Unix Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Unix
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Unix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Unix 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 3.64% - 2.94%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.50% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £628
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 - £650
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median daily rate £416 £400 £650
% change year-on-year +4.00% -38.46% +18.18%

All Operating Systems
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 16 13 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 29.09% 20.63% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 26
10th Percentile £282 £204 £450
25th Percentile £416 £250 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £415 £610
Median % change year-on-year +30.12% -31.91% +248.29%
75th Percentile £1,000 £541 £660
90th Percentile - £584 £770
East London median daily rate £478 £400 £495
% change year-on-year +19.50% -19.19% +23.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
East London median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
% change year-on-year - - -37.94%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Unix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

Unix job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Unix
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Unix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Unix

Unix
Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Unix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Unix

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Canary Wharf - 2 £416 - 1
Unix
East London

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) EDI
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle