Unix Contracts in London

Unix
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 89 110
Rank change year-on-year -31 +21 -8
Contract jobs citing Unix 349 773 1,007
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.97% 2.85% 2.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.56% 20.01% 18.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 557 691
10th Percentile £383 £450 £450
25th Percentile £503 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £750 £744
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £22.04 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £22.08 £65.00 £62.50
Median hourly rate £22.23 £73.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.66% +12.69% +60.30%
75th Percentile £23.43 £77.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £23.80 £81.43 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% -11.54% +52.94%

All Operating Systems
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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,108 3,864 5,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.90% 14.27% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 2,838 3,882
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £325 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 63 107
10th Percentile £15.40 £16.69 £16.08
25th Percentile £18.93 £22.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.34 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.08% +52.41% -42.69%
75th Percentile £33.31 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.80 £74.70
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in London

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in London

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in London

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in London

Unix
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Central London -14 36 £650 +13.04% 4
South London +14 8 £567 +8.00% 3
West London +21 7 £350 -21.35%
East London -7 6 £440 -17.60% 3
Unix
England

Unix
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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (6.59%) nginx
2 19 (5.44%) Confluence
3 9 (2.58%) Apache
3 9 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.29%) JBoss
5 7 (2.01%) IIS
6 6 (1.72%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.72%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.86%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.57%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 19 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (3.44%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (4.30%) ION MarketView
2 12 (3.44%) ION Anvil
3 6 (1.72%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.86%) Shopify
5 2 (0.57%) Advent Geneva
5 2 (0.57%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.57%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.57%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.29%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.29%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 64 (18.34%) AWS
2 47 (13.47%) Azure
3 22 (6.30%) PaaS
4 15 (4.30%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 14 (4.01%) GCP
6 11 (3.15%) Serverless
7 9 (2.58%) GitHub
8 8 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.43%) Power Platform
10 5 (1.43%) SaaS
11 4 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (1.15%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.15%) IaaS
11 4 (1.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 36 (10.32%) Firewall
2 19 (5.44%) FTP
3 14 (4.01%) FIX Connectivity
3 14 (4.01%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.72%) DNS
4 13 (3.72%) HTTP
5 11 (3.15%) SSH
6 9 (2.58%) Internet
6 9 (2.58%) VPN
7 7 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.72%) IPsec
8 6 (1.72%) Network Security
9 5 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (1.43%) LAN
9 5 (1.43%) tcpdump
9 5 (1.43%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.15%) HTTPS
10 4 (1.15%) POP3
10 4 (1.15%) SAN
10 4 (1.15%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.74%) SQL Server
2 24 (6.88%) MongoDB
3 23 (6.59%) Relational Database
4 19 (5.44%) KDB
5 17 (4.87%) Hadoop
6 16 (4.58%) RDBMS
7 14 (4.01%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.44%) Oracle Database
9 10 (2.87%) Kdb+
10 8 (2.29%) MySQL
11 7 (2.01%) DB2
11 7 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.72%) Big Data
12 6 (1.72%) Redis
12 6 (1.72%) Sybase ASE
13 5 (1.43%) Data Mart
13 5 (1.43%) HBase
13 5 (1.43%) Oracle Exadata
13 5 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 44 (12.61%) JIRA
2 39 (11.17%) Git
3 29 (8.31%) Jenkins
4 20 (5.73%) TeamCity
5 18 (5.16%) Mockito
6 14 (4.01%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.87%) Maven
8 9 (2.58%) GitLab
9 8 (2.29%) Selenium
10 7 (2.01%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.72%) JUnit
11 6 (1.72%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
12 5 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.43%) Subversion
13 4 (1.15%) Artifactory
13 4 (1.15%) Gatling
13 4 (1.15%) Robot Framework
13 4 (1.15%) ScalaTest
13 4 (1.15%) SonarQube
General
1 141 (40.40%) Finance
2 73 (20.92%) Banking
3 67 (19.20%) Social Skills
4 57 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (10.89%) Front Office
6 35 (10.03%) Investment Banking
7 22 (6.30%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.15%) Back Office
9 8 (2.29%) Marketing
10 7 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.72%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.43%) Retail
12 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.15%) Electronics
13 4 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.15%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (30.95%) Developer
2 36 (10.32%) Java Developer
