Unix Contract Job Trends in the South West

Unix
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 96 127
Rank change year-on-year -27 +31 -5
Contract jobs citing Unix 11 31 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.48% 1.47% 0.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.60% 7.14% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 18
10th Percentile £684 £423 £457
25th Percentile - £456 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -19.23% +62.50%
75th Percentile £775 £550 £675
90th Percentile - - £683
England median daily rate £495 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -7.91% -2.27% -

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 423 434 518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.38% 20.57% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 271 344
10th Percentile £182 £200 £170
25th Percentile £263 £230 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £698
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 31 49
10th Percentile £17.69 £65.00 £20.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.75 £46.39
Median hourly rate £38.22 £67.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.38% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £67.84 £69.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £98.00 £70.00 £72.12
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -56.26% +76.92% +30.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Unix job vacancy trend in the South West

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the South West over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the South West

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Unix

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 15 December 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
Gloucestershire - 3 £700 - 7
Bristol -4 1 - - 7
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (45.45%) Amazon S3
3 4 (36.36%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Head of Technology
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Storage Management
3 4 (36.36%) People Management
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (9.09%) ERD
5 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Open Source
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) Product Backlog
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Bash
1 5 (45.45%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Dell DRAC
2 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Dell
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat
1 5 (45.45%) Splunk