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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 88 113
Rank change year-on-year -31 +25 -7
Contract jobs citing Unix 364 735 948
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.08% 2.89% 2.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.45% 19.88% 18.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 518 643
10th Percentile £350 £450 £456
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £675
90th Percentile £850 £738 £744
England median daily rate £538 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -4.23% +2.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £22.08 £46.75 £64.00
25th Percentile £22.13 £47.50 £66.25
Median hourly rate £23.05 £72.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.21% - +23.49%
75th Percentile £23.80 £76.00 £78.75
90th Percentile - £80.65 £81.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £70.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% -16.30% +64.71%

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 2,086 3,697 5,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.91% 14.53% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,477 2,698 3,747
10th Percentile £206 £213 £228
25th Percentile £335 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £475 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 61 82
10th Percentile £15.19 £16.13 £15.08
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% +108.33% -48.39%
75th Percentile £27.59 £64.50 £48.06
90th Percentile £60.43 £83.75 £62.95
England median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -7 38 £650 +18.18% 4
West London +25 8 £350 -19.54%
South London +9 8 £521 +9.68% 2
East London -10 5 £440 -17.60%
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 17 (4.67%) Confluence
1 17 (4.67%) nginx
2 11 (3.02%) IIS
3 9 (2.47%) JBoss
4 8 (2.20%) Apache
5 6 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.65%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.37%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.82%) CMS
7 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.82%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.55%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.55%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.55%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 19 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (3.02%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (4.95%) ION MarketView
2 12 (3.30%) ION Anvil
3 6 (1.65%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.82%) Shopify
5 2 (0.55%) Advent Geneva
5 2 (0.55%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.55%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.55%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.27%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 74 (20.33%) AWS
2 55 (15.11%) Azure
3 25 (6.87%) PaaS
4 16 (4.40%) GCP
5 13 (3.57%) Serverless
6 12 (3.30%) GitHub
7 9 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (2.47%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 8 (2.20%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 6 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.65%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.37%) Azure App Service
11 5 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.37%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.44%) Firewall
2 17 (4.67%) FTP
3 16 (4.40%) DNS
3 16 (4.40%) Internet
4 14 (3.85%) SSH
5 12 (3.30%) FIX Connectivity
6 11 (3.02%) HTTP
7 9 (2.47%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.20%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (2.20%) Kerberos
8 8 (2.20%) SSL
9 6 (1.65%) LAN
9 6 (1.65%) VPN
10 5 (1.37%) SNMP
10 5 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.10%) NAS
11 4 (1.10%) SAN
11 4 (1.10%) tcpdump
11 4 (1.10%) Wireless
11 4 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.44%) SQL Server
2 32 (8.79%) Relational Database
3 23 (6.32%) RDBMS
4 22 (6.04%) MongoDB
5 19 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.67%) Hadoop
7 15 (4.12%) KDB
8 10 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.20%) DB2
9 8 (2.20%) MySQL
9 8 (2.20%) Oracle Database
9 8 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.92%) Sybase ASE
11 6 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.65%) Big Data
11 6 (1.65%) Kdb+
11 6 (1.65%) Power BI
11 6 (1.65%) Redis
12 5 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.37%) HBase
Development Applications
1 43 (11.81%) JIRA
2 41 (11.26%) Git
3 33 (9.07%) Jenkins
4 23 (6.32%) TeamCity
5 19 (5.22%) Cucumber
6 18 (4.95%) Mockito
7 12 (3.30%) GitLab
8 11 (3.02%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.75%) JUnit
9 10 (2.75%) Maven
10 9 (2.47%) Selenium
11 8 (2.20%) Artifactory
11 8 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.37%) Subversion
13 4 (1.10%) Gatling
13 4 (1.10%) Robot Framework
13 4 (1.10%) ScalaTest
13 4 (1.10%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.10%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.82%) Burp Suite
General
1 158 (43.41%) Finance
2 83 (22.80%) Banking
3 81 (22.25%) Social Skills
4 61 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (9.89%) Investment Banking
6 34 (9.34%) Front Office
7 26 (7.14%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.75%) Retail
9 9 (2.47%) Back Office
9 9 (2.47%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.20%) Marketing
11 7 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.37%) 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 (0.82%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (28.57%) Developer
2 40 (10.99%) Java Developer
