Unix Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Unix
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 66 56
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 +9
Contract jobs citing Unix 6 5 24
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.77% 0.60% 2.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.26% 3.38% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 19
10th Percentile £445 - £553
25th Percentile £575 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% +33.33%
75th Percentile £813 - £675
90th Percentile - £480 £718
South West median daily rate £725 £463 £650
% change year-on-year +56.76% -28.85% +62.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
South West median hourly rate £70.00 - £80.00
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%

All Operating Systems
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 114 148 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 14.67% 17.75% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 57 87
10th Percentile £68 £140 £170
25th Percentile £258 £225 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -16.28% +19.44%
75th Percentile £575 £533 £628
90th Percentile £750 £653 £675
South West median daily rate £413 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -21.05% +4.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 45 5
10th Percentile £18.28 £65.00 £40.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.46 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.34% - +6.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - £76.00
South West median hourly rate £22.19 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -68.30% +7.69% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Unix job vacancy trend in Bristol

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Bristol over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Bristol

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Unix

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Puppet
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform