Senior Unix Technical Specialist Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Senior Unix Technical Specialist
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The median Senior Unix Technical Specialist daily rate in Stevenage is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
27 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Unix Technical Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 0.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Stevenage

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Stevenage. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Stevenage with a recognized job title 341 108 452
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.99% 78.26% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 21 80
10th Percentile £280 £225 £199
25th Percentile £425 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% -18.18% +37.50%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £575
90th Percentile £764 £638 £605
Hertfordshire median daily rate £510 £519 £429
% change year-on-year -1.64% +20.93% -14.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 58 269
10th Percentile £25.94 £31.64 £40.78
25th Percentile £43.00 £52.50 £43.00
Median hourly rate £61.76 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £82.67 £75.25
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -20.00%

Senior Unix Technical Specialist Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage

For the 6 months to 27 June 2026, Senior Unix Technical Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Stevenage region featuring Senior Unix Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server

Senior Unix Technical Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Rocky
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam