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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 92 77
Rank change year-on-year -67 -15 +12
Contract jobs citing Unix 76 80 111
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.16% 2.24% 2.57%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.09% 12.58% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 58 66
10th Percentile £204 - £203
25th Percentile £218 £204 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £375 £423
Median % change year-on-year +22.40% -11.24% -0.59%
75th Percentile £506 £497 £476
90th Percentile £598 £600 £525
England median daily rate £500 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +1.32% -6.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43.81 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £50.02 - £27.50
75th Percentile £71.56 - £28.75
90th Percentile £77.50 - -
England median hourly rate £54.00 £54.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -0.92% +128.99% -67.84%

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 753 636 778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.54% 17.82% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 453 513
10th Percentile £204 £190 £201
25th Percentile £309 £219 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.51% -2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £580 £540 £585
90th Percentile £638 £608 £650
England median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 53 34
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.84 £18.10
25th Percentile £20.63 £15.50 £32.90
Median hourly rate £32.50 £18.87 £57.87
Median % change year-on-year +72.23% -67.39% +3.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £25.15 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.47 £78.45 -
England median hourly rate £32.29 £24.00 £61.43
% change year-on-year +34.54% -60.93% +28.43%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -29 38 £592 +33.86% 16
West Sussex - 27 £459 - 2
Oxfordshire -6 21 £592 - 9
Berkshire -25 16 £550 +22.63% 5
Surrey -35 10 £208 - 6
Middlesex -22 1 £198 -
Buckinghamshire -35 1 £500 +33.33% 2
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 (7.89%) OpenStack
2 5 (6.58%) Confluence
3 4 (5.26%) SAS
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.32%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.37%) Entra ID
2 15 (19.74%) Azure
3 12 (15.79%) AWS
4 8 (10.53%) GCP
5 7 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (9.21%) SaaS
6 6 (7.89%) IaaS
6 6 (7.89%) PaaS
7 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.95%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.21%) LTE
2 6 (7.89%) 5G
2 6 (7.89%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (7.89%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (7.89%) VoLTE
2 6 (7.89%) VoWiFi
2 6 (7.89%) Wireshark
3 4 (5.26%) SSH
4 1 (1.32%) 2G
4 1 (1.32%) 3G
4 1 (1.32%) 4G
4 1 (1.32%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.84%) MySQL
3 7 (9.21%) DataStage
4 6 (7.89%) Oracle Database
5 5 (6.58%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (5.26%) Couchbase
6 4 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 4 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (5.26%) Power BI
7 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (1.32%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.32%) Db2
8 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle9i Database
8 1 (1.32%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) JIRA
2 6 (7.89%) GitLab
3 4 (5.26%) Artifactory
3 4 (5.26%) Git
3 4 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.26%) JUnit
4 3 (3.95%) Android Studio
4 3 (3.95%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (3.95%) Eclipse
4 3 (3.95%) Xcode
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Developer 2000
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
General
1 23 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Documentation Skills
2 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Banking
4 5 (6.58%) Finance
5 3 (3.95%) Military
6 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (15.79%) Support Engineer
2 11 (14.47%) Technical Engineer
2 11 (14.47%) Technical Support
2 11 (14.47%) Technical Support Engineer
3 10 (13.16%) Developer
4 7 (9.21%) Security Specialist
5 6 (7.89%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 6 (7.89%) DataStage Developer
5 6 (7.89%) DBA
6 5 (6.58%) Senior
7 4 (5.26%) Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) SAP PI Consultant
8 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) UX Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) CSS
2 6 (7.89%) REST
3 5 (6.58%) LDAP
4 4 (5.26%) Hibernate
4 4 (5.26%) HTML
4 4 (5.26%) JDBC
4 4 (5.26%) JPA
4 4 (5.26%) jQuery
4 4 (5.26%) SAP PI
4 4 (5.26%) SOAP
4 4 (5.26%) Spring
4 4 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.26%) Spring MVC
5 3 (3.95%) Ajax
5 3 (3.95%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.95%) GraphQL
5 3 (3.95%) IDoc
5 3 (3.95%) React
5 3 (3.95%) Web Services
6 1 (1.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.37%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.89%) Operational Technology
3 5 (6.58%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (6.58%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.58%) SCADA
4 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.32%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 55 (72.37%) Linux
2 32 (42.11%) Windows
3 9 (11.84%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.95%) Android
5 1 (1.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (30.26%) SIEM
2 18 (23.68%) ITSM
3 16 (21.05%) Change Control
4 15 (19.74%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (18.42%) Computer Science
5 14 (18.42%) Privileged Access Management
6 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (17.11%) Runbook
7 12 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 12 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (11.84%) ETL
8 9 (11.84%) High Availability
9 7 (9.21%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 7 (9.21%) RBAC
9 7 (9.21%) Remediation Plan
9 7 (9.21%) Risk Assessment
9 7 (9.21%) Risk Management
9 7 (9.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (9.21%) Threat Intelligence
9 7 (9.21%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.53%) Python
2 26 (34.21%) SQL
3 15 (19.74%) PL/SQL
3 15 (19.74%) PowerShell
4 13 (17.11%) Java
4 13 (17.11%) JavaScript
5 9 (11.84%) Shell Script
6 5 (6.58%) Perl
7 4 (5.26%) ABAP
8 1 (1.32%) Bash
Qualifications
1 34 (44.74%) Security Cleared
2 26 (34.21%) SC Cleared
3 22 (28.95%) Degree
4 7 (9.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (7.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 6 (7.89%) CESG Certified Professional
5 6 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (7.89%) CISM
5 6 (7.89%) CISSP
5 6 (7.89%) CRISC
5 6 (7.89%) GIAC
6 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared
6 5 (6.58%) SANS
7 4 (5.26%) GSEC
7 4 (5.26%) SSCP
8 1 (1.32%) CCSP
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (27.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 21 (27.63%) NIST
2 8 (10.53%) SLA
3 7 (9.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (7.89%) ISO 31000
5 2 (2.63%) NCSC
6 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 21 (27.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.58%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.95%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 30 (39.47%) Oracle
2 16 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 14 (18.42%) CyberArk
4 13 (17.11%) BeyondTrust
5 7 (9.21%) IBM
6 6 (7.89%) BT
6 6 (7.89%) Ericsson
6 6 (7.89%) Huawei
6 6 (7.89%) Nokia
6 6 (7.89%) Talend
7 5 (6.58%) Google
7 5 (6.58%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.26%) Denodo
8 4 (5.26%) SAP
8 4 (5.26%) webMethods
9 3 (3.95%) Informatica
9 3 (3.95%) Splunk
10 2 (2.63%) Guidewire
11 1 (1.32%) Okta
11 1 (1.32%) Remedy