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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 125 152
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 -14
Permanent jobs citing Unix 12 19 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.29% 0.93% 0.63%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.80% 6.03% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 16
10th Percentile £52,250 £34,900 £52,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £52,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -23.53% -11.69%
75th Percentile £110,000 £79,375 £109,375
90th Percentile - £82,500 £121,250
Central London median annual salary £83,750 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +28.85% -23.53% -10.53%

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 316 315 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.77% 15.43% 15.14%
Number of salaries quoted 272 277 396
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,375 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £76,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,500 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -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 12 May 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
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) BGP
1 1 (8.33%) Broadband
1 1 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) FIX Connectivity
1 1 (8.33%) MPLS
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
1 1 (8.33%) OSPF
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) VXLAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jaeger
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
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%) CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (8.33%) FIX Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Support
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Equities
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) High Availability
1 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (25.00%) Runbook
1 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (16.67%) Observability
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (8.33%) Budget Control
3 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (8.33%) Product Management
3 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) Go
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CCIE
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) CompTIA CySA+
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Argo
4 1 (8.33%) Kustomize
4 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Google