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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 105 94
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing Unix 115 60 111
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.81% 1.83% 1.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.69% 10.24% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 40 74
10th Percentile £204 £374 £295
25th Percentile £214 £447 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% -16.05%
75th Percentile £531 £600 £500
90th Percentile £592 - £563
England median daily rate £480 £486 £525
% change year-on-year -1.18% -7.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile £25.94 - -
25th Percentile £39.83 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £47.54 - £27.50
75th Percentile £53.75 - £38.75
90th Percentile £54.88 - £44.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £54.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.11% +36.88% -34.74%

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 783 586 1,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.31% 17.87% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 407 640
10th Percentile £204 £198 £203
25th Percentile £338 £315 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £645 £650 £650
England median daily rate £460 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -0.59% -2.58% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 45 66
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.57 £15.94
25th Percentile £19.77 £15.50 £17.77
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.69% -60.38% -13.64%
75th Percentile £53.75 £28.00 £69.92
90th Percentile £60.00 £58.21 £71.88
England median hourly rate £31.00 £20.38 £25.00
% change year-on-year +52.15% -18.50% -41.18%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -4 66 £401 -10.89% 5
Berkshire -14 33 £392 -12.89% 1
Oxfordshire +2 32 £592 +7.64% 2
West Sussex +3 24 £459 -16.55% 4
Surrey -6 19 £208 -56.32% 1
Hampshire -46 4 £525 +5.00% 1
Buckinghamshire -42 1 £410 +9.33% 2
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 (5.22%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.35%) Confluence
2 5 (4.35%) SAS
3 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.74%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (1.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.74%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.74%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.74%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.87%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (0.87%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.52%) Entra ID
2 18 (15.65%) Azure
3 17 (14.78%) AWS
4 12 (10.43%) GCP
5 7 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.09%) SaaS
6 6 (5.22%) IaaS
6 6 (5.22%) PaaS
7 4 (3.48%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.48%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.48%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.48%) Serverless
7 4 (3.48%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.61%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (0.87%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.96%) Wireshark
2 7 (6.09%) SSH
3 6 (5.22%) 5G
3 6 (5.22%) Diameter Protocol
3 6 (5.22%) LTE
3 6 (5.22%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (5.22%) VoLTE
3 6 (5.22%) VoWiFi
4 4 (3.48%) HTTP
5 2 (1.74%) DNS
5 2 (1.74%) Firewall
5 2 (1.74%) FTP
5 2 (1.74%) SSL
5 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (32.17%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.04%) Oracle Database
3 13 (11.30%) MySQL
3 13 (11.30%) Relational Database
4 10 (8.70%) Oracle Database 12c
5 6 (5.22%) Oracle Database 11g
6 4 (3.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (3.48%) Big Data
6 4 (3.48%) Couchbase
6 4 (3.48%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.48%) DataStage
6 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.48%) Power BI
7 3 (2.61%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle8/8i Database
9 1 (0.87%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 11 (9.57%) JIRA
2 9 (7.83%) GitLab
3 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.48%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.48%) Git
4 4 (3.48%) JUnit
5 3 (2.61%) Android Studio
5 3 (2.61%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.61%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.61%) Xcode
6 2 (1.74%) Introscope
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Developer 2000
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
General
1 36 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.13%) Public Sector
