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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 163 118
Rank change year-on-year -82 -45 -31
Contract jobs citing Unix 176 199 366
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.95% 1.62% 2.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.40% 13.79% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 128 273
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £500 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £585
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -14.53% +1.74%
75th Percentile £738 £636 £750
90th Percentile £780 £725 £850
England median daily rate £469 £491 £538
% change year-on-year -4.38% -8.74% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.08
Median hourly rate - - £22.30
75th Percentile - - £23.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +37.50% -31.73%

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 1,419 1,443 2,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.68% 11.77% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 1,003 1,484
10th Percentile £205 £250 £205
25th Percentile £350 £375 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £750
England median daily rate £455 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -3.19% -1.05% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 21 67
10th Percentile £20.51 £21.25 £15.09
25th Percentile £22.21 £23.80 £18.13
Median hourly rate £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.49% +12.09% -56.00%
75th Percentile £60.25 £30.25 £28.19
90th Percentile £75.75 £49.75 £60.57
England median hourly rate £35.79 £20.64 £22.50
% change year-on-year +73.39% -8.27% -47.83%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -33 18 £650 +15.56% 9
South London -12 3 £638 +36.00%
West London -30 1 £650 +60.67% 2
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 (8.52%) Apache
2 11 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (5.68%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.14%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.14%) Confluence
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.57%) CMS
6 1 (0.57%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.57%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Summit
2 2 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.57%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 37 (21.02%) AWS
2 30 (17.05%) Azure
3 20 (11.36%) GitHub
4 16 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.82%) Amazon S3
6 12 (6.82%) Serverless
7 8 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.98%) IaaS
8 7 (3.98%) PaaS
9 6 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.41%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.27%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.70%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (1.70%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (1.70%) dbt
11 3 (1.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.98%) DNS
1 7 (3.98%) Ethernet
1 7 (3.98%) InfiniBand
1 7 (3.98%) NetScaler
1 7 (3.98%) VPN
1 7 (3.98%) Wireless
2 5 (2.84%) Ethernet VPN
2 5 (2.84%) RTP
3 4 (2.27%) Firewall
3 4 (2.27%) FIX Connectivity
3 4 (2.27%) MPLS
4 3 (1.70%) Network Security
5 2 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.14%) FTP
5 2 (1.14%) HTTP
5 2 (1.14%) Multicast
6 1 (0.57%) 5G
6 1 (0.57%) Internet
6 1 (0.57%) SAN
6 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.52%) KDB
2 13 (7.39%) Kdb+
2 13 (7.39%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (6.25%) Metadata
4 10 (5.68%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.11%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.55%) Tick Data
7 7 (3.98%) Big Data
8 6 (3.41%) MySQL
8 6 (3.41%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.84%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.84%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.27%) DB2
10 4 (2.27%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.27%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.27%) Presto
Development Applications
1 25 (14.20%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.93%) Git
3 9 (5.11%) JIRA
4 7 (3.98%) Maven
5 4 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.70%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.70%) GitLab
6 3 (1.70%) REST Assured
6 3 (1.70%) Selenium
7 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.57%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.57%) Introscope
8 1 (0.57%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.57%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (49.43%) Finance
2 53 (30.11%) Banking
3 28 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (14.77%) Social Skills
5 21 (11.93%) Investment Banking
6 19 (10.80%) Front Office
7 9 (5.11%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.55%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.41%) Retail
10 5 (2.84%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.14%) Law
12 2 (1.14%) Local Government
13 1 (0.57%) International Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (28.41%) Senior
2 48 (27.27%) Developer
3 15 (8.52%) Python Developer
4 14 (7.95%) Analyst
4 14 (7.95%) Senior Developer
