Unix Contracts in West Sussex

Unix
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 24 30 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Unix 3 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.05% 3.45% 0.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.69% 12.50% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £414 - £605
25th Percentile £456 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -24.00% +62.34%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £638
90th Percentile - £515 £645
South East median daily rate £494 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +16.18% -22.73% +15.79%

All Operating Systems
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 39 72 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 26.71% 27.59% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 58 57
10th Percentile £193 £200 £200
25th Percentile £198 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £311 £450 £331
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +35.95% -18.27%
75th Percentile £533 £488 £575
90th Percentile £721 £579 £585
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £16.37 - -
25th Percentile £16.95 £36.75 £10.75
Median hourly rate £18.82 £38.50 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.12% +234.78% -78.50%
75th Percentile £20.69 £40.25 £12.25
90th Percentile £21.88 - -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in West Sussex

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in West Sussex

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

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

Daily rate histogram for Unix in West Sussex

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in West Sussex

Unix
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the West Sussex 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
Worthing +12 3 £550 +15.79%
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (33.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Toad
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Runbook
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (66.67%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) webMethods