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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 87 95
Rank change year-on-year -30 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Unix 35 41 35
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.42% 2.11% 1.50%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.96% 18.22% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 19
10th Percentile £368 £359 £417
25th Percentile £475 £404 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £715 £688 £825
90th Percentile £738 £745 £882
London median daily rate £550 £547 £565
% change year-on-year +0.64% -3.27% -3.42%

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 234 225 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.47% 11.60% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 160 200
10th Percentile £176 £250 £219
25th Percentile £284 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -1.88% +1.00%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £638
90th Percentile £688 £696 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 £23.90
25th Percentile £19.38 £22.53 £25.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.13 £28.19
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.80 £28.90
London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £26.63
% change year-on-year -14.51% -5.54% -36.48%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -17 35 £600 -4.00% 25
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 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) IIS
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.86%) JBoss
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.86%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) SaaS
3 2 (5.71%) Azure
3 2 (5.71%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) VPN
2 3 (8.57%) Multicast
3 2 (5.71%) Firewall
3 2 (5.71%) Internet
3 2 (5.71%) Intranet
3 2 (5.71%) SSL
4 1 (2.86%) DNS
4 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.86%) Network Security
4 1 (2.86%) SSH
4 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.71%) KDB
4 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.71%) SQLPlus
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.86%) Db2
5 1 (2.86%) Kdb+
5 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.86%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (2.86%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) eggPlant
2 3 (8.57%) Gradle
3 2 (5.71%) Artifactory
3 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.71%) JIRA
3 2 (5.71%) JMeter
3 2 (5.71%) JUnit
3 2 (5.71%) LoadRunner
3 2 (5.71%) Maven
3 2 (5.71%) Postman
3 2 (5.71%) Selenium
3 2 (5.71%) SoapUI
3 2 (5.71%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
3 2 (5.71%) Zephyr
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.86%) SOAtest
General
1 20 (57.14%) Finance
2 11 (31.43%) Banking
2 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Front Office
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Senior
3 3 (8.57%) Java Developer
3 3 (8.57%) Lead
3 3 (8.57%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Middleware Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (8.57%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Administrator
4 2 (5.71%) Analyst
4 2 (5.71%) C# Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Database Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Java Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Murex Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database Developer
4 2 (5.71%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) QA Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) .NET
1 7 (20.00%) XML
2 6 (17.14%) Middleware
2 6 (17.14%) Web Services
3 5 (14.29%) Kafka
3 5 (14.29%) REST
3 5 (14.29%) SOAP
3 5 (14.29%) Spring
3 5 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.57%) HTML
5 2 (5.71%) ADO.NET
5 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (5.71%) JSF
5 2 (5.71%) JSP
5 2 (5.71%) Regular Expression
5 2 (5.71%) RESTful
5 2 (5.71%) XBRL
5 2 (5.71%) XSL
5 2 (5.71%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
1 4 (11.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
1 4 (11.43%) Replication
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.71%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.71%) Equities
3 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.86%) Derivative
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.86%) Grid Computing
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 30 (85.71%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Windows
3 3 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.86%) AIX
5 1 (2.86%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) CI/CD
2 10 (28.57%) Agile
3 9 (25.71%) Test Automation
4 8 (22.86%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (22.86%) Risk Management
4 8 (22.86%) SDLC
5 7 (20.00%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 6 (17.14%) High Availability
6 6 (17.14%) Unit Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 5 (14.29%) Functional Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Refactoring
7 5 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (11.43%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
8 4 (11.43%) Electronic Trading
8 4 (11.43%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) Python
1 23 (65.71%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) Java
3 9 (25.71%) Shell Script
4 5 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 4 (11.43%) C#
6 3 (8.57%) Perl
7 2 (5.71%) C
7 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.71%) ProC
7 2 (5.71%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.86%) Korn
8 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) ISEB
4 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) HP Fortify
3 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.71%) Puppet
4 1 (2.86%) Control-M
4 1 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (2.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) IBM
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Sitecore
2 4 (11.43%) Solace
3 3 (8.57%) Murex
3 3 (8.57%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.57%) SAP
3 3 (8.57%) Splunk
4 2 (5.71%) SaltStack
4 2 (5.71%) Sybase
5 1 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.86%) IBM Sterling