Unix Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Unix
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 68 83
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing Unix 6 16 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.38% 1.41% 1.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.23% 8.16% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £454 £361 £266
25th Percentile £475 £363 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £458
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -12.57% -21.46%
75th Percentile £525 £470 £503
90th Percentile - £481 £544
England median daily rate £494 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -8.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.25 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £54.50 £53.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £54.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £53.00 £57.75
% change year-on-year -47.17% -8.23% -15.07%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 269 196 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.83% 17.25% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 75 185
10th Percentile £163 £208 £144
25th Percentile £190 £228 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% -14.71% +13.33%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £590
90th Percentile £575 £575 £708
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 22 43
10th Percentile £14.00 £47.75 £13.29
25th Percentile £20.50 £55.80 £14.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +348.28% -34.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 - £64.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.50 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year -56.17% +76.54% +30.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Unix job vacancy trend in the East of England

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unix

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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
Hertfordshire -17 6 £500 +11.11% 1
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) SAP IBP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SAP BW
1 4 (66.67%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) SAP Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) SAP Basis Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Electrical Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Applications Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Applications Technical Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) SAP Basis
1 4 (66.67%) SAP Fiori
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 4 (66.67%) SAP Security
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Order to Cash
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Personalization
2 1 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (16.67%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) System Testing
2 1 (16.67%) TestOps
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Tcl
1 1 (16.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle