Unix Contracts in the South West

Unix
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 104 135 134
Rank change year-on-year +31 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Unix 7 22 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.42% 0.69% 0.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.21% 4.44% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 23
10th Percentile £315 £325 £320
25th Percentile £366 £389 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% -11.36% +29.41%
75th Percentile £539 £600 £623
90th Percentile £591 £705 £705
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - - £42.50
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -30.43% -23.33%
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - £71.93 £76.10
England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +37.50% -30.43% -11.54%

All Operating Systems
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 317 495 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.89% 15.47% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 357 520
10th Percentile £200 £170 £166
25th Percentile £250 £245 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £613
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 69 85
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £17.18
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £49.68
Median hourly rate £66.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.83% -7.69% +21.51%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile - - £78.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the South West

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in the South West

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the South West

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the South West

Unix
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +13 3 £625 +62.34% 2
Dorset +3 1 £280 -42.56% 2
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Head of Technology
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Database Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Head of IT
2 2 (28.57%) IT Director
2 2 (28.57%) Migration Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Director
2 2 (28.57%) Technology Director
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Head of Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) AIX
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Database Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Database Security
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) E-business
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Open Source
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle