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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 138 124
Rank change year-on-year +26 -14 +28
Permanent jobs citing Unix 18 28 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.82% 1.05% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.33% 5.66% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 42
10th Percentile £53,875 £47,500 £47,625
25th Percentile £67,188 £52,500 £60,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +16.13% -19.48%
75th Percentile £110,000 £101,875 £106,875
90th Percentile - £107,500 £114,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +20.00% -21.05%

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 193 495 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 8.75% 18.52% 17.12%
Number of salaries quoted 161 336 429
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% -4.62%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,813 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
Central London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 7 January 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 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) IIS
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) OpenShift
3 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) npm
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
1 4 (22.22%) LAN
1 4 (22.22%) VoIP
1 4 (22.22%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) FIX Connectivity
3 1 (5.56%) Broadband
3 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.56%) Big Data
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
3 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Mocha
3 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Multimedia
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Integration Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Operational Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Operations Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) FIX Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Support
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (5.56%) D3.js
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) JDBC
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) LDAP
2 1 (5.56%) Node.js
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.56%) ODBC
2 1 (5.56%) React
2 1 (5.56%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) PKI
2 3 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Equities
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Social Media
4 1 (5.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) AIX
3 1 (5.56%) Debian
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (22.22%) Application Packaging
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 4 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 4 (22.22%) Strategic Planning
3 4 (22.22%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Algorithmic Trading
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) High Availability
4 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (11.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 4 (22.22%) Bash
5 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.56%) Java
6 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (22.22%) XenApp
2 4 (22.22%) XenDesktop
3 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Grafana
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (22.22%) SCCM
2 4 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Puppet
4 2 (11.11%) Terraform
5 1 (5.56%) Ambari
5 1 (5.56%) Podman
5 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Citrix
3 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (5.56%) Dell
4 1 (5.56%) Gemalto
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) Thales