Unix Contract Job Trends in Central London

Unix
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 96 94
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing Unix 37 29 40
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.76% 1.42% 1.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 22.42% 10.86% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 29
10th Percentile £480 £425 £400
25th Percentile £533 £481 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £763 £674 £925
90th Percentile £935 £701 £928
London median daily rate £539 £575 £618
% change year-on-year -6.30% -6.88% +2.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
75th Percentile £29.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £27.75 - £22.15
% change year-on-year - - -71.42%

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 165 267 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.86% 13.04% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 187 246
10th Percentile £188 £226 £183
25th Percentile £276 £363 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +13.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £647 £625 £630
90th Percentile £760 £701 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £21.39 £39.40 -
25th Percentile £22.24 £66.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.13 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.56% +397.78% -4.26%
75th Percentile £28.05 - £23.75
90th Percentile £28.92 - -
London median hourly rate £24.00 £24.66 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.68% -1.36% -2.36%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Unix job vacancy trend in Central London

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Central London over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Central London

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Unix

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 17 February 2026. 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 -14 20 £575 -4.17% 11
Unix
London

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) ION MarketView
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (2.70%) Azure
2 1 (2.70%) GitHub
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) KDB
1 5 (13.51%) Kdb+
2 3 (8.11%) Tick Data
3 2 (5.41%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.41%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.41%) SQLPlus
4 1 (2.70%) Data Mart
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) Toad
3 1 (2.70%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) Maven
3 1 (2.70%) QUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (75.68%) Finance
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Front Office
5 4 (10.81%) Banking
5 4 (10.81%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Senior
2 18 (48.65%) C++ Software Engineer
2 18 (48.65%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 18 (48.65%) Senior Software Engineer
2 18 (48.65%) Software Engineer
3 11 (29.73%) Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.81%) KDB Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Data Migration Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Electronic Trading Support
8 1 (2.70%) IAM Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (5.41%) Middleware
2 1 (2.70%) Altair
2 1 (2.70%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (2.70%) Kafka
2 1 (2.70%) Murex MxML
2 1 (2.70%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.70%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.70%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (21.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
3 4 (10.81%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.41%) Derivative
4 2 (5.41%) Equities
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (75.68%) Linux
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Solaris
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Agile
2 18 (48.65%) Software Engineering
3 10 (27.03%) Low Latency
4 6 (16.22%) Electronic Trading
4 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
5 5 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.51%) Risk Management
6 4 (10.81%) Migration
6 4 (10.81%) Quantitative Finance
7 3 (8.11%) Algorithmic Trading
7 3 (8.11%) Analytics
7 3 (8.11%) Computer Science
7 3 (8.11%) DevOps
7 3 (8.11%) Software Delivery
7 3 (8.11%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (5.41%) Data Migration
8 2 (5.41%) Kanban
8 2 (5.41%) Physics
8 2 (5.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) C++
2 15 (40.54%) SQL
3 6 (16.22%) Java
3 6 (16.22%) Python
4 4 (10.81%) Perl
4 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.11%) C#
6 2 (5.41%) PHP
6 2 (5.41%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.70%) Bash
7 1 (2.70%) Korn
7 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (54.05%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
1 1 (2.70%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Ansible
1 2 (5.41%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle
2 2 (5.41%) AppDynamics
2 2 (5.41%) Bloomberg
2 2 (5.41%) MarketAxess
2 2 (5.41%) Splunk
2 2 (5.41%) Tradeweb
3 1 (2.70%) ION Trading
3 1 (2.70%) Murex
3 1 (2.70%) Qualys
3 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.70%) Solace
3 1 (2.70%) Sybase
3 1 (2.70%) Symantec
3 1 (2.70%) Tanium
3 1 (2.70%) Tenable
3 1 (2.70%) VMware