Unix
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 193 193
Rank change year-on-year -93 0 -13
Permanent jobs citing Unix 1,002 1,904 3,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.93% 2.08%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.19% 12.03% 11.04%
Number of salaries quoted 523 961 1,555
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,823 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +10.12% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £89,852 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.17% +9.52% +10.53%

All Operating Systems
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,934 15,823 30,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 16.06% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 10,615 16,434
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the UK

Unix
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix.

Salary trend for Unix in the UK

Unix
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix in the UK

Unix
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -80 707 £50,500 -12.17% 171
England -125 707 £60,000 -14.29% 239
Work from Home -126 336 £66,250 +1.92% 102
London -86 263 £80,000 -0.37% 136
Scotland -21 200 £42,000 -30.00% 19
North of England -73 133 £53,847 -4.97% 15
South East -9 127 £52,500 - 83
South West -56 86 £52,500 -0.19% 12
Midlands -85 77 £50,000 -23.08% 11
North West -27 71 £55,000 -8.33% 7
Wales +12 53 £42,904 -26.12% 4
West Midlands -4 49 £50,000 -23.08% 6
Yorkshire -46 40 £48,387 -17.99% 8
East Midlands -77 28 £50,000 -18.37% 4
North East -4 22 £47,137 +21.64%
East of England -72 16 £40,000 -33.33% 26
Northern Ireland +5 15 £90,000 +77.34% 4

