Unix Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Unix
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 67 80
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 -8
Contract jobs citing Unix 7 4 17
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.42% 0.55% 1.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.15% 2.50% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £405 - -
25th Percentile £411 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.60%
75th Percentile £492 - £500
90th Percentile £534 - £590
South East median daily rate £390 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -20.05% +14.71% -22.73%

All Operating Systems
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 222 160 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.34% 21.95% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 123 167
10th Percentile £369 £333 £240
25th Percentile £491 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £613 £675
90th Percentile £745 £661 £825
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 22
10th Percentile £19.85 £51.49 £14.37
25th Percentile £25.00 £55.59 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +2.50% +10.60%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.69 £64.69
90th Percentile £51.03 £79.13 £74.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year +69.64% -23.81% -29.33%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Unix

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Farnborough - 3 £463 -
Havant - 2 £450 -
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (57.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
1 4 (57.14%) Snowflake
2 2 (28.57%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Big Data
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (57.14%) DynamoDB
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Applications Developer
3 2 (28.57%) DBA
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Big Data Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Java Applications Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Applications Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Database Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Teradata
2 4 (57.14%) Ab Initio
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle