Unix Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Unix
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 24 30
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Unix 1 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.36% 2.04% 3.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.00% 7.69% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £414 -
25th Percentile £513 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -20.83%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £500
90th Percentile - - £515
South East median daily rate £392 £513 £425
% change year-on-year -23.51% +20.59% -20.93%

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 25 39 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 8.93% 26.53% 24.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 51
10th Percentile £203 £193 £200
25th Percentile £275 £196 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £250 £450
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -44.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £488
90th Percentile £556 £705 £588
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - £16.37 -
25th Percentile - £16.95 £36.75
Median hourly rate - £18.82 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year - -51.12% +234.78%
75th Percentile - £20.69 £40.25
90th Percentile - £21.88 -
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% -41.05% -1.04%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Unix job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Unix

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 5 April 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
Worthing -13 1 £525 -4.55%
Unix
South East

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (100.00%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) VMware