Unix Contracts in Central London

Unix
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 99 91
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +27
Contract jobs citing Unix 38 36 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.89% 1.52% 2.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.29% 11.21% 15.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 53
10th Percentile £375 £376 £342
25th Percentile £409 £402 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +2.17% -2.95%
75th Percentile £673 £750 £651
90th Percentile £725 £878 £738
London median daily rate £500 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £50.88
25th Percentile - - £55.94
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £75.94
90th Percentile - - £80.63
London median hourly rate - £23.05 £69.75
% change year-on-year - -66.95% -8.82%

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 266 321 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.23% 13.54% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 229 392
10th Percentile £248 £209 £153
25th Percentile £350 £350 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £450 £501
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -10.09% +0.10%
75th Percentile £653 £638 £638
90th Percentile £711 £725 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £24.35 £23.04 £22.38
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.09 £24.06
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.63 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -29.00% +87.50%
75th Percentile £108.88 £27.59 £60.31
90th Percentile £156.05 £28.66 £74.38
London median hourly rate £24.00 £22.00 £50.21
% change year-on-year +9.09% -56.18% +110.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Central London

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Central London

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Central London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Central London

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Central London

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. 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
City of London +3 35 £603 +2.55% 62
Unix
London

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (7.89%) Apache
1 3 (7.89%) Apache Spark
1 3 (7.89%) SAS
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Kondor
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) AWS
2 5 (13.16%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) GCP
3 3 (7.89%) GitHub
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.26%) Serverless
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.63%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) DNS
2 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.53%) VPN
3 3 (7.89%) Firewall
4 2 (5.26%) DHCP
5 1 (2.63%) HTTP
5 1 (2.63%) Internet
5 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.63%) NAS
5 1 (2.63%) SAN
5 1 (2.63%) SSH
5 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.53%) KDB
3 3 (7.89%) Base SAS
3 3 (7.89%) Big Data
3 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.89%) DB2
3 3 (7.89%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.89%) Metadata
3 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle Database
3 3 (7.89%) Redis
3 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (5.26%) CockroachDB
4 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 2 (5.26%) MySQL
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.05%) Git
3 7 (18.42%) JIRA
4 6 (15.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (15.79%) JUnit
5 4 (10.53%) Subversion
6 3 (7.89%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (7.89%) Maven
6 3 (7.89%) Mockito
6 3 (7.89%) Postman
6 3 (7.89%) REST Assured
6 3 (7.89%) SoapUI
6 3 (7.89%) SonarQube
6 3 (7.89%) Xcode
6 3 (7.89%) XCTest
7 2 (5.26%) Eclipse
7 2 (5.26%) IntelliJ
8 1 (2.63%) Gradle
8 1 (2.63%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (47.37%) Finance
2 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.89%) Front Office
6 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Back Office
7 1 (2.63%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) Java Developer
3 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Senior
4 2 (5.26%) Administrator
4 2 (5.26%) Applications Support
4 2 (5.26%) Architect
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Specialist
4 2 (5.26%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (5.26%) KDB Developer
4 2 (5.26%) Lead
4 2 (5.26%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) SAS Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Spring
2 8 (21.05%) AngularJS
3 6 (15.79%) Web Services
4 5 (13.16%) HTML
4 5 (13.16%) HTML5
4 5 (13.16%) Middleware
5 4 (10.53%) Kafka
5 4 (10.53%) REST
6 3 (7.89%) Bootstrap
6 3 (7.89%) CSS
6 3 (7.89%) CSS3
6 3 (7.89%) Hibernate
6 3 (7.89%) J2EE
6 3 (7.89%) JPA
6 3 (7.89%) React
6 3 (7.89%) RESTful
6 3 (7.89%) SOAP
6 3 (7.89%) Spring Boot
6 3 (7.89%) Spring MVC
6 3 (7.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (13.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (7.89%) Equities
4 2 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.26%) Derivative
4 2 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.26%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Replication
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.63%) Clustering
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) iSeries
5 1 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 31 (81.58%) Linux
2 5 (13.16%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Solaris
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (39.47%) SDLC
3 13 (34.21%) Agile
3 13 (34.21%) DevOps
4 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (15.79%) Low Latency
6 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
6 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (13.16%) Fintech
6 5 (13.16%) High Availability
6 5 (13.16%) Microservices
6 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) TDD
6 5 (13.16%) Unit Testing
7 4 (10.53%) Code Quality
7 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (10.53%) Software Testing
7 4 (10.53%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) Java
2 16 (42.11%) Python
3 14 (36.84%) SQL
4 12 (31.58%) Shell Script
5 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
6 6 (15.79%) Perl
7 5 (13.16%) Bash
8 4 (10.53%) C++
9 3 (7.89%) Groovy
9 3 (7.89%) Scala
9 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
10 2 (5.26%) C#
10 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 2 (5.26%) PROC SQL
10 2 (5.26%) SAS Macro
11 1 (2.63%) C
11 1 (2.63%) COBOL
11 1 (2.63%) JCL
11 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) NFS
3 1 (2.63%) Veritas File System
3 1 (2.63%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.79%) Terraform
3 5 (13.16%) Ansible
4 3 (7.89%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.89%) Puppet
5 2 (5.26%) Control-M
6 1 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (2.63%) Netcool
6 1 (2.63%) Packer
6 1 (2.63%) QRadar
6 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.63%) Tivoli
6 1 (2.63%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) Splunk
3 4 (10.53%) Sybase
4 3 (7.89%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (7.89%) Dynatrace
4 3 (7.89%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.26%) CyberArk
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.63%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.63%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.63%) BMC
6 1 (2.63%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) IBM
6 1 (2.63%) Murex
6 1 (2.63%) Qualys
6 1 (2.63%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.63%) Veritas
6 1 (2.63%) VMware