Unix Job Trends in England

Unix
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 395 339
Rank change year-on-year -107 -56 -108
Permanent jobs citing Unix 191 254 680
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.67% 0.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.75% 4.17% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 107 180 468
10th Percentile £44,867 £27,500 £37,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,998 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £87,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £68,405 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.24% +8.33% -11.11%

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 5,093 6,090 12,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.14% 16.04% 14.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,863 3,767 9,813
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Unix job vacancy trend in England

Unix
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in England over the 6 months to 27 May 2026.

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 27 May 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
London -45 98 £81,500 +8.67% 51
South West -31 37 £70,000 -2.77% 8
North of England -31 28 £69,310 -0.11% 14
North West -20 13 £60,000 -13.52% 9
South East -56 11 £62,500 +50.60% 22
Yorkshire -38 9 £69,310 +10.90% 4
Midlands -41 8 £28,500 -52.50% 4
East of England -31 6 £61,500 +123.64% 7
North East -37 6 £69,310 -0.11% 1
West Midlands -47 6 £28,500 -52.50% 3
East Midlands -33 2 £61,500 -12.14% 1
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.05%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.52%) IIS
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.14%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.09%) Line 50
2 4 (2.09%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.52%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (41.36%) AWS
2 59 (30.89%) Azure
3 21 (10.99%) Pulumi
4 19 (9.95%) GCP
5 18 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.85%) SaaS
7 14 (7.33%) Azure AKS
7 14 (7.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (7.33%) GitHub
8 12 (6.28%) PaaS
9 9 (4.71%) IaaS
9 9 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (4.19%) OpenShift
11 6 (3.14%) Apigee
11 6 (3.14%) Kong
11 6 (3.14%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.09%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.42%) Broadband
1 18 (9.42%) Firewall
2 15 (7.85%) TCP/IP
3 12 (6.28%) WAN
4 10 (5.24%) 5G
4 10 (5.24%) DNS
4 10 (5.24%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.19%) HTTPS
6 7 (3.66%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.62%) Network Security
8 4 (2.09%) VoIP
9 3 (1.57%) CHAP
10 1 (0.52%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.52%) BGP
10 1 (0.52%) Internet
10 1 (0.52%) MPLS
10 1 (0.52%) OSPF
10 1 (0.52%) Packet Switching
10 1 (0.52%) RTP
10 1 (0.52%) SMPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.04%) NoSQL
2 21 (10.99%) Relational Database
3 19 (9.95%) MongoDB
3 19 (9.95%) RDBMS
4 18 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (6.81%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.14%) Power BI
6 6 (3.14%) Tableau
7 4 (2.09%) FileMaker
7 4 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.09%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.57%) DB2
8 3 (1.57%) Redis
9 2 (1.05%) Big Data
9 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database 11g
10 1 (0.52%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 25 (13.09%) GitLab
2 18 (9.42%) Git
2 18 (9.42%) Jaeger
3 10 (5.24%) LabVIEW
4 9 (4.71%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.66%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.09%) JIRA
6 4 (2.09%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.57%) Selenium
8 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.05%) Gradle
8 2 (1.05%) JMeter
8 2 (1.05%) Maven
9 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.52%) LSMW
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.52%) Subversion
9 1 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (39.27%) Finance
2 53 (27.75%) Social Skills
3 31 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (12.57%) Banking
6 23 (12.04%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.28%) Electronics
7 12 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (4.19%) Legal
9 7 (3.66%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.14%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.62%) Front Office
12 4 (2.09%) Aerospace
12 4 (2.09%) German Language
12 4 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.57%) Back Office
13 3 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.57%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.52%) Law
14 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (21.47%) Senior
2 23 (12.04%) Lead
3 19 (9.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (8.38%) Automation Engineer
4 16 (8.38%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (7.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.85%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (7.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 13 (6.81%) Developer
8 11 (5.76%) Analyst
8 11 (5.76%) Test Engineer
9 10 (5.24%) DBA
