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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 112 108
Rank change year-on-year -21 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Unix 78 47 103
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.38% 1.57% 1.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.40% 9.06% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 28 70
10th Percentile - £383 £280
25th Percentile £204 £447 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £494 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.61% +16.18% -20.93%
75th Percentile £469 £600 £534
90th Percentile £550 - £623
England median daily rate £469 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £23.56 - £34.25
25th Percentile £26.80 - £38.75
Median hourly rate £47.54 - £47.50
75th Percentile £53.75 - £58.13
90th Percentile £54.25 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -2.78% +35.00% -30.43%

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 750 519 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.24% 17.36% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 368 640
10th Percentile £204 £205 £200
25th Percentile £356 £350 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £663 £639
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 37 65
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.68 £16.10
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.95 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £28.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -13.85% -29.46%
75th Percentile £52.58 £62.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £25.08 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.67% +19.40% -27.59%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -20 53 £392 -18.33% 10
Berkshire -22 32 £392 -13.66% 7
Oxfordshire -3 20 £388 -29.55% 2
Surrey +4 17 £208 -56.32% 1
Hampshire -28 7 £450 - 1
West Sussex -14 1 £525 -4.55%
Buckinghamshire -28 1 £410 +9.33% 1
East Sussex - 1 £459 -
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 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.85%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (3.85%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.56%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.56%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.56%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.56%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.56%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.28%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Oracle BRM
1 3 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (3.85%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.97%) SaaS
1 7 (8.97%) Sauce Labs
2 6 (7.69%) AWS
2 6 (7.69%) Azure
2 6 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
3 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (5.13%) GCP
3 4 (5.13%) OCI
3 4 (5.13%) OpenShift
3 4 (5.13%) Serverless
3 4 (5.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.69%) SSH
2 4 (5.13%) HTTP
2 4 (5.13%) Wireless
3 3 (3.85%) Broadband
3 3 (3.85%) DNS
3 3 (3.85%) Firewall
3 3 (3.85%) GPRS
3 3 (3.85%) GSM
4 2 (2.56%) FTP
4 2 (2.56%) SSL
4 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.56%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.28%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 21 (26.92%) Relational Database
3 17 (21.79%) MySQL
4 13 (16.67%) Oracle Database
5 6 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (5.13%) Big Data
6 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.13%) DynamoDB
6 4 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.56%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.28%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (8.97%) Android Studio
1 7 (8.97%) Browser DevTools
1 7 (8.97%) Eclipse
1 7 (8.97%) Xcode
2 3 (3.85%) GitLab
3 2 (2.56%) Introscope
3 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.56%) JIRA
4 1 (1.28%) Git
4 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.41%) Finance
5 4 (5.13%) Advertising
6 3 (3.85%) Billing
7 2 (2.56%) Military
8 1 (1.28%) Banking
8 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (25.64%) Support Engineer
2 18 (23.08%) Technical Support
3 14 (17.95%) DBA
3 14 (17.95%) Oracle DBA
4 9 (11.54%) Technical Engineer
4 9 (11.54%) Technical Support Engineer
5 7 (8.97%) Analyst
5 7 (8.97%) UX Engineer
6 6 (7.69%) Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Unix Specialist
7 5 (6.41%) Pensions Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Senior
8 4 (5.13%) Database Engineer
8 4 (5.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (5.13%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Administrator
9 3 (3.85%) Designer
9 3 (3.85%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.85%) Solutions Designer
10 2 (2.56%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 7 (8.97%) Ajax
2 7 (8.97%) AngularJS
2 7 (8.97%) CSS
2 7 (8.97%) GraphQL
2 7 (8.97%) React
3 6 (7.69%) Kafka
4 4 (5.13%) Spring
4 4 (5.13%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.56%) JDBC
5 2 (2.56%) JMS
5 2 (2.56%) Middleware
5 2 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.56%) REST
5 2 (2.56%) SOAP
5 2 (2.56%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.95%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.97%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.41%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (5.13%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.85%) Clustering
6 3 (3.85%) IPTV
7 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.28%) Life Science
8 1 (1.28%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.28%) Replication
8 1 (1.28%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 40 (51.28%) Linux
2 38 (48.72%) Windows
3 13 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.97%) Android
5 4 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (2.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (1.28%) OpenVMS
7 1 (1.28%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.36%) OO
2 18 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 15 (19.23%) ITIL
3 15 (19.23%) SIEM
4 14 (17.95%) Runbook
5 13 (16.67%) Release Management
6 12 (15.38%) OOP
6 12 (15.38%) Process Improvement
7 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.82%) High Availability
8 10 (12.82%) ITSM
8 10 (12.82%) Privileged Access Management
9 9 (11.54%) Change Control
10 8 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (10.26%) Information Security
10 8 (10.26%) Security Monitoring
11 7 (8.97%) Mobile Application Development
11 7 (8.97%) User Experience
12 6 (7.69%) CI/CD
12 6 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 41 (52.56%) Python
2 30 (38.46%) SQL
3 26 (33.33%) Java
4 23 (29.49%) Perl
5 17 (21.79%) JavaScript
6 15 (19.23%) Shell Script
7 14 (17.95%) PowerShell
8 13 (16.67%) Korn
9 7 (8.97%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.85%) Bash
11 2 (2.56%) Jython
Qualifications
1 23 (29.49%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.64%) Degree
3 19 (24.36%) SC Cleared
4 9 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.28%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.28%) OCP
6 1 (1.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) NIST
2 13 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) GMP
3 1 (1.28%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 15 (19.23%) Oracle RAC
2 14 (17.95%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.56%) Docker
4 1 (1.28%) GPFS
4 1 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (21.79%) Oracle RMAN
2 16 (20.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (5.13%) Ansible
3 4 (5.13%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.56%) CA Wily
4 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (2.56%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.28%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.28%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.28%) SELinux
Vendors
1 53 (67.95%) Oracle
2 14 (17.95%) BeyondTrust
3 12 (15.38%) CyberArk
4 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.26%) Splunk
5 5 (6.41%) Teradata
6 4 (5.13%) Ab Initio
6 4 (5.13%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.13%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.85%) IBM
8 2 (2.56%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.28%) Dell
9 1 (1.28%) HP
9 1 (1.28%) Mellanox
9 1 (1.28%) Solarflare
9 1 (1.28%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.28%) Symantec
9 1 (1.28%) Veritas
9 1 (1.28%) VMware
9 1 (1.28%) Wonderware