Unix Job Trends in Durham

Unix
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 37 27
Rank change year-on-year +10 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Unix 3 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 1.51% 1.40% 1.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 20.00% 15.79% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +73.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
North East median annual salary £73,801 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +47.60% -23.08% +67.74%

All Operating Systems
Durham

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 Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 15 19 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 7.54% 8.84% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 26
10th Percentile - £30,250 £28,625
25th Percentile £29,750 £46,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £50,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -33.50% +21.21% +9.66%
75th Percentile £77,822 £74,144 £55,625
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £66,150
North East median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +42.86% -12.50%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Unix job vacancy trend in Durham

Unix
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Unix

Unix
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Durham region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Darlington +7 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Unix
North East

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google