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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 132 132
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +19
Permanent jobs citing Unix 19 30 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.73% 1.18% 1.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.19% 6.48% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 36
10th Percentile £43,750 £41,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -22.58% -8.82%
75th Percentile £110,000 £83,750 £107,500
90th Percentile - £93,750 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +36.00% -16.67% -10.71%

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 232 463 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.86% 18.14% 16.49%
Number of salaries quoted 196 317 451
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,500 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 5 February 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 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.26%) Datadog
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.26%) npm
4 1 (5.26%) Pulumi
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Broadband
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) FIX Connectivity
1 2 (10.53%) LAN
1 2 (10.53%) VoIP
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
2 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.26%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
1 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Jaeger
3 1 (5.26%) Mocha
3 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Multimedia
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Automation Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Integration Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Operational Support Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Operations Support Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) CloudOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) FIX Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Support
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (5.26%) D3.js
3 1 (5.26%) JDBC
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) LDAP
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) OAuth
3 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.26%) ODBC
3 1 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Private Cloud
1 3 (15.79%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Equities
2 2 (10.53%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) PKI
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Social Media
3 1 (5.26%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) AIX
3 1 (5.26%) Debian
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
2 5 (26.32%) ITIL
3 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) High Availability
3 4 (21.05%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (21.05%) Security Operations
4 3 (15.79%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 2 (10.53%) Agile
5 2 (10.53%) Application Packaging
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (10.53%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Bash
4 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
5 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
6 2 (10.53%) Java
6 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.26%) Go
7 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (10.53%) XenApp
2 2 (10.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 4 (21.05%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Terraform
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.53%) Puppet
4 2 (10.53%) SCCM
4 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.26%) Ambari
5 1 (5.26%) Argo
5 1 (5.26%) Kustomize
5 1 (5.26%) Podman
5 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
3 2 (10.53%) Citrix
3 2 (10.53%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Databricks
4 1 (5.26%) Dell
4 1 (5.26%) Gemalto
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) Thales