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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 88 103
Rank change year-on-year -32 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing Unix 26 37 36
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.00% 1.91% 1.51%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.76% 14.40% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 30 30
10th Percentile £379 £374 £376
25th Percentile £475 £406 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £668 £769
90th Percentile £733 £697 £903
London median daily rate £550 £500 £567
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.82% -1.39%

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 189 257 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.23% 13.25% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 185 227
10th Percentile £187 £243 £212
25th Percentile £256 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £648
90th Percentile £671 £705 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £22.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.13 £21.69
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.50 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -26.42% +7.61% -29.64%
75th Percentile £19.75 £69.56 £27.00
90th Percentile - £140.33 £28.19
London median hourly rate £27.00 £24.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -56.00%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -25 22 £610 +5.09% 1
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 2 (7.69%) Confluence
1 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (3.85%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.85%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (3.85%) GitHub
2 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Multicast
2 2 (7.69%) Internet
2 2 (7.69%) Intranet
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) KDB
1 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.54%) Kdb+
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database
2 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) SQLPlus
3 2 (7.69%) Tick Data
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (3.85%) Data Mart
4 1 (3.85%) Db2
4 1 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.54%) Artifactory
2 3 (11.54%) Git
2 3 (11.54%) JIRA
3 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
3 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
3 2 (7.69%) Zephyr
4 1 (3.85%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) Gradle
4 1 (3.85%) Introscope
4 1 (3.85%) Maven
4 1 (3.85%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (76.92%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Banking
3 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
4 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Front Office
6 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.85%) Law
7 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 8 (30.77%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) KDB Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Database Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Middleware Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Murex Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) .NET
1 4 (15.38%) Middleware
1 4 (15.38%) XML
2 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.69%) ADO.NET
2 2 (7.69%) Ajax
2 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
2 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) SOAP
2 2 (7.69%) Web Services
2 2 (7.69%) XSL
2 2 (7.69%) XSLT
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.85%) Django
3 1 (3.85%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (3.85%) Murex MxML
3 1 (3.85%) Playwright
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (15.38%) Fixed Income
2 4 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (7.69%) Credit Risk
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Derivative
3 2 (7.69%) Equities
3 2 (7.69%) Market Risk
3 2 (7.69%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.85%) Grid Computing
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 23 (88.46%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) AIX
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) DevOps
2 7 (26.92%) SDLC
3 6 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 6 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 5 (19.23%) Low Latency
4 5 (19.23%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 4 (15.38%) Electronic Trading
5 4 (15.38%) Functional Testing
5 4 (15.38%) High Availability
5 4 (15.38%) Refactoring
5 4 (15.38%) Scrum
5 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
5 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) SQL
2 14 (53.85%) Python
3 8 (30.77%) Shell Script
4 5 (19.23%) Java
5 4 (15.38%) C#
5 4 (15.38%) C++
5 4 (15.38%) PL/SQL
6 2 (7.69%) C
6 2 (7.69%) ProC
7 1 (3.85%) Jython
7 1 (3.85%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (42.31%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) CA Wily
3 1 (3.85%) Control-M
3 1 (3.85%) Puppet
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Murex
2 4 (15.38%) Sitecore
2 4 (15.38%) Solace
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Sybase
4 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) Splunk