Unix Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unix Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Unix Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 750 710 819
Rank change year-on-year -40 +109 -173
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 13 38 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.064% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.072% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 21
10th Percentile - £48,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +18.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £56,250 £68,625 £51,250
90th Percentile £58,100 £76,750 £63,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £65,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.54% +30.50% -15.97%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Unix Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Engineer in the UK excluding London

Unix Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Unix Engineer in the UK excluding London

Unix Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England - 7 £50,000 - 2
North East - 6 £50,000 -
South West -20 5 £52,500 -7.89% 3
West Midlands +7 1 £56,000 -18.25%
Midlands -15 1 £56,000 -18.25%
North West - 1 £52,500 - 2
Unix Engineer
UK

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Unix Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Unix
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
3 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
4 4 (30.77%) CentOS
4 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (30.77%) Git
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) Bash
4 4 (30.77%) Puppet
4 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
4 4 (30.77%) Ansible
4 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (30.77%) CoreOS
4 4 (30.77%) Python
4 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (30.77%) Time Management
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) IBM
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (15.38%) AIX
5 2 (15.38%) Solaris
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
5 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Middleware
6 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
6 1 (7.69%) Java

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (7.69%) JBoss
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.69%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
1 13 (100.00%) Unix
2 4 (30.77%) CentOS
2 4 (30.77%) CoreOS
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (15.38%) AIX
3 2 (15.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Time Management
2 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Bash
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft