Unix Jobs in the East of England

Unix
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 201 134
Rank change year-on-year +53 -67 +9
Permanent jobs citing Unix 40 23 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.07% 0.35% 1.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.39% 2.08% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 6 21 19
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £44,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £51,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.60% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £28,750 £56,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £58,750 £76,350
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.85%

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 426 1,105 885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.34% 16.71% 20.65%
Number of salaries quoted 290 946 575
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £25,350
25th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £30,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £68,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in the East of England.

Salary trend 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 6 July 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 +45 13 £27,500 -26.67% 18
Hertfordshire +34 13 - - 25
Essex +18 8 - - 3
Suffolk -20 3 - - 1
Norfolk - 3 - - 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 (22.50%) IIS
1 9 (22.50%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (70.00%) AWS
2 26 (65.00%) Pulumi
3 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 9 (22.50%) Entra ID
3 9 (22.50%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Copilot
3 9 (22.50%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 26 (65.00%) Broadband
2 9 (22.50%) DMARC
2 9 (22.50%) SSL
3 1 (2.50%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (65.00%) NoSQL
1 26 (65.00%) RDBMS
1 26 (65.00%) Relational Database
2 9 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (22.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.00%) Metadata
3 2 (5.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (65.00%) Jaeger
2 2 (5.00%) MLflow
General
1 26 (65.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Czech Language
3 9 (22.50%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (65.00%) Lead
1 26 (65.00%) Team Leader
2 9 (22.50%) Administrator
2 9 (22.50%) IT Administrator
2 9 (22.50%) IT Support
3 2 (5.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Electrical Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (65.00%) Elastic Stack
1 26 (65.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (27.50%) JSON
2 11 (27.50%) XML
3 9 (22.50%) REST
3 9 (22.50%) SOAP
4 2 (5.00%) HTML
4 2 (5.00%) Keras
4 2 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (5.00%) Metaflow
4 2 (5.00%) NumPy
4 2 (5.00%) Pandas
4 2 (5.00%) PySpark
4 2 (5.00%) PyTorch
4 2 (5.00%) Regular Expression
4 2 (5.00%) scikit-learn
4 2 (5.00%) TensorFlow
4 2 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (22.50%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (90.00%) Linux
2 10 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (87.50%) Agile
1 35 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 28 (70.00%) Containerisation
3 26 (65.00%) Budget Control
3 26 (65.00%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (65.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 26 (65.00%) DevOps
3 26 (65.00%) GitOps
3 26 (65.00%) High Availability
3 26 (65.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (65.00%) Mentoring
3 26 (65.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 26 (65.00%) Product Management
3 26 (65.00%) Resource Management
3 26 (65.00%) Task Automation
4 9 (22.50%) CRM
4 9 (22.50%) Data Privacy
4 9 (22.50%) Portfolio Management
4 9 (22.50%) Project Management
4 9 (22.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 36 (90.00%) Java
2 35 (87.50%) JavaScript
3 31 (77.50%) Python
4 27 (67.50%) Bash
5 26 (65.00%) Go
6 11 (27.50%) SQL
7 10 (25.00%) VBA
8 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.50%) C
9 1 (2.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 26 (65.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (70.00%) Docker
2 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (70.00%) Kubernetes
1 28 (70.00%) Terraform
2 26 (65.00%) Ansible
2 26 (65.00%) Argo
2 26 (65.00%) Kustomize
2 26 (65.00%) Prometheus
3 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (22.50%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 26 (65.00%) Google
2 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.50%) EMC