Unix Contracts in the North of England

Unix
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 93 110
Rank change year-on-year -43 +17 -20
Contract jobs citing Unix 50 137 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.08% 2.45% 2.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.25% 15.39% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 102 89
10th Percentile £400 £400 £385
25th Percentile £419 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £538 £635 £650
90th Percentile £623 £700 £675
England median daily rate £550 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £42.53 -
25th Percentile - £46.31 £46.19
Median hourly rate - £52.75 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year - +11.35% +11.47%
75th Percentile - £59.31 £48.56
90th Percentile - £63.18 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -9.86% +62.50%

All Operating Systems
North of England

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 690 890 1,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.85% 15.91% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 620 994
10th Percentile £165 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £423
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +12.43% +12.67%
75th Percentile £529 £575 £547
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 62 80
10th Percentile - £13.24 £13.01
25th Percentile £10.95 £17.31 £15.20
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.50 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +45.21% +14.06%
75th Percentile £19.63 £43.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £32.60 £49.52 £70.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -41.33% +73.29% +23.66%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire -17 25 £425 -27.66% 5
North West -23 22 £523 +6.09% 9
North East -8 3 - -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.00%) nginx
2 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) JBoss
3 1 (2.00%) NetWeaver
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP IBP
1 1 (2.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) AWS
2 17 (34.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.00%) GCP
4 4 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.00%) GitHub
5 3 (6.00%) IaaS
5 3 (6.00%) PaaS
5 3 (6.00%) SaaS
6 2 (4.00%) Anthos
6 2 (4.00%) Datadog
6 2 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.00%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.00%) dbt
7 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) HTTP
1 4 (8.00%) LAN
1 4 (8.00%) WAN
2 3 (6.00%) Firewall
3 2 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.00%) DNS
4 1 (2.00%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 3 (6.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.00%) Big Data
3 2 (4.00%) Informix
3 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.00%) Impala
4 1 (2.00%) Metadata
4 1 (2.00%) MySQL
4 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.00%) SAP BW
4 1 (2.00%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.00%) Spark SQL
4 1 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) Git
3 5 (10.00%) JIRA
4 4 (8.00%) Cucumber
4 4 (8.00%) Gatling
4 4 (8.00%) JMeter
4 4 (8.00%) Selenium
4 4 (8.00%) WebDriver
5 3 (6.00%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (4.00%) Mockito
7 1 (2.00%) Subversion
General
1 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Banking
3 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Developer
2 7 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Architect
3 6 (12.00%) DBA
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Database Specialist
4 4 (8.00%) MongoDB DBA
4 4 (8.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Informix DBA
6 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Site Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) Kafka
2 7 (14.00%) XML
3 6 (12.00%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (10.00%) Web Services
5 4 (8.00%) .NET
5 4 (8.00%) HTML
5 4 (8.00%) Middleware
6 3 (6.00%) J2EE
6 3 (6.00%) Spring
6 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.00%) CSS
7 2 (4.00%) JAX-RS
7 2 (4.00%) JSP
7 2 (4.00%) XSLT
8 1 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (2.00%) IBM Integration Bus
8 1 (2.00%) RESTful
8 1 (2.00%) SAP Basis
8 1 (2.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Replication
2 4 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.00%) Derivative
3 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (64.00%) Linux
2 13 (26.00%) Windows
3 6 (12.00%) Mac OS X
4 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.00%) HPUX
5 2 (4.00%) Solaris
5 2 (4.00%) zOS
6 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) Agile
2 12 (24.00%) DevOps
2 12 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (20.00%) TDD
4 9 (18.00%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (18.00%) Migration
5 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
5 8 (16.00%) Task Automation
6 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
7 6 (12.00%) BDD
7 6 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (12.00%) Performance Metrics
7 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (12.00%) Waterfall
8 5 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 5 (10.00%) Microservices
9 4 (8.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
9 4 (8.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) Java
2 13 (26.00%) Python
3 11 (22.00%) Shell Script
4 10 (20.00%) Bash
4 10 (20.00%) SQL
5 4 (8.00%) Groovy
5 4 (8.00%) Scala
6 3 (6.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.00%) C
7 2 (4.00%) C++
7 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.00%) Perl
7 2 (4.00%) PHP
8 1 (2.00%) Go
8 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
2 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.00%) CCNA
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Terraform
2 6 (12.00%) Ansible
2 6 (12.00%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.00%) Grafana
3 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.00%) Istio
4 2 (4.00%) Kiali
4 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.00%) CFEngine
5 1 (2.00%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.00%) PowerBroker
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.00%) PagerDuty
2 4 (8.00%) VMware
3 3 (6.00%) IBM
4 2 (4.00%) Splunk
4 2 (4.00%) Sun
5 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.00%) Brocade
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.00%) NetApp
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) Temenos