Unix Job Trends in the City of London

Unix
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 114 152
Rank change year-on-year -11 +38 -31
Permanent jobs citing Unix 7 14 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.25% 0.83% 0.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.91% 6.64% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 10
10th Percentile - £58,825 £59,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £98,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -24.05% +31.67%
75th Percentile £93,438 £82,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £106,875 £84,000 £114,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -18.92% +23.33%

All Operating Systems
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 179 211 493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 6.29% 12.49% 17.20%
Number of salaries quoted 133 182 320
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,550 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,750 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +28.44% -9.17% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Unix job vacancy trend in the City of London

Unix
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Unix in the City of London

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) BGP
1 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Application Support Team Leader
1 3 (42.86%) Applications Support
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Support Team Leader
1 3 (42.86%) Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (14.29%) FIX Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Fintech
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Runbook
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle