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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 181 121
Rank change year-on-year -64 -60 -36
Contract jobs citing Unix 194 203 357
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 1.50% 2.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.65% 12.69% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 129 251
10th Percentile £367 £360 £350
25th Percentile £450 £404 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £491 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.13% -10.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £704 £613 £675
90th Percentile £766 £728 £850
England median daily rate £478 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +0.53% -9.52% -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% -37.50%

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 1,534 1,600 2,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.77% 11.83% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,086 1,452
10th Percentile £200 £240 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £499
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.20% -9.27%
75th Percentile £588 £636 £600
90th Percentile £688 £744 £738
England median daily rate £463 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -0.43% -2.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 40 65
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.87 £14.89
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.38 £18.13
Median hourly rate £22.11 £24.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +9.09% -56.00%
75th Percentile £26.75 £25.18 £27.00
90th Percentile £58.30 £50.68 £60.00
England median hourly rate £31.75 £22.56 £24.68
% change year-on-year +40.74% -8.58% -41.94%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -23 26 £624 +19.85% 1
South London -12 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 (7.73%) Apache
2 12 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (5.15%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.06%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (2.06%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.55%) Confluence
6 2 (1.03%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.03%) IIS
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (1.03%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.52%) CMS
7 1 (0.52%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.52%) SAS
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
Business Applications
1 6 (3.09%) Summit
2 4 (2.06%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.06%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 4 (2.06%) Oracle FAH
2 4 (2.06%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (2.06%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 4 (2.06%) Oracle iProcurement
2 4 (2.06%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (2.06%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.55%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.52%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.13%) AWS
2 34 (17.53%) Azure
3 20 (10.31%) GitHub
4 16 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (6.19%) Amazon S3
6 12 (6.19%) Serverless
7 10 (5.15%) IaaS
7 10 (5.15%) PaaS
8 8 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.09%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (2.58%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.58%) SaaS
12 4 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.06%) GCP
13 3 (1.55%) AWS CodeBuild
13 3 (1.55%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.67%) DNS
2 8 (4.12%) Firewall
3 6 (3.09%) VPN
4 5 (2.58%) Ethernet
4 5 (2.58%) Ethernet VPN
4 5 (2.58%) InfiniBand
4 5 (2.58%) NetScaler
4 5 (2.58%) RTP
4 5 (2.58%) SAN
4 5 (2.58%) Wireless
5 4 (2.06%) HTTP
5 4 (2.06%) MPLS
5 4 (2.06%) Multicast
5 4 (2.06%) NAS
5 4 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.06%) WAN
6 3 (1.55%) DHCP
6 3 (1.55%) Internet
6 3 (1.55%) Kerberos
6 3 (1.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.76%) KDB
2 14 (7.22%) Kdb+
2 14 (7.22%) Relational Database
3 11 (5.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (5.67%) Metadata
3 11 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.15%) Oracle Database
4 10 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.64%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.12%) Db2
6 8 (4.12%) MySQL
6 8 (4.12%) RDBMS
6 8 (4.12%) Tick Data
7 7 (3.61%) Big Data
8 5 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.58%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.58%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.06%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (2.06%) Presto
Development Applications
1 29 (14.95%) Jenkins
2 23 (11.86%) Git
3 9 (4.64%) JIRA
4 8 (4.12%) Maven
5 5 (2.58%) Artifactory
5 5 (2.58%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.58%) GitLab
6 4 (2.06%) JDeveloper
6 4 (2.06%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (2.06%) Selenium
6 4 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.55%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.03%) Gradle
8 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.03%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.52%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 96 (49.48%) Finance
2 64 (32.99%) Banking
3 37 (19.07%) Social Skills
4 34 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (11.86%) Investment Banking
6 19 (9.79%) Front Office
7 9 (4.64%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.64%) Telecoms
8 8 (4.12%) Retail
9 4 (2.06%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.55%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Law
