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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 87 110
Rank change year-on-year -28 +23 -5
Contract jobs citing Unix 362 742 963
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.07% 2.87% 2.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.47% 19.92% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 531 659
10th Percentile £379 £450 £448
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £675
90th Percentile £850 £750 £739
England median daily rate £550 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile - £53.75 -
25th Percentile £22.08 £65.00 £62.50
Median hourly rate £22.30 £73.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.56% +12.69% +12.59%
75th Percentile £23.80 £77.94 £67.50
90th Percentile - £81.43 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £65.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -9.86% +62.50%

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 2,072 3,724 5,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.86% 14.39% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 2,720 3,757
10th Percentile £206 £213 £227
25th Percentile £350 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 62 93
10th Percentile £14.79 £18.93 £16.30
25th Percentile £18.04 £22.94 £21.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £36.17 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.18% +47.63% -43.02%
75th Percentile £25.71 £64.50 £48.58
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.30 £62.90
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +25.71%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +3 38 £688 +25.00% 4
South London +8 9 £567 +19.37% 1
West London +22 7 £350 -21.35%
East London -8 7 £440 -17.60% 16
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 25 (6.91%) nginx
2 18 (4.97%) Confluence
3 9 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.21%) Apache
4 8 (2.21%) JBoss
5 7 (1.93%) IIS
6 6 (1.66%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.38%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.83%) MQSeries
10 2 (0.55%) NetWeaver
10 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 19 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (3.31%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (4.14%) ION MarketView
2 12 (3.31%) ION Anvil
3 6 (1.66%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.83%) Shopify
5 2 (0.55%) Advent Geneva
5 2 (0.55%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.55%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.55%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.28%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 74 (20.44%) AWS
2 50 (13.81%) Azure
3 24 (6.63%) PaaS
4 17 (4.70%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 15 (4.14%) GCP
6 13 (3.59%) Serverless
7 10 (2.76%) GitHub
8 9 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.66%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.66%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.38%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (1.10%) OCI
13 3 (0.83%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (11.60%) Firewall
2 19 (5.25%) FTP
3 14 (3.87%) DNS
3 14 (3.87%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.59%) FIX Connectivity
4 13 (3.59%) HTTP
4 13 (3.59%) Internet
4 13 (3.59%) SSH
5 9 (2.49%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (2.49%) VPN
6 7 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.66%) IPsec
7 6 (1.66%) Network Security
8 5 (1.38%) LAN
8 5 (1.38%) SNMP
8 5 (1.38%) tcpdump
8 5 (1.38%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.10%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.10%) POP3
9 4 (1.10%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.67%) SQL Server
2 30 (8.29%) Relational Database
3 22 (6.08%) MongoDB
3 22 (6.08%) RDBMS
4 18 (4.97%) KDB
5 17 (4.70%) Hadoop
6 14 (3.87%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.76%) Kdb+
8 8 (2.21%) DB2
8 8 (2.21%) MySQL
8 8 (2.21%) Oracle Database
9 7 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.93%) Sybase ASE
10 6 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.66%) Big Data
10 6 (1.66%) Power BI
10 6 (1.66%) Redis
11 5 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.38%) HBase
Development Applications
1 42 (11.60%) Git
1 42 (11.60%) JIRA
2 30 (8.29%) Jenkins
3 23 (6.35%) TeamCity
4 18 (4.97%) Mockito
5 17 (4.70%) Cucumber
6 12 (3.31%) GitLab
7 11 (3.04%) Bitbucket
8 10 (2.76%) Maven
9 9 (2.49%) Selenium
9 9 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (2.21%) Artifactory
10 8 (2.21%) JUnit
11 5 (1.38%) Subversion
12 4 (1.10%) Gatling
12 4 (1.10%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.10%) ScalaTest
12 4 (1.10%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.10%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.83%) Burp Suite
General
1 157 (43.37%) Finance
2 81 (22.38%) Banking
3 77 (21.27%) Social Skills
4 57 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (10.50%) Front Office
6 35 (9.67%) Investment Banking
7 29 (8.01%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.49%) Back Office
8 9 (2.49%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.21%) Marketing
9 8 (2.21%) Retail
10 7 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.10%) Electronics
12 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.10%) Wholesale Banking
13 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 108 (29.83%) Developer
2 37 (10.22%) Java Developer
3 36 (9.94%) Senior
4 22 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (5.52%) Analyst
