Unix Contract Job Trends in London

Unix
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 182 119
Rank change year-on-year -70 -63 -32
Contract jobs citing Unix 210 206 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.04% 1.53% 2.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.50% 13.32% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 134 245
10th Percentile £359 £358 £354
25th Percentile £450 £411 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% -5.68% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £684 £688
90th Percentile £819 £775 £875
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £54.75 £25.65
% change year-on-year -4.11% +113.45% -61.72%

All Operating Systems
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,680 1,547 2,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.31% 11.49% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 1,031 1,383
10th Percentile £206 £225 £226
25th Percentile £350 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £491 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -1.90% -9.09%
75th Percentile £597 £625 £600
90th Percentile £706 £738 £725
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 40
10th Percentile £17.77 £18.87 £19.81
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.94
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £23.98
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +4.90% -40.06%
75th Percentile £25.78 £25.18 £42.75
90th Percentile £53.28 £58.93 £61.74
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +35.42% -38.46% -8.24%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Unix job vacancy trend in London

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unix

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in London over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in London

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Unix

Unix
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Central London -25 33 £624 +13.36% 11
West London -28 2 £500 +23.61% 13
South London - 2 £638 - 5
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 14 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.24%) Apache
3 9 (4.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 8 (3.81%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.81%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.38%) SAS
6 4 (1.90%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (1.43%) Confluence
8 2 (0.95%) CMS
8 2 (0.95%) IIS
9 1 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.48%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.48%) nginx
9 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (1.90%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.90%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 4 (1.90%) Oracle FAH
1 4 (1.90%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (1.90%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 4 (1.90%) Oracle iProcurement
1 4 (1.90%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (1.90%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (1.90%) Summit
2 3 (1.43%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 52 (24.76%) AWS
2 40 (19.05%) Azure
3 23 (10.95%) GitHub
4 16 (7.62%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (6.67%) IaaS
6 13 (6.19%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.71%) GCP
7 12 (5.71%) Serverless
8 9 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.29%) PaaS
8 9 (4.29%) SaaS
9 8 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.86%) dbt
12 5 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (2.38%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.90%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.24%) DNS
2 10 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.29%) Firewall
4 8 (3.81%) SAN
5 7 (3.33%) HTTP
6 5 (2.38%) Kerberos
6 5 (2.38%) Multicast
6 5 (2.38%) NAS
6 5 (2.38%) SSL
7 4 (1.90%) DHCP
7 4 (1.90%) LAN
7 4 (1.90%) WAN
8 3 (1.43%) Internet
8 3 (1.43%) RTP
8 3 (1.43%) VPN
9 2 (0.95%) Intranet
9 2 (0.95%) SSH
10 1 (0.48%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.48%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.57%) Oracle Database
1 18 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.19%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.71%) KDB
4 11 (5.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 11 (5.24%) Metadata
5 10 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.29%) MongoDB
6 9 (4.29%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.81%) Db2
8 7 (3.33%) Kdb+
9 6 (2.86%) RDBMS
9 6 (2.86%) Tableau
10 5 (2.38%) Big Data
10 5 (2.38%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.38%) MySQL
10 5 (2.38%) PowerCenter
11 4 (1.90%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 42 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 38 (18.10%) Git
3 11 (5.24%) JIRA
4 8 (3.81%) eggPlant
4 8 (3.81%) Selenium
5 7 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.33%) JUnit
6 6 (2.86%) Maven
6 6 (2.86%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.38%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.38%) HP UFT
7 5 (2.38%) JMeter
7 5 (2.38%) LoadRunner
7 5 (2.38%) Postman
7 5 (2.38%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.90%) GitLab
8 4 (1.90%) Gradle
8 4 (1.90%) JDeveloper
8 4 (1.90%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 99 (47.14%) Finance
2 64 (30.48%) Banking
3 53 (25.24%) Social Skills
4 47 (22.38%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (10.95%) Investment Banking
6 20 (9.52%) Front Office
7 7 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.86%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.38%) Retail
10 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.90%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.43%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Aviation
12 2 (0.95%) Back Office
12 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Law
12 2 (0.95%) Local Government
12 2 (0.95%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 69 (32.86%) Developer
2 47 (22.38%) Senior
3 24 (11.43%) Java Developer
4 23 (10.95%) Senior Developer
5 21 (10.00%) Python Developer
6 19 (9.05%) Data Engineer
7 16 (7.62%) Applications Support
8 13 (6.19%) Lead
9 11 (5.24%) Architect
9 11 (5.24%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (4.76%) AWS Developer
11 8 (3.81%) Senior Java Developer
11 8 (3.81%) Senior Python Developer
11 8 (3.81%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.33%) Consultant
12 7 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
12 7 (3.33%) SQL Developer
13 6 (2.86%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 6 (2.86%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (17.62%) Kafka
2 30 (14.29%) RESTful
3 21 (10.00%) REST
3 21 (10.00%) XML
4 17 (8.10%) Middleware
4 17 (8.10%) Spring
5 16 (7.62%) Terraform
6 15 (7.14%) Flask
6 15 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 15 (7.14%) Web Services
7 14 (6.67%) Pandas
8 13 (6.19%) .NET
8 13 (6.19%) FastAPI
8 13 (6.19%) HTML
9 12 (5.71%) PySpark
10 10 (4.76%) SOAP
11 9 (4.29%) CSS
11 9 (4.29%) Django
12 7 (3.33%) Polars
13 6 (2.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.52%) Fixed Income
2 17 (8.10%) Derivative
2 17 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 14 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 14 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (6.19%) Cloud Native
6 11 (5.24%) Market Risk
6 11 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (4.29%) Equities
7 9 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.81%) Mainframe
8 8 (3.81%) Public Cloud
9 7 (3.33%) Hedge funds
9 7 (3.33%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.86%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.86%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 160 (76.19%) Linux
2 33 (15.71%) Windows
3 20 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.81%) Solaris
5 7 (3.33%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.38%) AIX
7 3 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.95%) SUSE
9 1 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) HPUX
9 1 (0.48%) Rocky
9 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.48%) VMS
9 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (33.81%) CI/CD
2 66 (31.43%) DevOps
3 51 (24.29%) Agile
4 45 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 30 (14.29%) Migration
6 29 (13.81%) Root Cause Analysis
7 28 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
7 28 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
8 27 (12.86%) Analytics
8 27 (12.86%) Microservices
8 27 (12.86%) SDLC
9 25 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (11.43%) Event-Driven
10 24 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
11 23 (10.95%) Containerisation
11 23 (10.95%) Data Modelling
12 21 (10.00%) Low Latency
12 21 (10.00%) Test Strategy
13 20 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (50.00%) Python
2 104 (49.52%) SQL
3 66 (31.43%) Java
4 65 (30.95%) Shell Script
5 22 (10.48%) Bash
6 21 (10.00%) C#
7 19 (9.05%) Perl
8 17 (8.10%) C++
9 16 (7.62%) JavaScript
10 15 (7.14%) PL/SQL
11 10 (4.76%) C
12 8 (3.81%) PowerShell
13 5 (2.38%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.90%) Scala
14 4 (1.90%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.43%) Go
15 3 (1.43%) Korn
15 3 (1.43%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.43%) Ruby
15 3 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (16.19%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.05%) Degree
4 6 (2.86%) ISEB
4 6 (2.86%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.43%) CISSP
7 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.95%) CISM
7 2 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.48%) CRISC
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.14%) QA
2 14 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.33%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.38%) ISO 15022
4 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.90%) NIST
5 4 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.43%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.95%) SEPA
8 1 (0.48%) GRC
8 1 (0.48%) SLA
8 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (18.57%) Docker
2 10 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.81%) NFS
4 4 (1.90%) Postfix
4 4 (1.90%) Varnish
5 3 (1.43%) GridGain
5 3 (1.43%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.48%) Firmware
7 1 (0.48%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.48%) RACF
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 26 (12.38%) Ansible
3 15 (7.14%) Grafana
4 11 (5.24%) Control-M
4 11 (5.24%) Progress Chef
5 10 (4.76%) Puppet
6 9 (4.29%) Kibana
6 9 (4.29%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.38%) HP Fortify
7 5 (2.38%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (1.90%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.90%) HAProxy
9 3 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.95%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.48%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.48%) Nessus
11 1 (0.48%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.48%) SCCM
11 1 (0.48%) WMI
Vendors
1 62 (29.52%) Oracle
2 29 (13.81%) Splunk
3 15 (7.14%) IBM
3 15 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 14 (6.67%) Sybase
5 12 (5.71%) Microsoft
6 11 (5.24%) Solace
7 10 (4.76%) Dynatrace
8 9 (4.29%) SaltStack
9 7 (3.33%) CyberArk
9 7 (3.33%) Informatica
9 7 (3.33%) SAP
10 6 (2.86%) Murex
10 6 (2.86%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.38%) Databricks
11 5 (2.38%) F5
11 5 (2.38%) Greenplum
11 5 (2.38%) TIBCO
11 5 (2.38%) VMware
12 4 (1.90%) Zscaler