11 2 (1.03%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) International Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (31.96%) Developer
2 39 (20.10%) Senior
3 17 (8.76%) Python Developer
4 16 (8.25%) Senior Developer
5 15 (7.73%) Applications Support
5 15 (7.73%) Java Developer
6 14 (7.22%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.15%) Architect
8 9 (4.64%) Analyst
9 8 (4.12%) AWS Developer
9 8 (4.12%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 8 (4.12%) KDB Developer
9 8 (4.12%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.12%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.61%) Consultant
10 7 (3.61%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
10 7 (3.61%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (3.61%) SQL Developer
10 7 (3.61%) Unix Engineer
11 6 (3.09%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.31%) RESTful
2 19 (9.79%) Kafka
3 16 (8.25%) XML
4 14 (7.22%) REST
5 12 (6.19%) Pandas
6 11 (5.67%) Middleware
7 10 (5.15%) FastAPI
7 10 (5.15%) Flask
7 10 (5.15%) Web Services
8 9 (4.64%) .NET
9 8 (4.12%) CSS
9 8 (4.12%) PySpark
9 8 (4.12%) Spring
10 7 (3.61%) HTML
10 7 (3.61%) Polars
11 6 (3.09%) Django
11 6 (3.09%) LDAP
11 6 (3.09%) React
11 6 (3.09%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.79%) Derivative
2 18 (9.28%) Fixed Income
3 12 (6.19%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (5.15%) Cloud Native
5 10 (5.15%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.15%) Equities
5 10 (5.15%) Market Risk
6 8 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (4.12%) Mainframe
6 8 (4.12%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.61%) Credit Risk
7 7 (3.61%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.09%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (3.09%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.58%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (2.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 146 (75.26%) Linux
2 28 (14.43%) Windows
3 12 (6.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.12%) Solaris
5 5 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.06%) AIX
7 3 (1.55%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.03%) CentOS
8 2 (1.03%) SUSE
8 2 (1.03%) 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 53 (27.32%) CI/CD
2 46 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (23.20%) Agile
4 42 (21.65%) DevOps
5 28 (14.43%) Analytics
6 27 (13.92%) Root Cause Analysis
7 25 (12.89%) Low Latency
8 24 (12.37%) Migration
9 23 (11.86%) Software Engineering
10 21 (10.82%) Performance Optimisation
11 20 (10.31%) Containerisation
11 20 (10.31%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (10.31%) Observability
12 18 (9.28%) Microservices
12 18 (9.28%) Risk Management
13 17 (8.76%) Performance Tuning
13 17 (8.76%) SDLC
14 16 (8.25%) Electronic Trading
14 16 (8.25%) ITIL
14 16 (8.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 87 (44.85%) SQL
2 82 (42.27%) Python
3 58 (29.90%) Shell Script
4 48 (24.74%) Java
5 23 (11.86%) C#
6 20 (10.31%) Bash
7 16 (8.25%) C++
8 15 (7.73%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.73%) PL/SQL
9 6 (3.09%) Scala
10 5 (2.58%) Perl
11 4 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.06%) Ruby
12 3 (1.55%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.55%) R
13 2 (1.03%) Go
13 2 (1.03%) Korn
13 2 (1.03%) ProC
13 2 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 25 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.86%) Degree
4 4 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.06%) CISSP
5 3 (1.55%) CISM
5 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.03%) 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 (5.15%) QA
2 7 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.06%) NIST
3 4 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (2.06%) SLA
4 3 (1.55%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.55%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.03%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.52%) GMP
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) SEPA
6 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (17.53%) Docker
2 10 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.12%) NFS
4 6 (3.09%) Postfix
4 6 (3.09%) Varnish
5 4 (2.06%) Sendmail
6 3 (1.55%) GridGain
7 2 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
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 Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (13.40%) Ansible
1 26 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.25%) Terraform
3 13 (6.70%) Grafana
4 10 (5.15%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.09%) HAProxy
6 5 (2.58%) Kibana
7 4 (2.06%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.55%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.55%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.55%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (1.55%) Salt
9 2 (1.03%) Control-M
9 2 (1.03%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.03%) Puppet
10 1 (0.52%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.52%) Nessus
10 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 52 (26.80%) Oracle
2 24 (12.37%) Splunk
3 12 (6.19%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.19%) Sybase
4 10 (5.15%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.64%) Solace
6 8 (4.12%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.61%) CyberArk
7 7 (3.61%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.61%) IBM
8 6 (3.09%) Aruba
8 6 (3.09%) Cisco
8 6 (3.09%) Murex
9 5 (2.58%) Arista
9 5 (2.58%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.58%) Databricks
9 5 (2.58%) F5
9 5 (2.58%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.06%) Hortonworks
10 4 (2.06%) Sitecore