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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 151 133
Rank change year-on-year -52 -18 -43
Contract jobs citing Unix 207 227 335
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.27% 1.76% 1.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.26% 14.69% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 148 247
10th Percentile £356 £363 £383
25th Percentile £416 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £726 £700 £750
90th Percentile £750 £810 £825
England median daily rate £460 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -12.48% -3.45% -1.18%
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 £27.94 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -48.26% +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 1,452 1,545 2,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.94% 11.96% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 958 1,059 1,620
10th Percentile £206 £230 £192
25th Percentile £358 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 69
10th Percentile £20.57 £18.32 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.89 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.00 £26.54 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +20.61% -14.43%
75th Percentile £25.15 £56.50 £36.84
90th Percentile £41.95 £107.90 £62.50
England median hourly rate £22.54 £32.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -30.65% +45.90% -17.50%

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 13 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 13 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 -15 34 £570 -6.94% 19
West London -17 5 £208 -64.59% 1
South London -16 3 - - 2
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 (4.83%) Confluence
2 8 (3.86%) Apache
3 7 (3.38%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.42%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.45%) nginx
6 3 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.97%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.97%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.97%) SAS
7 2 (0.97%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.48%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.48%) IIS
8 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (1.45%) Summit
3 2 (0.97%) ION MarketView
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 44 (21.26%) AWS
2 36 (17.39%) Azure
3 18 (8.70%) GitHub
4 6 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (2.90%) Azure API Management
4 6 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.90%) Serverless
5 5 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (1.93%) GCP
6 4 (1.93%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.97%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.97%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (0.97%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (0.97%) IaaS
8 2 (0.97%) Nutanix
8 2 (0.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.86%) InfiniBand
2 7 (3.38%) Ethernet
2 7 (3.38%) Firewall
2 7 (3.38%) NetScaler
2 7 (3.38%) Wireless
3 6 (2.90%) VPN
4 5 (2.42%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.42%) HTTP
5 4 (1.93%) FIX Connectivity
5 4 (1.93%) MPLS
5 4 (1.93%) RTP
6 3 (1.45%) Network Security
6 3 (1.45%) SSH
7 2 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.97%) DNS
7 2 (0.97%) WAN
8 1 (0.48%) DHCP
8 1 (0.48%) FTP
8 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.48%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.21%) KDB
1 17 (8.21%) Kdb+
2 15 (7.25%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.28%) Oracle Database
4 11 (5.31%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.83%) MySQL
5 10 (4.83%) Tick Data
6 8 (3.86%) Metadata
6 8 (3.86%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.38%) RDBMS
8 5 (2.42%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.93%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.93%) Oracle Database 10g
9 4 (1.93%) SQLPlus
10 3 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.45%) DB2
10 3 (1.45%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (9.18%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.70%) JIRA
3 12 (5.80%) Git
4 9 (4.35%) GitLab
4 9 (4.35%) JUnit
5 7 (3.38%) Maven
6 6 (2.90%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.42%) Selenium
7 5 (2.42%) SoapUI
7 5 (2.42%) Toad
8 4 (1.93%) Ant
8 4 (1.93%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.45%) QUnit
9 3 (1.45%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.45%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (0.97%) Gradle
10 2 (0.97%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.48%) Mockito
General
1 95 (45.89%) Finance
2 44 (21.26%) Social Skills
3 35 (16.91%) Banking
4 23 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (10.63%) Front Office
6 15 (7.25%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.35%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.90%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.42%) Legal
11 4 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.93%) Retail
