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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 157 136
Rank change year-on-year -50 -21 -47
Contract jobs citing Unix 210 221 330
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.25% 1.74% 1.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.62% 14.43% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 146 243
10th Percentile £363 £363 £383
25th Percentile £432 £425 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £726 £675 £750
90th Percentile £750 £775 £850
England median daily rate £469 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -10.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £22.15
75th Percentile £29.50 - £22.23
90th Percentile - - £22.27
England median hourly rate £28.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -49.09% +37.50% -30.43%

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 1,436 1,532 2,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.54% 12.05% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 949 1,081 1,585
10th Percentile £204 £250 £196
25th Percentile £358 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £702 £750 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 71
10th Percentile £20.18 £17.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.19 £18.93
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +12.09% -14.43%
75th Percentile £26.54 £34.25 £33.75
90th Percentile £48.25 £59.20 £60.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -16.07% +27.27% -23.34%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -16 33 £575 +15.00% 7
West London -18 5 £208 -64.59% 1
South London -18 3 £600 +28.00% 3
East London -1 2 £416 +4.00% 1
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 9 (4.29%) Apache
2 7 (3.33%) Confluence
3 6 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.38%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.43%) nginx
7 2 (0.95%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.95%) SAS
7 2 (0.95%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.48%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.38%) Summit
2 4 (1.90%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (0.95%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 50 (23.81%) AWS
2 38 (18.10%) Azure
3 23 (10.95%) GitHub
4 10 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (4.29%) Serverless
6 8 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (2.86%) Azure API Management
7 6 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.90%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.90%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.43%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (1.43%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (1.43%) GCP
9 3 (1.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.81%) InfiniBand
2 7 (3.33%) Ethernet
2 7 (3.33%) Firewall
2 7 (3.33%) NetScaler
2 7 (3.33%) Wireless
3 6 (2.86%) VPN
4 5 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.38%) HTTP
4 5 (2.38%) RTP
5 4 (1.90%) FIX Connectivity
5 4 (1.90%) MPLS
6 3 (1.43%) Network Security
6 3 (1.43%) SSH
7 2 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.95%) DNS
7 2 (0.95%) FTP
7 2 (0.95%) WAN
8 1 (0.48%) DHCP
8 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.48%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.05%) Relational Database
2 16 (7.62%) KDB
2 16 (7.62%) Kdb+
3 11 (5.24%) MySQL
3 11 (5.24%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.24%) Tick Data
4 10 (4.76%) Metadata
4 10 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.29%) RDBMS
6 8 (3.81%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.33%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.90%) DB2
8 4 (1.90%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (1.90%) SQLPlus
9 3 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.43%) Big Data
9 3 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.43%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 19 (9.05%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.62%) Git
3 15 (7.14%) JIRA
4 8 (3.81%) GitLab
5 7 (3.33%) Maven
6 6 (2.86%) JUnit
7 5 (2.38%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.38%) Toad
8 4 (1.90%) Ant
8 4 (1.90%) Selenium
8 4 (1.90%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.43%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.95%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.48%) Introscope
11 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.48%) TestDirector
General
1 93 (44.29%) Finance
2 44 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 43 (20.48%) Banking
4 27 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (10.48%) Front Office
6 19 (9.05%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.29%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.81%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Retail
9 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.43%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (26.67%) Developer
2 52 (24.76%) Senior
3 18 (8.57%) Analyst
3 18 (8.57%) Linux Engineer
4 17 (8.10%) Unix Engineer
4 17 (8.10%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 15 (7.14%) Kafka Engineer
5 15 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 15 (7.14%) Senior Unix Engineer
5 15 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 14 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 13 (6.19%) C++ Software Engineer
7 13 (6.19%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 13 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (5.24%) KDB Developer
8 11 (5.24%) Python Developer
9 9 (4.29%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.81%) Kafka
2 15 (7.14%) XML
3 12 (5.71%) Middleware
3 12 (5.71%) REST
4 9 (4.29%) FIX Protocol
4 9 (4.29%) React
5 8 (3.81%) RESTful
5 8 (3.81%) SOAP
6 7 (3.33%) OpenAPI
6 7 (3.33%) PySpark
6 7 (3.33%) XSD
7 6 (2.86%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (2.86%) JSON
7 6 (2.86%) Lambda Expressions
8 5 (2.38%) .NET
8 5 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.38%) HTML
8 5 (2.38%) Spring
8 5 (2.38%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.67%) Fixed Income
4 13 (6.19%) Derivative
5 12 (5.71%) Equities
5 12 (5.71%) Onboarding
6 11 (5.24%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.81%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.33%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (3.33%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.86%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (2.86%) Market Risk
10 5 (2.38%) Credit Risk
10 5 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.38%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 158 (75.24%) Linux
2 48 (22.86%) Windows
3 6 (2.86%) AIX
4 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.43%) VMS
6 2 (0.95%) Solaris
6 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.48%) CentOS
7 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.48%) Rocky
7 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (36.19%) Agile
2 41 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (17.14%) DevOps
4 31 (14.76%) Software Engineering
5 29 (13.81%) CI/CD
5 29 (13.81%) Low Latency
6 26 (12.38%) Analytics
7 23 (10.95%) Migration
8 18 (8.57%) Computer Science
8 18 (8.57%) Data Modelling
8 18 (8.57%) Observability
8 18 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (8.57%) TDD
9 17 (8.10%) OO
10 16 (7.62%) Electronic Trading
10 16 (7.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (7.62%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (7.14%) Containerisation
11 15 (7.14%) Microservices
12 14 (6.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (48.10%) SQL
2 68 (32.38%) Python
3 56 (26.67%) Java
4 48 (22.86%) Shell Script
5 32 (15.24%) C++
6 27 (12.86%) C#
7 20 (9.52%) Perl
8 18 (8.57%) Bash
9 14 (6.67%) JavaScript
10 13 (6.19%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.33%) Korn
12 6 (2.86%) PHP
13 4 (1.90%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.90%) Scala
14 2 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.95%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.48%) Bicep
15 1 (0.48%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.48%) R
15 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (15.24%) Degree
2 23 (10.95%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.10%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.38%) OSCP
6 4 (1.90%) GPEN
6 4 (1.90%) GWAPT
7 3 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.95%) CISSP
8 2 (0.95%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.95%) PMP
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.48%) CISM
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) RHCA
9 1 (0.48%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.76%) QA
2 8 (3.81%) SLA
3 6 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.86%) NIST
4 4 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.43%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.43%) SEPA
6 2 (0.95%) ISO 15022
6 2 (0.95%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.48%) GMP
System Software
1 31 (14.76%) Docker
2 6 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.43%) GridGain
3 3 (1.43%) NFS
4 2 (0.95%) Postfix
4 2 (0.95%) Varnish
4 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.95%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.48%) Ceph
5 1 (0.48%) HDFS
5 1 (0.48%) iptables
5 1 (0.48%) KVM
5 1 (0.48%) Lustre
5 1 (0.48%) Samba
5 1 (0.48%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.48%) Terraform
3 21 (10.00%) Ansible
4 9 (4.29%) Grafana
4 9 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.38%) Salt
6 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.43%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.43%) Puppet
8 2 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.95%) SCCM
9 1 (0.48%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.48%) Control-M
9 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.48%) SELinux
Vendors
1 58 (27.62%) Oracle
2 22 (10.48%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.62%) ServiceNow
4 13 (6.19%) Splunk
5 9 (4.29%) IBM
6 8 (3.81%) Aruba
6 8 (3.81%) Cisco
6 8 (3.81%) Sybase
7 7 (3.33%) Arista
7 7 (3.33%) CheckPoint
7 7 (3.33%) F5
7 7 (3.33%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.86%) BigPanda
8 6 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.86%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.86%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.38%) Databricks
9 5 (2.38%) Murex
10 4 (1.90%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.43%) Hortonworks