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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 149 158
Rank change year-on-year -42 +9 -33
Permanent jobs citing Unix 7 28 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.085% 0.83% 0.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.11% 6.71% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 10
10th Percentile £41,500 - £50,425
25th Percentile £47,500 £26,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,375 £43,875 £58,063
90th Percentile £62,450 £47,500 £58,950
England median annual salary £65,576 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.92% +4.17% -7.69%

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 629 417 680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.67% 12.37% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 510 299 417
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £26,800
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -20.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 25 September 2026.

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 25 September 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
Bedfordshire -10 3 £40,000 -11.11%
Suffolk +15 2 £60,000 -
Hertfordshire -38 1 £61,500 +42.74% 4
Cambridgeshire -42 1 - - 16
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 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 2 (28.57%) BGP
3 2 (28.57%) OSPF
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
4 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Robot Framework
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Economy
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
3 2 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 1 (14.29%) Back Office
4 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Python Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Site Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Perl Programmer
2 1 (14.29%) Programmer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Assistant
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Assistant
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) Google JAX
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) JAX
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) OpenCV
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Molecular Biology
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (14.29%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Debian
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS X
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Information Security
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) Fortran
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PhD
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Ceph
1 1 (14.29%) Lustre
1 1 (14.29%) NFS
1 1 (14.29%) Samba
1 1 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Check_MK
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Apple
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) VMware