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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 379 352
Rank change year-on-year -141 -27 -121
Permanent jobs citing Unix 195 282 681
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.70% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.64% 4.53% 5.39%
Number of salaries quoted 117 201 451
10th Percentile £39,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,000 £87,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -8.40%

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 5,364 6,228 12,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.34% 15.54% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,086 4,051 9,812
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £25,772
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 £64,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £43,710 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -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 24 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 24 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 -66 96 £75,000 -3.23% 20
South West -28 41 £68,750 -12.76% 3
North of England -41 30 £69,310 +2.49% 18
North West -8 15 £60,000 -13.52% 15
Yorkshire -40 10 £69,310 +10.90% 3
South East -74 10 £62,500 +50.60% 16
Midlands -39 9 £61,500 -5.38% 2
West Midlands -30 7 £28,500 -56.15% 2
East of England -25 5 £61,500 +123.64% 4
North East -44 5 £69,310 +15.52%
East Midlands -26 2 £61,500 -12.14%
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 (1.03%) Confluence
1 2 (1.03%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.51%) Apache
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.51%) JBoss
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.64%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.05%) Line 50
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (42.56%) AWS
2 59 (30.26%) Azure
3 25 (12.82%) GCP
4 18 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (7.69%) Pulumi
6 14 (7.18%) Azure AKS
6 14 (7.18%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (7.18%) SaaS
7 13 (6.67%) GitHub
8 10 (5.13%) PaaS
9 8 (4.10%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.59%) IaaS
10 7 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (3.08%) Apigee
11 6 (3.08%) Kong
11 6 (3.08%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.54%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (1.54%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (1.54%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.72%) Firewall
2 14 (7.18%) TCP/IP
3 13 (6.67%) DNS
4 12 (6.15%) Broadband
5 10 (5.13%) WAN
6 8 (4.10%) 5G
6 8 (4.10%) HTTPS
6 8 (4.10%) SD-WAN
7 6 (3.08%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.56%) Network Security
9 4 (2.05%) 3GPP
9 4 (2.05%) MGW
9 4 (2.05%) MVNO
9 4 (2.05%) Packet Switching
9 4 (2.05%) RTP
9 4 (2.05%) SGSN
9 4 (2.05%) SMPP
9 4 (2.05%) VoIP
10 3 (1.54%) CHAP
11 2 (1.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.28%) MongoDB
2 19 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.23%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.23%) Oracle Database
3 18 (9.23%) Relational Database
4 14 (7.18%) RDBMS
5 7 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.08%) Power BI
6 6 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.08%) Tableau
7 4 (2.05%) Db2
7 4 (2.05%) FileMaker
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.54%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.54%) Redis
9 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.03%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 25 (12.82%) GitLab
2 23 (11.79%) Git
3 12 (6.15%) Jaeger
4 9 (4.62%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.62%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.10%) LabVIEW
6 7 (3.59%) Eclipse
7 6 (3.08%) JIRA
7 6 (3.08%) Subversion
8 4 (2.05%) Metasploit
9 3 (1.54%) Selenium
10 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.03%) Gradle
10 2 (1.03%) JMeter
10 2 (1.03%) Maven
10 2 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (1.03%) Toad
11 1 (0.51%) LSMW
11 1 (0.51%) NetBeans
General
1 79 (40.51%) Finance
2 51 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (14.87%) Banking
5 27 (13.85%) Public Sector
6 21 (10.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.64%) Electronics
8 9 (4.62%) Legal
9 8 (4.10%) Investment Banking
9 8 (4.10%) Retail
10 7 (3.59%) Front Office
11 6 (3.08%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.05%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.54%) Back Office
14 3 (1.54%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.54%) Japanese Language
15 2 (1.03%) General Ledger
15 2 (1.03%) Retail Finance
16 1 (0.51%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 51 (26.15%) Senior
2 23 (11.79%) Senior DevOps
3 22 (11.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (10.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 19 (9.74%) Developer
5 19 (9.74%) Lead
6 16 (8.21%) DBA
