Unix Contracts in West London

Unix
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 28 36 56
Rank change year-on-year +8 +20 -8
Contract jobs citing Unix 3 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.43% 1.97% 0.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.50% 15.91% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £455 £314 -
25th Percentile £500 £328 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £350 £445
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -21.35% -33.48%
75th Percentile £700 £375 £525
90th Percentile £745 £390 -
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.05 -
London median hourly rate - £22.23 £73.25
% change year-on-year - -69.66% +12.69%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 24 44 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 11.43% 12.39% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 55
10th Percentile £243 £220 £159
25th Percentile £338 £250 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +25.00%
75th Percentile £466 £525 £575
90th Percentile £750 £538 £638
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile £15.83 £18.08 £64.95
25th Percentile £16.70 £22.68 -
Median hourly rate £18.13 £28.15 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.60% -62.47% +265.85%
75th Percentile £23.57 £36.07 -
90th Percentile £26.83 £47.17 £85.00
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 West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in West London

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in West London

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in West London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in West London

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in West London

Unix
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Harrow - 1 £450 -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Unix
London

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (33.33%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SAP BW
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JDBC
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) NETCONF
1 1 (33.33%) ODBC
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTCONF
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Basis
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
1 1 (33.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Sharing
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Security
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) SAP