Unix Support Contracts in London

Unix Support
England > London

The median Unix Support daily rate in London is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 487 600
Rank change year-on-year +105 +113 -153
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Support 12 14 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.068% 0.052% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.054% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 3
10th Percentile - - £482
25th Percentile £450 £600 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £700 £520
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +34.62% +22.35%
75th Percentile £594 - £634
90th Percentile £644 - £696
England median daily rate £563 £688 £438
% change year-on-year -18.18% +57.14% +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,505 25,769 37,084
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,930 18,667 27,033
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Unix Support
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Unix Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Support in London

Unix Support
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix Support in London.

Daily rate trend for Unix Support in London

Unix Support
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix Support in London.

Hourly rate trend for Unix Support in London

Unix Support Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Unix Support contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Unix Support in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Unix
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (83.33%) Release Management
2 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 10 (83.33%) Python
2 10 (83.33%) Front Office
2 10 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 10 (83.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) Data Sharing
3 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 5 (41.67%) Banking
4 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
5 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
6 2 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
6 2 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
6 2 (16.67%) Derivative
6 2 (16.67%) Change Management
6 2 (16.67%) Fidessa
6 2 (16.67%) Linux
6 2 (16.67%) High Availability
6 2 (16.67%) Capacity Management
6 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
6 2 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (16.67%) FIX Connectivity

Unix Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Fidessa
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) FIX Connectivity
General
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 10 (83.33%) Front Office
3 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Unix
2 10 (83.33%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Proactive Monitoring
1 10 (83.33%) Release Management
2 6 (50.00%) Data Sharing
2 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (16.67%) Capacity Management
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) PowerShell
1 10 (83.33%) Python
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) ITRS Geneos