7 15 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (6.15%) Analyst
9 12 (6.15%) Test Engineer
10 11 (5.64%) Administrator
10 11 (5.64%) Linux Engineer
10 11 (5.64%) Oracle DBA
11 10 (5.13%) Senior DBA
11 10 (5.13%) Senior Oracle DBA
12 9 (4.62%) Consultant
12 9 (4.62%) Network Engineer
13 8 (4.10%) Applications Support
13 8 (4.10%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (7.18%) Node.js
3 12 (6.15%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (5.13%) REST
5 8 (4.10%) pytest
6 7 (3.59%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (3.59%) J2EE
6 7 (3.59%) Kafka
6 7 (3.59%) React
6 7 (3.59%) RESTful
6 7 (3.59%) Struts
6 7 (3.59%) YAML
7 6 (3.08%) HTML
7 6 (3.08%) Jinja
7 6 (3.08%) JSON
7 6 (3.08%) Web Services
7 6 (3.08%) XML
7 6 (3.08%) YANG
8 5 (2.56%) CSS
9 4 (2.05%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.21%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (5.64%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.13%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.13%) Security Posture
5 8 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.10%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (3.59%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.56%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.05%) IVR
9 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.03%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (1.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 152 (77.95%) Linux
2 59 (30.26%) Windows
3 24 (12.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (6.67%) AIX
5 10 (5.13%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.56%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.05%) Kali Linux
7 4 (2.05%) Solaris
8 3 (1.54%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.51%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.90%) DevOps
2 57 (29.23%) CI/CD
3 55 (28.21%) Agile
4 47 (24.10%) Test Automation
5 44 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (20.51%) Mentoring
7 39 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (18.97%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (16.92%) High Availability
9 33 (16.92%) Incident Response
10 30 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (14.36%) Task Automation
12 26 (13.33%) Computer Science
13 25 (12.82%) Containerisation
13 25 (12.82%) Scrum
14 24 (12.31%) Coaching
15 23 (11.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (11.79%) Validation
16 22 (11.28%) Roadmaps
17 20 (10.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 90 (46.15%) Python
2 48 (24.62%) Bash
2 48 (24.62%) Java
3 43 (22.05%) SQL
4 29 (14.87%) JavaScript
5 24 (12.31%) Shell Script
6 13 (6.67%) C++
6 13 (6.67%) Go
6 13 (6.67%) PL/SQL
7 11 (5.64%) Korn
7 11 (5.64%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.13%) MATLAB
9 9 (4.62%) Perl
10 6 (3.08%) Rust
11 5 (2.56%) C#
11 5 (2.56%) VB
11 5 (2.56%) VBA
11 5 (2.56%) VBScript
12 4 (2.05%) PHP
13 2 (1.03%) C
Qualifications
1 42 (21.54%) Degree
2 24 (12.31%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (9.23%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 12 (6.15%) CISSP
7 10 (5.13%) HND
8 8 (4.10%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.59%) CCSK
10 6 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.56%) CISM
11 5 (2.56%) SANS
12 4 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (2.05%) CISA
12 4 (2.05%) OSCP
13 3 (1.54%) CGEIT
13 3 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.54%) FFIEC
13 3 (1.54%) Master's Degree
14 2 (1.03%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.64%) QA
2 6 (3.08%) NIST
3 4 (2.05%) GDPR
3 4 (2.05%) ISO 14001
3 4 (2.05%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.54%) COBIT
4 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.51%) ITGC
6 1 (0.51%) MiFID
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (15.38%) Docker
2 13 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.03%) Firmware
5 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.51%) GPFS
5 1 (0.51%) Lustre
5 1 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (26.15%) Terraform
2 36 (18.46%) Kubernetes
3 30 (15.38%) Ansible
4 26 (13.33%) Argo
5 20 (10.26%) Prometheus
6 14 (7.18%) Puppet
7 13 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (6.15%) Kustomize
9 10 (5.13%) Data Guard
9 10 (5.13%) Nagios
10 8 (4.10%) Grafana
11 5 (2.56%) SCCM
12 3 (1.54%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (1.54%) Check_MK
13 2 (1.03%) Kibana
13 2 (1.03%) logstash
13 2 (1.03%) Podman
14 1 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 36 (18.46%) Oracle
2 22 (11.28%) Google
3 19 (9.74%) Red Hat
4 16 (8.21%) Microsoft
5 15 (7.69%) IBM
6 10 (5.13%) VMware
7 9 (4.62%) Adobe
8 7 (3.59%) Cisco
8 7 (3.59%) Pega
9 6 (3.08%) F5
9 6 (3.08%) Juniper
9 6 (3.08%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.56%) Snow
10 5 (2.56%) Splunk
11 4 (2.05%) Apple
11 4 (2.05%) Databricks
11 4 (2.05%) Sage
11 4 (2.05%) Sybase
11 4 (2.05%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.54%) SAP