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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 55 70
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.19% 0.74% 0.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.32% 3.51% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - £268
25th Percentile £550 - £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £393
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +59.24% -25.24%
75th Percentile £650 - £471
90th Percentile - - £593
South West median daily rate £700 £550 £488
% change year-on-year +27.27% +12.82% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South West median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -30.43%

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 152 114 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 14.17% 21.07% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 63 52
10th Percentile £120 £140 £173
25th Percentile £276 £200 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £406
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -10.77% -13.56%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £523
90th Percentile £575 £625 £630
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 18 25
10th Percentile £17.69 £65.75 £49.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £67.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% -3.21% +6.87%
75th Percentile £67.84 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £68.00 £69.13 £72.66
South West median hourly rate £40.00 £67.50 £52.21
% change year-on-year -40.74% +29.30% -19.68%

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
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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS