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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 97 79
Rank change year-on-year +11 -18 +19
Contract jobs citing Unix 43 36 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.15% 1.47% 2.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.36% 11.54% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 29 61
10th Percentile £378 £369 £375
25th Percentile £425 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £668 £800 £675
90th Percentile £714 £925 £750
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £81.25
Median hourly rate - - £82.50
75th Percentile - - £83.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - £22.23 £73.25
% change year-on-year - -69.66% +12.69%

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 280 312 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.02% 12.76% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 224 412
10th Percentile £243 £182 £160
25th Percentile £350 £280 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -13.88% +4.50%
75th Percentile £639 £642 £650
90th Percentile £710 £725 £730
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £35.38 £19.86 £22.60
25th Percentile £56.56 £21.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £98.75 £22.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +338.89% -35.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £146.56 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £171.13 £25.70 £64.25
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +13 40 £600 -10.28% 6
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 5 (11.63%) Apache
2 3 (6.98%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) SAS
3 2 (4.65%) nginx
3 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.33%) Confluence
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Actimize
2 1 (2.33%) Kondor
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) Azure
3 3 (6.98%) GCP
3 3 (6.98%) GitHub
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.65%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.33%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.63%) DNS
2 3 (6.98%) DHCP
2 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.98%) VPN
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) HTTP
3 1 (2.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.33%) Multicast
3 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
2 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.98%) Base SAS
3 3 (6.98%) Big Data
3 3 (6.98%) DB2
3 3 (6.98%) Hadoop
3 3 (6.98%) Metadata
3 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.65%) CockroachDB
4 2 (4.65%) DataStage
4 2 (4.65%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.65%) KDB
4 2 (4.65%) MySQL
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.65%) Redis
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.63%) Git
2 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 5 (11.63%) JUnit
3 3 (6.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (6.98%) Subversion
4 2 (4.65%) Maven
4 2 (4.65%) Mockito
4 2 (4.65%) Postman
4 2 (4.65%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.65%) SoapUI
4 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.65%) Xcode
4 2 (4.65%) XCTest
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 20 (46.51%) Finance
3 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Banking
5 4 (9.30%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.98%) Front Office
7 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.33%) Electronics
8 1 (2.33%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.33%) Military
8 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Developer
2 8 (18.60%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Pensions Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Administrator
6 2 (4.65%) Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (4.65%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (4.65%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (4.65%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) SAS Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
1 7 (16.28%) Web Services
2 5 (11.63%) Spring
3 4 (9.30%) HTML
3 4 (9.30%) HTML5
4 3 (6.98%) React
4 3 (6.98%) REST
4 3 (6.98%) RESTful
5 2 (4.65%) Bootstrap
5 2 (4.65%) CSS3
5 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.65%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (4.65%) JPA
5 2 (4.65%) Kafka
5 2 (4.65%) Material-UI
5 2 (4.65%) Node.js
5 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.65%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Spring MVC
5 2 (4.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (6.98%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.98%) Equities
3 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) AS400
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Clustering
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.33%) iSeries
4 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.33%) PKI
4 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (74.42%) Linux
2 9 (20.93%) Windows
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.33%) Android
4 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.33%) Solaris
4 1 (2.33%) SUSE
4 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (30.23%) SDLC
3 11 (25.58%) Agile
4 10 (23.26%) DevOps
5 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
6 7 (16.28%) CI/CD
6 7 (16.28%) Low Latency
6 7 (16.28%) Migration
7 6 (13.95%) Data Migration
7 6 (13.95%) High Availability
8 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
9 4 (9.30%) Cloud Security
9 4 (9.30%) Configuration Management
9 4 (9.30%) Fintech
9 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (9.30%) OO
9 4 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (9.30%) Task Automation
9 4 (9.30%) TDD
9 4 (9.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) SQL
2 15 (34.88%) Python
3 12 (27.91%) Java
3 12 (27.91%) Shell Script
4 7 (16.28%) JavaScript
5 6 (13.95%) Perl
6 4 (9.30%) Groovy
7 3 (6.98%) Bash
7 3 (6.98%) C
7 3 (6.98%) Scala
7 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.65%) PROC SQL
8 2 (4.65%) SAS Macro
9 1 (2.33%) C#
9 1 (2.33%) C++
9 1 (2.33%) COBOL
9 1 (2.33%) JCL
9 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
2 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.33%) NFS
3 1 (2.33%) Veritas File System
3 1 (2.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (18.60%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.95%) Ansible
2 6 (13.95%) Terraform
3 2 (4.65%) Control-M
3 2 (4.65%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.65%) Puppet
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.33%) Netcool
4 1 (2.33%) QRadar
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (2.33%) SCCM
4 1 (2.33%) SCOrch
4 1 (2.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) Oracle
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) Splunk
3 4 (9.30%) Sybase
4 3 (6.98%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.98%) TOWER Software
5 2 (4.65%) Apple
5 2 (4.65%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (4.65%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.65%) Informatica
5 2 (4.65%) Planview
6 1 (2.33%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.33%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) Nexthink
6 1 (2.33%) Qualys
6 1 (2.33%) Refinitiv
6 1 (2.33%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.33%) Veritas