Unix Contracts in the North West

Unix
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 84 80
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing Unix 33 70 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.18% 2.32% 2.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.46% 14.26% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 49 62
10th Percentile £430 £324 £413
25th Percentile £481 £410 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £591
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% -15.43% +39.12%
75th Percentile £618 £570 £650
90th Percentile £650 £610 £675
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.50 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £75.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -21.88% +89.87%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 349 491 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.50% 16.30% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 332 565
10th Percentile £180 £180 £159
25th Percentile £281 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% - +24.02%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £825 £650 £663
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 49 40
10th Percentile - £13.99 £14.88
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.09% +37.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £18.75 £43.75 £54.80
90th Percentile £48.00 £49.52 £77.50
England median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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
Cheshire -15 18 £506 +4.06% 2
Manchester -4 12 £615 +23.00% 4
Cumbria - 3 £476 -
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 11 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) JBoss
2 1 (3.03%) NetWeaver
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
2 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP IBP
1 1 (3.03%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.15%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) GitHub
3 3 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) IaaS
3 3 (9.09%) PaaS
3 3 (9.09%) SaaS
4 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.03%) dbt
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) Impala
3 1 (3.03%) Metadata
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) SAP BW
3 1 (3.03%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.03%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) JIRA
2 11 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (9.09%) Git
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) Gatling
5 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 2 (6.06%) JMeter
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (6.06%) Selenium
5 2 (6.06%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.03%) Mockito
6 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (63.64%) Finance
2 13 (39.39%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.21%) Banking
3 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Java Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Consultant
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Automation Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 1 (3.03%) ETL Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Middleware
1 4 (12.12%) Spring
2 3 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (9.09%) HTML
2 3 (9.09%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) .NET
3 2 (6.06%) CSS
3 2 (6.06%) Web Services
3 2 (6.06%) XML
4 1 (3.03%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (3.03%) JAX-RS
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) SAP Basis
4 1 (3.03%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cyberattack
2 4 (12.12%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.09%) Derivative
4 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Linux
1 16 (48.48%) Windows
2 3 (9.09%) Mac OS X
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.03%) VMS
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Change Management
1 11 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 11 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 9 (27.27%) Agile
3 7 (21.21%) TDD
4 6 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.15%) Design Patterns
5 5 (15.15%) Microservices
5 5 (15.15%) Observability
6 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (12.12%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (12.12%) DevOps
6 4 (12.12%) Low Latency
6 4 (12.12%) OOP
6 4 (12.12%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 3 (9.09%) OO
7 3 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Java
2 6 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 5 (15.15%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Groovy
4 2 (6.06%) Perl
4 2 (6.06%) PHP
4 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Python
4 2 (6.06%) Scala
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Ansible
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 8 (24.24%) Oracle
3 6 (18.18%) Tanium
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) IBM
4 1 (3.03%) Intel
4 1 (3.03%) PagerDuty
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Temenos
4 1 (3.03%) VMware