Unix Contracts in the North West

Unix
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 90 83
Rank change year-on-year -23 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing Unix 22 65 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.83% 2.12% 2.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.65% 12.92% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 63
10th Percentile £380 £323 £341
25th Percentile £470 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £495 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -15.74% +42.42%
75th Percentile £623 £553 £650
90th Percentile £643 £603 £675
England median daily rate £550 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £38.80 -
25th Percentile - £39.25 £46.19
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £47.38
Median % change year-on-year - -15.57% +7.67%
75th Percentile - £52.88 £48.56
90th Percentile - £60.60 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% -10.70% +57.58%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 331 503 786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.46% 16.38% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 340 548
10th Percentile £170 £173 £158
25th Percentile £280 £313 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +21.79%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £589
90th Percentile £825 £650 £650
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 47 44
10th Percentile - £15.53 £14.65
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.62 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +46.50% +23.23%
75th Percentile £18.94 £43.75 £52.03
90th Percentile £46.08 £49.52 £76.75
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.80%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the North West

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in the North West

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North West over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the North West

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the North West

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Manchester 0 9 £615 +23.00% 5
Cheshire -13 9 £450 - 3
Cumbria - 4 £473 -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.55%) JBoss
1 1 (4.55%) NetWeaver
1 1 (4.55%) nginx
1 1 (4.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP IBP
1 1 (4.55%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub
3 3 (13.64%) IaaS
3 3 (13.64%) PaaS
3 3 (13.64%) SaaS
4 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.55%) Cohesity
5 1 (4.55%) dbt
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) DSL
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database 12c
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Impala
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) SAP BW
3 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
3 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 2 (9.09%) Gatling
3 2 (9.09%) JMeter
3 2 (9.09%) Selenium
3 2 (9.09%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Backup Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) ETL Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle BI Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Middleware
2 3 (13.64%) XML
3 2 (9.09%) .NET
3 2 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) Kafka
3 2 (9.09%) Spring
3 2 (9.09%) Web Services
4 1 (4.55%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Basis
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.09%) Derivative
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
1 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (31.82%) Windows
3 2 (9.09%) Mac OS X
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (18.18%) DevOps
2 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (18.18%) TDD
3 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
3 3 (13.64%) Microservices
3 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
4 2 (9.09%) BDD
4 2 (9.09%) ETL
4 2 (9.09%) Low Latency
4 2 (9.09%) Manual Testing
4 2 (9.09%) Migration
4 2 (9.09%) Multithreading
4 2 (9.09%) OO
4 2 (9.09%) OOP
4 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
4 2 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Shell Script
2 6 (27.27%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Groovy
4 2 (9.09%) Perl
4 2 (9.09%) PHP
4 2 (9.09%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Progress Chef
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) CFEngine
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.55%) PowerBroker
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) Brocade
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) NetApp
3 1 (4.55%) PagerDuty
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Temenos