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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 166 130
Rank change year-on-year -79 -36 -47
Contract jobs citing Unix 224 223 335
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.11% 1.68% 2.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 13.02% 14.67% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 140 217
10th Percentile £359 £350 £360
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -0.64% -5.98%
75th Percentile £700 £706 £675
90th Percentile £839 £775 £845
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year - +15.55% -59.32%
England median hourly rate £52.50 £46.91 £23.80
% change year-on-year +11.92% +97.10% -67.71%

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 1,721 1,520 2,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.51% 11.45% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 983 1,327
10th Percentile £207 £221 £228
25th Percentile £350 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £600
90th Percentile £715 £738 £725
England median daily rate £469 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 50 31
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £23.46
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.55% -6.85% -38.41%
75th Percentile £42.13 £26.75 £60.72
90th Percentile £55.13 £59.23 £81.18
England median hourly rate £35.79 £25.15 £58.49
% change year-on-year +42.30% -57.00% +22.71%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -28 37 £600 -0.41% 27
West London -32 2 £500 +24.30% 14
East London +1 1 - - 1
South London -7 1 £675 - 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 (4.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.13%) Apache
5 5 (2.23%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.23%) Confluence
5 5 (2.23%) SAS
6 4 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (1.79%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.34%) IIS
8 2 (0.89%) CMS
9 1 (0.45%) JBoss
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.45%) nginx
9 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.45%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.68%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle FAH
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle iProcurement
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.45%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.11%) AWS
2 41 (18.30%) Azure
3 23 (10.27%) GCP
4 16 (7.14%) GitHub
5 13 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (5.80%) IaaS
6 11 (4.91%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.46%) Serverless
8 9 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.57%) PaaS
9 8 (3.57%) SaaS
10 7 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.13%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.23%) dbt
11 5 (2.23%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.80%) DNS
1 13 (5.80%) TCP/IP
2 12 (5.36%) Firewall
3 8 (3.57%) HTTP
4 7 (3.13%) SAN
5 6 (2.68%) LAN
5 6 (2.68%) WAN
6 5 (2.23%) Kerberos
6 5 (2.23%) Network Security
6 5 (2.23%) SSL
7 4 (1.79%) DHCP
7 4 (1.79%) Multicast
7 4 (1.79%) NAS
7 4 (1.79%) SSH
7 4 (1.79%) VPN
8 3 (1.34%) Internet
9 2 (0.89%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.89%) Intranet
10 1 (0.45%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.45%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (8.93%) Oracle Database
3 14 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.80%) KDB
5 11 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.91%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (4.02%) Db2
7 8 (3.57%) Kdb+
8 6 (2.68%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.68%) Tableau
9 5 (2.23%) Big Data
9 5 (2.23%) MySQL
9 5 (2.23%) PowerCenter
9 5 (2.23%) Sybase ASE
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (20.54%) Git
2 37 (16.52%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.36%) Gradle
4 9 (4.02%) JIRA
4 9 (4.02%) JUnit
4 9 (4.02%) Selenium
5 8 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.57%) eggPlant
5 8 (3.57%) Maven
5 8 (3.57%) SonarQube
6 7 (3.13%) GitLab
6 7 (3.13%) HP UFT
7 6 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.23%) JMeter
8 5 (2.23%) LoadRunner
8 5 (2.23%) Postman
8 5 (2.23%) SoapUI
9 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.79%) JDeveloper
9 4 (1.79%) Oracle Forms
General
1 110 (49.11%) Finance
2 71 (31.70%) Banking
3 55 (24.55%) Social Skills
4 52 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.82%) Investment Banking
6 20 (8.93%) Front Office
7 7 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.68%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.23%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.79%) Law
10 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Retail
11 3 (1.34%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Aviation
12 2 (0.89%) Back Office
12 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Local Government
12 2 (0.89%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 72 (32.14%) Developer
2 51 (22.77%) Senior
3 26 (11.61%) Java Developer
4 23 (10.27%) Senior Developer
5 20 (8.93%) Python Developer
6 15 (6.70%) Applications Support
7 14 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.25%) Lead