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 105 (10.48%) Apache Spark
2 72 (7.19%) WebLogic
3 44 (4.39%) Oracle Service Bus
4 40 (3.99%) Tomcat
5 38 (3.79%) Apache
6 33 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (2.89%) IIS
8 20 (2.00%) WebSphere
9 18 (1.80%) nginx
10 17 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
11 16 (1.60%) Confluence
12 15 (1.50%) Captiva
12 15 (1.50%) FileNet
13 13 (1.30%) SharePoint
14 9 (0.90%) JBoss
15 3 (0.30%) GlassFish
16 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
16 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.20%) WordPress
17 1 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 76 (7.58%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (4.49%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.20%) CATIA
5 2 (0.20%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 49 (4.89%) NEC Housing
2 45 (4.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 17 (1.70%) Fidessa
3 17 (1.70%) Unit4 Business World
4 6 (0.60%) Temenos T24
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.20%) Adaptiv
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.20%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.100%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.100%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.100%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.100%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.100%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 314 (31.34%) AWS
2 187 (18.66%) Azure
3 63 (6.29%) GCP
4 62 (6.19%) SaaS
5 58 (5.79%) IaaS
6 32 (3.19%) GitHub
7 30 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (2.89%) PaaS
9 25 (2.50%) Power Platform
10 24 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (1.60%) OpenShift
13 15 (1.50%) Serverless
14 13 (1.30%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.90%) Entra ID
16 8 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
17 7 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 6 (0.60%) Azure Machine Learning
18 6 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 79 (7.88%) Firewall
2 63 (6.29%) DNS
3 60 (5.99%) TCP/IP
4 46 (4.59%) DHCP
5 37 (3.69%) VPN
6 27 (2.69%) SNMP
7 24 (2.40%) HTTP
8 22 (2.20%) Internet
9 21 (2.10%) SAN
10 20 (2.00%) LAN
11 19 (1.90%) BGP
11 19 (1.90%) MPLS
11 19 (1.90%) WAN
12 18 (1.80%) Network Security
13 17 (1.70%) FIX Connectivity
13 17 (1.70%) SSH
14 13 (1.30%) SSL
14 13 (1.30%) VLAN
15 12 (1.20%) SMTP
16 11 (1.10%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (14.87%) NoSQL
2 117 (11.68%) Oracle Database
3 107 (10.68%) SQL Server
4 102 (10.18%) Apache Hive
4 102 (10.18%) HBase
5 77 (7.68%) MySQL
6 73 (7.29%) Hadoop
7 58 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
8 50 (4.99%) Relational Database
9 46 (4.59%) Oracle Database 11g
10 44 (4.39%) Oracle Database 10g
10 44 (4.39%) VLDB
11 38 (3.79%) Big Data
12 37 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
13 34 (3.39%) MongoDB
14 33 (3.29%) Elasticsearch
15 26 (2.59%) Oracle Database 12c
16 25 (2.50%) Power BI
17 20 (2.00%) Data Lake
17 20 (2.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 139 (13.87%) Git
2 123 (12.28%) Jenkins
3 88 (8.78%) JIRA
4 86 (8.58%) Bitbucket Server
5 35 (3.49%) GitLab
6 17 (1.70%) Oracle Forms
7 14 (1.40%) Eclipse
8 13 (1.30%) Subversion
9 11 (1.10%) CircleCI
10 10 (1.00%) GNU Toolchain
11 9 (0.90%) LabVIEW
12 7 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.70%) Postman
12 7 (0.70%) Snyk
13 6 (0.60%) Appium
13 6 (0.60%) RStudio
13 6 (0.60%) UI Automator
14 5 (0.50%) DTrace
14 5 (0.50%) GDB
14 5 (0.50%) JMeter
General
1 414 (41.32%) Finance
2 225 (22.46%) Social Skills
3 182 (18.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 167 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 163 (16.27%) Law
6 116 (11.58%) Banking
7 111 (11.08%) Legal
8 94 (9.38%) Public Sector
9 73 (7.29%) Police
10 54 (5.39%) Local Government
11 39 (3.89%) Back Office
12 26 (2.59%) Front Office
13 23 (2.30%) Marketing
13 23 (2.30%) Telecoms
14 20 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.60%) Military
16 13 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.30%) Games
17 11 (1.10%) Investment Banking
17 11 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 188 (18.76%) Software Engineer
2 168 (16.77%) Analyst
3 164 (16.37%) Applications Support
4 163 (16.27%) Developer
5 150 (14.97%) Senior
6 129 (12.87%) Support Analyst
7 108 (10.78%) Applications Support Analyst
8 70 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (6.69%) AWS Software Engineer
10 64 (6.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 62 (6.19%) Database Engineer
12 56 (5.59%) Administrator
12 56 (5.59%) Database Developer
13 54 (5.39%) Data Engineer
13 54 (5.39%) Python Engineer
14 47 (4.69%) SQL Analyst
14 47 (4.69%) SQL Support Analyst
15 46 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 45 (4.49%) Architect
16 45 (4.49%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (6.59%) Spring
2 60 (5.99%) REST
3 52 (5.19%) Web Services
4 50 (4.99%) XML
5 34 (3.39%) SOAP
6 33 (3.29%) J2EE
6 33 (3.29%) Node.js
6 33 (3.29%) React
7 29 (2.89%) HTML
8 27 (2.69%) FIX Protocol
9 26 (2.59%) Java EE
10 24 (2.40%) CSS
10 24 (2.40%) JPA
11 21 (2.10%) Kafka
12 20 (2.00%) AngularJS
12 20 (2.00%) OpenMP
13 18 (1.80%) JSON
13 18 (1.80%) Middleware
14 14 (1.40%) OpenACC
15 13 (1.30%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 142 (14.17%) Algorithms
2 75 (7.49%) Self-Motivation
3 63 (6.29%) Public Cloud
4 51 (5.09%) Data Centre
5 48 (4.79%) Management Information System
6 40 (3.99%) Linux Command Line
7 28 (2.79%) CUDA
8 23 (2.30%) Cloud Native
9 22 (2.20%) Driving Licence
10 19 (1.90%) Private Cloud
11 17 (1.70%) Eurex
11 17 (1.70%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 15 (1.50%) DataPower
13 15 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
14 13 (1.30%) CMDB
14 13 (1.30%) Replication
15 12 (1.20%) Blockchain
15 12 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
16 11 (1.10%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 617 (61.58%) Linux
2 400 (39.92%) Windows
3 138 (13.77%) Solaris
4 80 (7.98%) Windows Server
5 63 (6.29%) CentOS
6 46 (4.59%) Ubuntu
7 32 (3.19%) AIX
8 31 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (1.90%) Mac OS
10 14 (1.40%) Mac OS X
10 14 (1.40%) VMS
10 14 (1.40%) Windows 10
11 13 (1.30%) CoreOS
12 12 (1.20%) zOS
13 9 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.70%) Debian
14 7 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.30%) Android
16 3 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (29.14%) Agile
2 218 (21.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 202 (20.16%) Software Engineering
4 189 (18.86%) CI/CD
5 185 (18.46%) ITIL
6 169 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
7 157 (15.67%) SDLC
8 153 (15.27%) Machine Learning
9 151 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 148 (14.77%) Open Source
11 137 (13.67%) DevOps
11 137 (13.67%) Test Automation
12 129 (12.87%) Incident Management
13 127 (12.67%) Risk Management
14 125 (12.48%) Operational Stability
14 125 (12.48%) TDD
15 121 (12.08%) Actionable Insight
16 117 (11.68%) Community of Practice
17 110 (10.98%) Visualisation
18 106 (10.58%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 410 (40.92%) SQL
2 371 (37.03%) Python
3 252 (25.15%) Java
4 140 (13.97%) PL/SQL
5 117 (11.68%) Shell Script
6 103 (10.28%) Bash
6 103 (10.28%) PowerShell
7 77 (7.68%) C
8 71 (7.09%) C++
9 62 (6.19%) JavaScript
10 60 (5.99%) Perl
11 39 (3.89%) Ruby
12 33 (3.29%) Fortran
13 20 (2.00%) C#
14 13 (1.30%) PHP
15 9 (0.90%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.90%) Rust
16 7 (0.70%) Go
16 7 (0.70%) R
16 7 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 262 (26.15%) Degree
2 211 (21.06%) Security Cleared
3 135 (13.47%) SC Cleared
4 39 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.29%) Master's Degree
5 33 (3.29%) PhD
6 27 (2.69%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.20%) CISSP
7 22 (2.20%) Oracle Certification
8 21 (2.10%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.90%) CISM
10 18 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.80%) GCIH
11 17 (1.70%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.70%) CISA
11 17 (1.70%) GCIA
12 16 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.40%) GREM
14 13 (1.30%) CCNA
15 12 (1.20%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (9.98%) SLA
2 57 (5.69%) Accessibility
3 17 (1.70%) GDPR
3 17 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.70%) ITGC
3 17 (1.70%) PMO
4 16 (1.60%) NIST
5 12 (1.20%) QA
6 8 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.30%) COBIT
8 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.20%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.100%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 102 (10.18%) HDFS
2 68 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (5.69%) Docker
4 46 (4.59%) Oracle RAC
5 45 (4.49%) Active Directory
6 35 (3.49%) Hyper-V
7 24 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (1.70%) Firmware
9 9 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
11 5 (0.50%) DFS Replication
12 4 (0.40%) KVM
12 4 (0.40%) vSphere
13 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.30%) XenApp
13 3 (0.30%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.20%) Kamailio
14 2 (0.20%) Shibboleth
15 1 (0.100%) OpenAM
15 1 (0.100%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 122 (12.18%) Terraform
2 65 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 60 (5.99%) Ansible
4 45 (4.49%) Data Guard
4 45 (4.49%) Oracle RMAN
5 37 (3.69%) Puppet
5 37 (3.69%) SCCM
6 34 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (2.59%) OpenSSO
8 23 (2.30%) Grafana
9 18 (1.80%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.40%) WSUS
11 13 (1.30%) WMI
12 12 (1.20%) Prometheus
13 10 (1.00%) Nessus
14 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.80%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.70%) Nexpose
16 6 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
16 6 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 319 (31.84%) Oracle
2 161 (16.07%) Microsoft
3 129 (12.87%) Databricks
4 106 (10.58%) VMware
5 87 (8.68%) Informatica
6 82 (8.18%) Remedy
7 72 (7.19%) Cloudera
8 70 (6.99%) Red Hat
9 56 (5.59%) Splunk
10 49 (4.89%) NEC
11 48 (4.79%) IBM
11 48 (4.79%) Sun
12 37 (3.69%) Cisco
13 33 (3.29%) SAP
14 27 (2.69%) Google
15 25 (2.50%) Dynatrace
15 25 (2.50%) ION Trading
15 25 (2.50%) Qualys
16 23 (2.30%) ServiceNow
17 21 (2.10%) Dell