Unix Job Trends in the East of England

Unix
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Unix skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 146 120
Rank change year-on-year -6 -26 +16
Permanent jobs citing Unix 28 21 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.83% 0.47% 1.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.76% 3.14% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 13
10th Percentile - £50,425 £34,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +3.73%
75th Percentile £43,875 £58,063 £72,000
90th Percentile £47,500 £58,950 £78,150
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 414 668 534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.21% 14.84% 21.12%
Number of salaries quoted 298 426 368
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £25,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -2.23%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,000 £58,875
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the East of England

Unix
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in the East of England

Unix
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +36 13 £27,500 -
Hertfordshire +8 12 £43,085 -17.93% 3
Bedfordshire - 2 £45,000 -
Suffolk - 1 - - 1
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (32.14%) IIS
1 9 (32.14%) Tomcat
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (32.14%) Entra ID
2 9 (32.14%) Microsoft Copilot
2 9 (32.14%) Power Automate
3 8 (28.57%) Cohesity
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) DMARC
1 9 (32.14%) SSL
2 8 (28.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) SQL Server
2 9 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (14.29%) MS Access
3 4 (14.29%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.14%) Metadata
4 2 (7.14%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Toad
2 2 (7.14%) MLflow
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Czech Language
2 9 (32.14%) Organisational Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.29%) Local Government
5 2 (7.14%) Electronics
5 2 (7.14%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.14%) Marketing
5 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Administrator
2 9 (32.14%) IT Administrator
2 9 (32.14%) IT Support
3 8 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (25.00%) Linux Support
4 7 (25.00%) Linux Support Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Applications Support
5 4 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Applications Support
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
7 1 (3.57%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (42.86%) JSON
1 12 (42.86%) XML
2 9 (32.14%) REST
2 9 (32.14%) SOAP
3 3 (10.71%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) Regular Expression
4 2 (7.14%) Keras
4 2 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (7.14%) Metaflow
4 2 (7.14%) NumPy
4 2 (7.14%) Pandas
4 2 (7.14%) PySpark
4 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 2 (7.14%) scikit-learn
4 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
4 2 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (32.14%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (17.86%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Linux
2 13 (46.43%) Windows
3 8 (28.57%) Debian
3 8 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (28.57%) Solaris
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Agile
2 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (32.14%) CRM
3 9 (32.14%) Customer Service
3 9 (32.14%) Data Privacy
3 9 (32.14%) Portfolio Management
3 9 (32.14%) Project Management
3 9 (32.14%) Roadmaps
3 9 (32.14%) Technology Roadmap
4 7 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.29%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (14.29%) Migration
6 4 (14.29%) Workflow
7 3 (10.71%) LLM
7 3 (10.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) SQL
2 13 (46.43%) PowerShell
2 13 (46.43%) Python
3 9 (32.14%) Java
3 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
3 9 (32.14%) VBA
4 8 (28.57%) Bash
4 8 (28.57%) Korn
5 4 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 4 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) Degree
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (32.14%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
1 9 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (32.14%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (7.14%) Kubeflow
3 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Oracle
2 10 (35.71%) VMware
3 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
4 8 (28.57%) NetApp
5 6 (21.43%) SAP
6 4 (14.29%) NEC
7 2 (7.14%) Databricks