4 14 (7.95%) Software Engineer
5 13 (7.39%) Data Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) Java Developer
6 12 (6.82%) Linux Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Unix Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Architect
9 9 (5.11%) Kafka Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Senior Unix Engineer
10 8 (4.55%) Applications Support
10 8 (4.55%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.36%) Kafka
2 18 (10.23%) RESTful
3 10 (5.68%) Pandas
3 10 (5.68%) REST
4 9 (5.11%) HTML
4 9 (5.11%) XML
5 8 (4.55%) CSS
5 8 (4.55%) FastAPI
5 8 (4.55%) Flask
6 7 (3.98%) Polars
6 7 (3.98%) PySpark
6 7 (3.98%) React
6 7 (3.98%) Web Services
7 6 (3.41%) Spring
8 5 (2.84%) .NET
8 5 (2.84%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.84%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (2.84%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.27%) Bootstrap
9 4 (2.27%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.52%) Derivative
2 14 (7.95%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.39%) Fixed Income
4 11 (6.25%) Equities
4 11 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 9 (5.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (4.55%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.98%) Equity Derivative
7 7 (3.98%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.98%) Market Risk
8 6 (3.41%) Credit Risk
9 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.84%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.84%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (2.84%) Mainframe
9 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.27%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 139 (78.98%) Linux
2 20 (11.36%) Windows
3 5 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.84%) Solaris
4 2 (1.14%) AIX
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.14%) VMS
5 1 (0.57%) CentOS
5 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.57%) Rocky
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.98%) Agile
2 42 (23.86%) CI/CD
3 36 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (18.18%) DevOps
5 31 (17.61%) Software Engineering
6 27 (15.34%) Analytics
7 22 (12.50%) Migration
8 21 (11.93%) Observability
8 21 (11.93%) Root Cause Analysis
9 20 (11.36%) Low Latency
10 18 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (9.66%) Microservices
11 17 (9.66%) Performance Optimisation
12 16 (9.09%) Containerisation
12 16 (9.09%) Electronic Trading
13 15 (8.52%) Data Engineering
13 15 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (7.95%) Data Modelling
14 14 (7.95%) Performance Tuning
14 14 (7.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 82 (46.59%) SQL
2 67 (38.07%) Python
3 49 (27.84%) Shell Script
4 39 (22.16%) Java
5 27 (15.34%) C++
6 25 (14.20%) C#
7 19 (10.80%) Bash
8 13 (7.39%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.41%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.41%) Scala
10 5 (2.84%) Perl
11 4 (2.27%) Ruby
12 3 (1.70%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.70%) R
13 2 (1.14%) Korn
13 2 (1.14%) PHP
13 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.57%) COBOL
14 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (13.64%) Degree
2 19 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.14%) CISM
5 2 (1.14%) CISSP
5 2 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.57%) CISA
6 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.57%) PMP
6 1 (0.57%) RHCA
6 1 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.55%) SLA
2 6 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.84%) QA
4 4 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.70%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.70%) NIST
5 3 (1.70%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.14%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.57%) GMP
7 1 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (20.45%) Docker
2 6 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.41%) Postfix
2 6 (3.41%) Varnish
3 5 (2.84%) NFS
4 4 (2.27%) Sendmail
5 3 (1.70%) GridGain
6 1 (0.57%) HDFS
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.57%) RACF
6 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 21 (11.93%) Ansible
3 15 (8.52%) Terraform
4 13 (7.39%) Grafana
5 10 (5.68%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.41%) HAProxy
7 5 (2.84%) Kibana
7 5 (2.84%) Salt
8 4 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.70%) Puppet
10 2 (1.14%) Data Guard
10 2 (1.14%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.57%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.57%) Control-M
11 1 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (23.30%) Oracle
2 19 (10.80%) Splunk
3 11 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 9 (5.11%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.11%) Sybase
5 8 (4.55%) Aruba
5 8 (4.55%) Cisco
6 7 (3.98%) Arista
6 7 (3.98%) CheckPoint
6 7 (3.98%) F5
6 7 (3.98%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.41%) BigPanda
7 6 (3.41%) CyberArk
8 5 (2.84%) Databricks
8 5 (2.84%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.84%) Murex
9 4 (2.27%) Cloudera
9 4 (2.27%) Hortonworks
9 4 (2.27%) Solace
9 4 (2.27%) VMware