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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 55 78
Rank change year-on-year -29 +23 +2
Contract jobs citing Unix 7 14 24
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.51% 1.87% 1.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.82% 7.91% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 7
10th Percentile - - £388
25th Percentile £400 £420 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £447 £476 £625
90th Percentile £460 £498 £635
South East median daily rate £208 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -53.89% +5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South East median hourly rate - - £63.00

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 248 177 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.92% 23.63% 21.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 127 137
10th Percentile £345 £263 £200
25th Percentile £463 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -9.09% +0.46%
75th Percentile £628 £613 £680
90th Percentile £698 £675 £825
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 30
10th Percentile £15.62 £54.93 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £60.38 £42.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £62.50 £62.25
Median % change year-on-year -59.76% +0.40% +161.66%
75th Percentile £48.75 £68.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £51.05 £79.50 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.00% +5.00% +131.19%

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 6 February 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
Havant - 2 £450 -
Farnborough - 2 £400 -
Fleet - 1 £447 -
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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
1 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 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) OCI
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) CentOS
2 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 3 (42.86%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Database Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Network Management
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Security Management
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Database Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
2 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) RHCE
1 2 (28.57%) RHCSA
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) KVM
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 2 (28.57%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Teradata
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio