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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 122 154
Rank change year-on-year -24 +32 -26
Permanent jobs citing Unix 6 18 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.16% 0.94% 0.46%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.48% 6.69% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 8
10th Percentile - £34,000 £56,000
25th Percentile - £63,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.76% -17.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £90,250 £87,500 £119,250
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +7.41% -28.95%

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 242 269 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 6.28% 14.10% 14.73%
Number of salaries quoted 196 241 344
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £36,075
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.44% -9.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £107,125
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -7.56% -4.80%

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 26 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) OSPF
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Application Support Team Leader
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Support Team Leader
1 3 (50.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Runbook
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCIE
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk