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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 83 113
Rank change year-on-year -35 +30 -8
Contract jobs citing Unix 367 734 960
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.08% 2.90% 2.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 17.39% 19.89% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 512 646
10th Percentile £350 £445 £455
25th Percentile £469 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £744 £675 £675
90th Percentile £850 £738 £744
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +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 2,110 3,690 5,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.96% 14.60% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 2,696 3,795
10th Percentile £208 £219 £225
25th Percentile £350 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £624 £669 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £756
England median daily rate £475 £502 £500
% change year-on-year -5.30% +0.32% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 61 83
10th Percentile £15.19 £16.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £47.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.68% +97.92% -52.00%
75th Percentile £27.59 £64.50 £47.54
90th Percentile £60.43 £83.00 £62.90
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 7 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 7 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 -3 39 £669 +21.59% 3
South London +13 10 £567 +19.37% 2
West London +27 8 £350 -19.54%
East London -7 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 16 (4.36%) Confluence
1 16 (4.36%) nginx
2 11 (3.00%) IIS
3 8 (2.18%) Apache
3 8 (2.18%) JBoss
4 7 (1.91%) Tomcat
5 6 (1.63%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.82%) CMS
7 3 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.82%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.82%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.54%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.27%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 17 (4.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.72%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 18 (4.90%) ION MarketView
2 12 (3.27%) ION Anvil
3 6 (1.63%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.82%) Shopify
5 2 (0.54%) Advent Geneva
5 2 (0.54%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.54%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.54%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.27%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 75 (20.44%) AWS
2 55 (14.99%) Azure
3 28 (7.63%) PaaS
4 16 (4.36%) GCP
5 13 (3.54%) GitHub
6 12 (3.27%) Serverless
7 10 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (2.45%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.45%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 8 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.91%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.63%) IaaS
11 6 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.63%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.81%) Firewall
2 18 (4.90%) DNS
3 16 (4.36%) FTP
3 16 (4.36%) Internet
4 14 (3.81%) SSH
5 11 (3.00%) FIX Connectivity
6 10 (2.72%) HTTP
7 9 (2.45%) Kerberos
7 9 (2.45%) SSL
8 8 (2.18%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (2.18%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.63%) LAN
10 5 (1.36%) SNMP
10 5 (1.36%) VPN
10 5 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.09%) NAS
11 4 (1.09%) SAN
11 4 (1.09%) Wireless
12 3 (0.82%) tcpdump
12 3 (0.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.35%) SQL Server
2 33 (8.99%) Relational Database
3 24 (6.54%) RDBMS
4 21 (5.72%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.90%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.63%) Hadoop
7 14 (3.81%) KDB
8 10 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.72%) Oracle Database
9 9 (2.45%) MySQL
9 9 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.91%) DB2
10 7 (1.91%) Sybase ASE
11 6 (1.63%) Big Data
11 6 (1.63%) Power BI
11 6 (1.63%) Redis
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.36%) HBase
12 5 (1.36%) Kdb+
12 5 (1.36%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 46 (12.53%) Git
2 42 (11.44%) JIRA
3 36 (9.81%) Jenkins
4 22 (5.99%) TeamCity
5 19 (5.18%) Cucumber
5 19 (5.18%) Mockito
6 13 (3.54%) Bitbucket
7 12 (3.27%) GitLab
7 12 (3.27%) Maven
8 11 (3.00%) JUnit
9 9 (2.45%) Selenium
10 8 (2.18%) Artifactory
10 8 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (1.63%) Subversion
12 5 (1.36%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.09%) Gatling
13 4 (1.09%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (1.09%) Robot Framework
13 4 (1.09%) ScalaTest
13 4 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 161 (43.87%) Finance
2 87 (23.71%) Banking
3 79 (21.53%) Social Skills
4 59 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (10.08%) Investment Banking
6 32 (8.72%) Front Office
7 26 (7.08%) Public Sector
8 10 (2.72%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.72%) Retail
9 9 (2.45%) Back Office
10 8 (2.18%) Marketing
11 7 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.09%) Electronics
13 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.09%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (29.16%) Developer
2 43 (11.72%) Java Developer
3 38 (10.35%) Senior
4 25 (6.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (5.99%) Analyst
5 22 (5.99%) Senior Developer
6 20 (5.45%) Lead
7 18 (4.90%) Consultant
7 18 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
8 13 (3.54%) Implementation Specialist
8 13 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (3.54%) SQL Developer
9 12 (3.27%) Unix Support
9 12 (3.27%) Vulnerability Specialist
10 11 (3.00%) Applications Support
10 11 (3.00%) Business Analyst
10 11 (3.00%) IT Support
11 10 (2.72%) Network Engineer
11 10 (2.72%) Support Engineer
11 10 (2.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.08%) Kafka
2 42 (11.44%) Spring
3 38 (10.35%) FIX Protocol
4 29 (7.90%) XML
5 25 (6.81%) JSON
6 22 (5.99%) HTML
7 21 (5.72%) Middleware
7 21 (5.72%) REST
8 20 (5.45%) Web Services
9 18 (4.90%) CSS
10 17 (4.63%) Hibernate
10 17 (4.63%) J2EE
11 15 (4.09%) ActiveMQ
11 15 (4.09%) JPA
11 15 (4.09%) LDAP
12 14 (3.81%) JAX-RS
13 12 (3.27%) Sass
13 12 (3.27%) SOAP
14 9 (2.45%) Spring MVC
14 9 (2.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.17%) Fixed Income
2 25 (6.81%) Linux Command Line
3 24 (6.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 23 (6.27%) Management Information System
5 21 (5.72%) Replication
6 19 (5.18%) Derivative
7 17 (4.63%) Product Ownership
8 15 (4.09%) Algorithms
9 14 (3.81%) Data Centre
10 12 (3.27%) Equities
10 12 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (3.00%) Cloud Native
11 11 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (2.72%) Data Structures
12 10 (2.72%) Onboarding
13 9 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (2.18%) Public Cloud
15 6 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
15 6 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
15 6 (1.63%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 209 (56.95%) Linux
2 106 (28.88%) Windows
3 28 (7.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (4.36%) Mac OS X
5 14 (3.81%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.18%) Android
6 8 (2.18%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.09%) CentOS
7 4 (1.09%) Solaris
8 3 (0.82%) AIX
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (27.52%) Agile
2 73 (19.89%) DevOps
3 58 (15.80%) CI/CD
4 53 (14.44%) TDD
5 50 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (13.62%) Test Automation
6 48 (13.08%) Microservices
7 40 (10.90%) Migration
8 34 (9.26%) BDD
9 32 (8.72%) Scrum
10 30 (8.17%) Pair Programming
11 29 (7.90%) Capacity Management
12 27 (7.36%) Data Modelling
13 26 (7.08%) SDLC
13 26 (7.08%) Web Development
14 25 (6.81%) Electronic Trading
14 25 (6.81%) ETL
14 25 (6.81%) ITIL
15 24 (6.54%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (6.54%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (37.33%) SQL
2 133 (36.24%) Python
3 127 (34.60%) Java
4 55 (14.99%) Shell Script
5 53 (14.44%) Perl
6 31 (8.45%) PowerShell
7 30 (8.17%) JavaScript
8 26 (7.08%) C#
9 16 (4.36%) T-SQL
10 15 (4.09%) Scala
11 11 (3.00%) Bash
11 11 (3.00%) PHP
12 9 (2.45%) Go
13 8 (2.18%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.36%) C++
14 5 (1.36%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.36%) VBA
15 4 (1.09%) AWK
15 4 (1.09%) Ruby
16 2 (0.54%) Lua
Qualifications
1 39 (10.63%) Security Cleared
2 36 (9.81%) Degree
2 36 (9.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.91%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.82%) CISSP
7 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.54%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.54%) CCNA
8 2 (0.54%) CEH
8 2 (0.54%) ISEB
8 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.27%) CCNP
9 1 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.27%) GIAC
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.81%) QA
2 13 (3.54%) SLA
3 7 (1.91%) EMIR
3 7 (1.91%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.36%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.36%) Dodd-Frank
5 5 (1.36%) MiFID
6 4 (1.09%) ISO 15022
7 2 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.54%) NIST
8 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 39 (10.63%) Active Directory
2 37 (10.08%) Docker
3 17 (4.63%) HDFS
4 15 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (3.54%) NFS
6 9 (2.45%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (0.82%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.54%) 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 53 (14.44%) Kubernetes
2 49 (13.35%) Ansible
3 33 (8.99%) Terraform
4 18 (4.90%) Puppet
5 15 (4.09%) Grafana
6 13 (3.54%) Prometheus
7 12 (3.27%) SCCM
8 8 (2.18%) SCOM
8 8 (2.18%) SCVMM
9 6 (1.63%) Packer
9 6 (1.63%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.36%) Hadoop YARN
10 5 (1.36%) Kibana
10 5 (1.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 4 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (1.09%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.82%) logstash
12 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.82%) QRadar
12 3 (0.82%) Salt
Vendors
1 62 (16.89%) Oracle
2 43 (11.72%) Microsoft
3 27 (7.36%) ION Trading
4 21 (5.72%) Red Hat
5 20 (5.45%) VMware
6 17 (4.63%) Google
7 16 (4.36%) Cisco
7 16 (4.36%) SAP
8 15 (4.09%) Bloomberg
8 15 (4.09%) CyberArk
8 15 (4.09%) IBM
9 14 (3.81%) Qualys
10 13 (3.54%) F5
11 12 (3.27%) Isilon
12 11 (3.00%) Dell
12 11 (3.00%) SEEBURGER
12 11 (3.00%) Sybase
13 10 (2.72%) Juniper
13 10 (2.72%) Splunk
13 10 (2.72%) Tradeweb