Unix Engineer Contracts in London

Unix Engineer
England > London

The median Unix Engineer daily rate in London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 384 470
Rank change year-on-year +39 +86 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 8 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.039% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.042% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 19
10th Percentile £568 £250 £519
25th Percentile £725 £388 £554
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +39.53% -10.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £775 £563 £700
90th Percentile - £568 -
England median daily rate £475 £538 £548
% change year-on-year -11.63% -1.83% +17.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Unix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Engineer in London

Unix Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Unix Engineer in London

Unix Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix Engineer in London

Unix Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Unix Engineer in London

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Unix Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Unix
2 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 6 (75.00%) High Availability
2 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Canary Deployment
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) OpenStack
3 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 5 (62.50%) Dynatrace
3 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 5 (62.50%) Docker
3 5 (62.50%) Groovy
3 5 (62.50%) nginx
3 5 (62.50%) Apache
3 5 (62.50%) Python
3 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
4 4 (50.00%) HTTP
4 4 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (50.00%) Splunk
4 4 (50.00%) AppDynamics
4 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (12.50%) Windows
5 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (12.50%) Finance

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (62.50%) Apache
1 5 (62.50%) nginx
1 5 (62.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Unix
2 6 (75.00%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) High Availability
1 6 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Canary Deployment
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Groovy
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) Java
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Dynatrace
2 4 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 4 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) VMware