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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 34 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 +31 -8
Contract jobs citing Unix 10 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 3.70% 1.67% 0.97%
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% 15.15% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £361 £355 £316
25th Percentile £400 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £375 £481
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% -22.08% +31.85%
75th Percentile £415 £388 £544
90th Percentile £433 £395 -
London median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - -64.48% -
London median hourly rate - £23.80 £69.75
% change year-on-year - -65.88% -1.41%

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 40 33 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 14.81% 11.04% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 74
10th Percentile £202 £125 £133
25th Percentile £225 £225 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £331
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +20.75% -5.36%
75th Percentile £450 £525 £525
90th Percentile £500 £538 £621
London median daily rate £496 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -0.90% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £18.13 £44.75
25th Percentile - £19.55 £69.00
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year - -71.15% +371.43%
75th Percentile - £49.08 £90.00
90th Percentile - £78.75 -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year +14.32% -49.81% +83.33%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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
Hounslow +11 7 £405 +15.58%
Harrow - 1 £450 -
Richmond upon Thames - 1 £208 -
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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) BGP
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (10.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (10.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) C++ Developer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) RESTCONF
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Basis
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) YAML
1 1 (10.00%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 6 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (30.00%) OOD
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Security
4 1 (10.00%) Sequence Diagram
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) C++
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) Go
4 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) OCA
3 2 (20.00%) OCP
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) SAP