3 16 (13.91%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.96%) Finance
6 4 (3.48%) Advertising
6 4 (3.48%) Banking
6 4 (3.48%) Military
7 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (21.74%) Support Engineer
2 17 (14.78%) DBA
3 16 (13.91%) Technical Support
4 15 (13.04%) Oracle DBA
5 13 (11.30%) Technical Engineer
5 13 (11.30%) Technical Support Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Developer
7 9 (7.83%) Senior
8 7 (6.09%) Security Specialist
9 6 (5.22%) Analyst
9 6 (5.22%) Cybersecurity Specialist
10 5 (4.35%) Consultant
10 5 (4.35%) Pensions Analyst
11 4 (3.48%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Database Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) SAP Consultant
11 4 (3.48%) SAP PI Consultant
11 4 (3.48%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.30%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 8 (6.96%) Spring
2 8 (6.96%) Spring Boot
3 7 (6.09%) CSS
4 6 (5.22%) JDBC
4 6 (5.22%) Kafka
4 6 (5.22%) REST
4 6 (5.22%) SOAP
5 4 (3.48%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.48%) HTML
5 4 (3.48%) JPA
5 4 (3.48%) jQuery
5 4 (3.48%) SAP PI
5 4 (3.48%) Spring MVC
6 3 (2.61%) Ajax
6 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.61%) LDAP
6 3 (2.61%) Middleware
6 3 (2.61%) React
6 3 (2.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.61%) Onboarding
2 9 (7.83%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.09%) Operational Technology
4 6 (5.22%) SCADA
5 5 (4.35%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.48%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.74%) Clustering
8 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.87%) CMDB
9 1 (0.87%) Life Science
9 1 (0.87%) Replication
9 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 69 (60.00%) Linux
2 51 (44.35%) Windows
3 20 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.61%) Android
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.74%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.87%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.87%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.70%) SIEM
2 26 (22.61%) ITSM
3 25 (21.74%) Computer Science
4 24 (20.87%) Change Control
4 24 (20.87%) Runbook
5 21 (18.26%) ITIL
6 20 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (17.39%) Privileged Access Management
6 20 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (14.78%) High Availability
8 16 (13.91%) CI/CD
9 13 (11.30%) Information Security
9 13 (11.30%) Release Management
10 12 (10.43%) Root Cause Analysis
11 11 (9.57%) OO
11 11 (9.57%) OOP
12 10 (8.70%) ETL
13 9 (7.83%) Process Improvement
13 9 (7.83%) Security Monitoring
13 9 (7.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.48%) Python
2 39 (33.91%) SQL
3 26 (22.61%) PowerShell
4 23 (20.00%) Java
5 22 (19.13%) Shell Script
6 17 (14.78%) JavaScript
7 15 (13.04%) PL/SQL
8 13 (11.30%) Korn
9 11 (9.57%) Perl
10 4 (3.48%) ABAP
11 3 (2.61%) Bash
12 2 (1.74%) Jython
Qualifications
1 55 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 44 (38.26%) SC Cleared
3 35 (30.43%) Degree
4 11 (9.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 6 (5.22%) CESG Certified Professional
6 6 (5.22%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (5.22%) CISM
6 6 (5.22%) CISSP
6 6 (5.22%) CRISC
6 6 (5.22%) GIAC
7 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.35%) SANS
8 4 (3.48%) GSEC
8 4 (3.48%) SSCP
9 2 (1.74%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.87%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (27.83%) NIST
2 31 (26.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (6.09%) SLA
4 6 (5.22%) ISO 31000
5 2 (1.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.87%) GMP
6 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 30 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 16 (13.91%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (17.39%) Oracle RMAN
2 13 (11.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 10 (8.70%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.48%) Data Guard
5 3 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.74%) Ansible
6 2 (1.74%) CA Wily
6 2 (1.74%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 60 (52.17%) Oracle
2 25 (21.74%) BeyondTrust
3 23 (20.00%) CyberArk
4 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.22%) BT
5 6 (5.22%) Ericsson
5 6 (5.22%) Huawei
5 6 (5.22%) IBM
5 6 (5.22%) Nokia
5 6 (5.22%) Talend
6 5 (4.35%) Google
7 4 (3.48%) Ab Initio
7 4 (3.48%) Denodo
7 4 (3.48%) SAP
7 4 (3.48%) Splunk
7 4 (3.48%) Teradata
7 4 (3.48%) webMethods
8 3 (2.61%) Informatica
8 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.74%) Guidewire