Unix Contracts in London

Unix
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 85 112
Rank change year-on-year -38 +27 -10
Contract jobs citing Unix 362 771 967
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.05% 2.94% 2.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.25% 20.34% 18.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 551 658
10th Percentile £377 £454 £437
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £750 £744
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £22.04 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £22.08 £65.00 £62.50
Median hourly rate £22.23 £73.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.66% +12.69% +12.59%
75th Percentile £23.43 £77.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £23.80 £81.43 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% -11.54% +47.73%

All Operating Systems
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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,099 3,790 5,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.87% 14.43% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 2,767 3,786
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 62 100
10th Percentile £14.68 £18.93 £16.13
25th Percentile £17.96 £22.75 £21.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +75.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £25.14 £68.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.30 £72.68
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +23.94%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in London

Unix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Unix in London

Unix
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Unix in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Unix in London

Unix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Unix in London

Unix
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London -11 37 £669 +16.30% 6
South London +10 9 £567 +13.40% 1
West London +25 7 £350 -25.93%
East London -5 7 £440 -17.60% 2
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 25 (6.91%) nginx
2 17 (4.70%) Confluence
3 9 (2.49%) Apache
3 9 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.21%) JBoss
5 7 (1.93%) IIS
6 6 (1.66%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.66%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.83%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.55%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.55%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 19 (5.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (3.31%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (4.14%) ION MarketView
2 12 (3.31%) ION Anvil
3 6 (1.66%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.83%) Shopify
5 2 (0.55%) Advent Geneva
5 2 (0.55%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.55%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.55%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.28%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.28%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 73 (20.17%) AWS
2 52 (14.36%) Azure
3 24 (6.63%) PaaS
4 17 (4.70%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 15 (4.14%) GCP
6 13 (3.59%) Serverless
7 10 (2.76%) GitHub
8 9 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.66%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.38%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.38%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 4 (1.10%) IaaS
13 4 (1.10%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (10.77%) Firewall
2 19 (5.25%) FTP
3 14 (3.87%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.59%) DNS
4 13 (3.59%) FIX Connectivity
4 13 (3.59%) HTTP
5 12 (3.31%) SSH
6 11 (3.04%) Internet
7 9 (2.49%) VPN
8 7 (1.93%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.66%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (1.66%) IPsec
9 6 (1.66%) Network Security
10 5 (1.38%) LAN
10 5 (1.38%) tcpdump
10 5 (1.38%) Wireshark
11 4 (1.10%) Kerberos
11 4 (1.10%) POP3
11 4 (1.10%) SMTP
11 4 (1.10%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.12%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.73%) Relational Database
3 23 (6.35%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.52%) RDBMS
5 19 (5.25%) KDB
6 17 (4.70%) Hadoop
7 14 (3.87%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.76%) Kdb+
9 9 (2.49%) Oracle Database
10 8 (2.21%) MySQL
11 7 (1.93%) DB2
11 7 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.66%) Big Data
12 6 (1.66%) Redis
12 6 (1.66%) Sybase ASE
13 5 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.38%) HBase
13 5 (1.38%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 41 (11.33%) Git
1 41 (11.33%) JIRA
2 31 (8.56%) Jenkins
3 22 (6.08%) TeamCity
4 18 (4.97%) Mockito
5 16 (4.42%) Cucumber
6 11 (3.04%) GitLab
7 10 (2.76%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.76%) Maven
8 9 (2.49%) Selenium
9 7 (1.93%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.93%) JUnit
10 6 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (1.66%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.38%) Subversion
12 4 (1.10%) Gatling
12 4 (1.10%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (1.10%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.10%) ScalaTest
12 4 (1.10%) SonarQube
General
1 150 (41.44%) Finance
2 79 (21.82%) Banking
3 74 (20.44%) Social Skills
4 58 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (10.50%) Front Office
6 35 (9.67%) Investment Banking
7 28 (7.73%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.49%) Back Office
9 8 (2.21%) Marketing
10 7 (1.93%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.66%) Retail
12 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.10%) Electronics
13 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.10%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (30.11%) Developer
2 37 (10.22%) Java Developer
3 36 (9.94%) Senior
4 21 (5.80%) Analyst
4 21 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (5.52%) Senior Developer
6 19 (5.25%) Lead
7 17 (4.70%) Consultant
7 17 (4.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 14 (3.87%) Business Analyst
8 14 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
9 13 (3.59%) Implementation Specialist
10 12 (3.31%) Applications Support
10 12 (3.31%) Unix Support
10 12 (3.31%) Vulnerability Specialist
11 11 (3.04%) Architect
11 11 (3.04%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
11 11 (3.04%) Front Office Business Analyst
11 11 (3.04%) KDB Developer
11 11 (3.04%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.05%) FIX Protocol
2 34 (9.39%) Kafka
3 31 (8.56%) Spring
4 29 (8.01%) XML
5 28 (7.73%) HTML
6 25 (6.91%) CSS
7 22 (6.08%) JSON
8 20 (5.52%) Sass
9 18 (4.97%) Laravel
10 17 (4.70%) LDAP
10 17 (4.70%) Middleware
11 16 (4.42%) Web Services
12 15 (4.14%) REST
13 14 (3.87%) ActiveMQ
13 14 (3.87%) JAX-RS
13 14 (3.87%) WebSockets
14 12 (3.31%) Hibernate
15 11 (3.04%) J2EE
16 10 (2.76%) JPA
17 9 (2.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.12%) Fixed Income
2 24 (6.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (6.08%) Derivative
3 22 (6.08%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.80%) Linux Command Line
5 18 (4.97%) Replication
6 16 (4.42%) Equities
7 14 (3.87%) Data Centre
8 13 (3.59%) Product Ownership
8 13 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (3.31%) Algorithms
10 9 (2.49%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.21%) Cloud Native
11 8 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (2.21%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.93%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 216 (59.67%) Linux
2 111 (30.66%) Windows
3 20 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (4.42%) Mac OS X
5 14 (3.87%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.66%) Android
6 6 (1.66%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.10%) CentOS
7 4 (1.10%) Solaris
8 2 (0.55%) AIX
9 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.28%) OS/390
9 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) VMS
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (24.03%) Agile
2 59 (16.30%) Test Automation
3 57 (15.75%) DevOps
4 56 (15.47%) TDD
5 55 (15.19%) CI/CD
6 50 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (13.54%) Microservices
8 38 (10.50%) Migration
9 33 (9.12%) Data Modelling
10 32 (8.84%) Electronic Trading
11 31 (8.56%) BDD
11 31 (8.56%) Capacity Management
11 31 (8.56%) Web Development
12 29 (8.01%) Scrum
13 28 (7.73%) Risk Management
14 27 (7.46%) ITIL
14 27 (7.46%) Pair Programming
15 26 (7.18%) Analytics
15 26 (7.18%) Configuration Management
16 25 (6.91%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 127 (35.08%) SQL
2 115 (31.77%) Python
3 114 (31.49%) Java
4 48 (13.26%) Perl
5 43 (11.88%) Shell Script
6 39 (10.77%) JavaScript
7 35 (9.67%) PowerShell
8 30 (8.29%) C#
9 20 (5.52%) PHP
10 17 (4.70%) Bash
11 14 (3.87%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.76%) Go
12 10 (2.76%) Scala
13 7 (1.93%) C++
14 6 (1.66%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.38%) VBA
16 4 (1.10%) AWK
17 2 (0.55%) Lua
17 2 (0.55%) Ruby
17 2 (0.55%) XPath
Qualifications
1 47 (12.98%) Security Cleared
2 43 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.50%) Degree
4 11 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.10%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.83%) CISSP
6 3 (0.83%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (0.83%) ISEB
7 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) CCNA
7 2 (0.55%) CCNP
7 2 (0.55%) CEH
7 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.28%) CCIE
8 1 (0.28%) GCIA
8 1 (0.28%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.67%) QA
2 12 (3.31%) SLA
3 11 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 8 (2.21%) EMIR
5 8 (2.21%) MiFID
6 7 (1.93%) Dodd-Frank
7 5 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.10%) ISO 15022
8 4 (1.10%) NIST
9 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 36 (9.94%) Docker
2 30 (8.29%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.70%) HDFS
3 17 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.59%) NFS
5 9 (2.49%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.10%) Samba
7 4 (1.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.55%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.55%) KVM
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.28%) Ceph
9 1 (0.28%) Cronacle
9 1 (0.28%) Firmware
9 1 (0.28%) iptables
9 1 (0.28%) Lustre
9 1 (0.28%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.28%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 46 (12.71%) Kubernetes
2 44 (12.15%) Ansible
3 26 (7.18%) Terraform
4 17 (4.70%) Puppet
5 12 (3.31%) SCCM
6 11 (3.04%) Grafana
7 10 (2.76%) SCOM
8 8 (2.21%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.21%) SCVMM
9 6 (1.66%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (1.66%) Kibana
9 6 (1.66%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.38%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (1.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (1.10%) logstash
11 4 (1.10%) NetBackup
11 4 (1.10%) QRadar
12 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.83%) Netcool
12 3 (0.83%) Salt
Vendors
1 57 (15.75%) Oracle
2 38 (10.50%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.63%) ION Trading
4 22 (6.08%) VMware
5 17 (4.70%) Red Hat
6 16 (4.42%) SAP
7 15 (4.14%) Bloomberg
7 15 (4.14%) Google
8 14 (3.87%) Cisco
8 14 (3.87%) CyberArk
8 14 (3.87%) Qualys
8 14 (3.87%) Splunk
9 12 (3.31%) F5
9 12 (3.31%) IBM
9 12 (3.31%) Isilon
10 11 (3.04%) Dell
10 11 (3.04%) MarketAxess
10 11 (3.04%) Tradeweb
11 10 (2.76%) SEEBURGER
11 10 (2.76%) Sybase