Senior Unix Technical Specialist Contract Job Trends in England

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
UK > England

The median Senior Unix Technical Specialist daily rate in England is £426, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 510 565
Rank change year-on-year -30 +55 +188
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Unix Technical Specialist 10 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.033% 0.016% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.017% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £389 £493 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £495 £635
Median % change year-on-year -13.94% -22.05% +20.95%
75th Percentile £463 £498 -
90th Percentile £485 - -
UK median daily rate £438 £495 £635
% change year-on-year -11.62% -22.05% +20.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 27,614 28,942 36,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.95% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,664 17,706 25,343
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,686 1,084 1,421
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +39.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +49.17%

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Unix Technical Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Unix Technical Specialist job vacancy trend in England

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Unix Technical Specialist job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Unix Technical Specialist job vacancies in England

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Unix Technical Specialist in England over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Unix Technical Specialist in England

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Unix Technical Specialist job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior Unix Technical Specialist job vacancies in England

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Unix Technical Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 24 November 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
London - 9 £352 - 6
South East -6 1 £500 +1.01% 1
Senior Unix Technical Specialist
UK

Senior Unix Technical Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 24 November 2025, Senior Unix Technical Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior Unix Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) GraphQL
1 9 (90.00%) Mentoring
1 9 (90.00%) Node.js
1 9 (90.00%) SaaS
1 9 (90.00%) TypeScript
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) API Design
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Coaching
2 8 (80.00%) Code Quality
2 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 8 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (80.00%) Observability
2 8 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 8 (80.00%) Playwright
2 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (80.00%) Process Improvement
2 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (80.00%) Vitest
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (10.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer

Senior Unix Technical Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) GraphQL
1 9 (90.00%) Node.js
2 8 (80.00%) Playwright
2 8 (80.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Mentoring
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) API Design
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Coaching
2 8 (80.00%) Code Quality
2 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (80.00%) Observability
2 8 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (80.00%) Process Improvement
2 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) SOA
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
2 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle