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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 160 128
Rank change year-on-year -52 -32 -38
Contract jobs citing Unix 203 214 335
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 1.70% 1.86%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.18% 14.18% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 138 244
10th Percentile £367 £363 £383
25th Percentile £437 £425 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £725 £675 £750
90th Percentile £751 £766 £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 1,432 1,509 2,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.46% 11.97% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 952 1,060 1,584
10th Percentile £204 £250 £198
25th Percentile £357 £377 £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 £700 £750 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -13.38%
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 £28.88 £34.25 £33.75
90th Percentile £57.00 £59.20 £60.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% -24.53%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 32 £570 +14.00% 7
West London -19 5 £208 -64.59% 1
South London -15 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 11 (5.42%) Apache
2 6 (2.96%) Confluence
2 6 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.48%) nginx
6 2 (0.99%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.99%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.99%) SAS
7 1 (0.49%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Summit
2 4 (1.97%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (0.99%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 43 (21.18%) AWS
2 34 (16.75%) Azure
3 24 (11.82%) GitHub
4 11 (5.42%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (4.93%) Serverless
6 9 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (2.96%) Azure API Management
9 5 (2.46%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.46%) IaaS
9 5 (2.46%) PaaS
10 4 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.97%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (1.97%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.97%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.48%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (1.48%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.94%) InfiniBand
2 7 (3.45%) Ethernet
2 7 (3.45%) NetScaler
2 7 (3.45%) Wireless
3 6 (2.96%) Firewall
3 6 (2.96%) VPN
4 5 (2.46%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.46%) HTTP
4 5 (2.46%) RTP
5 4 (1.97%) DNS
5 4 (1.97%) FIX Connectivity
5 4 (1.97%) MPLS
5 4 (1.97%) Network Security
6 3 (1.48%) SSH
7 2 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.99%) FTP
7 2 (0.99%) WAN
8 1 (0.49%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.49%) Multicast
8 1 (0.49%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.36%) Relational Database
2 17 (8.37%) KDB
2 17 (8.37%) Kdb+
3 11 (5.42%) MySQL
3 11 (5.42%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.42%) Tick Data
4 10 (4.93%) Metadata
4 10 (4.93%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.43%) RDBMS
5 9 (4.43%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.96%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.97%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.97%) DB2
7 4 (1.97%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (1.97%) SQLPlus
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.48%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 20 (9.85%) Jenkins
2 18 (8.87%) Git
3 14 (6.90%) JIRA
4 8 (3.94%) GitLab
5 7 (3.45%) Maven
6 5 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.46%) JUnit
6 5 (2.46%) Toad
7 4 (1.97%) Ant
7 4 (1.97%) SoapUI
7 4 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.48%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (1.48%) Selenium
9 2 (0.99%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.49%) Introscope
10 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.49%) TestDirector
General
1 91 (44.83%) Finance
2 46 (22.66%) Banking
3 37 (18.23%) Social Skills
4 25 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.34%) Front Office
6 19 (9.36%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.43%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.46%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.97%) Retail
10 3 (1.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.49%) Back Office
11 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (29.06%) Developer
2 52 (25.62%) Senior
3 17 (8.37%) Analyst
3 17 (8.37%) Linux Engineer
4 16 (7.88%) Software Engineer
4 16 (7.88%) Unix Engineer
4 16 (7.88%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 15 (7.39%) Java Developer
6 14 (6.90%) C++ Software Engineer
6 14 (6.90%) Kafka Engineer
6 14 (6.90%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 14 (6.90%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 14 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (6.90%) Senior Unix Engineer
