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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 56 75
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 +20
Contract jobs citing Unix 7 22 21
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.56% 2.22% 1.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.95% 9.61% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 11
10th Percentile - £360 £500
25th Percentile - £365 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £410 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -31.63% +9.09%
75th Percentile £424 £443 £650
90th Percentile £438 £480 -
South East median daily rate £208 £416 £425
% change year-on-year -50.15% -2.06% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South East median hourly rate - - £70.50
% change year-on-year - - -11.88%

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 237 229 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.10% 23.06% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 146 128
10th Percentile £200 £263 £179
25th Percentile £418 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -5.68% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £657
South East median daily rate £430 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -1.71% +9.38% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 33
10th Percentile £16.60 £51.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £62.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £68.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.82% +19.57% +87.30%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £75.00 £76.40
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -67.48% +11.82% +193.33%

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 1 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
Fareham - 3 - -
Farnborough - 2 £400 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
1 3 (42.86%) Server Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Specialist
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (28.57%) CentOS
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Server Management
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Database Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Network Management
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Security Management
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) RHCE
1 2 (28.57%) RHCSA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) NFS
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) KVM
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) WSUS
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
3 2 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) Teradata
1 2 (28.57%) VMware