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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 97 87
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing Unix 49 37 48
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.41% 1.60% 1.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 24.02% 12.98% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 35
10th Percentile £359 £423 £368
25th Percentile £444 £500 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £738 £688 £731
90th Percentile £863 £780 £933
London median daily rate £565 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -1.31% -4.58% -
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 £27.75 - £22.00
% change year-on-year - - -71.61%

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 204 285 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.04% 12.32% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 194 282
10th Percentile £200 £207 £185
25th Percentile £325 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £614 £600
90th Percentile £775 £704 £700
London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £19.46 - -
25th Percentile £20.33 - -
Median hourly rate £24.88 £112.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -77.78% +491.65% -7.66%
75th Percentile £28.94 - -
90th Percentile £29.28 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -45.62% +42.31% +30.00%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 -12 28 £575 -4.17% 39
City of Westminster - 1 £475 -
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 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.04%) ION MarketView
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.20%) AWS
1 5 (10.20%) Azure
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
2 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (2.04%) GCP
2 1 (2.04%) GitHub
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) HTTP
1 2 (4.08%) SSL
1 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.04%) SAN
2 1 (2.04%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) Oracle Database
2 4 (8.16%) KDB
2 4 (8.16%) Kdb+
2 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.12%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.12%) Redis
3 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.08%) SQLPlus
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.04%) Big Data
5 1 (2.04%) Data Mart
5 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.04%) MySQL
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 7 (14.29%) JIRA
2 5 (10.20%) Git
3 4 (8.16%) JUnit
3 4 (8.16%) Maven
4 3 (6.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (6.12%) Mockito
4 3 (6.12%) Postman
4 3 (6.12%) REST Assured
4 3 (6.12%) SoapUI
4 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
4 3 (6.12%) Subversion
4 3 (6.12%) Xcode
4 3 (6.12%) XCTest
5 2 (4.08%) QUnit
5 2 (4.08%) Robot Framework
5 2 (4.08%) Toad
6 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (75.51%) Finance
2 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Banking
4 7 (14.29%) Financial Institution
5 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (12.24%) Front Office
6 3 (6.12%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Legal
8 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Senior
2 17 (34.69%) C++ Software Engineer
2 17 (34.69%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 17 (34.69%) Senior Software Engineer
2 17 (34.69%) Software Engineer
3 13 (26.53%) Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (6.12%) KDB Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) C++ Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Data Analyst
7 1 (2.04%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) Kafka
2 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
2 4 (8.16%) Hibernate
2 4 (8.16%) JPA
2 4 (8.16%) Spring
2 4 (8.16%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.12%) Bootstrap
3 3 (6.12%) CSS
3 3 (6.12%) CSS3
3 3 (6.12%) HTML
3 3 (6.12%) HTML5
3 3 (6.12%) J2EE
3 3 (6.12%) Material-UI
3 3 (6.12%) REST
3 3 (6.12%) SOAP
3 3 (6.12%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Spring MVC
3 3 (6.12%) Swagger
3 3 (6.12%) Web Services
4 2 (4.08%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (10.20%) Algorithms
3 5 (10.20%) Fixed Income
4 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.08%) Derivative
5 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.04%) Equities
6 1 (2.04%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.04%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 31 (63.27%) Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Solaris
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (53.06%) Agile
2 18 (36.73%) Software Engineering
3 13 (26.53%) Mentoring
4 11 (22.45%) Low Latency
5 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.29%) SDLC
7 6 (12.24%) Electronic Trading
7 6 (12.24%) Risk Management
8 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (10.20%) High Availability
8 5 (10.20%) Migration
8 5 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (10.20%) Quantitative Finance
8 5 (10.20%) Software Delivery
8 5 (10.20%) Unit Testing
9 4 (8.16%) Computer Science
9 4 (8.16%) Concurrent Programming
9 4 (8.16%) DevOps
9 4 (8.16%) Multithreading
9 4 (8.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (57.14%) SQL
2 18 (36.73%) C++
3 11 (22.45%) Python
4 9 (18.37%) Java
5 8 (16.33%) Shell Script
6 7 (14.29%) Perl
7 4 (8.16%) C#
7 4 (8.16%) PL/SQL
8 3 (6.12%) Groovy
8 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
9 2 (4.08%) PHP
10 1 (2.04%) Bash
10 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (44.90%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.04%) CISSP
2 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Postgraduate
2 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Ansible
2 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (2.04%) Ambari
4 1 (2.04%) Puppet
4 1 (2.04%) Rundeck
4 1 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.20%) Splunk
4 3 (6.12%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (6.12%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.08%) Bloomberg
5 2 (4.08%) F5
5 2 (4.08%) MarketAxess
5 2 (4.08%) Tradeweb
6 1 (2.04%) IBM
6 1 (2.04%) ION Trading
6 1 (2.04%) Murex
6 1 (2.04%) Qualys
6 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) Solace
6 1 (2.04%) Sybase
6 1 (2.04%) Symantec
6 1 (2.04%) Vertica
6 1 (2.04%) VMware