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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 65 79
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing Unix 3 9 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.56% 0.85% 1.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.83% 8.26% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 13
10th Percentile - £254 £310
25th Percentile - £296 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £385 £600
Median % change year-on-year +62.34% -35.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £539 £675
90th Percentile - £621 £753
South West median daily rate £453 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -7.18% -11.36% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £65.18 £42.50
25th Percentile - £67.31 £53.75
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +26.52% -
75th Percentile - £76.31 £61.25
90th Percentile - £77.33 £76.10
South West median hourly rate - £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -30.43% -23.33%

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 106 109 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 19.74% 10.31% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 46 115
10th Percentile £188 £185 £163
25th Percentile £213 £215 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £397 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -24.38% +31.25%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £669
90th Percentile £663 £593 £719
South West median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 44 48
10th Percentile £18.13 £48.00 £19.27
25th Percentile £18.51 £59.94 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £70.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.87% +0.77%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.30
90th Percentile - £70.88 £71.71
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%

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

Unix
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
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 1 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Database Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Migration Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Database Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Database Security
1 2 (66.67%) E-business
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Project Management
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Protective Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle