Unix Contracts in the City of London

Unix
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 93 95
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -7
Contract jobs citing Unix 35 89 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.59% 2.44% 2.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.24% 17.62% 18.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 52 72
10th Percentile £383 £457 £465
25th Percentile £400 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% - +2.22%
75th Percentile £800 £681 £684
90th Percentile £925 £749 £738
Central London median daily rate £650 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +13.04% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £82.50 -

All Operating Systems
City of London

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 286 505 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.99% 13.85% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 362 427
10th Percentile £195 £158 £198
25th Percentile £313 £263 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £653 £663 £625
90th Percentile £725 £737 £700
Central London median daily rate £450 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 15
10th Percentile £19.63 - -
25th Percentile £20.67 - £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +75.00%
75th Percentile £24.56 £59.38 £31.38
90th Percentile £26.03 £74.00 £67.25
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +75.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the City of London

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Unix in the City of London

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in the City of London

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in the City of London

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 4 (11.43%) Apache
2 3 (8.57%) nginx
3 2 (5.71%) JBoss
3 2 (5.71%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.86%) Confluence
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.86%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (2.86%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (2.86%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
1 5 (14.29%) PaaS
2 3 (8.57%) AWS
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.86%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) FTP
2 7 (20.00%) Firewall
3 4 (11.43%) HTTP
3 4 (11.43%) ICMP
3 4 (11.43%) POP3
3 4 (11.43%) SMTP
3 4 (11.43%) SSH
3 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.71%) DNS
4 2 (5.71%) SSL
5 1 (2.86%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) RDBMS
1 6 (17.14%) Relational Database
1 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) DB2
3 4 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (11.43%) Hadoop
3 4 (11.43%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.43%) Sybase ASE
4 3 (8.57%) KDB
5 2 (5.71%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.86%) Kdb+
6 1 (2.86%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.86%) MySQL
6 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
1 3 (8.57%) Mockito
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
3 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Banking
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Arabic Language
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) French Language
6 1 (2.86%) Front Office
6 1 (2.86%) German Language
6 1 (2.86%) Japanese Language
6 1 (2.86%) Korean Language
6 1 (2.86%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 4 (11.43%) ArcSight Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Implementation Specialist
3 4 (11.43%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) SIEM Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) DBA
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Sybase DBA
5 2 (5.71%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Murex Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) QA Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Kafka
2 4 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (11.43%) LDAP
3 3 (8.57%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (8.57%) JAX-RS
3 3 (8.57%) Middleware
4 2 (5.71%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (5.71%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (5.71%) JSON
4 2 (5.71%) Murex MxML
4 2 (5.71%) Rendezvous
4 2 (5.71%) XML
5 1 (2.86%) CSS
5 1 (2.86%) HTML
5 1 (2.86%) Laravel
5 1 (2.86%) Sass
5 1 (2.86%) SOAP
5 1 (2.86%) TIBCO EMS
5 1 (2.86%) XSD
5 1 (2.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Replication
2 4 (11.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (11.43%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.86%) DTCC
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Equities
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (71.43%) Linux
2 15 (42.86%) Windows
3 4 (11.43%) Mac OS X
4 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.86%) Android
6 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 7 (20.00%) Microservices
3 7 (20.00%) Migration
4 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
4 6 (17.14%) Continuous Deployment
4 6 (17.14%) Incident Management
4 6 (17.14%) TDD
5 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (14.29%) SDLC
6 4 (11.43%) BDD
6 4 (11.43%) Capacity Management
6 4 (11.43%) Change Data Capture
6 4 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (11.43%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (11.43%) Security Monitoring
6 4 (11.43%) SIEM
6 4 (11.43%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Java
1 12 (34.29%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) Python
3 7 (20.00%) Perl
4 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
4 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) C++
6 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) PHP
6 1 (2.86%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) ISTQB
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) ISEB
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.86%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
1 4 (11.43%) HDFS
1 4 (11.43%) NFS
1 4 (11.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kibana
1 4 (11.43%) logstash
1 4 (11.43%) QRadar
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Oracle
2 7 (20.00%) IBM
3 5 (14.29%) Sybase
4 4 (11.43%) ArcSight
4 4 (11.43%) Isilon
4 4 (11.43%) SAP
4 4 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 4 (11.43%) Splunk
4 4 (11.43%) Sun
4 4 (11.43%) Veritas
5 3 (8.57%) TIBCO
6 2 (5.71%) Bloomberg
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.71%) Murex
6 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.71%) Solace
6 2 (5.71%) Temenos
7 1 (2.86%) Citrix
7 1 (2.86%) Eze Castle Integration
7 1 (2.86%) Juniper