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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 77 96
Rank change year-on-year -21 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing Unix 79 102 118
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.10% 2.45% 2.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.67% 13.65% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 62 95
10th Percentile - £203 £270
25th Percentile £204 £338 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £408 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +2.06% -17.79%
75th Percentile £488 £450 £544
90th Percentile £600 £525 £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £54.33
25th Percentile - £26.25 £57.07
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year - -59.73% -14.63%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.25 £27.50 £62.80
% change year-on-year +50.00% -56.21% -10.29%

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 677 747 1,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.99% 17.91% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 492 699
10th Percentile £188 £200 £170
25th Percentile £219 £324 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £537 £586 £575
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
England median daily rate £450 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 36 81
10th Percentile £12.50 £24.25 £16.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £37.40 £24.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.81% +13.64% +223.53%
75th Percentile £25.00 £70.00 £68.63
90th Percentile £32.77 £71.88 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.79 £57.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -58.63% +43.75% +60.00%

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 31 October 2025.

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
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 31 October 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
Surrey +8 31 £208 -40.71% 2
Thames Valley -4 26 £438 - 21
Berkshire +2 19 £442 +1.09% 16
Hampshire -17 9 £447 +11.61% 3
Middlesex - 5 - -
Oxfordshire -10 4 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +7 3 £375 -14.29% 1
Kent - 3 £338 - 1
West Sussex -17 1 £525 +20.69% 1
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 (5.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (5.06%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (5.06%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (5.06%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (5.06%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle BRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.78%) SaaS
2 17 (21.52%) Sauce Labs
3 15 (18.99%) AWS
4 12 (15.19%) Azure
5 10 (12.66%) OCI
6 8 (10.13%) GCP
7 6 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (7.59%) Serverless
8 2 (2.53%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (22.78%) Wireless
2 6 (7.59%) DHCP
2 6 (7.59%) DNS
3 4 (5.06%) FTP
3 4 (5.06%) HTTP
3 4 (5.06%) SAN
3 4 (5.06%) Wireshark
4 3 (3.80%) Firewall
4 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.27%) BGP
5 1 (1.27%) Broadband
5 1 (1.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.27%) FCAPS
5 1 (1.27%) GPRS
5 1 (1.27%) GSM
5 1 (1.27%) MPLS
5 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.38%) MySQL
1 24 (30.38%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.86%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (7.59%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (7.59%) Couchbase
4 4 (5.06%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (5.06%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.53%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.53%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.27%) MS Access
6 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (22.78%) Browser DevTools
2 17 (21.52%) Android Studio
2 17 (21.52%) Eclipse
2 17 (21.52%) Xcode
3 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.53%) Git
5 1 (1.27%) GitLab
5 1 (1.27%) JIRA
5 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 34 (43.04%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Military
4 2 (2.53%) Banking
4 2 (2.53%) Front Office
5 1 (1.27%) Billing
5 1 (1.27%) Finance
5 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (37.97%) Technical Support
2 23 (29.11%) Support Engineer
2 23 (29.11%) Technical Engineer
2 23 (29.11%) Technical Support Engineer
3 18 (22.78%) UX Engineer
4 17 (21.52%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 12 (15.19%) Senior
6 7 (8.86%) Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Data Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Applications Support
8 5 (6.33%) Applications Support Technician
8 5 (6.33%) FPGA Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Applications Support
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Support Technician
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Technician
8 5 (6.33%) Support Technician
9 4 (5.06%) Administrator
9 4 (5.06%) Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.58%) CSS
1 21 (26.58%) React
2 18 (22.78%) Ajax
2 18 (22.78%) AngularJS
2 18 (22.78%) GraphQL
3 6 (7.59%) Kafka
3 6 (7.59%) SOAP
4 5 (6.33%) REST
5 3 (3.80%) HTML
6 2 (2.53%) Middleware
6 2 (2.53%) XML
7 1 (1.27%) JSON
7 1 (1.27%) NETCONF
7 1 (1.27%) RESTCONF
7 1 (1.27%) Web Services
7 1 (1.27%) XML Messaging
7 1 (1.27%) YAML
7 1 (1.27%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.59%) Replication
3 5 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.33%) FPGA
3 5 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.33%) Verilog
4 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.53%) CMDB
5 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.53%) IoT
5 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.27%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 54 (68.35%) Linux
2 41 (51.90%) Windows
3 17 (21.52%) Android
4 4 (5.06%) CentOS
4 4 (5.06%) Ubuntu
4 4 (5.06%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.53%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.27%) Debian
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.27%) Solaris
7 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.18%) OO
2 21 (26.58%) User Experience
3 18 (22.78%) Mobile Application Development
4 16 (20.25%) Performance Tuning
5 13 (16.46%) CI/CD
6 12 (15.19%) ITIL
6 12 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (12.66%) OOP
8 8 (10.13%) Capacity Planning
9 7 (8.86%) High Availability
9 7 (8.86%) Incident Management
9 7 (8.86%) Preventative Maintenance
9 7 (8.86%) Task Automation
10 6 (7.59%) Data Modelling
10 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (7.59%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (7.59%) Process Improvement
10 6 (7.59%) Security Patching
10 6 (7.59%) Software Engineering
10 6 (7.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 43 (54.43%) Python
2 31 (39.24%) Perl
3 29 (36.71%) Java
4 27 (34.18%) JavaScript
5 26 (32.91%) SQL
6 12 (15.19%) Shell Script
7 7 (8.86%) Bash
7 7 (8.86%) PL/SQL
7 7 (8.86%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.33%) SystemVerilog
8 5 (6.33%) Tcl
9 4 (5.06%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.59%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) Degree
3 5 (6.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.80%) Server+ Certification
6 2 (2.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.53%) CCSP
6 2 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.53%) CISM
6 2 (2.53%) CISSP
6 2 (2.53%) GCFA
6 2 (2.53%) GCFE
6 2 (2.53%) GCIH
6 2 (2.53%) GREM
6 2 (2.53%) RHCE
6 2 (2.53%) RHCSA
6 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) HIPAA
1 4 (5.06%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.53%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.80%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) NFS
2 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.53%) KVM
3 2 (2.53%) vSphere
4 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (16.46%) Terraform
2 10 (12.66%) Ansible
3 6 (7.59%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 4 (5.06%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.80%) WSUS
6 2 (2.53%) EnCase
6 2 (2.53%) FTK
6 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.53%) Puppet
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.27%) SELinux
Vendors
1 31 (39.24%) Oracle
2 23 (29.11%) Microsoft
3 21 (26.58%) Splunk
4 18 (22.78%) ServiceNow
5 6 (7.59%) Confluent
5 6 (7.59%) IBM
6 5 (6.33%) VMware
6 5 (6.33%) Xilinx
7 4 (5.06%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.53%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.53%) Darktrace
8 2 (2.53%) Google
8 2 (2.53%) Teradata
9 1 (1.27%) Compaq
9 1 (1.27%) HP
9 1 (1.27%) Nokia
9 1 (1.27%) Okta
9 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.27%) Terracotta
9 1 (1.27%) Veritas