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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 148 127
Rank change year-on-year -49 -21 -37
Contract jobs citing Unix 213 242 344
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.31% 1.81% 1.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 14.16% 15.21% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 157 255
10th Percentile £356 £367 £400
25th Percentile £416 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £732 £713 £750
90th Percentile £750 £810 £825
England median daily rate £459 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -12.57% -2.33% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £26.28 - -
25th Percentile £26.31 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 - £22.15
75th Percentile £29.31 - £22.23
90th Percentile £29.43 - £22.27
England median hourly rate £27.88 £59.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -52.75% +47.50% -38.22%

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 1,504 1,591 2,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.24% 11.90% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,068 1,652
10th Percentile £204 £230 £195
25th Percentile £356 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £750 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 64
10th Percentile £20.69 £18.32 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.89 £18.64
Median hourly rate £23.50 £26.54 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% +18.46% -12.87%
75th Percentile £25.15 £56.50 £46.86
90th Percentile £41.85 £107.90 £64.25
England median hourly rate £22.81 £41.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year -44.37% +82.14% -18.15%

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 6 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 6 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 -7 36 £575 -6.12% 8
West London -14 8 £208 -64.59% 1
South London -19 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 10 (4.69%) Confluence
2 7 (3.29%) Apache
2 7 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.41%) nginx
3 3 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.41%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.94%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.94%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (0.94%) SAS
4 2 (0.94%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.47%) IIS
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.94%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.94%) Summit
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 46 (21.60%) AWS
2 36 (16.90%) Azure
3 14 (6.57%) GitHub
4 7 (3.29%) GCP
5 6 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (2.82%) Azure API Management
5 6 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.35%) Serverless
7 3 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.41%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.94%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (0.94%) IaaS
8 2 (0.94%) Nutanix
8 2 (0.94%) PaaS
8 2 (0.94%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.94%) SaaS
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.69%) Firewall
2 8 (3.76%) InfiniBand
3 7 (3.29%) Ethernet
3 7 (3.29%) HTTP
3 7 (3.29%) NetScaler
3 7 (3.29%) Wireless
4 6 (2.82%) VPN
5 5 (2.35%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.88%) DNS
6 4 (1.88%) FIX Connectivity
6 4 (1.88%) MPLS
7 3 (1.41%) Network Security
7 3 (1.41%) RTP
7 3 (1.41%) SSH
8 2 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.94%) SSL
8 2 (0.94%) WAN
9 1 (0.47%) DHCP
9 1 (0.47%) LAN
9 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.51%) KDB
1 16 (7.51%) Kdb+
2 15 (7.04%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.10%) Oracle Database
4 11 (5.16%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.69%) MySQL
6 9 (4.23%) Tick Data
7 8 (3.76%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.82%) RDBMS
8 6 (2.82%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.88%) Oracle Database 10g
9 4 (1.88%) SQLPlus
10 3 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.41%) Big Data
10 3 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.41%) DB2
10 3 (1.41%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.41%) Metadata
11 2 (0.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (8.45%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.51%) JIRA
3 10 (4.69%) Git
4 9 (4.23%) GitLab
4 9 (4.23%) JUnit
5 8 (3.76%) Maven
6 6 (2.82%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.35%) Selenium
7 5 (2.35%) SoapUI
7 5 (2.35%) Toad
8 4 (1.88%) Ant
8 4 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.41%) Gradle
9 3 (1.41%) QUnit
9 3 (1.41%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.41%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.94%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.47%) Mockito
General
1 96 (45.07%) Finance
2 48 (22.54%) Social Skills
3 35 (16.43%) Banking
4 24 (11.27%) Front Office
5 23 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.04%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.23%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.82%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.35%) Legal
11 4 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.41%) Retail
13 2 (0.94%) Law
14 1 (0.47%) Back Office
14 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 57 (26.76%) Senior
2 50 (23.47%) Developer
3 21 (9.86%) Software Engineer
4 19 (8.92%) C++ Software Engineer
