Unix Engineer Jobs

Unix Engineer
UK

The median Unix Engineer salary in the UK is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 898 949 1174
Rank change year-on-year +51 +225 -337
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Engineer 13 50 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.048% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.053% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 35
10th Percentile - £50,500 £42,700
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +24.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £58,250 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £60,500 £77,800 £75,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £59,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -11.02% +19.19% -13.91%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix Engineer in the UK

Unix Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Unix Engineer in the UK

Unix Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 4 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
England +70 13 £52,500 -15.32% 2
UK excluding London -43 12 £52,500 -11.02% 2
North of England - 6 £50,000 -
North East - 6 £50,000 -
Work from Home +60 5 £52,500 -30.00%
South West -24 4 £52,500 -7.89%
Midlands +9 2 £56,000 -18.25%
West Midlands +9 2 £56,000 -18.25%
London +119 1 - -

Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 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 featuring Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Unix
2 12 (92.31%) Linux
3 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
4 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (30.77%) CoreOS
5 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (30.77%) ITIL
5 4 (30.77%) Python
5 4 (30.77%) Time Management
5 4 (30.77%) CentOS
5 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (30.77%) Git
5 4 (30.77%) AWS
5 4 (30.77%) Bash
5 4 (30.77%) Puppet
5 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
5 4 (30.77%) Ansible
6 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
7 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
7 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
7 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
7 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (15.38%) IBM
7 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
7 2 (15.38%) JBoss
7 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (15.38%) AIX
7 2 (15.38%) Java
7 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
7 2 (15.38%) Finance

Unix Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (15.38%) JBoss
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
1 2 (15.38%) 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 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Unix
2 12 (92.31%) Linux
3 4 (30.77%) CentOS
3 4 (30.77%) CoreOS
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (15.38%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Time Management
2 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.69%) Feasibility Study
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Bash
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 Unix Engineer jobs Nationwide