Unix Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Unix
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.44% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
South West median daily rate £650 £600 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% +33.33% -30.77%

All Operating Systems
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 84 35 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 18.63% 19.55% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 25 19
10th Percentile £164 £140 £188
25th Percentile £406 £188 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £250 £220
Median % change year-on-year +91.00% +13.64% -34.81%
75th Percentile £715 £550 £428
90th Percentile £750 £713 £498
South West median daily rate £488 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +14.71% -19.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 3
10th Percentile £25.77 £57.75 -
25th Percentile £25.89 £58.13 £12.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £62.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% +380.77% -78.22%
75th Percentile £98.82 £69.38 £13.50
90th Percentile £100.00 £71.25 -
South West median hourly rate £38.00 £18.87 £70.00
% change year-on-year +101.38% -73.04% +6.87%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Somerset

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Unix

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 26 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
Taunton - 2 £450 - 1
Unix
South West

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VirtualBox
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware