Unix Contracts in Manchester

Unix
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 83 67
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 +27
Contract jobs citing Unix 15 25 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.29% 1.53% 3.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.71% 12.38% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 46
10th Percentile £409 £407 £358
25th Percentile £490 £440 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £492 £650
Median % change year-on-year +16.99% -24.38% +44.44%
75th Percentile £628 £559 £688
90th Percentile £656 £659 £725
North West median daily rate £538 £500 £608
% change year-on-year +7.60% -17.73% +43.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £66.80
25th Percentile - £72.50 £68.00
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 £70.38
90th Percentile - - £70.60
North West median hourly rate - £75.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 102 202 512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.77% 12.35% 20.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 146 378
10th Percentile £240 £184 £159
25th Percentile £352 £257 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £625
90th Percentile £634 £638 £675
North West median daily rate £425 £438 £450
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 21 19
10th Percentile £15.70 £16.00 £15.96
25th Percentile £15.81 £17.72 £19.63
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% -62.50% +234.17%
75th Percentile £24.25 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £29.20 £78.75 £81.00
North West median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £40.58
% change year-on-year -19.42% -44.55% +153.59%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
1 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.67%) iSCSI
1 1 (6.67%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.67%) DB2
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Redis
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Locust
3 1 (6.67%) Mockito
3 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
1 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Electronic Trading Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) QA Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) SAN Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior QA Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) Express.js
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) JAX-RS
3 1 (6.67%) LAMP
3 1 (6.67%) MERN Stack
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Basis
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (13.33%) Derivative
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Market Risk
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 5 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) CentOS
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.67%) AIX
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.67%) Mac OS X
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Solaris
4 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) TDD
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Microservices
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (20.00%) OOP
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Front End Development
5 1 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (6.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) SRDF
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.67%) zsh
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
3 2 (13.33%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) Grafana
4 1 (6.67%) HAProxy
4 1 (6.67%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (6.67%) Podman
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.67%) Rancher
4 1 (6.67%) systemd
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) HP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Actifio
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) Broadcom
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) EMC
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Solace
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) Tanium
3 1 (6.67%) TOWER Software
3 1 (6.67%) VMware