7 12 (5.91%) Python Developer
8 11 (5.42%) KDB Developer
9 10 (4.93%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.94%) Architect
10 8 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.79%) Kafka
2 14 (6.90%) XML
3 12 (5.91%) Middleware
4 11 (5.42%) REST
5 9 (4.43%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (4.43%) React
5 9 (4.43%) RESTful
6 7 (3.45%) OpenAPI
6 7 (3.45%) PySpark
6 7 (3.45%) SOAP
6 7 (3.45%) XSD
7 6 (2.96%) IBM Integration Bus
7 6 (2.96%) Lambda Expressions
7 6 (2.96%) Web Services
8 5 (2.46%) .NET
8 5 (2.46%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.46%) HTML
8 5 (2.46%) JSON
8 5 (2.46%) Pandas
8 5 (2.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.39%) Fixed Income
3 12 (5.91%) Derivative
3 12 (5.91%) Equities
3 12 (5.91%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.42%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.93%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.96%) Market Risk
8 5 (2.46%) Credit Risk
8 5 (2.46%) Equity Derivative
8 5 (2.46%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.97%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.97%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 153 (75.37%) Linux
2 38 (18.72%) Windows
3 6 (2.96%) AIX
4 4 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.48%) VMS
6 2 (0.99%) Solaris
6 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.49%) CentOS
7 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.49%) Rocky
7 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.48%) Agile
2 40 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (16.75%) DevOps
4 31 (15.27%) Software Engineering
5 30 (14.78%) CI/CD
5 30 (14.78%) Low Latency
6 27 (13.30%) Analytics
7 24 (11.82%) Migration
8 19 (9.36%) Data Modelling
9 18 (8.87%) Computer Science
9 18 (8.87%) Observability
9 18 (8.87%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (8.37%) Electronic Trading
10 17 (8.37%) OO
10 17 (8.37%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (8.37%) TDD
11 15 (7.39%) Microservices
12 14 (6.90%) Containerisation
13 13 (6.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (6.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 99 (48.77%) SQL
2 66 (32.51%) Python
3 54 (26.60%) Java
4 52 (25.62%) Shell Script
5 30 (14.78%) C++
6 28 (13.79%) C#
7 20 (9.85%) Perl
8 19 (9.36%) Bash
9 14 (6.90%) JavaScript
10 13 (6.40%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.45%) Korn
12 6 (2.96%) PHP
13 5 (2.46%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.97%) Scala
15 2 (0.99%) R
15 2 (0.99%) Ruby
15 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.49%) Bicep
16 1 (0.49%) Embedded C++
16 1 (0.49%) Jython
Qualifications
1 31 (15.27%) Degree
2 22 (10.84%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.99%) CISM
6 2 (0.99%) CISSP
6 2 (0.99%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.49%) CISA
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.49%) PMP
7 1 (0.49%) RHCA
7 1 (0.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.43%) QA
2 8 (3.94%) SLA
3 6 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.48%) NIST
5 3 (1.48%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.48%) SEPA
6 2 (0.99%) ISO 15022
6 2 (0.99%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.49%) GMP
System Software
1 29 (14.29%) Docker
2 6 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.46%) NFS
4 4 (1.97%) Postfix
4 4 (1.97%) Varnish
5 3 (1.48%) GridGain
5 3 (1.48%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.99%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.49%) Ceph
7 1 (0.49%) HDFS
7 1 (0.49%) iptables
7 1 (0.49%) KVM
7 1 (0.49%) Lustre
7 1 (0.49%) RACF
7 1 (0.49%) Samba
7 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (12.32%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.84%) Ansible
3 19 (9.36%) Terraform
4 9 (4.43%) Grafana
4 9 (4.43%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.46%) HAProxy
5 5 (2.46%) Salt
6 4 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.48%) Puppet
8 2 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.99%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.99%) SCCM
9 1 (0.49%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.49%) Control-M
9 1 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.49%) SELinux
Vendors
1 55 (27.09%) Oracle
2 16 (7.88%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.40%) Splunk
4 12 (5.91%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.94%) Aruba
5 8 (3.94%) Cisco
5 8 (3.94%) IBM
5 8 (3.94%) Sybase
6 7 (3.45%) Arista
6 7 (3.45%) CheckPoint
6 7 (3.45%) CyberArk
6 7 (3.45%) F5
6 7 (3.45%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.96%) BigPanda
7 6 (2.96%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.46%) Databricks
8 5 (2.46%) Murex
9 4 (1.97%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.48%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.48%) Hortonworks