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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 144 202
Rank change year-on-year -12 +58 -58
Permanent jobs citing Unix 26 15 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.43% 0.58% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.72% 3.81% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 15
10th Percentile £54,975 - -
25th Percentile £58,688 £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £61,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +53.13% -33.33%
75th Percentile £62,250 £85,000 £55,000
90th Percentile - £89,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -14.29%

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 387 394 1,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.36% 15.19% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 293 318 915
10th Percentile £27,550 £27,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,191 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +26.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,086 £56,625
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%

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
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 15 April 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
Cambridgeshire - 23 £55,000 - 3
Hertfordshire -27 3 £61,500 +0.41% 2
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.85%) LTE
1 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (30.77%) German Language
2 3 (11.54%) Aerospace
2 3 (11.54%) Back Office
2 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics
3 1 (3.85%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
2 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (3.85%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (84.62%) HTML
1 22 (84.62%) JSON
1 22 (84.62%) Regular Expression
1 22 (84.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (84.62%) Linux Command Line
1 22 (84.62%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Device Driver
2 1 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.85%) IoT
2 1 (3.85%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (3.85%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (3.85%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) AI
1 22 (84.62%) Data Analysis
1 22 (84.62%) LLM
2 3 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (11.54%) ITIL
2 3 (11.54%) Line Management
2 3 (11.54%) People Management
2 3 (11.54%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (3.85%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.85%) Device Driver Development
3 1 (3.85%) Prototyping
3 1 (3.85%) Software Engineering
3 1 (3.85%) Software Testing
3 1 (3.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (84.62%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) C
2 1 (3.85%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 23 (88.46%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) VMware