2 36 (10.32%) Senior
3 21 (6.02%) Analyst
4 19 (5.44%) Senior Developer
5 18 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (4.58%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (4.30%) Consultant
7 15 (4.30%) Lead
8 14 (4.01%) Business Analyst
9 13 (3.72%) Implementation Specialist
9 13 (3.72%) IT Support
10 12 (3.44%) Applications Support
10 12 (3.44%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (3.44%) Unix Support
10 12 (3.44%) Vulnerability Specialist
11 11 (3.15%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
11 11 (3.15%) Front Office Business Analyst
11 11 (3.15%) KDB Developer
11 11 (3.15%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.17%) FIX Protocol
2 30 (8.60%) Kafka
3 28 (8.02%) XML
4 27 (7.74%) Spring
5 24 (6.88%) HTML
6 23 (6.59%) CSS
7 21 (6.02%) JSON
8 18 (5.16%) Sass
9 17 (4.87%) LDAP
10 16 (4.58%) Laravel
11 15 (4.30%) Web Services
12 14 (4.01%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (4.01%) JAX-RS
12 14 (4.01%) REST
13 13 (3.72%) WebSockets
14 12 (3.44%) Middleware
15 11 (3.15%) Hibernate
16 10 (2.87%) J2EE
17 9 (2.58%) JPA
18 8 (2.29%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.74%) Fixed Income
2 24 (6.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (6.02%) Derivative
3 21 (6.02%) Management Information System
4 19 (5.44%) Linux Command Line
5 18 (5.16%) Replication
6 16 (4.58%) Equities
7 14 (4.01%) Data Centre
8 13 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (3.15%) Algorithms
9 11 (3.15%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (2.01%) Cloud Native
11 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.01%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.43%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 201 (57.59%) Linux
2 106 (30.37%) Windows
3 16 (4.58%) Mac OS X
4 14 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (4.01%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.43%) Solaris
6 4 (1.15%) Android
6 4 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.15%) CentOS
7 2 (0.57%) AIX
7 2 (0.57%) VMS
8 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.29%) OS/390
8 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (22.64%) Agile
2 53 (15.19%) Test Automation
3 52 (14.90%) DevOps
4 51 (14.61%) CI/CD
4 51 (14.61%) TDD
5 48 (13.75%) Microservices
5 48 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (10.89%) Migration
7 33 (9.46%) Data Modelling
7 33 (9.46%) Electronic Trading
8 31 (8.88%) Capacity Management
9 29 (8.31%) BDD
9 29 (8.31%) ITIL
9 29 (8.31%) Web Development
10 27 (7.74%) Risk Management
10 27 (7.74%) Scrum
11 25 (7.16%) Disaster Recovery
11 25 (7.16%) Pair Programming
12 24 (6.88%) Analytics
12 24 (6.88%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (34.96%) SQL
2 112 (32.09%) Java
3 110 (31.52%) Python
4 47 (13.47%) Perl
5 43 (12.32%) Shell Script
6 38 (10.89%) JavaScript
7 36 (10.32%) PowerShell
8 30 (8.60%) C#
9 18 (5.16%) Bash
9 18 (5.16%) PHP
10 14 (4.01%) T-SQL
11 10 (2.87%) Go
11 10 (2.87%) Scala
12 7 (2.01%) C++
13 6 (1.72%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.43%) VBA
15 4 (1.15%) AWK
16 2 (0.57%) Lua
16 2 (0.57%) XPath
17 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (11.75%) Security Cleared
2 37 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.74%) Degree
4 9 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.15%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.86%) CISSP
6 3 (0.86%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (0.86%) ISEB
6 3 (0.86%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.57%) CCNA
7 2 (0.57%) CCNP
7 2 (0.57%) CEH
8 1 (0.29%) CCIE
8 1 (0.29%) GCIA
8 1 (0.29%) GIAC
8 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.17%) QA
2 12 (3.44%) SLA
3 10 (2.87%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.58%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.29%) MiFID
6 7 (2.01%) Dodd-Frank
6 7 (2.01%) EMIR
7 5 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.15%) ISO 15022
8 4 (1.15%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (9.74%) Docker
2 24 (6.88%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.87%) HDFS
3 17 (4.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.72%) NFS
5 9 (2.58%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.15%) Samba
7 4 (1.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.57%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.57%) KVM
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.29%) Ceph
9 1 (0.29%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.29%) Firmware
9 1 (0.29%) iptables
9 1 (0.29%) Lustre
9 1 (0.29%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.29%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 40 (11.46%) Kubernetes
2 39 (11.17%) Ansible
3 22 (6.30%) Terraform
4 16 (4.58%) Puppet
5 12 (3.44%) Grafana
5 12 (3.44%) SCCM
6 10 (2.87%) SCOM
7 8 (2.29%) SCVMM
8 7 (2.01%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (2.01%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.43%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (1.43%) Kibana
9 5 (1.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 5 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.15%) logstash
10 4 (1.15%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.15%) QRadar
11 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.86%) Netcool
12 2 (0.57%) Control-M
Vendors
1 56 (16.05%) Oracle
2 36 (10.32%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.88%) ION Trading
4 22 (6.30%) VMware
5 20 (5.73%) SAP
6 18 (5.16%) Bloomberg
7 16 (4.58%) Red Hat
7 16 (4.58%) Splunk
8 15 (4.30%) Google
9 14 (4.01%) Murex
9 14 (4.01%) Qualys
10 13 (3.72%) Cisco
11 12 (3.44%) IBM
11 12 (3.44%) Isilon
12 11 (3.15%) Dell
12 11 (3.15%) F5
12 11 (3.15%) MarketAxess
12 11 (3.15%) Tradeweb
13 10 (2.87%) Sybase
14 8 (2.29%) Salesforce