Unix Systems Administrator Jobs in England

Unix System Administrator (Unix Sysadmin)
UK > England

The median Unix System Administrator (Unix Sysadmin) salary in England is £46,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 September 2024.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 753 724 1085
Rank change year-on-year -29 +361 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Unix Systems Administrator 12 23 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.017% 0.041% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.043% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 27
10th Percentile - £44,263 -
25th Percentile £35,520 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £46,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.00% +4.17% +2.13%

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 68,069 52,913 123,975
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 94.43% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 38,902 39,292 72,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Unix Systems Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix Systems Administrator in England

Unix Systems Administrator
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Unix Systems Administrator in England

Unix Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix Systems Administrator in England over the 6 months to 21 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix Systems Administrator in England

Unix Systems Administrator
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 Systems Administrator within the England region over the 6 months to 21 September 2024. 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
South West -13 4 £46,250 -
South East - 4 £35,520 -
London +10 3 £85,000 -
North of England -21 1 £75,000 +69.44%
Yorkshire - 1 £75,000 -
Unix Systems Administrator
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 2024, Unix Systems Administrator 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 Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Unix
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (33.33%) Finance
5 3 (25.00%) Solaris
5 3 (25.00%) Ansible
5 3 (25.00%) AWS
6 2 (16.67%) Bash
6 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (16.67%) Puppet
6 2 (16.67%) CoreOS
6 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 2 (16.67%) CentOS
6 2 (16.67%) Degree
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) Git
6 2 (16.67%) Time Management
6 2 (16.67%) VMware
6 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (16.67%) Python
6 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
6 2 (16.67%) ITIL
7 1 (8.33%) Oracle
7 1 (8.33%) AIX
7 1 (8.33%) IBM
7 1 (8.33%) Nagios

Unix Systems Administrator 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Unix
2 8 (66.67%) Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Solaris
5 2 (16.67%) CentOS
5 2 (16.67%) CoreOS
6 1 (8.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (16.67%) ITIL
1 2 (16.67%) Time Management
2 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (8.33%) Server Management
2 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) Python
1 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Nagios
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle