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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 174 118
Rank change year-on-year -82 -56 -30
Contract jobs citing Unix 188 209 358
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.94% 1.54% 2.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.14% 13.36% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 135 250
10th Percentile £365 £361 £350
25th Percentile £450 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £675
90th Percentile £811 £738 £850
England median daily rate £481 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +1.26% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £22.59
25th Percentile - - £23.37
Median hourly rate - - £23.80
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £54.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.11% +99.09% -58.02%

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 1,548 1,564 1,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.73% 11.50% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,068 1,396
10th Percentile £205 £241 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -8.47%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £735
England median daily rate £467 £460 £478
% change year-on-year +1.56% -3.66% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 42 52
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £16.24
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.38
Median hourly rate £21.00 £24.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +10.23% -53.68%
75th Percentile £25.25 £25.23 £31.72
90th Percentile £55.05 £58.98 £61.29
England median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +41.30% -16.36% -35.29%

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 July 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 July 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 -35 26 £638 +22.54% 11
South London - 3 £638 -
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 15 (7.98%) Apache
2 12 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (5.32%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.60%) SAS
6 2 (1.06%) CMS
6 2 (1.06%) Confluence
6 2 (1.06%) IIS
6 2 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.53%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (2.13%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.13%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 4 (2.13%) Oracle FAH
1 4 (2.13%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (2.13%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 4 (2.13%) Oracle iProcurement
1 4 (2.13%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (2.13%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (2.13%) Summit
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.53%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 42 (22.34%) AWS
2 36 (19.15%) Azure
3 20 (10.64%) GitHub
4 16 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.38%) Amazon S3
6 12 (6.38%) Serverless
7 11 (5.85%) IaaS
8 10 (5.32%) PaaS
9 8 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.72%) SaaS
11 6 (3.19%) GCP
12 5 (2.66%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (2.66%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
14 3 (1.60%) AWS CodeBuild
14 3 (1.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.85%) DNS
2 9 (4.79%) Firewall
3 7 (3.72%) SAN
3 7 (3.72%) VPN
4 5 (2.66%) Ethernet
4 5 (2.66%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.66%) HTTP
4 5 (2.66%) InfiniBand
4 5 (2.66%) Multicast
4 5 (2.66%) NAS
4 5 (2.66%) NetScaler
4 5 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.66%) Wireless
5 4 (2.13%) DHCP
5 4 (2.13%) Kerberos
5 4 (2.13%) MPLS
5 4 (2.13%) WAN
6 3 (1.60%) Internet
6 3 (1.60%) LAN
6 3 (1.60%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.91%) Relational Database
2 12 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (5.85%) KDB
3 11 (5.85%) Oracle Database
4 10 (5.32%) Metadata
5 9 (4.79%) Db2
5 9 (4.79%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.26%) Kdb+
6 8 (4.26%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.26%) MySQL
7 6 (3.19%) Big Data
7 6 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.19%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.66%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.66%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.13%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (2.13%) Presto
Development Applications
1 32 (17.02%) Jenkins
2 28 (14.89%) Git
3 9 (4.79%) JIRA
3 9 (4.79%) Maven
4 5 (2.66%) Artifactory
4 5 (2.66%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.13%) GitLab
5 4 (2.13%) JDeveloper
5 4 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (2.13%) Selenium
5 4 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.60%) Gradle
7 2 (1.06%) JUnit
7 2 (1.06%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.06%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.53%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.53%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (48.40%) Finance
2 59 (31.38%) Banking
3 43 (22.87%) Social Skills
4 32 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (12.23%) Investment Banking
6 18 (9.57%) Front Office
7 8 (4.26%) Retail
8 7 (3.72%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.19%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.13%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.60%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.06%) Law
12 2 (1.06%) Local Government
12 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (30.32%) Developer
2 42 (22.34%) Senior
3 20 (10.64%) Senior Developer
4 17 (9.04%) Python Developer
5 16 (8.51%) Applications Support
5 16 (8.51%) Java Developer
6 15 (7.98%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.85%) Architect
8 8 (4.26%) AWS Developer
8 8 (4.26%) Lead
9 7 (3.72%) Analyst
9 7 (3.72%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 7 (3.72%) Java Engineer
9 7 (3.72%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (3.72%) Senior Python Developer
9 7 (3.72%) SQL Developer
9 7 (3.72%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.19%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (3.19%) Senior Java Engineer
10 6 (3.19%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.17%) Kafka
1 21 (11.17%) RESTful
2 19 (10.11%) REST
3 15 (7.98%) Pandas
4 14 (7.45%) XML
5 13 (6.91%) FastAPI
5 13 (6.91%) Flask
5 13 (6.91%) Middleware
6 12 (6.38%) Spring
7 11 (5.85%) PySpark
8 10 (5.32%) Spring Boot
8 10 (5.32%) Web Services
9 9 (4.79%) Django
10 8 (4.26%) CSS
11 7 (3.72%) LDAP
11 7 (3.72%) Polars
12 6 (3.19%) .NET
12 6 (3.19%) JSON
12 6 (3.19%) NumPy
13 5 (2.66%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.17%) Fixed Income
2 17 (9.04%) Derivative
3 14 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (7.45%) Onboarding
4 13 (6.91%) Data Centre
5 11 (5.85%) Market Risk
6 10 (5.32%) Cloud Native
6 10 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (4.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (4.79%) Public Cloud
8 8 (4.26%) Mainframe
8 8 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (3.72%) Hedge funds
9 7 (3.72%) Product Ownership
10 6 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (3.19%) Equities
10 6 (3.19%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.66%) Credit Risk
11 5 (2.66%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (2.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 147 (78.19%) Linux
2 31 (16.49%) Windows
3 14 (7.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.26%) Solaris
5 5 (2.66%) AIX
5 5 (2.66%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.60%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.06%) SUSE
7 2 (1.06%) VMS
8 1 (0.53%) CentOS
8 1 (0.53%) HPUX
8 1 (0.53%) Rocky
8 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.79%) CI/CD
2 45 (23.94%) DevOps
3 42 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
4 40 (21.28%) Agile
5 29 (15.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 27 (14.36%) Analytics
6 27 (14.36%) Migration
7 26 (13.83%) Performance Optimisation
8 24 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (11.17%) Containerisation
9 21 (11.17%) Low Latency
9 21 (11.17%) Test Automation
10 20 (10.64%) Microservices
10 20 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (10.64%) Software Engineering
11 19 (10.11%) Observability
12 18 (9.57%) Code Quality
12 18 (9.57%) SDLC
13 17 (9.04%) Electronic Trading
13 17 (9.04%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (45.74%) Python
2 85 (45.21%) SQL
3 59 (31.38%) Shell Script
4 46 (24.47%) Java
5 22 (11.70%) C#
6 18 (9.57%) Bash
7 15 (7.98%) C++
7 15 (7.98%) JavaScript
8 14 (7.45%) PL/SQL
9 10 (5.32%) Perl
10 6 (3.19%) C
10 6 (3.19%) Scala
11 4 (2.13%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.13%) Ruby
12 3 (1.60%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.06%) PHP
13 2 (1.06%) ProC
13 2 (1.06%) R
13 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.51%) Degree
4 4 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.13%) CISSP
5 3 (1.60%) CISM
6 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) CISA
7 1 (0.53%) CRISC
7 1 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.53%) PMP
7 1 (0.53%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.79%) QA
3 4 (2.13%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.13%) NIST
3 4 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (2.13%) SLA
4 3 (1.60%) ISO 15022
4 3 (1.60%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.53%) GRC
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) SEPA
5 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (18.62%) Docker
2 11 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.79%) NFS
4 5 (2.66%) Postfix
4 5 (2.66%) Varnish
5 4 (2.13%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.60%) GridGain
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.53%) Firmware
8 1 (0.53%) HDFS
8 1 (0.53%) PowerHA
8 1 (0.53%) RACF
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (13.83%) Kubernetes
2 25 (13.30%) Ansible
3 15 (7.98%) Terraform
4 13 (6.91%) Grafana
5 10 (5.32%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.19%) Kibana
6 6 (3.19%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.66%) HAProxy
7 5 (2.66%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (2.66%) Puppet
8 4 (2.13%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.60%) Control-M
9 3 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.60%) Salt
10 2 (1.06%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.53%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.53%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.53%) Opsview
11 1 (0.53%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (25.53%) Oracle
2 26 (13.83%) Splunk
3 13 (6.91%) Sybase
4 11 (5.85%) Microsoft
5 10 (5.32%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.32%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.32%) Solace
6 9 (4.79%) IBM
7 8 (4.26%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.72%) CyberArk
9 6 (3.19%) Aruba
9 6 (3.19%) Cisco
9 6 (3.19%) F5
9 6 (3.19%) Murex
10 5 (2.66%) Arista
10 5 (2.66%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.66%) Databricks
10 5 (2.66%) Greenplum
10 5 (2.66%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.13%) BigPanda