Unix Contracts in South London

Unix
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 34 49
Rank change year-on-year +4 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing Unix 5 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.70% 3.31% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.52% 29.63% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £429 £425 £470
25th Percentile £436 £453 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £567 £613
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% -7.43% -10.58%
75th Percentile £498 - £744
90th Percentile £503 £599 £778
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Operating Systems
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 27 27 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 14.59% 11.16% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 87
10th Percentile £231 £185 £148
25th Percentile £313 £197 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £502 £554 £638
90th Percentile £613 £567 £725
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £37.45 -
25th Percentile - £38.01 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -18.69% +3.79%
75th Percentile - £44.95 -
90th Percentile - £46.10 £51.95
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in South London

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Unix in South London.

Daily rate trend for Unix in South London

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Unix in South London.

Hourly rate trend for Unix in South London

Unix
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Bromley -4 3 - -
Croydon +2 2 £469 -17.33%
Unix
London

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon MSK
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (40.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (40.00%) Parquet
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) IMS/DB
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Swing Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
1 3 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Rendezvous
2 2 (40.00%) Swing
3 1 (20.00%) EJB
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (40.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Lua
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) PHP
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (20.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Sybase
2 2 (40.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle