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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 157 133
Rank change year-on-year -47 -24 -41
Contract jobs citing Unix 206 229 340
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.28% 1.77% 1.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.14% 14.90% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 150 251
10th Percentile £356 £369 £383
25th Percentile £416 £464 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £727 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £810 £825
England median daily rate £459 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -12.62% -4.55% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £26.28 - -
25th Percentile £26.31 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 - £22.15
75th Percentile £29.31 - £22.23
90th Percentile £29.43 - £22.27
England median hourly rate £27.88 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -48.37% +35.00% -38.70%

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 1,457 1,537 2,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.04% 11.85% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 1,046 1,635
10th Percentile £206 £234 £194
25th Percentile £356 £369 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 68
10th Percentile £20.69 £18.32 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.89 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.50 £26.54 £22.08
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% +20.20% -14.14%
75th Percentile £25.15 £56.50 £38.87
90th Percentile £41.85 £107.90 £63.25
England median hourly rate £22.81 £34.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -33.88% +53.33% -15.09%

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 10 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 10 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 -14 35 £575 -8.00% 5
West London -18 5 £208 -64.59% 1
South London -17 3 - - 1
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 10 (4.85%) Confluence
2 7 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.43%) Apache
4 4 (1.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.46%) nginx
5 3 (1.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.97%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.97%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.97%) SAS
6 2 (0.97%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.49%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.49%) IIS
7 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.94%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.97%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.97%) Summit
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 44 (21.36%) AWS
2 32 (15.53%) Azure
3 14 (6.80%) GitHub
4 6 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (2.91%) Azure API Management
4 6 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.91%) Serverless
5 4 (1.94%) GCP
5 4 (1.94%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.97%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.97%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (0.97%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.97%) IaaS
7 2 (0.97%) Nutanix
7 2 (0.97%) PaaS
7 2 (0.97%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.97%) SaaS
8 1 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.88%) InfiniBand
2 7 (3.40%) Ethernet
2 7 (3.40%) Firewall
2 7 (3.40%) NetScaler
2 7 (3.40%) Wireless
3 6 (2.91%) VPN
4 5 (2.43%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.43%) HTTP
5 4 (1.94%) FIX Connectivity
5 4 (1.94%) MPLS
6 3 (1.46%) Network Security
6 3 (1.46%) RTP
6 3 (1.46%) SSH
7 2 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.97%) DNS
7 2 (0.97%) WAN
8 1 (0.49%) DHCP
8 1 (0.49%) FTP
8 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.49%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.77%) KDB
1 16 (7.77%) Kdb+
2 14 (6.80%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.31%) Oracle Database
4 11 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.85%) MySQL
6 9 (4.37%) Tick Data
7 8 (3.88%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.91%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.43%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.94%) Metadata
10 4 (1.94%) Oracle Database 10g
10 4 (1.94%) SQLPlus
11 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.46%) Big Data
11 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.46%) DB2
11 3 (1.46%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.97%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (9.22%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.74%) JIRA
3 12 (5.83%) Git
4 9 (4.37%) GitLab
4 9 (4.37%) JUnit
5 7 (3.40%) Maven
6 6 (2.91%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.43%) Selenium
7 5 (2.43%) SoapUI
7 5 (2.43%) Toad
8 4 (1.94%) Ant
8 4 (1.94%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.46%) QUnit
9 3 (1.46%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.46%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (0.97%) Gradle
10 2 (0.97%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.49%) Mockito
General
1 95 (46.12%) Finance
2 47 (22.82%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.50%) Banking
4 23 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (10.68%) Front Office
6 14 (6.80%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.88%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.91%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.43%) Legal
10 4 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.94%) Retail
10 4 (1.94%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.97%) Law
12 1 (0.49%) Back Office
12 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 56 (27.18%) Senior
2 50 (24.27%) Developer
3 20 (9.71%) Software Engineer
4 19 (9.22%) Linux Engineer
5 18 (8.74%) C++ Software Engineer
5 18 (8.74%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 18 (8.74%) Senior Software Engineer
5 18 (8.74%) Unix Engineer
5 18 (8.74%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 17 (8.25%) Analyst
6 17 (8.25%) Kafka Engineer
7 16 (7.77%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 16 (7.77%) Senior Unix Engineer
8 12 (5.83%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.85%) KDB Developer
10 8 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.99%) Kafka
2 15 (7.28%) REST
3 13 (6.31%) Middleware
3 13 (6.31%) XML
4 11 (5.34%) SOAP
5 10 (4.85%) FIX Protocol
5 10 (4.85%) React
6 7 (3.40%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.40%) HTML
6 7 (3.40%) JSON
6 7 (3.40%) OpenAPI
6 7 (3.40%) Spring
6 7 (3.40%) XSD
7 6 (2.91%) CSS
7 6 (2.91%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (2.91%) Lambda Expressions
7 6 (2.91%) RESTful
7 6 (2.91%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.91%) Web Services
8 5 (2.43%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (5.83%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.83%) Equities
3 11 (5.34%) Fixed Income
3 11 (5.34%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.85%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.85%) Derivative
5 9 (4.37%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.88%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.40%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.91%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (2.91%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.43%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.43%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (1.46%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 154 (74.76%) Linux
2 44 (21.36%) Windows
3 6 (2.91%) AIX
4 4 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.97%) CentOS
5 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.97%) Solaris
5 2 (0.97%) VMS
5 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (39.81%) Agile
2 40 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (17.96%) Software Engineering
4 28 (13.59%) DevOps
5 25 (12.14%) Low Latency
6 24 (11.65%) CI/CD
7 21 (10.19%) TDD
8 20 (9.71%) Computer Science
9 19 (9.22%) Migration
10 18 (8.74%) Analytics
11 17 (8.25%) OO
11 17 (8.25%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (7.77%) Microservices
13 15 (7.28%) Root Cause Analysis
14 14 (6.80%) Data Modelling
14 14 (6.80%) Incident Response
14 14 (6.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (6.80%) Risk Management
15 13 (6.31%) Observability
15 13 (6.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 104 (50.49%) SQL
2 59 (28.64%) Python
3 57 (27.67%) Java
4 41 (19.90%) C++
5 35 (16.99%) Shell Script
6 28 (13.59%) C#
7 20 (9.71%) Perl
8 18 (8.74%) Bash
9 16 (7.77%) JavaScript
10 14 (6.80%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.40%) Korn
12 5 (2.43%) PHP
12 5 (2.43%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.43%) Scala
13 2 (0.97%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.97%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.49%) Bicep
14 1 (0.49%) C
14 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 37 (17.96%) Degree
2 19 (9.22%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.43%) OSCP
6 4 (1.94%) GPEN
6 4 (1.94%) GWAPT
6 4 (1.94%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.46%) PMP
8 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.97%) CISSP
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.49%) CISM
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) RHCA
9 1 (0.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.34%) QA
2 8 (3.88%) SLA
3 3 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.46%) NIST
3 3 (1.46%) SEPA
4 2 (0.97%) GMP
4 2 (0.97%) ISO 15022
4 2 (0.97%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (12.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.97%) NFS
3 2 (0.97%) Postfix
3 2 (0.97%) Varnish
3 2 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.97%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.49%) Ceph
4 1 (0.49%) HDFS
4 1 (0.49%) iptables
4 1 (0.49%) KVM
4 1 (0.49%) Lustre
4 1 (0.49%) Samba
4 1 (0.49%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (12.14%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.19%) Terraform
3 19 (9.22%) Ansible
4 10 (4.85%) Grafana
5 9 (4.37%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.43%) Salt
7 4 (1.94%) Puppet
8 3 (1.46%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.46%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.97%) SCCM
10 1 (0.49%) Ambari
10 1 (0.49%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.49%) Control-M
10 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.49%) SELinux
10 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (28.16%) Oracle
2 19 (9.22%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.80%) Splunk
4 13 (6.31%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.37%) IBM
6 8 (3.88%) Aruba
6 8 (3.88%) Cisco
7 7 (3.40%) Arista
7 7 (3.40%) CheckPoint
7 7 (3.40%) F5
7 7 (3.40%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.91%) BigPanda
8 6 (2.91%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.91%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.94%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.94%) Murex
10 3 (1.46%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.46%) Remedy
10 3 (1.46%) Sybase
10 3 (1.46%) VMware