Unix Contracts in Hampshire

Unix
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 83 71
Rank change year-on-year +21 -12 +11
Contract jobs citing Unix 6 24 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.81% 1.40% 2.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.70% 6.08% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 16
10th Percentile - £372 £347
25th Percentile - £397 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £401 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.84% -27.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile - £472 £606
90th Percentile - £541 £660
South East median daily rate £550 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +29.41% -22.73% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - - £54.00
25th Percentile - £26.25 £56.80
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year - -53.06% -26.76%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £69.86
90th Percentile - - £74.23
South East median hourly rate - £27.50 £58.59
% change year-on-year - -53.06% -19.19%

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 162 395 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.83% 23.06% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 219 262
10th Percentile £380 £300 £204
25th Percentile £453 £463 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £660 £600
90th Percentile £660 £790 £675
South East median daily rate £485 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +2.00% +2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 27 43
10th Percentile £50.46 £16.21 £16.75
25th Percentile £53.22 £17.69 £21.86
Median hourly rate £57.63 £62.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +7.83% +238.24%
75th Percentile £63.44 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.13 £74.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.37% -13.64% +214.29%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Hampshire

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Unix in Hampshire

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Hampshire

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 29 May 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
Basingstoke - 4 - -
Havant -6 2 £500 - 1
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Apache
1 4 (66.67%) CMS
1 4 (66.67%) Confluence
1 4 (66.67%) Drupal
1 4 (66.67%) WordPress
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) PHP Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) IT Technical Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Senior DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Ajax
1 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 4 (66.67%) CodeIgniter
1 4 (66.67%) CSS
1 4 (66.67%) HTML
1 4 (66.67%) jQuery
1 4 (66.67%) LAMP
1 4 (66.67%) SOAP
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 4 (66.67%) Kanban
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) OOP
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
1 4 (66.67%) Secure Coding
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) ERP
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) SOA
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) Perl
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) Zend
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle