Unix Contracts in Surrey

Unix
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 23 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Unix 20 37 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 5.92% 6.45% 7.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 27.03% 31.62% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 44
10th Percentile - £203 £217
25th Percentile £204 £276 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £396 £450
Median % change year-on-year -47.60% -12.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £211 £525 £578
90th Percentile £339 £563 £609
South East median daily rate £450 £415 £450
% change year-on-year +8.56% -7.89% -7.31%

All Operating Systems
Surrey

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 Surrey.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 74 117 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 21.89% 20.38% 22.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 88 131
10th Percentile - £203 £185
25th Percentile £204 £260 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £413 £360
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +14.58% +31.03%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £550
90th Percentile £550 £650 £672
South East median daily rate £490 £455 £425
% change year-on-year +7.69% +7.06% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £26.40 £58.40 £21.83
25th Percentile - £66.50 £29.81
Median hourly rate £28.00 £80.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -65.00% +78.77% +258.00%
75th Percentile £29.00 - £62.50
90th Percentile £31.11 - £71.50
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £55.13 £55.00
% change year-on-year -65.77% +0.23% +223.53%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Surrey

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Surrey over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Surrey

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Unix

Unix
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staines +1 6 £208 +1.22% 3
Reigate - 2 £475 -
Redhill 0 1 £575 +15.00%
Woking - 1 £223 -
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) SaaS
2 8 (40.00%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Wireless
2 1 (5.00%) FTP
2 1 (5.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) MySQL
1 14 (70.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Browser DevTools
2 8 (40.00%) Android Studio
2 8 (40.00%) Eclipse
2 8 (40.00%) Xcode
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Technical Support
2 11 (55.00%) Support Engineer
2 11 (55.00%) Technical Engineer
2 11 (55.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 9 (45.00%) UX Engineer
4 8 (40.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 3 (15.00%) Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Pensions Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Configuration Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Database Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) IT Support
7 1 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) Ajax
1 9 (45.00%) AngularJS
1 9 (45.00%) CSS
1 9 (45.00%) GraphQL
1 9 (45.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Linux
2 15 (75.00%) Windows
3 8 (40.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) OO
2 9 (45.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 9 (45.00%) User Experience
3 6 (30.00%) OOP
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Data Conversion
6 2 (10.00%) Data Mapping
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) ITSM
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (5.00%) Analytics
7 1 (5.00%) Case Management
7 1 (5.00%) Escalation Management
7 1 (5.00%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Java
1 15 (75.00%) Python
2 14 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (70.00%) Perl
3 8 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GMP
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Oracle
2 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (45.00%) ServiceNow
4 8 (40.00%) Splunk
5 2 (10.00%) Google
6 1 (5.00%) Okta