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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 122 124
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -21
Permanent jobs citing Unix 33 57 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.92% 1.35% 0.34%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.59% 8.88% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 16 22 7
10th Percentile - - £35,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,085 £55,000 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.66% +25.71% -18.60%
75th Percentile £45,063 £63,000 £47,375
90th Percentile £47,938 £83,375 £49,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,125 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.48% -9.04% -

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 435 642 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 12.14% 15.22% 21.20%
Number of salaries quoted 332 363 334
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,600 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £51,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.84% +1.00% -4.76%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Unix job vacancy trend 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 November 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 November 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 +23 17 £27,500 - 3
Hertfordshire -10 13 £43,085 -21.66%
Bedfordshire - 2 £45,000 - 1
Suffolk -17 1 - -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (12.12%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.03%) IIS
3 1 (3.03%) NetWeaver
3 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (12.12%) NEC Housing
2 1 (3.03%) SAP IBP
2 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Cohesity
2 3 (9.09%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.06%) AWS
4 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) SAN
2 1 (3.03%) DMARC
2 1 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.12%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (12.12%) MS Access
2 4 (12.12%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (6.06%) Delta Lake
3 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.06%) Metadata
3 2 (6.06%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) SAP BW
4 1 (3.03%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Toad
2 2 (6.06%) MLflow
General
1 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) German Language
3 4 (12.12%) Local Government
4 2 (6.06%) Electronics
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.06%) Marketing
4 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.03%) Czech Language
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Support Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Linux Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Linux Support
3 7 (21.21%) Linux Support Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Applications Support
4 4 (12.12%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Applications Support
4 4 (12.12%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.03%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.03%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (48.48%) JSON
1 16 (48.48%) XML
2 15 (45.45%) HTML
2 15 (45.45%) Regular Expression
3 2 (6.06%) Keras
3 2 (6.06%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (6.06%) Metaflow
3 2 (6.06%) NumPy
3 2 (6.06%) Pandas
3 2 (6.06%) PySpark
3 2 (6.06%) PyTorch
3 2 (6.06%) scikit-learn
3 2 (6.06%) TensorFlow
3 2 (6.06%) YAML
4 1 (3.03%) Middleware
4 1 (3.03%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) SAP Basis
4 1 (3.03%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (3.03%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (51.52%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (45.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Replication
3 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) Linux
2 8 (24.24%) Debian
2 8 (24.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (24.24%) Solaris
3 5 (15.15%) Windows
4 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) AI
2 15 (45.45%) Data Analysis
2 15 (45.45%) LLM
3 7 (21.21%) Service Delivery
4 5 (15.15%) Agile
5 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (12.12%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
5 4 (12.12%) Digital Strategy
5 4 (12.12%) Migration
5 4 (12.12%) Workflow
6 3 (9.09%) Service Management
7 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (6.06%) Information Security
7 2 (6.06%) Machine Learning
7 2 (6.06%) Metadata Management
7 2 (6.06%) OO
7 2 (6.06%) OOP
7 2 (6.06%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (75.76%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) Bash
2 8 (24.24%) Korn
3 7 (21.21%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
5 4 (12.12%) VB
6 1 (3.03%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (60.61%) Degree
2 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.03%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) Docker
3 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Ansible
2 2 (6.06%) Kubeflow
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) VMware
2 8 (24.24%) NetApp
3 7 (21.21%) SAP
4 5 (15.15%) Oracle
5 4 (12.12%) NEC
6 2 (6.06%) Databricks
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft