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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 171 123
Rank change year-on-year -78 -48 -39
Contract jobs citing Unix 192 194 365
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 1.51% 2.09%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.82% 12.69% 17.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 122 264
10th Percentile £365 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £409 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £566
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.66% -1.57%
75th Percentile £678 £612 £710
90th Percentile £769 £725 £850
England median daily rate £475 £478 £525
% change year-on-year -0.63% -8.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £22.08
25th Percentile - - £22.13
Median hourly rate - - £23.05
75th Percentile - - £23.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £54.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -4.11% +36.88% -34.74%

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 1,498 1,529 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.78% 11.92% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 1,046 1,472
10th Percentile £206 £243 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £629 £611
90th Percentile £688 £738 £749
England median daily rate £459 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 34 68
10th Percentile £21.03 £18.87 £15.19
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.63 £18.13
Median hourly rate £27.00 £24.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -56.00%
75th Percentile £57.00 £25.15 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.65 £44.85 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £19.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +68.26% -22.74% -41.18%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 25 £610 +6.00% 1
South London -5 3 £638 -
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 (7.81%) Apache
2 11 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (5.21%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.56%) Confluence
6 2 (1.04%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.04%) IIS
6 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.04%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.52%) CMS
7 1 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Summit
2 1 (0.52%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 43 (22.40%) AWS
2 35 (18.23%) Azure
3 20 (10.42%) GitHub
4 16 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 12 (6.25%) Serverless
7 9 (4.69%) IaaS
7 9 (4.69%) PaaS
8 8 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (2.60%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.60%) GCP
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.08%) SaaS
13 3 (1.56%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (1.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.21%) DNS
2 7 (3.65%) VPN
3 6 (3.13%) Ethernet
3 6 (3.13%) Firewall
3 6 (3.13%) InfiniBand
3 6 (3.13%) NetScaler
3 6 (3.13%) Wireless
4 5 (2.60%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.60%) RTP
5 4 (2.08%) MPLS
5 4 (2.08%) Multicast
5 4 (2.08%) SAN
6 3 (1.56%) Internet
6 3 (1.56%) NAS
6 3 (1.56%) Network Security
6 3 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.56%) WAN
7 2 (1.04%) DHCP
7 2 (1.04%) FTP
7 2 (1.04%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.85%) KDB
2 15 (7.81%) Relational Database
3 14 (7.29%) Kdb+
4 12 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (5.73%) Metadata
5 11 (5.73%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
7 8 (4.17%) MySQL
7 8 (4.17%) RDBMS
7 8 (4.17%) Tick Data
8 7 (3.65%) Big Data
8 7 (3.65%) Db2
9 6 (3.13%) Oracle Database
10 5 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.60%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.60%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.08%) Delta Lake
11 4 (2.08%) Presto
12 3 (1.56%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 29 (15.10%) Jenkins
2 23 (11.98%) Git
3 10 (5.21%) JIRA
4 8 (4.17%) Maven
5 5 (2.60%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.60%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.60%) GitLab
6 4 (2.08%) Selenium
6 4 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.56%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.04%) Gradle
8 2 (1.04%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.04%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.52%) Introscope
9 1 (0.52%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (48.96%) Finance
2 65 (33.85%) Banking
3 35 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (17.71%) Social Skills
5 25 (13.02%) Investment Banking
6 21 (10.94%) Front Office
7 9 (4.69%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 8 (4.17%) Retail
9 4 (2.08%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Law
11 2 (1.04%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.52%) International Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (28.65%) Developer
2 41 (21.35%) Senior
3 16 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 15 (7.81%) Java Developer
5 13 (6.77%) Applications Support
5 13 (6.77%) Data Engineer
5 13 (6.77%) Senior Developer
6 11 (5.73%) Analyst
7 10 (5.21%) Architect
8 9 (4.69%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) AWS Developer
9 8 (4.17%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 8 (4.17%) KDB Developer
