Unix Contract Job Trends in the South East

Unix
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 90 95
Rank change year-on-year -21 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing Unix 103 56 114
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.72% 1.91% 2.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.50% 10.65% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 38 78
10th Percentile £204 £383 £280
25th Percentile £204 £450 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -28.73% +29.41% -22.73%
75th Percentile £459 £600 £486
90th Percentile £550 - £563
England median daily rate £469 £489 £540
% change year-on-year -4.09% -9.44% -3.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 3
10th Percentile £25.72 - -
25th Percentile £35.85 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £47.54 - £27.50
75th Percentile £53.75 - £38.75
90th Percentile - - £44.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +37.50% -31.73%

All Operating Systems
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 763 526 1,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.71% 17.93% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 378 664
10th Percentile £203 £200 £203
25th Percentile £350 £325 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +2.42% +2.43%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £662 £663
England median daily rate £455 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -2.67% -1.58% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 35 60
10th Percentile £15.78 £14.20 £15.99
25th Percentile £20.46 £16.95 £17.92
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.66 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.62% -48.08% -13.64%
75th Percentile £52.87 £45.63 £62.81
90th Percentile £59.80 £61.55 £73.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -11.11% -48.57%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Unix job vacancy trend in the South East

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the South East

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Unix in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Unix in the South East

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Thames Valley -13 64 £392 -12.89% 9
Berkshire -18 37 £392 -12.89% 4
Oxfordshire -1 26 £388 -29.55% 5
Surrey -6 22 £208 -56.32% 2
West Sussex -12 10 £459 -16.55% 2
Hampshire -29 6 £469 -6.20%
Buckinghamshire -38 1 £410 +9.33%
East Sussex - 1 £459 -
Middlesex - 1 £198 -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (5.83%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.85%) Confluence
2 5 (4.85%) SAS
3 4 (3.88%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.91%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.94%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.94%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.94%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.94%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (1.94%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.94%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.97%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.48%) Entra ID
2 16 (15.53%) Azure
3 15 (14.56%) AWS
4 10 (9.71%) SaaS
5 8 (7.77%) GCP
6 7 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (5.83%) IaaS
7 6 (5.83%) PaaS
7 6 (5.83%) Sauce Labs
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.88%) OCI
8 4 (3.88%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.88%) Serverless
8 4 (3.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) Wireshark
2 6 (5.83%) 5G
2 6 (5.83%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (5.83%) LTE
2 6 (5.83%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (5.83%) SSH
2 6 (5.83%) VoLTE
2 6 (5.83%) VoWiFi
3 4 (3.88%) HTTP
4 2 (1.94%) DNS
4 2 (1.94%) Firewall
4 2 (1.94%) FTP
4 2 (1.94%) SSL
4 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (30.10%) SQL Server
2 20 (19.42%) Relational Database
3 16 (15.53%) MySQL
3 16 (15.53%) Oracle Database
4 9 (8.74%) Oracle Database 12c
5 4 (3.88%) Big Data
5 4 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.88%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.88%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.88%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.97%) DB2
7 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 1 (0.97%) Oracle9i Database
7 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.74%) GitLab
2 7 (6.80%) JIRA
3 6 (5.83%) Android Studio
3 6 (5.83%) Browser DevTools
3 6 (5.83%) Eclipse
3 6 (5.83%) Xcode
4 4 (3.88%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.94%) Introscope
5 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
General
1 32 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.50%) Public Sector
3 13 (12.62%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.88%) Advertising
5 4 (3.88%) Finance
6 3 (2.91%) Military
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (27.18%) Support Engineer
2 23 (22.33%) Technical Support
3 18 (17.48%) DBA
4 16 (15.53%) Oracle DBA
4 16 (15.53%) Technical Engineer
4 16 (15.53%) Technical Support Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) Developer
5 7 (6.80%) Security Specialist
6 6 (5.83%) Analyst
6 6 (5.83%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 6 (5.83%) UX Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Pensions Analyst
7 5 (4.85%) Senior
8 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Database Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Administrator
9 3 (2.91%) Java Developer
10 2 (1.94%) Applications Developer
10 2 (1.94%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.62%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 6 (5.83%) Ajax
2 6 (5.83%) AngularJS
2 6 (5.83%) CSS
2 6 (5.83%) GraphQL
2 6 (5.83%) Kafka
2 6 (5.83%) React
3 4 (3.88%) Spring
3 4 (3.88%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.91%) LDAP
4 3 (2.91%) Web Services
5 2 (1.94%) JDBC
5 2 (1.94%) JMS
5 2 (1.94%) Middleware
5 2 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.94%) REST
5 2 (1.94%) SOAP
5 2 (1.94%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.42%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.80%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.80%) Operational Technology
3 6 (5.83%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.83%) SCADA
4 5 (4.85%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (4.85%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.88%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.94%) Clustering
6 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.97%) CMDB
7 1 (0.97%) Life Science
7 1 (0.97%) Replication
7 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (63.11%) Linux
2 50 (48.54%) Windows
3 16 (15.53%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.83%) Android
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.94%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.97%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.21%) SIEM
2 23 (22.33%) Computer Science
3 20 (19.42%) ITSM
4 19 (18.45%) ITIL
5 18 (17.48%) Change Control
5 18 (17.48%) OO
5 18 (17.48%) Runbook
6 17 (16.50%) High Availability
7 16 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (14.56%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (14.56%) OOP
8 15 (14.56%) Privileged Access Management
9 13 (12.62%) Release Management
10 12 (11.65%) CI/CD
11 11 (10.68%) Information Security
12 10 (9.71%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (9.71%) Process Improvement
13 9 (8.74%) Test Automation
14 8 (7.77%) Incident Management
14 8 (7.77%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 51 (49.51%) Python
2 35 (33.98%) SQL
3 22 (21.36%) Java
4 20 (19.42%) JavaScript
4 20 (19.42%) Perl
4 20 (19.42%) PowerShell
5 18 (17.48%) Shell Script
6 13 (12.62%) Korn
7 11 (10.68%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.91%) Bash
9 2 (1.94%) Jython
Qualifications
1 42 (40.78%) Security Cleared
2 33 (32.04%) SC Cleared
3 32 (31.07%) Degree
4 14 (13.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 6 (5.83%) CESG Certified Professional
6 6 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (5.83%) CISM
6 6 (5.83%) CISSP
6 6 (5.83%) CRISC
6 6 (5.83%) GIAC
7 5 (4.85%) SANS
8 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.88%) GSEC
8 4 (3.88%) SSCP
9 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.97%) OCP
9 1 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (25.24%) NIST
2 25 (24.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.80%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (5.83%) ISO 31000
4 6 (5.83%) SLA
5 2 (1.94%) NCSC
6 1 (0.97%) GMP
6 1 (0.97%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 24 (23.30%) Active Directory
2 16 (15.53%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (19.42%) Oracle RMAN
2 15 (14.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 10 (9.71%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.94%) Ansible
5 2 (1.94%) CA Wily
5 2 (1.94%) Data Guard
5 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (1.94%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 58 (56.31%) Oracle
2 19 (18.45%) BeyondTrust
3 17 (16.50%) CyberArk
4 14 (13.59%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.80%) Splunk
6 6 (5.83%) BT
6 6 (5.83%) Ericsson
6 6 (5.83%) Huawei
6 6 (5.83%) Nokia
6 6 (5.83%) Talend
7 4 (3.88%) Ab Initio
7 4 (3.88%) Denodo
7 4 (3.88%) Teradata
8 3 (2.91%) Informatica
8 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.94%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.94%) IBM
9 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.97%) Google
10 1 (0.97%) Wonderware