Unix Contracts in Bristol

Unix
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 66 68
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Unix 7 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.12% 1.07% 1.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.60% 8.28% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 10
10th Percentile £466 £338 £557
25th Percentile £575 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +36.11% -33.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £766 £488 £738
90th Percentile £813 £588 £766
South West median daily rate £600 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% +52.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £65.18 -
25th Percentile - £67.31 £53.75
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +26.52% -24.84%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £65.94
90th Percentile - £77.33 £74.38
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% -30.43% -24.84%

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 106 145 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 16.93% 12.96% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 57 82
10th Percentile £200 £185 £190
25th Percentile £291 £275 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.28% -17.43% +28.24%
75th Percentile £600 £533 £675
90th Percentile £690 £638 £725
South West median daily rate £495 £538 £520
% change year-on-year -7.91% +3.37% +16.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 65 36
10th Percentile £18.13 £52.50 £29.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £65.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile - £70.75 -
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year -73.04% +6.87% +24.63%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Bristol

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Bristol over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Bristol

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Protective Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes