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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 82 97
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 -11
Contract jobs citing Unix 30 42 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.26% 2.11% 1.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.74% 14.63% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 32 29
10th Percentile £480 £376 £369
25th Percentile £538 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £703 £665 £800
90th Percentile £935 £721 £925
London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% -
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 £28.00 - £22.15
% change year-on-year - - -69.45%

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 152 287 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.40% 14.43% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 204 242
10th Percentile £185 £246 £195
25th Percentile £263 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +14.44% -13.46%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £631
90th Percentile £750 £711 £710
London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £21.39 £35.38 £18.93
25th Percentile £22.24 £56.56 £19.51
Median hourly rate £25.13 £98.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +338.89% -21.74%
75th Percentile £28.05 £146.56 £23.75
90th Percentile £28.92 £171.13 £25.38
London median hourly rate £23.71 £24.66 £22.00
% change year-on-year -3.86% +12.09% -17.31%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -37 20 £575 -4.17% 6
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 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) ION MarketView
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (3.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
1 2 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Multicast
1 1 (3.33%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) KDB
1 4 (13.33%) Kdb+
1 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (10.00%) Tick Data
3 2 (6.67%) SQLPlus
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.33%) Data Mart
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (6.67%) Toad
4 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.33%) Introscope
4 1 (3.33%) Maven
4 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (76.67%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Banking
4 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (13.33%) Financial Institution
5 4 (13.33%) Front Office
6 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Legal
7 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Developer
1 12 (40.00%) Senior
2 11 (36.67%) C++ Software Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) Software Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) KDB Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.33%) C++ Developer
6 1 (3.33%) C++ Software Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Database Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Murex Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) Altair
2 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.33%) Django
2 1 (3.33%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (3.33%) Kafka
2 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.33%) XML
2 1 (3.33%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (16.67%) Fixed Income
4 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (10.00%) Derivative
5 2 (6.67%) Equities
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk
6 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.33%) Market Risk
6 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 22 (73.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) AIX
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Software Engineering
3 9 (30.00%) Low Latency
4 6 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
5 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.33%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
7 3 (10.00%) Analytics
7 3 (10.00%) Migration
7 3 (10.00%) Quantitative Finance
7 3 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
8 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
8 2 (6.67%) Event-Driven
8 2 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (6.67%) Resilience Testing
8 2 (6.67%) SDLC
8 2 (6.67%) Software Delivery
8 2 (6.67%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) C++
1 11 (36.67%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) Python
3 6 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (13.33%) Perl
5 3 (10.00%) C#
6 2 (6.67%) PHP
6 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.33%) Jython
7 1 (3.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
1 2 (6.67%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (3.33%) CA Wily
2 1 (3.33%) Control-M
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.67%) Bloomberg
3 2 (6.67%) MarketAxess
3 2 (6.67%) Splunk
3 2 (6.67%) Tradeweb
4 1 (3.33%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.33%) Murex
4 1 (3.33%) Solace
4 1 (3.33%) Sybase