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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 100 107
Rank change year-on-year -35 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Unix 70 55 110
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.33% 1.84% 1.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.08% 10.40% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 27 75
10th Percentile - £202 £280
25th Percentile £204 £390 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -32.63% +11.76% -19.05%
75th Percentile £446 £575 £563
90th Percentile £538 £589 £623
England median daily rate £460 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -12.48% -4.55% -0.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £21.40 - £34.25
25th Percentile £23.02 - £38.75
Median hourly rate £26.44 - £47.50
75th Percentile £27.52 - £58.13
90th Percentile £27.74 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £27.94 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -48.26% +35.00% -38.46%

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 771 529 1,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.65% 17.72% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 364 665
10th Percentile £204 £195 £190
25th Percentile £300 £271 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +6.74% -11.00%
75th Percentile £550 £589 £575
90th Percentile £642 £675 £638
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 29 72
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.95 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.62 £24.66 £20.38
Median hourly rate £21.40 £56.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.30% +19.46% +63.79%
75th Percentile £48.75 £62.50 £64.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £22.79 £31.64 £22.15
% change year-on-year -27.99% +42.84% -16.35%

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 14 March 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
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 14 March 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 -33 43 £392 -19.59% 11
Berkshire -22 31 £392 -18.33% 7
Surrey -4 17 £208 -2.35% 1
Oxfordshire -5 12 - - 3
Hampshire -25 7 £439 -6.20% 1
Kent - 3 £338 -
West Sussex -19 1 £525 +20.69%
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 3 (4.29%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (4.29%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.86%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.43%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (1.43%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.43%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.43%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Oracle BRM
1 3 (4.29%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (4.29%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.71%) SaaS
1 11 (15.71%) Sauce Labs
2 7 (10.00%) AWS
3 6 (8.57%) Azure
4 5 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 5 (7.14%) OCI
5 4 (5.71%) GCP
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.29%) Serverless
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.43%) Wireless
2 5 (7.14%) SSH
3 4 (5.71%) DNS
3 4 (5.71%) Firewall
4 3 (4.29%) Broadband
4 3 (4.29%) DHCP
4 3 (4.29%) GPRS
4 3 (4.29%) GSM
4 3 (4.29%) HTTP
4 3 (4.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.86%) FTP
5 2 (2.86%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.86%) Relational Database
2 21 (30.00%) MySQL
3 18 (25.71%) SQL Server
4 13 (18.57%) Oracle Database
5 6 (8.57%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.86%) Big Data
7 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.86%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.86%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.43%) Couchbase
8 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) Android Studio
1 11 (15.71%) Browser DevTools
1 11 (15.71%) Eclipse
1 11 (15.71%) Xcode
2 1 (1.43%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) Introscope
2 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.43%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 28 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Advertising
4 4 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Billing
5 3 (4.29%) Finance
6 1 (1.43%) Banking
6 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.43%) Military
6 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Support Engineer
2 22 (31.43%) Technical Support
3 13 (18.57%) DBA
3 13 (18.57%) Oracle DBA
3 13 (18.57%) Technical Engineer
3 13 (18.57%) Technical Support Engineer
4 11 (15.71%) UX Engineer
5 8 (11.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 6 (8.57%) Developer
6 6 (8.57%) Unix Specialist
7 4 (5.71%) Database Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Administrator
8 3 (4.29%) Analyst
8 3 (4.29%) Designer
8 3 (4.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (4.29%) Senior
8 3 (4.29%) Solutions Designer
9 2 (2.86%) Java Developer
9 2 (2.86%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) CSS
1 14 (20.00%) React
2 12 (17.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 11 (15.71%) Ajax
3 11 (15.71%) AngularJS
3 11 (15.71%) GraphQL
4 4 (5.71%) Kafka
5 3 (4.29%) HTML
6 2 (2.86%) REST
6 2 (2.86%) SOAP
6 2 (2.86%) Spring
6 2 (2.86%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.43%) JDBC
7 1 (1.43%) JMS
7 1 (1.43%) Middleware
7 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.43%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.71%) Mobile App
2 6 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.29%) IPTV
3 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.86%) Clustering
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.86%) Replication
5 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.43%) Life Science
5 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.43%) SCADA
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (51.43%) Linux
2 32 (45.71%) Windows
3 11 (15.71%) Android
4 7 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.86%) CentOS
6 2 (2.86%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.43%) OpenVMS
7 1 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.43%) Solaris
7 1 (1.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (32.86%) OO
2 14 (20.00%) User Experience
3 13 (18.57%) Computer Science
3 13 (18.57%) ITIL
4 12 (17.14%) OOP
4 12 (17.14%) Process Improvement
4 12 (17.14%) Release Management
5 11 (15.71%) Mobile Application Development
6 9 (12.86%) High Availability
6 9 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.57%) Runbook
8 6 (8.57%) Security Monitoring
8 6 (8.57%) SIEM
9 5 (7.14%) Privileged Access Management
9 5 (7.14%) Test Automation
10 4 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (5.71%) Information Security
10 4 (5.71%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 33 (47.14%) Python
2 28 (40.00%) Java
2 28 (40.00%) Perl
3 24 (34.29%) JavaScript
4 23 (32.86%) SQL
5 13 (18.57%) Shell Script
6 12 (17.14%) Korn
7 6 (8.57%) PL/SQL
8 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 4 (5.71%) Bash
10 1 (1.43%) Jython
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Degree
2 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.86%) RHCE
5 2 (2.86%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.43%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.43%) OCP
6 1 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) NIST
2 5 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) GMP
3 1 (1.43%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 14 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.86%) Docker
4 2 (2.86%) KVM
5 1 (1.43%) GPFS
5 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (22.86%) Oracle RMAN
2 15 (21.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 5 (7.14%) Ansible
4 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.86%) Puppet
6 1 (1.43%) BladeLogic
6 1 (1.43%) CA Wily
6 1 (1.43%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.43%) SELinux
6 1 (1.43%) Terraform
6 1 (1.43%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 47 (67.14%) Oracle
2 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
3 11 (15.71%) Splunk
4 8 (11.43%) ServiceNow
5 6 (8.57%) BeyondTrust
6 5 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.71%) CyberArk
8 3 (4.29%) IBM
8 3 (4.29%) Teradata
8 3 (4.29%) VMware
9 2 (2.86%) Ab Initio
10 1 (1.43%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.43%) Confluent
10 1 (1.43%) Dell
10 1 (1.43%) HP
10 1 (1.43%) Mellanox
10 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.43%) Symantec
10 1 (1.43%) Veritas
10 1 (1.43%) Wonderware