11 4 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.97%) Law
13 1 (0.48%) Back Office
13 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (25.60%) Senior
2 51 (24.64%) Developer
3 19 (9.18%) Linux Engineer
4 18 (8.70%) Unix Engineer
4 18 (8.70%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 17 (8.21%) Analyst
5 17 (8.21%) Kafka Engineer
5 17 (8.21%) Software Engineer
6 16 (7.73%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 16 (7.73%) Senior Unix Engineer
7 15 (7.25%) C++ Software Engineer
7 15 (7.25%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 15 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (5.80%) Java Developer
9 11 (5.31%) KDB Developer
10 8 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.38%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.94%) Kafka
2 15 (7.25%) REST
3 14 (6.76%) XML
4 13 (6.28%) Middleware
5 11 (5.31%) SOAP
6 10 (4.83%) FIX Protocol
6 10 (4.83%) React
7 7 (3.38%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.38%) HTML
7 7 (3.38%) JSON
7 7 (3.38%) OpenAPI
7 7 (3.38%) PySpark
7 7 (3.38%) Spring
7 7 (3.38%) XSD
8 6 (2.90%) CSS
8 6 (2.90%) IBM Integration Bus
8 6 (2.90%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (2.90%) RESTful
8 6 (2.90%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 16 (7.73%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.80%) Equities
3 12 (5.80%) Fixed Income
4 11 (5.31%) Derivative
4 11 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.83%) Algorithms
6 9 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.86%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.38%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.90%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (2.90%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.93%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (1.45%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 155 (74.88%) Linux
2 44 (21.26%) Windows
3 6 (2.90%) AIX
4 4 (1.93%) 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 (0.48%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (39.61%) Agile
2 39 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (16.43%) Software Engineering
4 32 (15.46%) DevOps
5 28 (13.53%) CI/CD
6 25 (12.08%) Low Latency
7 23 (11.11%) Migration
8 22 (10.63%) Analytics
9 21 (10.14%) TDD
10 18 (8.70%) Computer Science
10 18 (8.70%) Data Modelling
11 17 (8.21%) OO
11 17 (8.21%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (7.73%) Microservices
12 16 (7.73%) Observability
13 15 (7.25%) Root Cause Analysis
14 14 (6.76%) Incident Response
14 14 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (6.76%) Risk Management
15 13 (6.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 104 (50.24%) SQL
2 62 (29.95%) Python
3 57 (27.54%) Java
4 39 (18.84%) Shell Script
5 37 (17.87%) C++
6 26 (12.56%) C#
7 20 (9.66%) Perl
8 18 (8.70%) Bash
9 16 (7.73%) JavaScript
10 14 (6.76%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.38%) Korn
12 5 (2.42%) PHP
12 5 (2.42%) PowerShell
12 5 (2.42%) Scala
13 2 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.97%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.48%) Bicep
14 1 (0.48%) Groovy
14 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (15.94%) Degree
2 23 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.42%) OSCP
6 4 (1.93%) GPEN
6 4 (1.93%) GWAPT
6 4 (1.93%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (1.93%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.45%) PMP
8 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.97%) CISSP
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 11 (5.31%) QA
2 8 (3.86%) SLA
3 6 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.45%) NIST
4 3 (1.45%) SEPA
5 2 (0.97%) GMP
5 2 (0.97%) ISO 15022
5 2 (0.97%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (12.08%) Docker
2 3 (1.45%) 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 (0.48%) Ceph
4 1 (0.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.48%) iptables
4 1 (0.48%) KVM
4 1 (0.48%) Lustre
4 1 (0.48%) Samba
4 1 (0.48%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (12.08%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.14%) Terraform
3 19 (9.18%) Ansible
4 10 (4.83%) Grafana
5 9 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.42%) Salt
7 4 (1.93%) Puppet
8 3 (1.45%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.97%) SCCM
10 1 (0.48%) Ambari
10 1 (0.48%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.48%) Control-M
10 1 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.48%) SELinux
10 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (27.54%) Oracle
2 19 (9.18%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.76%) Splunk
4 13 (6.28%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.35%) IBM
6 8 (3.86%) Aruba
6 8 (3.86%) Cisco
7 7 (3.38%) Arista
7 7 (3.38%) CheckPoint
7 7 (3.38%) F5
7 7 (3.38%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.90%) BigPanda
8 6 (2.90%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.90%) MuleSoft
9 5 (2.42%) Databricks
10 4 (1.93%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.93%) Murex
11 3 (1.45%) Remedy
11 3 (1.45%) Sybase
11 3 (1.45%) VMware