Unix Jobs in the UK excluding London

Unix
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 264 196 220
Rank change year-on-year -68 +24 -19
Permanent jobs citing Unix 722 1,076 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.02% 1.79% 1.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.83% 10.89% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 348 422 647
10th Percentile £33,000 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £43,000 £39,182
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £56,663 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.99% +8.97% +9.47%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,720
90th Percentile £82,548 £80,000 £73,675
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.60% +11.12% +4.17%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,576 9,878 14,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.91% 16.42% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,180 6,246 9,321
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix in the UK excluding London

Unix
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 within the UK excluding 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland -17 204 £42,101 -29.83% 13
North of England -61 140 £55,000 +0.92% 18
South East -35 126 £51,000 -2.86% 32
South West -58 90 £52,500 +5.00% 10
Midlands -81 77 £50,000 -23.08% 15
North West -7 71 £55,000 -6.24% 8
Wales +18 54 £42,904 -26.12%
West Midlands -11 47 £50,000 -23.08% 6
Yorkshire -31 47 £57,500 -3.36% 9
East Midlands -66 30 £50,000 -23.08% 9
North East -4 22 £47,137 +25.70% 1
Northern Ireland +8 16 £83,750 +67.50% 2
East of England -63 15 £38,750 -35.42% 24
Unix
UK

Unix
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
1 102 (14.13%) Apache Spark
2 73 (10.11%) WebLogic
3 44 (6.09%) Oracle Service Bus
4 27 (3.74%) WebSphere
5 22 (3.05%) Captiva
5 22 (3.05%) FileNet
5 22 (3.05%) Tomcat
6 18 (2.49%) Apache
7 16 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (1.66%) IIS
8 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 11 (1.52%) SharePoint
10 10 (1.39%) nginx
11 8 (1.11%) Confluence
12 4 (0.55%) JBoss
13 3 (0.42%) GlassFish
14 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
15 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 71 (9.83%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (6.09%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.28%) CATIA
5 2 (0.28%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 45 (6.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (3.32%) NEC Housing
3 11 (1.52%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.14%) Demantra
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ASCP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 245 (33.93%) AWS
2 132 (18.28%) Azure
3 62 (8.59%) GCP
4 58 (8.03%) SaaS
5 56 (7.76%) IaaS
6 33 (4.57%) GitHub
7 27 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (3.74%) PaaS
8 23 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (2.35%) OpenShift
10 11 (1.52%) Serverless
11 9 (1.25%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (0.97%) Entra ID
14 6 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.69%) OCI
16 4 (0.55%) Google Docs
17 3 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.09%) Firewall
2 31 (4.29%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.77%) Internet
4 19 (2.63%) DNS
5 16 (2.22%) SNMP
6 14 (1.94%) Network Security
7 13 (1.80%) SSH
7 13 (1.80%) VLAN
7 13 (1.80%) VPN
8 12 (1.66%) HTTP
9 11 (1.52%) DHCP
9 11 (1.52%) SAN
10 8 (1.11%) SMTP
11 6 (0.83%) WAN
12 5 (0.69%) LAN
13 4 (0.55%) PBX
13 4 (0.55%) Wireless
14 3 (0.42%) 5G
14 3 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
14 3 (0.42%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (16.20%) NoSQL
2 102 (14.13%) Apache Hive
2 102 (14.13%) HBase
3 83 (11.50%) Oracle Database
4 72 (9.97%) Hadoop
5 60 (8.31%) MySQL
6 46 (6.37%) Oracle Database 11g
7 45 (6.23%) Oracle Database 10g
7 45 (6.23%) SQL Server
8 44 (6.09%) VLDB
9 38 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (5.12%) Big Data
11 36 (4.99%) Relational Database
12 32 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (3.46%) Data Lake
15 16 (2.22%) Oracle Database 12c
16 14 (1.94%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.66%) DB2
18 9 (1.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 128 (17.73%) Git
2 112 (15.51%) Jenkins
3 86 (11.91%) Bitbucket Server
4 56 (7.76%) JIRA
5 24 (3.32%) Oracle Forms
6 20 (2.77%) GitLab
7 13 (1.80%) Eclipse
8 11 (1.52%) CircleCI
8 11 (1.52%) LabVIEW
9 10 (1.39%) GNU Toolchain
9 10 (1.39%) Subversion
10 6 (0.83%) Appium
10 6 (0.83%) RStudio
10 6 (0.83%) UI Automator
11 5 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.42%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.28%) Maven
13 2 (0.28%) Metasploit
13 2 (0.28%) VectorCAST
General
1 263 (36.43%) Finance
2 162 (22.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 153 (21.19%) Law
4 145 (20.08%) Social Skills
5 130 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
6 108 (14.96%) Legal
7 59 (8.17%) Public Sector
8 48 (6.65%) Police
9 45 (6.23%) Banking
10 29 (4.02%) Local Government
11 22 (3.05%) Marketing
11 22 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.22%) Military
13 13 (1.80%) Back Office
13 13 (1.80%) Retail
14 12 (1.66%) Games
15 10 (1.39%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.83%) Automotive
17 3 (0.42%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.42%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 188 (26.04%) Software Engineer
2 127 (17.59%) Analyst
3 116 (16.07%) Developer
4 109 (15.10%) Senior
5 102 (14.13%) Applications Support
6 101 (13.99%) Support Analyst
7 83 (11.50%) Applications Support Analyst
8 69 (9.56%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (9.28%) AWS Software Engineer
10 64 (8.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 60 (8.31%) Database Engineer
12 56 (7.76%) Database Developer
13 47 (6.51%) SQL Analyst
13 47 (6.51%) SQL Support Analyst
14 44 (6.09%) Oracle Analyst
14 44 (6.09%) Oracle Support Analyst
15 42 (5.82%) Administrator
15 42 (5.82%) Python Engineer
16 41 (5.68%) Java Engineer
16 41 (5.68%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (8.31%) Spring
2 32 (4.43%) REST
3 30 (4.16%) J2EE
4 29 (4.02%) Web Services
5 27 (3.74%) Java EE
5 27 (3.74%) Node.js
6 24 (3.32%) React
7 21 (2.91%) JPA
7 21 (2.91%) OpenMP
8 20 (2.77%) XML
9 19 (2.63%) CSS
9 19 (2.63%) OpenID
10 16 (2.22%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.22%) HTML
11 15 (2.08%) OpenACC
11 15 (2.08%) SOAP
12 13 (1.80%) Ajax
12 13 (1.80%) JDBC
12 13 (1.80%) ODBC
12 13 (1.80%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (19.25%) Algorithms
2 60 (8.31%) Self-Motivation
3 41 (5.68%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.54%) Data Centre
5 33 (4.57%) Management Information System
6 29 (4.02%) CUDA
7 27 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
8 24 (3.32%) Private Cloud
9 22 (3.05%) DataPower
10 19 (2.63%) Blockchain
10 19 (2.63%) Mainframe
11 17 (2.35%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
13 13 (1.80%) CMDB
14 12 (1.66%) Driving Licence
15 11 (1.52%) GNSS
16 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.25%) Mobile App
16 9 (1.25%) Product Ownership
16 9 (1.25%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 383 (53.05%) Linux
2 250 (34.63%) Windows
3 83 (11.50%) Solaris
4 51 (7.06%) Windows Server
5 22 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (2.91%) AIX
7 20 (2.77%) CentOS
8 17 (2.35%) Mac OS
9 16 (2.22%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.94%) CoreOS
10 14 (1.94%) Mac OS X
11 10 (1.39%) VMS
11 10 (1.39%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.83%) Debian
13 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.28%) Android
16 2 (0.28%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (32.69%) Agile
2 205 (28.39%) Artificial Intelligence
3 195 (27.01%) Software Engineering
4 157 (21.75%) CI/CD
5 145 (20.08%) Machine Learning
6 142 (19.67%) SDLC
7 137 (18.98%) ITIL
8 136 (18.84%) Open Source
8 136 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
9 125 (17.31%) Operational Stability
10 121 (16.76%) Test Automation
11 118 (16.34%) Actionable Insight
12 117 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (16.20%) Risk Management
13 115 (15.93%) Community of Practice
14 112 (15.51%) Incident Management
15 108 (14.96%) Visualisation
16 100 (13.85%) Microservices
17 99 (13.71%) TDD
18 93 (12.88%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 303 (41.97%) SQL
2 259 (35.87%) Python
3 220 (30.47%) Java
4 139 (19.25%) PL/SQL
5 84 (11.63%) Shell Script
6 67 (9.28%) Bash
7 63 (8.73%) C
8 55 (7.62%) C++
9 51 (7.06%) PowerShell
10 33 (4.57%) Fortran
11 31 (4.29%) Perl
12 24 (3.32%) JavaScript
13 14 (1.94%) Ruby
14 11 (1.52%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.39%) C#
16 9 (1.25%) PHP
17 7 (0.97%) R
18 5 (0.69%) COBOL
18 5 (0.69%) TypeScript
19 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 216 (29.92%) Degree
2 168 (23.27%) Security Cleared
3 117 (16.20%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.57%) PhD
5 31 (4.29%) Master's Degree
6 30 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.77%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.08%) CISSP
8 15 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.94%) CISM
9 14 (1.94%) GCIA
9 14 (1.94%) GCIH
9 14 (1.94%) GREM
9 14 (1.94%) HND
9 14 (1.94%) Oracle Certification
10 12 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.66%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.52%) CISA
12 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (11.08%) SLA
2 25 (3.46%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.19%) GDPR
4 11 (1.52%) ITGC
4 11 (1.52%) PMO
5 10 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.11%) QA
7 6 (0.83%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.55%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 102 (14.13%) HDFS
2 48 (6.65%) Oracle RAC
3 36 (4.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (4.29%) Hyper-V
5 30 (4.16%) Active Directory
6 28 (3.88%) Docker
7 18 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (2.22%) Firmware
9 8 (1.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 6 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.55%) KVM
12 3 (0.42%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.42%) XenApp
13 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.28%) Shibboleth
14 1 (0.14%) Lustre
14 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.14%) vSphere
14 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 101 (13.99%) Terraform
2 47 (6.51%) Data Guard
3 46 (6.37%) Oracle RMAN
4 32 (4.43%) Ansible
5 30 (4.16%) Single Sign-On
6 27 (3.74%) OpenSSO
7 24 (3.32%) Kubernetes
8 22 (3.05%) Puppet
9 17 (2.35%) SCCM
10 13 (1.80%) Grafana
10 13 (1.80%) WMI
11 12 (1.66%) WSUS
12 9 (1.25%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.97%) Prometheus
14 6 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
15 5 (0.69%) Nagios
15 5 (0.69%) Opsgenie
16 3 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 3 (0.42%) SCOM
Vendors
1 226 (31.30%) Oracle
2 128 (17.73%) Databricks
3 94 (13.02%) Microsoft
4 87 (12.05%) Informatica
5 78 (10.80%) Remedy
6 72 (9.97%) Cloudera
7 57 (7.89%) VMware
8 46 (6.37%) Sun
9 45 (6.23%) Splunk
10 35 (4.85%) IBM
11 34 (4.71%) SAP
12 33 (4.57%) Red Hat
13 25 (3.46%) Dynatrace
14 24 (3.32%) NEC
14 24 (3.32%) ServiceNow
15 22 (3.05%) Kofax
15 22 (3.05%) Pega
16 19 (2.63%) Dell
17 15 (2.08%) AppDynamics
18 14 (1.94%) BMC