8 13 (5.80%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (4.91%) Consultant
10 10 (4.46%) Architect
11 9 (4.02%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) AWS Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Support Engineer
13 6 (2.68%) KDB Developer
13 6 (2.68%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (20.09%) Kafka
2 30 (13.39%) RESTful
3 29 (12.95%) REST
4 25 (11.16%) Spring
5 23 (10.27%) Spring Boot
6 22 (9.82%) Middleware
7 21 (9.38%) XML
8 18 (8.04%) Terraform
9 16 (7.14%) HTML
9 16 (7.14%) Web Services
10 15 (6.70%) Flask
11 13 (5.80%) Pandas
12 12 (5.36%) .NET
12 12 (5.36%) FastAPI
12 12 (5.36%) SOAP
13 11 (4.91%) CSS
14 9 (4.02%) Django
14 9 (4.02%) PySpark
15 8 (3.57%) NumPy
16 7 (3.13%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (7.59%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.59%) Fixed Income
3 15 (6.70%) Derivative
3 15 (6.70%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (4.91%) Market Risk
5 10 (4.46%) Equities
5 10 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.02%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.02%) Credit Risk
7 8 (3.57%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (3.13%) Mainframe
8 7 (3.13%) Replication
9 6 (2.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 172 (76.79%) Linux
2 36 (16.07%) Windows
3 22 (9.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.91%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.57%) Solaris
6 5 (2.23%) AIX
7 2 (0.89%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.89%) SUSE
8 1 (0.45%) CentOS
8 1 (0.45%) HPUX
8 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (36.61%) CI/CD
2 66 (29.46%) DevOps
3 56 (25.00%) Agile
4 48 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 46 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (14.73%) Migration
7 32 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 31 (13.84%) Analytics
9 30 (13.39%) Containerisation
10 29 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (12.95%) Microservices
11 28 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
12 27 (12.05%) Code Quality
12 27 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (12.05%) Risk Management
12 27 (12.05%) SDLC
12 27 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (11.61%) Performance Optimisation
14 25 (11.16%) Software Engineering
15 22 (9.82%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 110 (49.11%) Python
1 110 (49.11%) SQL
2 73 (32.59%) Java
3 60 (26.79%) Shell Script
4 29 (12.95%) Bash
5 20 (8.93%) C#
5 20 (8.93%) JavaScript
5 20 (8.93%) Perl
6 17 (7.59%) C++
6 17 (7.59%) PL/SQL
7 13 (5.80%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.46%) C
9 5 (2.23%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.79%) Korn
10 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.79%) Scala
10 4 (1.79%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.79%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.34%) Go
11 3 (1.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 30 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.95%) Degree
4 6 (2.68%) ISEB
4 6 (2.68%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.23%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.34%) CISSP
8 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.89%) CISM
8 2 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.45%) CISA
9 1 (0.45%) CRISC
9 1 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.04%) QA
2 15 (6.70%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.13%) ISO 20022
4 5 (2.23%) Basel III
4 5 (2.23%) ISO 15022
5 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.89%) SEPA
6 1 (0.45%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) NCSC
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (17.41%) Docker
2 8 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.13%) NFS
4 4 (1.79%) Postfix
4 4 (1.79%) Varnish
5 3 (1.34%) Sendmail
6 2 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.45%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.45%) RACF
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (14.73%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.50%) Ansible
3 17 (7.59%) Grafana
4 12 (5.36%) Control-M
5 11 (4.91%) Progress Chef
6 10 (4.46%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.02%) Kibana
7 9 (4.02%) Puppet
8 5 (2.23%) HP Fortify
8 5 (2.23%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (2.23%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.79%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.79%) HAProxy
10 3 (1.34%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.89%) Netcool
11 2 (0.89%) Netcool/OMNIbus
11 2 (0.89%) SCCM
11 2 (0.89%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.89%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 59 (26.34%) Oracle
2 35 (15.63%) Splunk
3 19 (8.48%) IBM
4 17 (7.59%) Red Hat
5 13 (5.80%) Sybase
6 12 (5.36%) Dynatrace
7 11 (4.91%) Microsoft
8 9 (4.02%) SaltStack
9 8 (3.57%) Solace
10 7 (3.13%) Informatica
10 7 (3.13%) SAP
10 7 (3.13%) ServiceNow
11 6 (2.68%) Google
11 6 (2.68%) Zscaler
12 5 (2.23%) CyberArk
12 5 (2.23%) F5
12 5 (2.23%) Murex
12 5 (2.23%) VMware
13 4 (1.79%) HP
13 4 (1.79%) TIBCO