Unix Jobs in Central London

Unix
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 178 151
Rank change year-on-year +49 -27 -15
Permanent jobs citing Unix 31 18 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.24% 0.48% 2.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.99% 3.35% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 18 11 87
10th Percentile £36,100 £43,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £63,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -23.68% +22.58%
75th Percentile £81,875 £103,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £122,500 £130,000
London median annual salary £76,250 £80,000 £80,294
% change year-on-year -4.69% -0.37% +7.06%

All Operating Systems
Central London

Unix falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 388 537 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 15.55% 14.21% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 320 431 824
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,750 £32,288
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £58,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -6.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £76,563 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £110,000
London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Central London

Unix
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Unix in Central London

Unix
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Central London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in Central London

Unix
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
City of London +48 22 £65,000 -10.34% 2
West End of London - 2 - -
Camden - 2 - -
City of Westminster -3 1 - -
Lambeth - 1 - -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
Unix
London

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Pulumi
3 2 (6.45%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) Broadband
2 2 (6.45%) Telnet
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) Relational Database
2 7 (22.58%) NoSQL
2 7 (22.58%) RDBMS
3 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.45%) ClickHouse
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
5 2 (6.45%) Redis
6 1 (3.23%) KDB
6 1 (3.23%) Kdb+
6 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.23%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Git
2 7 (22.58%) Jaeger
3 5 (16.13%) Jenkins
4 3 (9.68%) Maven
5 2 (6.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (6.45%) JIRA
5 2 (6.45%) JUnit
5 2 (6.45%) Mockito
5 2 (6.45%) Postman
5 2 (6.45%) REST Assured
5 2 (6.45%) SoapUI
5 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.45%) Subversion
5 2 (6.45%) Xcode
5 2 (6.45%) XCTest
6 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 17 (54.84%) Finance
2 14 (45.16%) Banking
3 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
4 11 (35.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Back Office
5 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.45%) Front Office
6 1 (3.23%) Advertising
6 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Analyst
2 8 (25.81%) Lead
3 7 (22.58%) Team Leader
4 6 (19.35%) Support Analyst
5 5 (16.13%) Banking Analyst
6 4 (12.90%) Applications Support
7 3 (9.68%) Applications Support Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Operational Support Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Operations Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Operations Support Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Operations Support Specialist
7 3 (9.68%) SQL Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) SQL Support Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Support Specialist
8 2 (6.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 2 (6.45%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Elastic Stack
1 7 (22.58%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (19.35%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (12.90%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) .NET
5 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.45%) Bootstrap
5 2 (6.45%) CSS
5 2 (6.45%) CSS3
5 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
5 2 (6.45%) HTML
5 2 (6.45%) HTML5
5 2 (6.45%) J2EE
5 2 (6.45%) JPA
5 2 (6.45%) Kafka
5 2 (6.45%) SOAP
5 2 (6.45%) Spring
5 2 (6.45%) Spring MVC
5 2 (6.45%) Swagger
5 2 (6.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Equities
2 3 (9.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (9.68%) Reference Data
2 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.68%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Fixed Income
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.23%) Clustering
4 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Derivative
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.23%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 26 (83.87%) Linux
2 7 (22.58%) Windows
3 3 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.45%) Rocky
4 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (3.23%) CentOS
5 1 (3.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) DevOps
2 11 (35.48%) Agile
3 10 (32.26%) High Availability
3 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
4 9 (29.03%) Performance Optimisation
5 8 (25.81%) Containerisation
5 8 (25.81%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (22.58%) Budget Control
6 7 (22.58%) Cost Optimisation
6 7 (22.58%) GitOps
6 7 (22.58%) Product Management
6 7 (22.58%) Resource Management
6 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
6 7 (22.58%) Task Automation
7 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
9 3 (9.68%) Unit Testing
9 3 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 16 (51.61%) Bash
3 15 (48.39%) SQL
4 14 (45.16%) Java
5 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
6 7 (22.58%) Go
7 3 (9.68%) C++
7 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
7 3 (9.68%) T-SQL
8 2 (6.45%) Groovy
8 2 (6.45%) Perl
9 1 (3.23%) COBOL
9 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) AWS Certification
2 5 (16.13%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Ansible
1 11 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 9 (29.03%) Prometheus
3 8 (25.81%) Terraform
4 7 (22.58%) Argo
4 7 (22.58%) Kustomize
5 4 (12.90%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Google
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.13%) Oracle
4 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
5 2 (6.45%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk