Unix Support Jobs in England

Unix Support
UK > England

The median Unix Support salary in England is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 682 845 855
Rank change year-on-year +163 +10 +310
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Support 10 2 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.002% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.002% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £77,250 £44,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £91,875 £50,313 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £61,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.27% -18.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile - £72,813 £82,500
90th Percentile - £79,375 £97,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £61,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +63.27% -18.33% +30.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 47,172 88,198 71,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.68% 91.18%
Number of salaries quoted 25,926 63,895 48,938
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Unix Support
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Unix Support in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix Support in England

Unix Support
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix Support in England.

Salary trend for Unix Support in England

Unix Support
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix Support in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix Support in England

Unix Support
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix Support within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +108 10 £100,000 +21.21% 1
Unix Support
UK

Unix Support Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, Unix Support job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Unix Support in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Unix
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (90.00%) Change Management
3 6 (60.00%) Finance
4 5 (50.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (50.00%) Clustering
4 5 (50.00%) Banking
4 5 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (50.00%) Python
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 5 (50.00%) Oracle
4 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (50.00%) ITIL
4 5 (50.00%) Veritas
4 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (50.00%) AWS
4 5 (50.00%) Confluence
4 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (50.00%) Ansible
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Server Patching

Unix Support Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Clustering
1 5 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Unix
2 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (90.00%) Change Management
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 5 (50.00%) Release Management
3 5 (50.00%) Server Building
3 5 (50.00%) Server Patching
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
1 5 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (50.00%) Veritas
2 3 (30.00%) Symantec
2 3 (30.00%) VMware