9 8 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Support Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Unix Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 7 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) SQL Developer
10 7 (3.65%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.46%) Kafka
2 18 (9.38%) RESTful
3 14 (7.29%) REST
4 12 (6.25%) XML
5 11 (5.73%) Pandas
6 10 (5.21%) Middleware
6 10 (5.21%) Web Services
7 9 (4.69%) .NET
7 9 (4.69%) FastAPI
7 9 (4.69%) Flask
8 8 (4.17%) CSS
8 8 (4.17%) Spring
9 7 (3.65%) HTML
9 7 (3.65%) Polars
9 7 (3.65%) PySpark
9 7 (3.65%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.13%) React
11 5 (2.60%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.60%) Django
11 5 (2.60%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.38%) Derivative
2 17 (8.85%) Fixed Income
3 14 (7.29%) Onboarding
4 13 (6.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (6.25%) Equities
6 10 (5.21%) Public Cloud
7 9 (4.69%) Cloud Native
7 9 (4.69%) Market Risk
8 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 8 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (3.65%) Credit Risk
9 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (3.65%) Hedge funds
9 7 (3.65%) Mainframe
9 7 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (3.13%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (3.13%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.60%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 150 (78.13%) Linux
2 27 (14.06%) Windows
3 9 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.17%) Solaris
5 5 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.08%) AIX
7 3 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.04%) CentOS
8 2 (1.04%) SUSE
8 2 (1.04%) VMS
9 1 (0.52%) HPUX
9 1 (0.52%) Rocky
9 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.08%) CI/CD
2 50 (26.04%) Agile
3 44 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (21.88%) DevOps
5 28 (14.58%) Analytics
6 27 (14.06%) Root Cause Analysis
7 26 (13.54%) Software Engineering
8 25 (13.02%) Low Latency
9 23 (11.98%) Migration
10 22 (11.46%) Observability
11 21 (10.94%) Containerisation
12 19 (9.90%) Microservices
12 19 (9.90%) Performance Optimisation
13 18 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (9.38%) Electronic Trading
13 18 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
13 18 (9.38%) SDLC
14 16 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (8.33%) ITIL
14 16 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (46.35%) SQL
2 81 (42.19%) Python
3 55 (28.65%) Shell Script
4 47 (24.48%) Java
5 25 (13.02%) C#
6 21 (10.94%) Bash
7 19 (9.90%) C++
8 13 (6.77%) JavaScript
9 10 (5.21%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.13%) Scala
11 5 (2.60%) Perl
11 5 (2.60%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.08%) Ruby
13 3 (1.56%) R
14 2 (1.04%) C
14 2 (1.04%) Go
14 2 (1.04%) Korn
14 2 (1.04%) PHP
14 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (13.02%) Degree
2 24 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 22 (11.46%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.08%) CISSP
4 4 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.56%) CISM
6 2 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.04%) RHCE
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.52%) CISA
7 1 (0.52%) CRISC
7 1 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.52%) PMP
7 1 (0.52%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.21%) QA
2 7 (3.65%) SLA
3 6 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.08%) NIST
4 4 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.56%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.56%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.04%) ISO 15022
7 1 (0.52%) GMP
7 1 (0.52%) GRC
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.52%) SEPA
7 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (19.27%) Docker
2 9 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.65%) NFS
4 6 (3.13%) Postfix
4 6 (3.13%) Varnish
5 4 (2.08%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.56%) GridGain
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.52%) HDFS
8 1 (0.52%) RACF
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (15.10%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.50%) Ansible
3 17 (8.85%) Terraform
4 14 (7.29%) Grafana
5 11 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.13%) HAProxy
7 5 (2.60%) Kibana
8 4 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.08%) Salt
8 4 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (1.04%) CA Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.04%) Data Guard
10 2 (1.04%) Puppet
10 2 (1.04%) SCCM
11 1 (0.52%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.52%) Control-M
11 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.52%) Opsview
Vendors
1 47 (24.48%) Oracle
2 25 (13.02%) Splunk
3 13 (6.77%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.77%) Sybase
4 11 (5.73%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.69%) Solace
6 8 (4.17%) Murex
7 7 (3.65%) Aruba
7 7 (3.65%) Cisco
7 7 (3.65%) CyberArk
7 7 (3.65%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.65%) IBM
8 6 (3.13%) Arista
8 6 (3.13%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.13%) F5
8 6 (3.13%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.60%) BigPanda
9 5 (2.60%) Databricks
9 5 (2.60%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.60%) VMware