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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 372 347
Rank change year-on-year -145 -25 -117
Permanent jobs citing Unix 203 294 669
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.72% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.76% 4.67% 5.34%
Number of salaries quoted 122 199 442
10th Percentile £40,125 £30,500 £35,520
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,125 £79,688
90th Percentile £96,375 £88,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £58,457
% change year-on-year +3.85% +11.19% -10.75%

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 5,405 6,289 12,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.37% 15.37% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,117 4,119 9,749
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -65 97 £75,000 -3.23% 31
South West -30 43 £68,750 -12.76% 7
North of England -59 32 £69,306 +2.48% 20
North West -8 15 £60,000 -13.52% 18
Yorkshire -35 11 £69,310 +10.90% 2
Midlands -54 11 £61,500 -5.38% 4
South East -71 10 £62,500 +50.60% 19
West Midlands -38 9 £48,903 -24.76% 4
North East -48 6 £69,310 +15.52%
East of England -19 5 £61,500 +123.64% 3
East Midlands -22 2 £61,500 -3.91%
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 (0.99%) Confluence
1 2 (0.99%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.49%) Apache
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.49%) Documentum
2 1 (0.49%) JBoss
2 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.42%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (1.97%) Line 50
2 4 (1.97%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 89 (43.84%) AWS
2 60 (29.56%) Azure
3 25 (12.32%) GCP
4 19 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (7.39%) Pulumi
6 14 (6.90%) Azure AKS
6 14 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (6.40%) GitHub
7 13 (6.40%) SaaS
8 9 (4.43%) PaaS
9 8 (3.94%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.96%) Apigee
10 6 (2.96%) IaaS
10 6 (2.96%) Kong
10 6 (2.96%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.48%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (1.48%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.87%) Firewall
2 14 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 13 (6.40%) DNS
4 12 (5.91%) Broadband
5 10 (4.93%) WAN
6 8 (3.94%) 5G
6 8 (3.94%) HTTPS
6 8 (3.94%) SD-WAN
7 6 (2.96%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.46%) Network Security
9 4 (1.97%) 3GPP
9 4 (1.97%) MGW
9 4 (1.97%) MVNO
9 4 (1.97%) Packet Switching
9 4 (1.97%) RTP
9 4 (1.97%) SGSN
9 4 (1.97%) SMPP
9 4 (1.97%) VoIP
10 3 (1.48%) CHAP
11 2 (0.99%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.84%) MongoDB
2 19 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (8.87%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.87%) Oracle Database
3 18 (8.87%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.90%) RDBMS
5 7 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.96%) Power BI
6 6 (2.96%) Tableau
7 4 (1.97%) Db2
7 4 (1.97%) FileMaker
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.48%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.48%) Redis
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.49%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.49%) KDB
Development Applications
1 26 (12.81%) GitLab
2 23 (11.33%) Git
3 12 (5.91%) Jaeger
4 10 (4.93%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.43%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.94%) LabVIEW
7 7 (3.45%) Eclipse
8 6 (2.96%) JIRA
8 6 (2.96%) Subversion
9 4 (1.97%) Metasploit
10 3 (1.48%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (1.48%) Selenium
10 3 (1.48%) Toad
11 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.99%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.99%) Gradle
11 2 (0.99%) JMeter
11 2 (0.99%) Maven
12 1 (0.49%) NetBeans
12 1 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
General
1 81 (39.90%) Finance
2 52 (25.62%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.27%) Public Sector
4 29 (14.29%) Banking
5 21 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.42%) Electronics
7 9 (4.43%) Legal
7 9 (4.43%) Retail
8 8 (3.94%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.45%) Front Office
10 6 (2.96%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.48%) Back Office
13 3 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.48%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.48%) Japanese Language
13 3 (1.48%) Retail Finance
14 1 (0.49%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 55 (27.09%) Senior
2 27 (13.30%) Senior DevOps
3 26 (12.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (12.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.85%) Developer
6 19 (9.36%) Lead
7 16 (7.88%) DBA
8 14 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (6.40%) Analyst
10 12 (5.91%) Administrator
10 12 (5.91%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (5.91%) Test Engineer
11 11 (5.42%) Linux Engineer
11 11 (5.42%) Oracle DBA
12 10 (4.93%) Senior DBA
12 10 (4.93%) Senior Oracle DBA
13 9 (4.43%) Consultant
13 9 (4.43%) Network Engineer
14 8 (3.94%) Applications Support
14 8 (3.94%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.37%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (6.90%) Node.js
3 12 (5.91%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (5.42%) REST
5 8 (3.94%) pytest
6 7 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (3.45%) J2EE
6 7 (3.45%) Kafka
6 7 (3.45%) React
6 7 (3.45%) RESTful
6 7 (3.45%) Struts
6 7 (3.45%) YAML
7 6 (2.96%) HTML
7 6 (2.96%) Jinja
7 6 (2.96%) JSON
7 6 (2.96%) Web Services
7 6 (2.96%) XML
7 6 (2.96%) YANG
8 5 (2.46%) CSS
9 4 (1.97%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.88%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (5.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (4.93%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (4.93%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.43%) Hedge funds
4 9 (4.43%) Security Posture
5 8 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.94%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (3.45%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.46%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.97%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.97%) IVR
9 3 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.99%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.99%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 158 (77.83%) Linux
2 65 (32.02%) Windows
3 24 (11.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (6.40%) AIX
5 10 (4.93%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.46%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.97%) Kali Linux
7 4 (1.97%) Solaris
8 3 (1.48%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.49%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (36.95%) DevOps
2 63 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 59 (29.06%) Agile
4 52 (25.62%) Test Automation
5 45 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (21.67%) Mentoring
7 43 (21.18%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (18.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (16.26%) High Availability
9 33 (16.26%) Incident Response
10 32 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (14.29%) Scrum
12 28 (13.79%) Coaching
12 28 (13.79%) Task Automation
13 25 (12.32%) Computer Science
13 25 (12.32%) Containerisation
14 24 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (11.82%) Validation
15 22 (10.84%) Roadmaps
16 20 (9.85%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 90 (44.33%) Python
2 49 (24.14%) Java
3 48 (23.65%) Bash
4 44 (21.67%) SQL
5 29 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.32%) Shell Script
7 14 (6.90%) PL/SQL
8 13 (6.40%) C++
8 13 (6.40%) Go
9 11 (5.42%) Korn
9 11 (5.42%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.93%) MATLAB
11 9 (4.43%) Perl
12 6 (2.96%) Rust
13 5 (2.46%) C#
13 5 (2.46%) VB
13 5 (2.46%) VBA
13 5 (2.46%) VBScript
14 4 (1.97%) PHP
15 2 (0.99%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (20.20%) Degree
2 26 (12.81%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.42%) CISSP
6 10 (4.93%) HND
7 9 (4.43%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.96%) CCSK
8 6 (2.96%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.46%) CISM
9 5 (2.46%) SANS
10 4 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.97%) CISA
10 4 (1.97%) OSCP
11 3 (1.48%) CGEIT
11 3 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.48%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.48%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.99%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.42%) QA
2 6 (2.96%) NIST
3 4 (1.97%) GDPR
3 4 (1.97%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.97%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.48%) COBIT
4 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.49%) ITGC
6 1 (0.49%) MiFID
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (15.27%) Docker
2 13 (6.40%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.99%) Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) GPFS
5 1 (0.49%) Lustre
5 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (25.12%) Terraform
2 37 (18.23%) Kubernetes
3 31 (15.27%) Ansible
4 26 (12.81%) Argo
5 21 (10.34%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.39%) Puppet
7 13 (6.40%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (5.91%) Kustomize
9 10 (4.93%) Data Guard
9 10 (4.93%) Nagios
10 9 (4.43%) Grafana
11 5 (2.46%) SCCM
12 3 (1.48%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (1.48%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.99%) Kibana
13 2 (0.99%) logstash
13 2 (0.99%) Podman
14 1 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 38 (18.72%) Oracle
2 21 (10.34%) Google
3 19 (9.36%) Red Hat
4 17 (8.37%) Microsoft
5 15 (7.39%) IBM
6 11 (5.42%) Pega
7 10 (4.93%) VMware
8 9 (4.43%) Adobe
9 7 (3.45%) Cisco
10 6 (2.96%) F5
10 6 (2.96%) Juniper
10 6 (2.96%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.46%) Snow
11 5 (2.46%) Splunk
12 4 (1.97%) Apple
12 4 (1.97%) Databricks
12 4 (1.97%) Sage
12 4 (1.97%) Sybase
12 4 (1.97%) TOWER Software
13 3 (1.48%) SAP