Unix Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Unix
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.52% - 0.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.33% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £554 - -
25th Percentile £578 - £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £668
Median % change year-on-year - - +90.71%
75th Percentile £678 - £701
90th Percentile £691 - -
South West median daily rate £700 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +47.37% -26.92% +62.50%

All Operating Systems
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 86 93 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.51% 23.91% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 44 68
10th Percentile £201 £255 £406
25th Percentile £325 £422 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £531 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -7.61% +12.20%
75th Percentile £488 £638 £704
90th Percentile £575 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £30.43 £68.80 £19.25
25th Percentile £60.82 - £30.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +53.80%
75th Percentile £170.38 - £78.00
90th Percentile £197.50 - -
South West median hourly rate £33.00 £68.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year -51.47% +6.67% -1.92%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Gloucestershire

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Unix

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cirencester - 1 £575 -
Cheltenham - 1 £700 - 1
Unix
South West

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) ERD
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk