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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 114 158
Rank change year-on-year -30 +44 -36
Permanent jobs citing Unix 8 23 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.19% 1.19% 0.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.93% 7.85% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 8
10th Percentile £55,625 £35,500 £56,000
25th Percentile - £58,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,625 £82,500 £118,125
90th Percentile £88,125 £85,000 £145,125
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £78,750
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -4.55%

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 273 293 442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 6.63% 15.13% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 226 262 360
10th Percentile £31,875 £36,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £93,438 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £56,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.89% -1.74% -8.00%

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 11 July 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) OSPF
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) VXLAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Application Support Team Leader
1 3 (37.50%) Applications Support
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Support Team Leader
1 3 (37.50%) Team Leader
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (37.50%) Fintech
1 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
1 3 (37.50%) Runbook
1 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCIE
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CompTIA CySA+
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft