korn
7 1 (3.85%) Perl
7 1 (3.85%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) IBM Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.85%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Kubernetes
2 6 (23.08%) Control-M
2 6 (23.08%) Terraform
3 5 (19.23%) Packer
4 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 4 (15.38%) Grafana
4 4 (15.38%) Istio
5 3 (11.54%) Kiali
5 3 (11.54%) Puppet
6 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.85%) Consul
7 1 (3.85%) HAProxy
7 1 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (3.85%) linkerd
7 1 (3.85%) Nagios
7 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
7 1 (3.85%) Rancher
7 1 (3.85%) Tivoli NetView
7 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Splunk
2 5 (19.23%) Veritas
3 4 (15.38%) AppDynamics
3 4 (15.38%) IBM
4 3 (11.54%) IBM Sterling
4 3 (11.54%) xMatters
5 2 (7.69%) Commvault
5 2 (7.69%) ForgeRock
5 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.85%) Apple
6 1 (3.85%) EMC
6 1 (3.85%) ESET
6 1 (3.85%) NetApp
6 1 (3.85%) Okta
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.85%) VMware