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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 82 89
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Unix 86 100 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.47% 2.18% 2.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.33% 12.44% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 63 95
10th Percentile - £203 £284
25th Percentile £204 £350 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% - -13.53%
75th Percentile £581 £481 £550
90th Percentile £600 £525 £633
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - - £54.50
25th Percentile - £26.25 £58.59
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year - -57.03% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £28.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £54.50 £23.80 £67.00
% change year-on-year +128.99% -64.48% -12.42%

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 600 804 1,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.23% 17.49% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 535 720
10th Percentile £188 £203 £173
25th Percentile £226 £326 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £414
Median % change year-on-year - +8.76% -8.06%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £550
90th Percentile £624 £638 £650
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 39 85
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £17.58
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £34.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £56.75 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.75% +1.33% +229.41%
75th Percentile £25.86 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £66.03 £70.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £47.86
% change year-on-year -56.26% +20.14% +100.18%

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
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 September 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 20 September 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 +23 36 £447 -0.67% 7
Berkshire +27 27 £450 - 6
Surrey +4 25 £208 -40.71% 1
Hampshire -14 8 £474 +18.23% 4
Buckinghamshire 0 5 £375 -16.67%
Middlesex - 5 - -
Oxfordshire -2 4 - - 1
Kent - 1 £338 - 1
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 (4.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 4 (4.65%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (4.65%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (4.65%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (4.65%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.16%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.12%) AWS
1 13 (15.12%) Azure
2 12 (13.95%) SaaS
3 11 (12.79%) Sauce Labs
4 9 (10.47%) OCI
5 8 (9.30%) GCP
6 5 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.81%) Serverless
7 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.33%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.12%) SAN
1 13 (15.12%) Wireshark
2 12 (13.95%) Wireless
3 10 (11.63%) MPLS
3 10 (11.63%) VPN
4 9 (10.47%) ATM
4 9 (10.47%) Ethernet
4 9 (10.47%) Frame Relay
4 9 (10.47%) GPRS
4 9 (10.47%) GSM
4 9 (10.47%) LAN
4 9 (10.47%) LTE
4 9 (10.47%) SDH
4 9 (10.47%) UMTS
4 9 (10.47%) WAN
5 5 (5.81%) DHCP
5 5 (5.81%) DNS
6 4 (4.65%) FTP
6 4 (4.65%) HTTP
7 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.09%) Relational Database
2 18 (20.93%) MySQL
3 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (5.81%) Couchbase
5 4 (4.65%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (3.49%) MS Access
6 3 (3.49%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.49%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.33%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.16%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (13.95%) Browser DevTools
2 11 (12.79%) Android Studio
2 11 (12.79%) Eclipse
2 11 (12.79%) Xcode
3 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.33%) JIRA
5 1 (1.16%) Git
5 1 (1.16%) GitLab
5 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.16%) Subversion
5 1 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 43 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.79%) Telecoms
3 9 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Military
5 2 (2.33%) Banking
5 2 (2.33%) Front Office
6 1 (1.16%) Finance
6 1 (1.16%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Technical Support
2 17 (19.77%) Support Engineer
2 17 (19.77%) Technical Engineer
2 17 (19.77%) Technical Support Engineer
3 14 (16.28%) Senior
4 12 (13.95%) FPGA Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) UX Engineer
5 11 (12.79%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 8 (9.30%) IP Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Test Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Analyst
7 6 (6.98%) Network Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Applications Support
8 5 (5.81%) Applications Support Technician
8 5 (5.81%) Consultant
8 5 (5.81%) Developer
8 5 (5.81%) IP Network Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Technician
8 5 (5.81%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.12%) CSS
1 13 (15.12%) React
2 12 (13.95%) Ajax
2 12 (13.95%) AngularJS
2 12 (13.95%) GraphQL
3 6 (6.98%) SOAP
4 5 (5.81%) Kafka
4 5 (5.81%) REST
5 4 (4.65%) Middleware
6 3 (3.49%) Web Services
7 2 (2.33%) XML
8 1 (1.16%) HTML
8 1 (1.16%) JSON
8 1 (1.16%) NETCONF
8 1 (1.16%) RESTCONF
8 1 (1.16%) XML Messaging
8 1 (1.16%) YAML
8 1 (1.16%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) FPGA
1 12 (13.95%) Mobile App
1 12 (13.95%) Verilog
2 9 (10.47%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.81%) Replication
4 4 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.49%) CMDB
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.33%) IoT
6 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 62 (72.09%) Linux
2 38 (44.19%) Windows
3 11 (12.79%) Android
4 4 (4.65%) CentOS
4 4 (4.65%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.16%) Debian
7 1 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (24.42%) OO
3 15 (17.44%) Performance Tuning
3 15 (17.44%) Validation
4 13 (15.12%) CI/CD
4 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
4 13 (15.12%) User Experience
5 12 (13.95%) Data Collection
5 12 (13.95%) FPGA Design
5 12 (13.95%) ITIL
5 12 (13.95%) Mobile Application Development
6 11 (12.79%) Test Strategy
7 10 (11.63%) OOP
7 10 (11.63%) Regression Testing
8 9 (10.47%) Fault Management
8 9 (10.47%) Project Management
9 8 (9.30%) Capacity Planning
10 7 (8.14%) Incident Management
10 7 (8.14%) Preventative Maintenance
10 7 (8.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (50.00%) Python
2 31 (36.05%) Java
3 27 (31.40%) SQL
4 24 (27.91%) Perl
5 19 (22.09%) JavaScript
5 19 (22.09%) Shell Script
6 12 (13.95%) SystemVerilog
6 12 (13.95%) Tcl
7 7 (8.14%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.98%) Bash
9 5 (5.81%) PL/SQL
10 4 (4.65%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (11.63%) ISEB
2 10 (11.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 9 (10.47%) CCNP
3 9 (10.47%) ISTQB
4 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
5 6 (6.98%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.81%) Degree
6 5 (5.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.49%) Server+ Certification
9 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.33%) CCSP
9 2 (2.33%) CISM
9 2 (2.33%) CISSP
9 2 (2.33%) GCFA
9 2 (2.33%) GCIH
9 2 (2.33%) RHCE
9 2 (2.33%) RHCSA
9 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) HIPAA
1 4 (4.65%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (3.49%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) NFS
3 2 (2.33%) KVM
3 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (13.95%) Terraform
2 9 (10.47%) Ansible
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 4 (4.65%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (3.49%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.49%) WSUS
6 2 (2.33%) EnCase
6 2 (2.33%) FTK
6 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (33.72%) Microsoft
2 24 (27.91%) Oracle
3 15 (17.44%) Splunk
4 12 (13.95%) ServiceNow
4 12 (13.95%) Xilinx
5 10 (11.63%) Cisco
6 9 (10.47%) Juniper
7 5 (5.81%) Confluent
7 5 (5.81%) IBM
8 4 (4.65%) VMware
9 3 (3.49%) Citrix
9 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (2.33%) Darktrace
10 2 (2.33%) Google
11 1 (1.16%) Compaq
11 1 (1.16%) HP
11 1 (1.16%) Okta
11 1 (1.16%) Remedy
11 1 (1.16%) webMethods