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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 88 93
Rank change year-on-year -31 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Unix 20 39 39
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.80% 2.06% 1.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.99% 15.35% 12.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 30 31
10th Percentile £590 £365 £383
25th Percentile £605 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% -19.23% +18.18%
75th Percentile £738 £664 £788
90th Percentile £895 £691 £900
London median daily rate £590 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +17.98% -16.67% +2.56%

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 154 254 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.18% 13.42% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 184 225
10th Percentile £185 £233 £195
25th Percentile £228 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +13.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £706 £725
London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £19.41 £21.75 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £22.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £24.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% +6.52% -34.29%
75th Percentile £22.72 £106.38 £27.00
90th Percentile £23.31 £155.05 £28.43
London median hourly rate £27.00 £24.58 £22.00
% change year-on-year +9.85% +11.73% -49.71%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -39 12 £663 +15.22% 12
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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (5.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (5.00%) GitHub
1 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Multicast
2 1 (5.00%) RTP
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) KDB
2 2 (10.00%) Kdb+
2 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) Tick Data
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.00%) Data Mart
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.00%) Introscope
4 1 (5.00%) Maven
4 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (80.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.00%) Front Office
6 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Senior
2 9 (45.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) Software Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) KDB Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) Django
2 1 (5.00%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (20.00%) Fixed Income
4 2 (10.00%) Derivative
5 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
5 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Equities
5 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
5 1 (5.00%) PMI
5 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (95.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) AIX
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 4 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
6 2 (10.00%) High Availability
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (10.00%) SDLC
7 1 (5.00%) Performance Management
7 1 (5.00%) Release Management
7 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (5.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) C++
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) Python
4 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (15.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) C#
6 1 (5.00%) Jython
6 1 (5.00%) Korn
6 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) CA Wily
2 1 (5.00%) Control-M
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Solace
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.00%) MarketAxess
3 1 (5.00%) Murex
3 1 (5.00%) Sybase
3 1 (5.00%) Tradeweb