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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 124 151
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 -14
Permanent jobs citing Unix 12 22 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.32% 1.04% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.99% 6.49% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 20
10th Percentile £50,875 £34,300 £59,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £48,625 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -36.59% +5.13%
75th Percentile £110,000 £78,125 £107,500
90th Percentile - £89,000 £120,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £65,000 £102,500
% change year-on-year +30.77% -36.59% +5.13%

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 301 339 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.10% 16.07% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 257 294 408
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -5.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -5.99%

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 20 April 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 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) FIX Connectivity
2 1 (8.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jaeger
General
1 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Automation Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Integration Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Operational Support Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Operations Support Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) FIX Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) FIX Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Support
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Equities
3 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 4 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 3 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
2 3 (25.00%) Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) High Availability
2 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Runbook
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
4 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (8.33%) GitOps
4 1 (8.33%) Observability
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CompTIA CySA+
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Argo
3 1 (8.33%) Kustomize
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Google