3 36 (9.89%) Senior
4 22 (6.04%) Analyst
4 22 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (5.77%) Lead
5 21 (5.77%) Senior Developer
6 19 (5.22%) Consultant
7 18 (4.95%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (3.57%) Business Analyst
8 13 (3.57%) Implementation Specialist
8 13 (3.57%) SQL Developer
9 12 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (3.30%) Unix Support
9 12 (3.30%) Vulnerability Specialist
10 11 (3.02%) Applications Support
10 11 (3.02%) IT Support
11 10 (2.75%) Network Engineer
11 10 (2.75%) Support Engineer
11 10 (2.75%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.64%) Kafka
2 40 (10.99%) FIX Protocol
3 37 (10.16%) Spring
4 29 (7.97%) XML
5 24 (6.59%) JSON
6 21 (5.77%) HTML
7 20 (5.49%) Middleware
8 19 (5.22%) REST
8 19 (5.22%) Web Services
9 17 (4.67%) CSS
10 16 (4.40%) LDAP
11 15 (4.12%) ActiveMQ
11 15 (4.12%) Hibernate
12 14 (3.85%) J2EE
12 14 (3.85%) JAX-RS
12 14 (3.85%) JPA
13 12 (3.30%) Sass
13 12 (3.30%) SOAP
14 10 (2.75%) Laravel
15 9 (2.47%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.52%) Fixed Income
2 25 (6.87%) Linux Command Line
3 24 (6.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 23 (6.32%) Management Information System
5 21 (5.77%) Derivative
6 20 (5.49%) Replication
7 15 (4.12%) Product Ownership
8 14 (3.85%) Algorithms
8 14 (3.85%) Data Centre
9 13 (3.57%) Equities
9 13 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (2.75%) Onboarding
12 9 (2.47%) Cloud Native
12 9 (2.47%) Data Structures
12 9 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (2.20%) Public Cloud
14 6 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (1.65%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 212 (58.24%) Linux
2 107 (29.40%) Windows
3 26 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (4.40%) Mac OS X
5 14 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.20%) Android
6 8 (2.20%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.10%) CentOS
8 3 (0.82%) Solaris
9 2 (0.55%) AIX
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.27%) OS/390
10 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (26.10%) Agile
2 69 (18.96%) DevOps
3 55 (15.11%) CI/CD
4 53 (14.56%) TDD
5 52 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (14.01%) Test Automation
7 45 (12.36%) Microservices
8 40 (10.99%) Migration
9 34 (9.34%) BDD
10 32 (8.79%) Scrum
11 30 (8.24%) Capacity Management
11 30 (8.24%) Pair Programming
12 29 (7.97%) Data Modelling
13 27 (7.42%) Electronic Trading
14 26 (7.14%) ITIL
15 25 (6.87%) Web Development
16 24 (6.59%) Analytics
16 24 (6.59%) Disaster Recovery
16 24 (6.59%) ETL
16 24 (6.59%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (36.81%) SQL
2 128 (35.16%) Python
3 121 (33.24%) Java
4 52 (14.29%) Perl
5 51 (14.01%) Shell Script
6 31 (8.52%) PowerShell
7 30 (8.24%) JavaScript
8 27 (7.42%) C#
9 16 (4.40%) T-SQL
10 13 (3.57%) Scala
11 12 (3.30%) Bash
11 12 (3.30%) PHP
12 10 (2.75%) Go
13 6 (1.65%) C++
13 6 (1.65%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.37%) VBA
15 4 (1.10%) AWK
16 2 (0.55%) Lua
16 2 (0.55%) Ruby
16 2 (0.55%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (10.44%) Degree
1 38 (10.44%) Security Cleared
2 35 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 7 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (0.82%) CISSP
6 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.55%) CCNA
7 2 (0.55%) CEH
7 2 (0.55%) ISEB
7 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.27%) CCNP
8 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) GIAC
8 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.16%) QA
2 13 (3.57%) SLA
3 8 (2.20%) EMIR
4 6 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.65%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.65%) Dodd-Frank
4 6 (1.65%) MiFID
4 6 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.10%) ISO 15022
6 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.55%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (10.44%) Active Directory
2 36 (9.89%) Docker
3 17 (4.67%) HDFS
4 16 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (3.57%) NFS
6 9 (2.47%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (1.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (0.82%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.82%) Samba
10 1 (0.27%) Ceph
10 1 (0.27%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.27%) Firmware
10 1 (0.27%) iptables
10 1 (0.27%) KVM
10 1 (0.27%) Lustre
10 1 (0.27%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.27%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 52 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 47 (12.91%) Ansible
3 31 (8.52%) Terraform
4 18 (4.95%) Puppet
5 15 (4.12%) Grafana
6 12 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.30%) SCCM
7 8 (2.20%) SCOM
7 8 (2.20%) SCVMM
8 6 (1.65%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.37%) Hadoop YARN
9 5 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (1.37%) Kibana
9 5 (1.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 5 (1.37%) Packer
10 4 (1.10%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.82%) logstash
11 3 (0.82%) Netcool
11 3 (0.82%) QRadar
11 3 (0.82%) Salt
Vendors
1 58 (15.93%) Oracle
2 42 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 27 (7.42%) ION Trading
4 21 (5.77%) VMware
5 20 (5.49%) Red Hat
6 16 (4.40%) Bloomberg
6 16 (4.40%) Cisco
6 16 (4.40%) Google
6 16 (4.40%) SAP
7 15 (4.12%) CyberArk
8 14 (3.85%) IBM
8 14 (3.85%) Qualys
9 13 (3.57%) F5
10 12 (3.30%) Isilon
11 11 (3.02%) Dell
11 11 (3.02%) Sybase
11 11 (3.02%) Tradeweb
12 10 (2.75%) Juniper
12 10 (2.75%) MarketAxess
12 10 (2.75%) Splunk