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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 93 95
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Unix 46 35 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.25% 1.65% 1.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 26.29% 12.77% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 31
10th Percentile £439 £423 £413
25th Percentile £473 £500 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £630 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.45% +0.72% +8.70%
75th Percentile £766 £688 £925
90th Percentile £956 £796 £938
London median daily rate £565 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -5.83% -4.00% +4.17%
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 - £22.08
% change year-on-year - - -71.52%

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 175 274 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.55% 12.93% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 187 260
10th Percentile £196 £215 £195
25th Percentile £325 £350 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £501 £478
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +4.82% -9.05%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £771 £709 £738
London median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £19.26 £39.40 -
25th Percentile £19.85 £66.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £26.60 - £23.75
90th Percentile £28.34 - -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £26.54 £25.79
% change year-on-year -5.22% +2.89% +3.16%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -9 24 £598 -9.33% 10
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 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) ION MarketView
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.70%) AWS
2 3 (6.52%) Azure
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.17%) GCP
3 1 (2.17%) GitHub
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) HTTP
1 2 (4.35%) SSL
1 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.17%) SAN
2 1 (2.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) KDB
1 4 (8.70%) Kdb+
2 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.52%) RDBMS
2 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.35%) SQLPlus
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.17%) Big Data
4 1 (2.17%) Data Mart
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.17%) MySQL
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (2.17%) Redis
4 1 (2.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.52%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) JUnit
3 2 (4.35%) Maven
3 2 (4.35%) QUnit
3 2 (4.35%) Robot Framework
3 2 (4.35%) Toad
4 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.17%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Mockito
4 1 (2.17%) Postman
4 1 (2.17%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.17%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.17%) Subversion
4 1 (2.17%) Xcode
4 1 (2.17%) XCTest
General
1 35 (76.09%) Finance
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Banking
3 6 (13.04%) Financial Institution
3 6 (13.04%) Front Office
4 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (50.00%) Senior
2 20 (43.48%) C++ Software Engineer
2 20 (43.48%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 20 (43.48%) Senior Software Engineer
2 20 (43.48%) Software Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Analyst
4 4 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.52%) KDB Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) C++ Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
1 2 (4.35%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
1 2 (4.35%) JPA
1 2 (4.35%) Kafka
1 2 (4.35%) Middleware
1 2 (4.35%) Spring
1 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.17%) CSS
2 1 (2.17%) HTML
2 1 (2.17%) HTML5
2 1 (2.17%) J2EE
2 1 (2.17%) Murex MxML
2 1 (2.17%) React
2 1 (2.17%) SOAP
2 1 (2.17%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Spring MVC
2 1 (2.17%) Swagger
2 1 (2.17%) Web Services
2 1 (2.17%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (17.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (10.87%) Algorithms
3 5 (10.87%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.35%) Derivative
4 2 (4.35%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Equities
5 1 (2.17%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 33 (71.74%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Solaris
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (54.35%) Agile
2 20 (43.48%) Software Engineering
3 11 (23.91%) Low Latency
4 10 (21.74%) Mentoring
5 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (13.04%) Electronic Trading
6 6 (13.04%) Risk Management
7 5 (10.87%) High Availability
7 5 (10.87%) Migration
7 5 (10.87%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (10.87%) Quantitative Finance
7 5 (10.87%) SDLC
8 4 (8.70%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.70%) Software Delivery
9 3 (6.52%) Algorithmic Trading
9 3 (6.52%) ETL
9 3 (6.52%) Physics
9 3 (6.52%) Release Management
9 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (6.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) SQL
2 20 (43.48%) C++
3 10 (21.74%) Python
4 7 (15.22%) Java
4 7 (15.22%) Perl
5 5 (10.87%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.52%) C#
6 3 (6.52%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.35%) PHP
8 1 (2.17%) Bash
8 1 (2.17%) Groovy
8 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (52.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) CISSP
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Oracle
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Splunk
4 2 (4.35%) AppDynamics
4 2 (4.35%) Bloomberg
4 2 (4.35%) F5
4 2 (4.35%) MarketAxess
4 2 (4.35%) Tradeweb
5 1 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.17%) IBM
5 1 (2.17%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.17%) Murex
5 1 (2.17%) Qualys
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Solace
5 1 (2.17%) Sybase
5 1 (2.17%) Symantec
5 1 (2.17%) Vertica
5 1 (2.17%) VMware