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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 106 106
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Unix 82 50 104
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.43% 1.67% 1.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.10% 9.65% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 31 70
10th Percentile - £375 £280
25th Percentile £204 £444 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.05% +14.71% -22.73%
75th Percentile £457 £600 £525
90th Percentile £550 - £619
England median daily rate £472 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -7.90% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £24.10 - £34.25
25th Percentile £27.34 - £38.75
Median hourly rate £47.54 - £47.50
75th Percentile £53.75 - £58.13
90th Percentile £54.13 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +35.00% -30.43%

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 739 518 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.93% 17.31% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 370 653
10th Percentile £204 £205 £200
25th Percentile £350 £338 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% +11.11% -7.31%
75th Percentile £570 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £648
England median daily rate £450 £475 £459
% change year-on-year -5.26% +3.49% -11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 36 62
10th Percentile £13.89 £14.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.13 £16.95 £17.69
Median hourly rate £45.10 £28.00 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% -23.81% -24.54%
75th Percentile £52.87 £60.47 £62.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £64.38 £70.00
England median hourly rate £34.13 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year +38.40% +12.09% -24.91%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -23 55 £390 -17.95% 7
Berkshire -19 33 £375 -17.04% 3
Oxfordshire -3 21 £388 -29.55% 4
Surrey +4 18 £208 -56.32% 3
Hampshire -22 7 £450 -
West Sussex -11 1 £525 -4.55% 1
Buckinghamshire -21 1 £410 +9.33%
Middlesex - 1 £198 -
East Sussex - 1 £459 -
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 4 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.66%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.44%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.44%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.44%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.44%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.22%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (3.66%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle BRM
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.76%) SaaS
2 7 (8.54%) AWS
2 7 (8.54%) Azure
3 6 (7.32%) Entra ID
3 6 (7.32%) Sauce Labs
4 5 (6.10%) GCP
5 4 (4.88%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.88%) OCI
5 4 (4.88%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.88%) Serverless
5 4 (4.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.32%) SSH
2 4 (4.88%) HTTP
2 4 (4.88%) Wireshark
3 3 (3.66%) DNS
3 3 (3.66%) Firewall
3 3 (3.66%) Wireless
4 2 (2.44%) 5G
4 2 (2.44%) Broadband
4 2 (2.44%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (2.44%) FTP
4 2 (2.44%) GPRS
4 2 (2.44%) GSM
4 2 (2.44%) LTE
4 2 (2.44%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (2.44%) SSL
4 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.44%) VoLTE
4 2 (2.44%) VoWiFi
5 1 (1.22%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (34.15%) SQL Server
2 20 (24.39%) Relational Database
3 16 (19.51%) MySQL
4 13 (15.85%) Oracle Database
5 6 (7.32%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (4.88%) Big Data
6 4 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.88%) DynamoDB
6 4 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.44%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.22%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.32%) Android Studio
1 6 (7.32%) Browser DevTools
1 6 (7.32%) Eclipse
1 6 (7.32%) Xcode
2 3 (3.66%) GitLab
3 2 (2.44%) Introscope
3 2 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.44%) JIRA
4 1 (1.22%) Git
4 1 (1.22%) Subversion
General
1 26 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.85%) Public Sector
3 10 (12.20%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.10%) Finance
5 4 (4.88%) Advertising
6 2 (2.44%) Billing
6 2 (2.44%) Military
7 1 (1.22%) Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (26.83%) Support Engineer
2 20 (24.39%) Technical Support
3 14 (17.07%) DBA
3 14 (17.07%) Oracle DBA
4 11 (13.41%) Technical Engineer
4 11 (13.41%) Technical Support Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Developer
6 6 (7.32%) Unix Specialist
6 6 (7.32%) UX Engineer
7 5 (6.10%) Pensions Analyst
7 5 (6.10%) Senior
8 4 (4.88%) Database Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Administrator
9 3 (3.66%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
9 3 (3.66%) Java Developer
10 2 (2.44%) Applications Developer
10 2 (2.44%) Solutions Designer
10 2 (2.44%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 6 (7.32%) Ajax
2 6 (7.32%) AngularJS
2 6 (7.32%) CSS
2 6 (7.32%) GraphQL
2 6 (7.32%) Kafka
2 6 (7.32%) React
3 4 (4.88%) Spring
3 4 (4.88%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.44%) JDBC
4 2 (2.44%) JMS
4 2 (2.44%) Middleware
4 2 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.44%) REST
4 2 (2.44%) SOAP
4 2 (2.44%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.32%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.32%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.10%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (4.88%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.66%) Clustering
6 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.44%) IPTV
6 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.22%) CMDB
7 1 (1.22%) Life Science
7 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.22%) Replication
7 1 (1.22%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 45 (54.88%) Linux
2 38 (46.34%) Windows
3 13 (15.85%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.32%) Android
5 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (2.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (1.22%) OpenVMS
7 1 (1.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.39%) Computer Science
2 18 (21.95%) ITIL
2 18 (21.95%) OO
3 16 (19.51%) SIEM
4 15 (18.29%) Runbook
5 13 (15.85%) Release Management
6 12 (14.63%) High Availability
6 12 (14.63%) ITSM
6 12 (14.63%) OOP
6 12 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (14.63%) Process Improvement
7 11 (13.41%) Privileged Access Management
8 10 (12.20%) Change Control
9 8 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (9.76%) Information Security
9 8 (9.76%) Security Monitoring
10 6 (7.32%) CI/CD
10 6 (7.32%) Mobile Application Development
10 6 (7.32%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (7.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 43 (52.44%) Python
2 29 (35.37%) SQL
3 24 (29.27%) Java
4 22 (26.83%) Perl
5 16 (19.51%) JavaScript
6 15 (18.29%) PowerShell
6 15 (18.29%) Shell Script
7 13 (15.85%) Korn
8 6 (7.32%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.66%) Bash
10 2 (2.44%) Jython
Qualifications
1 24 (29.27%) Security Cleared
2 22 (26.83%) Degree
3 20 (24.39%) SC Cleared
4 11 (13.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) OCP
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.29%) NIST
2 14 (17.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.44%) SLA
4 1 (1.22%) GDPR
4 1 (1.22%) GMP
4 1 (1.22%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 15 (18.29%) Active Directory
1 15 (18.29%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (2.44%) Docker
3 1 (1.22%) GPFS
3 1 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (20.73%) Oracle RMAN
2 16 (19.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 6 (7.32%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.88%) Ansible
5 2 (2.44%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (2.44%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.22%) BladeLogic
6 1 (1.22%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.22%) SELinux
Vendors
1 51 (62.20%) Oracle
2 15 (18.29%) BeyondTrust
3 13 (15.85%) CyberArk
4 8 (9.76%) Microsoft
5 7 (8.54%) Splunk
6 5 (6.10%) Teradata
7 4 (4.88%) Ab Initio
7 4 (4.88%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.66%) IBM
8 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
9 2 (2.44%) BT
9 2 (2.44%) Ericsson
9 2 (2.44%) Huawei
9 2 (2.44%) Nokia
10 1 (1.22%) Dell
10 1 (1.22%) HP
10 1 (1.22%) Symantec
10 1 (1.22%) Veritas
10 1 (1.22%) VMware