Unix Administrator Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Unix Administrator
UK > UK excluding London

The median Unix Administrator daily rate in the UK excluding London is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 332 390
Rank change year-on-year -103 +58 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Administrator 3 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.055% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.059% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £395 £375
25th Percentile £275 £425 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £325 £494 £475
90th Percentile - £500 -
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 22,140 11,768 19,161
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 92.18% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,969 7,544 11,699
10th Percentile £280 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £598
90th Percentile £684 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,455 835 2,248
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.91 £17.80 £15.75
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +62.36% -29.20% -6.94%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.42
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.37% -19.07%

Unix Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Unix Administrator' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Unix Administrator job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Unix Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Unix Administrator job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Unix Administrator job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Unix Administrator
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Unix Administrator job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Unix Administrator job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Unix Administrator
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Administrator within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Scotland - 2 - -
East of England - 1 £300 - 1
Unix Administrator
UK

Unix Administrator Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2026, Unix Administrator 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 UK excluding London region featuring Unix Administrator in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Korn
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure

Unix Administrator Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Korn
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) VMware