4 19 (8.92%) Linux Engineer
4 19 (8.92%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 19 (8.92%) Senior Software Engineer
5 18 (8.45%) Analyst
5 18 (8.45%) Unix Engineer
5 18 (8.45%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 17 (7.98%) Kafka Engineer
7 16 (7.51%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 16 (7.51%) Senior Unix Engineer
8 13 (6.10%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.69%) KDB Developer
10 8 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (3.29%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (3.29%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (16.43%) Kafka
2 15 (7.04%) Middleware
3 14 (6.57%) REST
4 13 (6.10%) XML
5 11 (5.16%) React
5 11 (5.16%) SOAP
6 10 (4.69%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.76%) HTML
8 7 (3.29%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.29%) JSON
8 7 (3.29%) OpenAPI
8 7 (3.29%) XSD
9 6 (2.82%) CSS
9 6 (2.82%) IBM Integration Bus
9 6 (2.82%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (2.82%) RESTful
9 6 (2.82%) Spring
9 6 (2.82%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.35%) Node.js
10 5 (2.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.63%) Equities
4 11 (5.16%) Fixed Income
4 11 (5.16%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (4.69%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.69%) Derivative
5 10 (4.69%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.76%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.29%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.29%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.82%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.35%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (1.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 3 (1.41%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 159 (74.65%) Linux
2 44 (20.66%) Windows
3 6 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.35%) AIX
4 5 (2.35%) CentOS
5 3 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.41%) Solaris
6 2 (0.94%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.94%) VMS
6 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (38.03%) Agile
2 41 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (17.84%) Software Engineering
4 31 (14.55%) DevOps
5 26 (12.21%) CI/CD
5 26 (12.21%) Low Latency
6 21 (9.86%) Migration
6 21 (9.86%) TDD
7 20 (9.39%) Computer Science
8 18 (8.45%) Analytics
8 18 (8.45%) OO
9 17 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (7.98%) Performance Tuning
10 16 (7.51%) Microservices
11 15 (7.04%) Risk Management
12 14 (6.57%) Containerisation
12 14 (6.57%) Electronic Trading
12 14 (6.57%) Incident Response
13 13 (6.10%) Observability
13 13 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 106 (49.77%) SQL
2 65 (30.52%) Python
3 58 (27.23%) Java
4 42 (19.72%) C++
5 34 (15.96%) Shell Script
6 28 (13.15%) C#
7 23 (10.80%) Perl
8 22 (10.33%) Bash
9 17 (7.98%) JavaScript
10 14 (6.57%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.29%) Korn
12 6 (2.82%) PowerShell
13 5 (2.35%) PHP
13 5 (2.35%) Scala
14 2 (0.94%) C
14 2 (0.94%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.47%) Bicep
15 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 38 (17.84%) Degree
2 19 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.35%) OSCP
6 4 (1.88%) GPEN
6 4 (1.88%) GWAPT
6 4 (1.88%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.41%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.41%) PMP
7 3 (1.41%) RHCE
8 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.94%) CISSP
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.47%) CISM
9 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.47%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.16%) QA
2 7 (3.29%) SLA
3 3 (1.41%) GMP
3 3 (1.41%) NIST
3 3 (1.41%) SEPA
4 2 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.94%) ISO 15022
4 2 (0.94%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 27 (12.68%) Docker
2 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.94%) NFS
3 2 (0.94%) Postfix
3 2 (0.94%) Varnish
3 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.94%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.47%) Ceph
4 1 (0.47%) GridGain
4 1 (0.47%) HDFS
4 1 (0.47%) iptables
4 1 (0.47%) KVM
4 1 (0.47%) Lustre
4 1 (0.47%) Samba
4 1 (0.47%) Sendmail
4 1 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (13.15%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.27%) Terraform
3 21 (9.86%) Ansible
4 11 (5.16%) Prometheus
5 10 (4.69%) Grafana
6 5 (2.35%) Salt
7 4 (1.88%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.41%) HAProxy
8 3 (1.41%) Puppet
9 2 (0.94%) Nagios
9 2 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.94%) SCCM
10 1 (0.47%) Ambari
10 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.47%) SELinux
10 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (30.05%) Oracle
2 19 (8.92%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.51%) Splunk
4 13 (6.10%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.23%) IBM
6 8 (3.76%) Aruba
6 8 (3.76%) Cisco
7 7 (3.29%) Arista
7 7 (3.29%) CheckPoint
7 7 (3.29%) F5
7 7 (3.29%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.82%) BigPanda
8 6 (2.82%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.82%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.88%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.88%) Murex
9 4 (1.88%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.88%) Sybase
10 3 (1.41%) Remedy
10 3 (1.41%) VMware