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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 72 69
Rank change year-on-year -39 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 5 31
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.10% 0.51% 2.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.67% 2.55% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 - £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £401
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +24.84% -35.92%
75th Percentile £563 - £450
90th Percentile - - £510
South East median daily rate £431 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -4.17% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £52.50 - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - -53.06%

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 298 196 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 15.26% 20.14% 23.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 160 210
10th Percentile £260 £247 £359
25th Percentile £463 £442 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £627
90th Percentile £722 £650 £673
South East median daily rate £482 £475 £473
% change year-on-year +1.53% +0.37% +11.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 24
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.87 £17.69
25th Percentile £18.25 £19.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £48.72 £25.15 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.72% -64.07% +21.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.50 -
90th Percentile - £58.74 £72.63
South East median hourly rate £45.12 £18.87 £57.87
% change year-on-year +139.12% -67.39% +5.22%

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 13 August 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 - 2 £525 - 1
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 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (100.00%) Teradata