5 20 (5.52%) Lead
5 20 (5.52%) Senior Developer
6 18 (4.97%) Consultant
7 17 (4.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 14 (3.87%) Business Analyst
8 14 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
9 13 (3.59%) Implementation Specialist
10 12 (3.31%) Architect
10 12 (3.31%) Network Engineer
10 12 (3.31%) SQL Developer
10 12 (3.31%) Unix Support
10 12 (3.31%) Vulnerability Specialist
11 11 (3.04%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
11 11 (3.04%) Front Office Business Analyst
11 11 (3.04%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.77%) FIX Protocol
2 35 (9.67%) Kafka
3 32 (8.84%) Spring
4 29 (8.01%) XML
5 28 (7.73%) HTML
6 25 (6.91%) CSS
7 23 (6.35%) JSON
8 20 (5.52%) Sass
9 18 (4.97%) Laravel
9 18 (4.97%) Middleware
10 17 (4.70%) LDAP
10 17 (4.70%) Web Services
11 16 (4.42%) REST
12 14 (3.87%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (3.87%) JAX-RS
12 14 (3.87%) WebSockets
13 13 (3.59%) Hibernate
14 12 (3.31%) J2EE
15 11 (3.04%) JPA
16 10 (2.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.84%) Fixed Income
2 23 (6.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 23 (6.35%) Linux Command Line
3 22 (6.08%) Management Information System
4 20 (5.52%) Derivative
5 19 (5.25%) Replication
6 16 (4.42%) Equities
7 14 (3.87%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.59%) Data Centre
9 12 (3.31%) Algorithms
9 12 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.49%) Onboarding
11 8 (2.21%) Cloud Native
11 8 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (2.21%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.93%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 217 (59.94%) Linux
2 108 (29.83%) Windows
3 21 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (4.42%) Mac OS X
5 14 (3.87%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.93%) Android
6 7 (1.93%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.10%) CentOS
8 3 (0.83%) Solaris
9 2 (0.55%) AIX
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.28%) OS/390
10 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.28%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (24.31%) Agile
2 60 (16.57%) DevOps
2 60 (16.57%) Test Automation
3 57 (15.75%) TDD
4 55 (15.19%) CI/CD
5 49 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (13.26%) Microservices
7 38 (10.50%) Migration
8 33 (9.12%) Data Modelling
9 32 (8.84%) BDD
10 31 (8.56%) Electronic Trading
10 31 (8.56%) Web Development
11 30 (8.29%) Scrum
12 29 (8.01%) Capacity Management
13 28 (7.73%) Pair Programming
14 27 (7.46%) Risk Management
15 26 (7.18%) Analytics
15 26 (7.18%) Configuration Management
15 26 (7.18%) ITIL
16 23 (6.35%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 129 (35.64%) SQL
2 120 (33.15%) Python
3 116 (32.04%) Java
4 51 (14.09%) Perl
5 43 (11.88%) Shell Script
6 38 (10.50%) JavaScript
7 31 (8.56%) PowerShell
8 30 (8.29%) C#
9 20 (5.52%) PHP
10 16 (4.42%) T-SQL
11 13 (3.59%) Bash
12 10 (2.76%) Go
12 10 (2.76%) Scala
13 6 (1.66%) C++
13 6 (1.66%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.38%) VBA
15 4 (1.10%) AWK
16 2 (0.55%) Lua
16 2 (0.55%) Ruby
16 2 (0.55%) XPath
Qualifications
1 45 (12.43%) Security Cleared
2 41 (11.33%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.50%) Degree
4 11 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.38%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.10%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.83%) CISSP
7 3 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (0.83%) ISEB
8 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.55%) CCNA
8 2 (0.55%) CCNP
8 2 (0.55%) CEH
8 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CCIE
9 1 (0.28%) GCIA
9 1 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.22%) QA
2 12 (3.31%) SLA
3 11 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.21%) EMIR
5 8 (2.21%) MiFID
6 7 (1.93%) Dodd-Frank
7 5 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.10%) ISO 15022
8 4 (1.10%) NIST
9 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 34 (9.39%) Docker
2 33 (9.12%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.70%) HDFS
4 16 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (3.59%) NFS
6 8 (2.21%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (1.10%) Samba
9 2 (0.55%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.55%) KVM
9 2 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.28%) Ceph
10 1 (0.28%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.28%) Firmware
10 1 (0.28%) iptables
10 1 (0.28%) Lustre
10 1 (0.28%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.28%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 46 (12.71%) Kubernetes
2 45 (12.43%) Ansible
3 27 (7.46%) Terraform
4 17 (4.70%) Puppet
5 11 (3.04%) Grafana
5 11 (3.04%) SCCM
6 8 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.93%) SCOM
7 7 (1.93%) SCVMM
8 6 (1.66%) Kibana
8 6 (1.66%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.38%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (1.10%) logstash
10 4 (1.10%) QRadar
11 3 (0.83%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.83%) Netcool
11 3 (0.83%) Salt
12 2 (0.55%) Nmap
Vendors
1 57 (15.75%) Oracle
2 37 (10.22%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.63%) ION Trading
4 21 (5.80%) VMware
5 18 (4.97%) Red Hat
6 17 (4.70%) Cisco
7 16 (4.42%) SAP
8 15 (4.14%) Bloomberg
8 15 (4.14%) CyberArk
9 14 (3.87%) F5
9 14 (3.87%) Google
9 14 (3.87%) Qualys
10 13 (3.59%) IBM
10 13 (3.59%) Splunk
11 12 (3.31%) Isilon
12 11 (3.04%) MarketAxess
12 11 (3.04%) Sybase
12 11 (3.04%) Tradeweb
13 10 (2.76%) Dell
13 10 (2.76%) SEEBURGER