Unix Contracts in Central London

Unix
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 90 108
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 -13
Contract jobs citing Unix 39 91 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.61% 2.40% 2.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.11% 16.16% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 56 65
10th Percentile £383 £345 £462
25th Percentile £400 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £800 £701 £683
90th Percentile £925 £750 £738
London median daily rate £600 £585 £600
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
London median hourly rate £22.30 £73.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -69.56% +12.69% +12.59%

All Operating Systems
Central London

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 322 563 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.32% 14.87% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 403 463
10th Percentile £191 £160 £175
25th Percentile £289 £250 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +2.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £604
90th Percentile £725 £738 £700
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile - £28.00 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.25 £32.50 £14.34
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +41.41% +76.79%
75th Percentile £27.00 £47.19 £39.88
90th Percentile £28.43 £69.13 £70.13
London median hourly rate £22.00 £36.17 £24.25
% change year-on-year -39.18% +49.15% -43.60%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Central London

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in Central London

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in Central London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in Central London

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in Central London

Unix
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
City of London -1 38 £694 +20.65% 5
Unix
London

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (10.26%) Apache
2 3 (7.69%) JBoss
2 3 (7.69%) nginx
3 2 (5.13%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.56%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (2.56%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (2.56%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) Azure
1 5 (12.82%) PaaS
2 4 (10.26%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (2.56%) AWS KMS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) FTP
2 7 (17.95%) Firewall
3 4 (10.26%) HTTP
3 4 (10.26%) ICMP
3 4 (10.26%) POP3
3 4 (10.26%) SMTP
3 4 (10.26%) SSH
3 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (7.69%) SSL
5 2 (5.13%) DNS
6 1 (2.56%) Junos
6 1 (2.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) RDBMS
1 7 (17.95%) Relational Database
2 6 (15.38%) DB2
2 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (12.82%) Sybase ASE
4 4 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (10.26%) Hadoop
4 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
5 3 (7.69%) KDB
6 2 (5.13%) Data Mart
7 1 (2.56%) Kdb+
7 1 (2.56%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.56%) MySQL
7 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
1 3 (7.69%) Mockito
2 2 (5.13%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Selenium
3 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Banking
3 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Arabic Language
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) French Language
7 1 (2.56%) Front Office
7 1 (2.56%) German Language
7 1 (2.56%) Japanese Language
7 1 (2.56%) Korean Language
7 1 (2.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Developer
2 5 (12.82%) Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
3 4 (10.26%) ArcSight Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) DBA
3 4 (10.26%) Implementation Specialist
3 4 (10.26%) Senior
3 4 (10.26%) SIEM Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Sybase DBA
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Murex Developer
5 2 (5.13%) QA Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Kafka
2 4 (10.26%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (10.26%) LDAP
3 3 (7.69%) JAX-RS
3 3 (7.69%) Middleware
4 2 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (5.13%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (5.13%) JSON
4 2 (5.13%) Murex MxML
4 2 (5.13%) Rendezvous
4 2 (5.13%) XML
5 1 (2.56%) CSS
5 1 (2.56%) HTML
5 1 (2.56%) Laravel
5 1 (2.56%) REST
5 1 (2.56%) SOAP
5 1 (2.56%) TIBCO EMS
5 1 (2.56%) XSD
5 1 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Replication
2 5 (12.82%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (10.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) DTCC
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.56%) Equities
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (71.79%) Linux
2 15 (38.46%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) Mac OS X
4 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.56%) Android
5 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
2 9 (23.08%) Agile
3 7 (17.95%) Incident Management
3 7 (17.95%) Microservices
3 7 (17.95%) Migration
4 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
4 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (15.38%) TDD
5 5 (12.82%) Change Data Capture
5 5 (12.82%) ITIL
5 5 (12.82%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 5 (12.82%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (12.82%) SDLC
5 5 (12.82%) Task Automation
6 4 (10.26%) BDD
6 4 (10.26%) Capacity Management
6 4 (10.26%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (10.26%) DevOps
6 4 (10.26%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) SQL
2 13 (33.33%) Java
3 12 (30.77%) Python
4 8 (20.51%) Perl
5 6 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 5 (12.82%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.56%) C#
8 1 (2.56%) C++
8 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.56%) PHP
8 1 (2.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) ISTQB
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) ISEB
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.56%) MiFID
2 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
1 5 (12.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 4 (10.26%) HDFS
2 4 (10.26%) NFS
3 1 (2.56%) Docker
3 1 (2.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kibana
1 4 (10.26%) logstash
1 4 (10.26%) QRadar
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Packer
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.56%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Oracle
2 9 (23.08%) IBM
3 6 (15.38%) Sybase
4 5 (12.82%) SAP
4 5 (12.82%) ServiceNow
4 5 (12.82%) Sun
4 5 (12.82%) Veritas
5 4 (10.26%) ArcSight
5 4 (10.26%) Isilon
5 4 (10.26%) Splunk
6 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.69%) Temenos
6 3 (7.69%) TIBCO
7 2 (5.13%) Bloomberg
7 2 (5.13%) Murex
7 2 (5.13%) Solace
8 1 (2.56%) Advent
8 1 (2.56%) Cisco
8 1 (2.56%) Eze Castle Integration