9 10 (5.24%) Product Engineer
9 10 (5.24%) Product Test Engineer
9 10 (5.24%) Unix Engineer
9 10 (5.24%) Unix Linux Engineer
9 10 (5.24%) Verification Engineer
10 9 (4.71%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 9 (4.71%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.71%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.99%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.42%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (7.33%) Node.js
4 10 (5.24%) JSON
4 10 (5.24%) pytest
4 10 (5.24%) XML
5 9 (4.71%) REST
6 8 (4.19%) HTML
7 7 (3.66%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (3.14%) Jinja
8 6 (3.14%) Kafka
8 6 (3.14%) YAML
8 6 (3.14%) YANG
9 4 (2.09%) CSS
9 4 (2.09%) Django
9 4 (2.09%) Regular Expression
10 3 (1.57%) Middleware
11 2 (1.05%) .NET
11 2 (1.05%) LDAP
11 2 (1.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.95%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.81%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.28%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (5.76%) Hedge funds
4 11 (5.76%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (5.24%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (5.24%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (3.66%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.14%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.62%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.09%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Clustering
10 3 (1.57%) Equities
10 3 (1.57%) IoT
10 3 (1.57%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 142 (74.35%) Linux
2 56 (29.32%) Windows
3 23 (12.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.71%) AIX
5 6 (3.14%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (3.14%) Solaris
5 6 (3.14%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.62%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.09%) Kali Linux
8 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.52%) CentOS
9 1 (0.52%) Debian
9 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.52%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.13%) DevOps
2 53 (27.75%) CI/CD
3 51 (26.70%) Agile
4 48 (25.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (23.04%) Test Automation
6 41 (21.47%) Mentoring
7 38 (19.90%) Continuous Integration
8 33 (17.28%) Task Automation
9 31 (16.23%) Containerisation
9 31 (16.23%) High Availability
10 29 (15.18%) Roadmaps
11 28 (14.66%) Incident Response
12 25 (13.09%) Computer Science
13 23 (12.04%) Validation
14 22 (11.52%) Coaching
14 22 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (10.47%) AI
15 20 (10.47%) Microservices
16 19 (9.95%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 99 (51.83%) Python
2 53 (27.75%) Bash
3 47 (24.61%) Java
4 33 (17.28%) SQL
5 26 (13.61%) JavaScript
6 19 (9.95%) Go
7 16 (8.38%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.28%) PowerShell
9 11 (5.76%) MATLAB
10 7 (3.66%) C++
10 7 (3.66%) Korn
10 7 (3.66%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.14%) C#
11 6 (3.14%) Rust
12 5 (2.62%) VB
12 5 (2.62%) VBA
12 5 (2.62%) VBScript
13 4 (2.09%) Perl
13 4 (2.09%) PHP
14 2 (1.05%) C
Qualifications
1 45 (23.56%) Degree
2 21 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.47%) AWS Certification
4 18 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (8.38%) SC Cleared
6 14 (7.33%) CISSP
7 11 (5.76%) HND
8 9 (4.71%) CCSK
9 6 (3.14%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.62%) CISM
10 5 (2.62%) SANS
11 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (2.09%) CISA
11 4 (2.09%) OSCP
12 3 (1.57%) CGEIT
12 3 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.57%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.19%) QA
2 6 (3.14%) NIST
3 5 (2.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.09%) GDPR
4 4 (2.09%) ISO 14001
4 4 (2.09%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.57%) COBIT
5 3 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.05%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.52%) ITGC
7 1 (0.52%) MiFID
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (16.23%) Docker
2 11 (5.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.19%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (3.66%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.52%) Firmware
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (32.46%) Terraform
2 42 (21.99%) Ansible
3 39 (20.42%) Kubernetes
4 32 (16.75%) Argo
5 24 (12.57%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.42%) Kustomize
7 13 (6.81%) Puppet
8 8 (4.19%) Oracle RMAN
9 6 (3.14%) Data Guard
9 6 (3.14%) Grafana
9 6 (3.14%) Nagios
10 5 (2.62%) SCCM
11 3 (1.57%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.57%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.57%) Podman
12 2 (1.05%) Kibana
12 2 (1.05%) logstash
13 1 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 31 (16.23%) Google
2 26 (13.61%) Oracle
3 25 (13.09%) Red Hat
4 17 (8.90%) Microsoft
5 16 (8.38%) VMware
6 12 (6.28%) IBM
7 9 (4.71%) Adobe
8 8 (4.19%) Cisco
9 6 (3.14%) F5
9 6 (3.14%) Juniper
9 6 (3.14%) Palo Alto
9 6 (3.14%) SAP
9 6 (3.14%) Splunk
10 5 (2.62%) Snow
11 4 (2.09%) Apple
11 4 (2.09%) Databricks
11 4 (2.09%) Sage
11 4 (2.09%) TOWER Software
11 4 (2.09%) Workday
12 3 (1.57%) Citrix