Unix Jobs in England

Unix
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 328 208
Rank change year-on-year -64 -120 -30
Permanent jobs citing Unix 285 703 1,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.83% 1.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.65% 5.57% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 179 484 903
10th Percentile £34,000 £39,500 £41,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £52,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £82,548 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,064 £112,500
UK median annual salary £69,384 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +15.64% -14.29% +12.00%

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,133 12,620 14,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.32% 14.81% 16.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,114 10,019 10,228
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,323 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in England

Unix
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Unix in England

Unix
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in England

Unix
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +15 134 £75,000 -6.25% 209
North of England +7 56 £69,384 +26.15% 34
South East +29 48 £42,000 -18.84% 65
North West +3 39 £68,505 +24.55% 19
Midlands +29 23 £60,000 +20.00% 12
West Midlands +28 22 £60,000 +20.00% 8
South West +28 15 £71,991 +37.13% 13
Yorkshire +39 12 £85,253 +20.80% 10
East of England +49 7 £27,500 -29.03% 22
North East +34 5 £69,384 +56.71% 5
East Midlands +19 1 £70,000 +40.00% 4
Unix
UK

Unix
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 19 (6.67%) Confluence
1 19 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (5.96%) Apache
3 11 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.51%) Tomcat
5 9 (3.16%) Apache Spark
6 7 (2.46%) IIS
7 6 (2.11%) GemFire
8 5 (1.75%) NetWeaver
9 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
9 3 (1.05%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (9.82%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (9.12%) NEC Housing
2 7 (2.46%) Fidessa
2 7 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.11%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (1.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.35%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.35%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 45 (15.79%) AWS
2 41 (14.39%) Azure
3 27 (9.47%) GCP
4 20 (7.02%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (4.91%) GitHub
7 11 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (3.86%) Apigee
7 11 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (3.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (3.51%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (3.51%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 10 (3.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (3.51%) AWS CodeBuild
8 10 (3.51%) dbt
8 10 (3.51%) Pulumi
9 9 (3.16%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.16%) Sentry
10 8 (2.81%) IaaS
10 8 (2.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.93%) TCP/IP
2 24 (8.42%) DNS
2 24 (8.42%) Firewall
3 17 (5.96%) DHCP
4 14 (4.91%) SSL
5 11 (3.86%) LAN
5 11 (3.86%) VLAN
6 8 (2.81%) WAN
7 7 (2.46%) FIX Connectivity
7 7 (2.46%) HTTP
7 7 (2.46%) IPv4
8 5 (1.75%) VPN
9 4 (1.40%) 5G
9 4 (1.40%) DMARC
9 4 (1.40%) FTP
9 4 (1.40%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.05%) HTTPS
10 3 (1.05%) SAN
10 3 (1.05%) SSH
10 3 (1.05%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.14%) SQL Server
2 34 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (10.88%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.12%) NoSQL
5 19 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
6 17 (5.96%) Redis
7 16 (5.61%) MongoDB
8 13 (4.56%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (4.21%) Oracle Database
10 11 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (3.16%) Apache Hudi
11 9 (3.16%) Apache Iceberg
11 9 (3.16%) DB2
11 9 (3.16%) Delta Lake
11 9 (3.16%) Hadoop
11 9 (3.16%) SAP HANA
12 7 (2.46%) Oracle Exadata
12 7 (2.46%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 36 (12.63%) Git
2 35 (12.28%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.47%) JIRA
4 16 (5.61%) Maven
5 13 (4.56%) JUnit
5 13 (4.56%) SonarQube
6 11 (3.86%) Bitbucket
6 11 (3.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.46%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.40%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.40%) Spinnaker
8 4 (1.40%) Subversion
9 3 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.05%) GitLab
9 3 (1.05%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.70%) Mockito
10 2 (0.70%) Postman
10 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.70%) Xcode
General
1 125 (43.86%) Finance
2 101 (35.44%) Social Skills
3 68 (23.86%) Banking
4 44 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.47%) Local Government
5 27 (9.47%) Police
5 27 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 26 (9.12%) Social Housing
7 18 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (5.96%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (4.91%) Front Office
10 13 (4.56%) Law
11 11 (3.86%) Investment Banking
11 11 (3.86%) Retail
12 10 (3.51%) Back Office
13 9 (3.16%) Telecoms
14 6 (2.11%) Billing
15 5 (1.75%) Advertising
15 5 (1.75%) Electronics
15 5 (1.75%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 51 (17.89%) Senior
2 48 (16.84%) Analyst
3 34 (11.93%) Support Analyst
4 32 (11.23%) Consultant
5 26 (9.12%) Implementation Consultant
6 22 (7.72%) Applications Support
7 19 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 18 (6.32%) Developer
9 15 (5.26%) Unix Support
10 14 (4.91%) Administrator
10 14 (4.91%) Lead
11 13 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (4.56%) Linux Support
11 13 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (4.56%) SQL Analyst
11 13 (4.56%) SQL Support Analyst
12 12 (4.21%) Banking Analyst
12 12 (4.21%) Data Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) Site Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.02%) Kafka
2 19 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (5.96%) Middleware
3 17 (5.96%) Spring
4 14 (4.91%) Hibernate
4 14 (4.91%) Spring Boot
4 14 (4.91%) XML
5 13 (4.56%) RESTful
6 12 (4.21%) REST
6 12 (4.21%) SOAP
7 11 (3.86%) HTML
8 10 (3.51%) Django
9 9 (3.16%) PyArrow
9 9 (3.16%) PySpark
9 9 (3.16%) Web Services
10 7 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (2.46%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 6 (2.11%) JSON
12 5 (1.75%) HTML5
12 5 (1.75%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.12%) Housing Association
2 22 (7.72%) Management Information System
3 17 (5.96%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (5.61%) Derivative
5 15 (5.26%) Algorithms
6 14 (4.91%) Equities
7 13 (4.56%) Clustering
8 11 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.86%) Fixed Income
8 11 (3.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (3.86%) Onboarding
9 10 (3.51%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.11%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (2.11%) Eurex
10 6 (2.11%) Self-Driving Car
11 5 (1.75%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.75%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.75%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 196 (68.77%) Linux
2 84 (29.47%) Windows
3 23 (8.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 23 (8.07%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.91%) AIX
5 12 (4.21%) Solaris
6 11 (3.86%) CentOS
7 8 (2.81%) Mac OS
7 8 (2.81%) zOS
8 7 (2.46%) Rocky
9 6 (2.11%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.70%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (24.21%) DevOps
3 55 (19.30%) CI/CD
4 49 (17.19%) Computer Science
5 36 (12.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 34 (11.93%) Change Management
7 32 (11.23%) ITIL
8 28 (9.82%) Agile
9 26 (9.12%) Housing Management
10 25 (8.77%) Microservices
11 24 (8.42%) Collaborative Working
11 24 (8.42%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (7.72%) Software Engineering
12 22 (7.72%) TDD
13 20 (7.02%) Project Management
13 20 (7.02%) Test Automation
14 19 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (6.67%) Release Management
15 18 (6.32%) Customer Service
15 18 (6.32%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 157 (55.09%) SQL
2 116 (40.70%) Python
3 55 (19.30%) Java
4 46 (16.14%) Bash
5 38 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 31 (10.88%) Shell Script
7 28 (9.82%) JavaScript
8 24 (8.42%) C
8 24 (8.42%) C++
9 23 (8.07%) Perl
10 21 (7.37%) T-SQL
11 13 (4.56%) Go
12 11 (3.86%) PL/SQL
13 10 (3.51%) Fortran
14 7 (2.46%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.75%) VBA
16 4 (1.40%) ABAP
16 4 (1.40%) Groovy
16 4 (1.40%) Jython
17 3 (1.05%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (17.19%) Degree
2 29 (10.18%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.12%) DBS Check
4 23 (8.07%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.86%) Master's Degree
8 10 (3.51%) PhD
9 5 (1.75%) OCA
9 5 (1.75%) OCP
9 5 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.40%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.40%) HND
11 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (1.05%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.05%) PMP
12 2 (0.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (15.44%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.21%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 12 (4.21%) SLA
3 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.75%) FINRA
4 5 (1.75%) GDPR
4 5 (1.75%) QA
5 3 (1.05%) PMO
6 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) COBIT
7 1 (0.35%) COSO
7 1 (0.35%) ITGC
7 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (14.04%) Docker
2 25 (8.77%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.51%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.16%) HDFS
4 9 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.05%) vSphere
7 2 (0.70%) KVM
7 2 (0.70%) Postfix
7 2 (0.70%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.35%) Firmware
8 1 (0.35%) LXC
8 1 (0.35%) NFS
8 1 (0.35%) Samba
8 1 (0.35%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 42 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 31 (10.88%) Terraform
3 27 (9.47%) Ansible
4 16 (5.61%) Grafana
5 13 (4.56%) Istio
6 10 (3.51%) AWS Copilot
7 8 (2.81%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.46%) Oracle RMAN
9 6 (2.11%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.11%) Puppet
9 6 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (0.70%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.70%) Nagios
11 2 (0.70%) Nessus
11 2 (0.70%) SCCM
12 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.35%) MOM
Vendors
1 80 (28.07%) Oracle
2 37 (12.98%) Red Hat
3 26 (9.12%) NEC
4 25 (8.77%) Microsoft
5 19 (6.67%) VMware
6 14 (4.91%) Google
7 12 (4.21%) SAP
8 11 (3.86%) Splunk
9 9 (3.16%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.16%) IBM
9 9 (3.16%) Veeam
10 8 (2.81%) Atlassian
11 7 (2.46%) Bloomberg
11 7 (2.46%) ION Trading
12 6 (2.11%) CQG
12 6 (2.11%) Patsystems
12 6 (2.11%) Reuters
12 6 (2.11%) Symantec
12 6 (2.11%) TIBCO
12 6 (2.11%) Trayport