Unix Contracts in the South East

Unix
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 101 104
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Unix 53 107 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.76% 1.93% 2.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.37% 10.91% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 70 89
10th Percentile £388 £280 £356
25th Percentile £450 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -22.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £623
90th Percentile - £563 £694
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £34.25 £56.44
25th Percentile - £38.75 £58.59
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.78% -1.54%
75th Percentile - £58.13 £73.71
90th Percentile - £63.75 £74.48
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% -30.43% -11.54%

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 511 981 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.98% 17.65% 20.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 650 830
10th Percentile £205 £200 £197
25th Percentile £339 £268 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £669
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 59 70
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.98 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.69 £18.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £62.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £63.25 £70.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the South East

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the South East

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the South East

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Thames Valley +31 33 £465 +9.29% 16
Berkshire +21 26 £450 +12.50% 11
Oxfordshire +9 5 £550 - 6
Hampshire +11 4 - - 6
Surrey -11 4 £475 +5.56% 3
West Sussex +6 3 £550 +15.79% 1
Buckinghamshire +10 2 £375 -16.67% 3
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.55%) Apache
1 4 (7.55%) CMS
1 4 (7.55%) Confluence
1 4 (7.55%) Drupal
1 4 (7.55%) WordPress
2 2 (3.77%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.89%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.09%) AWS
2 7 (13.21%) Azure
3 3 (5.66%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.89%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Storage
4 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.08%) MPLS
1 17 (32.08%) VPN
2 16 (30.19%) ATM
2 16 (30.19%) Ethernet
2 16 (30.19%) Frame Relay
2 16 (30.19%) GPRS
2 16 (30.19%) GSM
2 16 (30.19%) LAN
2 16 (30.19%) LTE
2 16 (30.19%) SAN
2 16 (30.19%) SDH
2 16 (30.19%) UMTS
2 16 (30.19%) WAN
2 16 (30.19%) Wireshark
3 4 (7.55%) Internet
4 2 (3.77%) DHCP
4 2 (3.77%) DNS
4 2 (3.77%) Firewall
5 1 (1.89%) BGP
5 1 (1.89%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) Relational Database
1 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.55%) MySQL
3 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.77%) MS Access
4 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.89%) Big Data
5 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.89%) HBase
5 1 (1.89%) HDInsight
5 1 (1.89%) Impala
5 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Power BI
5 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Git
2 7 (13.21%) JIRA
3 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.66%) Subversion
5 2 (3.77%) Toad
6 1 (1.89%) GitLab
6 1 (1.89%) Maven
6 1 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 35 (66.04%) Social Skills
2 17 (32.08%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Automotive
5 1 (1.89%) Advertising
5 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) IP Engineer
1 15 (28.30%) Test Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) FPGA Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Network Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Analyst
3 5 (9.43%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (9.43%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Administrator
4 4 (7.55%) PHP Software Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (5.66%) Senior
5 3 (5.66%) Test Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Network Consultant
6 2 (3.77%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) Web Services
2 5 (9.43%) SOAP
3 4 (7.55%) Ajax
3 4 (7.55%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.55%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (7.55%) CSS
3 4 (7.55%) HTML
3 4 (7.55%) jQuery
3 4 (7.55%) LAMP
4 2 (3.77%) Middleware
4 2 (3.77%) RESTful
4 2 (3.77%) XML
5 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.89%) JSON
5 1 (1.89%) Kafka
5 1 (1.89%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.89%) PySpark
5 1 (1.89%) REST
5 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.19%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (16.98%) FPGA
2 9 (16.98%) Verilog
3 4 (7.55%) Legacy Code
4 3 (5.66%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.77%) Robotics
5 2 (3.77%) Self-Driving Car
5 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.89%) CMDB
6 1 (1.89%) IoT
6 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 45 (84.91%) Linux
2 7 (13.21%) Windows
3 4 (7.55%) AIX
3 4 (7.55%) Solaris
4 3 (5.66%) CentOS
4 3 (5.66%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.77%) HPUX
5 2 (3.77%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (32.08%) Regression Testing
2 17 (32.08%) Test Strategy
3 16 (30.19%) Fault Management
3 16 (30.19%) Project Management
4 13 (24.53%) Software Engineering
4 13 (24.53%) Validation
5 9 (16.98%) Data Collection
5 9 (16.98%) FPGA Design
6 8 (15.09%) Agile
6 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
7 5 (9.43%) Microservices
7 5 (9.43%) Scrum
8 4 (7.55%) Configuration Management
8 4 (7.55%) Logistics
8 4 (7.55%) Migration
8 4 (7.55%) MVC
8 4 (7.55%) OO
8 4 (7.55%) OOP
8 4 (7.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (43.40%) Java
2 17 (32.08%) Python
3 15 (28.30%) Shell Script
4 14 (26.42%) SQL
5 9 (16.98%) SystemVerilog
5 9 (16.98%) Tcl
6 4 (7.55%) Bash
6 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.55%) PHP
7 3 (5.66%) Perl
8 1 (1.89%) C#
8 1 (1.89%) Korn
8 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) ISEB
1 17 (32.08%) ISTQB
1 17 (32.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 16 (30.19%) CCNP
2 16 (30.19%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.77%) Degree
5 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.77%) GMP
2 2 (3.77%) NIST
3 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
1 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.77%) vSphere
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Ansible
2 4 (7.55%) Progress Chef
2 4 (7.55%) Puppet
3 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle ZFS
4 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (3.77%) SCCM
4 2 (3.77%) SELinux
Vendors
1 28 (52.83%) Microsoft
2 17 (32.08%) Cisco
3 16 (30.19%) Juniper
4 9 (16.98%) Xilinx
5 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
5 4 (7.55%) VMware
5 4 (7.55%) Zend
6 3 (5.66%) Oracle
7 2 (3.77%) Citrix
7 2 (3.77%) Remedy
7 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.77%) Symantec
7 2 (3.77%) Veritas
8 1 (1.89%) BMC
8 1 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.89%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.89%) HP
8 1 (1.89%) Splunk
8 1 (1.89%) webMethods