Unix Contract Job Trends in Essex

Unix
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.02% - 0.44%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.41% - 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - £450 £350
% change year-on-year - +28.57% -17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £54.69 - -
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
East of England median hourly rate £52.50 £53.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -0.94% -5.78% +7.14%

All Operating Systems
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 37 17 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 18.88% 22.08% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 22
10th Percentile £196 £234 £113
25th Percentile £240 £243 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £375 £300
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +30.43%
75th Percentile £425 £400 £475
90th Percentile £435 £568 £549
East of England median daily rate £363 £400 £325
% change year-on-year -9.38% +23.08% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 4
10th Percentile £16.17 - £13.73
25th Percentile £16.50 £21.25 £15.04
Median hourly rate £34.79 £22.50 £28.04
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -19.74% +20.27%
75th Percentile £54.69 £23.75 £48.98
90th Percentile £63.50 - £64.59
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £15.76
% change year-on-year -58.33% +242.64% -13.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Essex

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Unix

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Essex region over the 6 months to 22 April 2026. 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
Basildon - 2 - -
Unix
East of England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (100.00%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SAP HANA
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase ASE
2 1 (50.00%) MaxDB
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Support
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Basis Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) SAP Basis
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (50.00%) SAPUI5
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle