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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 377 336
Rank change year-on-year -125 -41 -105
Permanent jobs citing Unix 195 269 679
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.70% 0.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.79% 4.35% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 111 189 465
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,240 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £88,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +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 5,148 6,190 12,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.19% 16.00% 13.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,926 3,845 9,800
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 £82,650 £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 30 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 30 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 -66 101 £81,500 +8.67% 34
South West -24 39 £70,000 -2.77% 7
North of England -62 26 £69,310 -0.11% 11
North West -8 13 £60,000 -13.52% 8
South East -66 10 £62,500 +50.60% 20
Midlands -48 9 £28,500 -55.29% 4
Yorkshire -45 8 £69,310 +10.90% 2
East of England -19 7 £61,500 +123.64% 5
West Midlands -48 6 £28,500 -54.40% 3
North East -43 5 £69,310 -0.11% 1
East Midlands -19 3 £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 (1.03%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) Apache
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.51%) IIS
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.51%) WebLogic
Applications
1 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.59%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.05%) Line 50
2 4 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.51%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (40.51%) AWS
2 59 (30.26%) Azure
3 21 (10.77%) Pulumi
4 19 (9.74%) GCP
5 17 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.21%) SaaS
7 14 (7.18%) Azure AKS
7 14 (7.18%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (7.18%) GitHub
8 12 (6.15%) PaaS
9 9 (4.62%) IaaS
9 9 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (4.10%) OpenShift
11 6 (3.08%) Apigee
11 6 (3.08%) Kong
11 6 (3.08%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.05%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.54%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.23%) Broadband
1 18 (9.23%) Firewall
2 16 (8.21%) TCP/IP
3 12 (6.15%) DNS
3 12 (6.15%) WAN
4 10 (5.13%) 5G
4 10 (5.13%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.10%) HTTPS
6 7 (3.59%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.56%) Network Security
8 4 (2.05%) VoIP
9 3 (1.54%) CHAP
10 2 (1.03%) 3GPP
10 2 (1.03%) MGW
10 2 (1.03%) MVNO
10 2 (1.03%) Packet Switching
10 2 (1.03%) RTP
10 2 (1.03%) SGSN
10 2 (1.03%) SMPP
11 1 (0.51%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.79%) NoSQL
1 23 (11.79%) Relational Database
2 20 (10.26%) MongoDB
2 20 (10.26%) RDBMS
3 19 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.67%) Oracle Database
5 7 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.08%) Power BI
6 6 (3.08%) Tableau
7 4 (2.05%) FileMaker
7 4 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.54%) DB2
8 3 (1.54%) Redis
9 2 (1.03%) Big Data
9 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.51%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 24 (12.31%) GitLab
2 19 (9.74%) Git
3 18 (9.23%) Jaeger
4 10 (5.13%) LabVIEW
5 9 (4.62%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.08%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.05%) JIRA
7 4 (2.05%) Metasploit
8 3 (1.54%) Selenium
9 2 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.03%) Gradle
9 2 (1.03%) JMeter
9 2 (1.03%) Maven
9 2 (1.03%) Subversion
10 1 (0.51%) LSMW
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (40.00%) Finance
2 53 (27.18%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (12.82%) Banking
6 23 (11.79%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.67%) Electronics
8 12 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (4.62%) Legal
10 7 (3.59%) Investment Banking
11 6 (3.08%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.56%) Front Office
13 4 (2.05%) Aerospace
13 4 (2.05%) German Language
13 4 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.54%) Back Office
14 3 (1.54%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.54%) Japanese Language
15 2 (1.03%) Retail
16 1 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (21.54%) Senior
2 24 (12.31%) Lead
3 19 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (8.21%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 15 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (7.18%) Developer
6 14 (7.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.15%) DBA
8 11 (5.64%) Analyst
8 11 (5.64%) Test Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) Product Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) Product Test Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) Unix Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) Unix Linux Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) Verification Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.77%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.23%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (7.18%) Node.js
4 10 (5.13%) JSON
4 10 (5.13%) pytest
4 10 (5.13%) XML
5 9 (4.62%) HTML
5 9 (4.62%) REST
6 7 (3.59%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (3.08%) Jinja
7 6 (3.08%) Kafka
7 6 (3.08%) YAML
7 6 (3.08%) YANG
8 5 (2.56%) CSS
9 4 (2.05%) Django
9 4 (2.05%) Regular Expression
10 3 (1.54%) Middleware
10 3 (1.54%) React
10 3 (1.54%) RESTful
11 2 (1.03%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.15%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (5.64%) Hedge funds
4 11 (5.64%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (5.13%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (3.59%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.08%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.56%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.05%) Clustering
9 4 (2.05%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.05%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.54%) Equities
10 3 (1.54%) IoT
10 3 (1.54%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 145 (74.36%) Linux
2 56 (28.72%) Windows
3 23 (11.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.62%) AIX
5 7 (3.59%) Solaris
6 6 (3.08%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (2.56%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.56%) Windows Server
8 4 (2.05%) Kali Linux
9 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.51%) CentOS
10 1 (0.51%) Debian
10 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.51%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.38%) DevOps
2 51 (26.15%) Agile
2 51 (26.15%) CI/CD
3 46 (23.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (23.59%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 40 (20.51%) Mentoring
6 38 (19.49%) Continuous Integration
7 34 (17.44%) High Availability
7 34 (17.44%) Task Automation
8 31 (15.90%) Containerisation
9 29 (14.87%) Incident Response
9 29 (14.87%) Roadmaps
10 26 (13.33%) Computer Science
11 24 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (12.31%) Validation
12 21 (10.77%) Coaching
13 20 (10.26%) AI
13 20 (10.26%) Microservices
14 19 (9.74%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 100 (51.28%) Python
2 52 (26.67%) Bash
3 48 (24.62%) Java
4 37 (18.97%) SQL
5 28 (14.36%) JavaScript
6 20 (10.26%) Shell Script
7 19 (9.74%) Go
8 12 (6.15%) MATLAB
8 12 (6.15%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.62%) C++
10 7 (3.59%) Korn
10 7 (3.59%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.08%) C#
11 6 (3.08%) Perl
11 6 (3.08%) Rust
12 5 (2.56%) VB
12 5 (2.56%) VBA
12 5 (2.56%) VBScript
13 4 (2.05%) PHP
14 3 (1.54%) C
Qualifications
1 47 (24.10%) Degree
2 22 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.26%) AWS Certification
4 19 (9.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (8.72%) SC Cleared
6 14 (7.18%) CISSP
7 12 (6.15%) HND
8 9 (4.62%) CCSK
9 6 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.56%) CISM
10 5 (2.56%) SANS
11 4 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (2.05%) CISA
11 4 (2.05%) OSCP
12 3 (1.54%) CGEIT
12 3 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.54%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.10%) QA
2 6 (3.08%) NIST
3 5 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.05%) GDPR
4 4 (2.05%) ISO 14001
4 4 (2.05%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.54%) COBIT
5 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.03%) SLA
7 1 (0.51%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.51%) ITGC
7 1 (0.51%) MiFID
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (15.90%) Docker
2 11 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.62%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (3.59%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.03%) Firmware
5 2 (1.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (30.77%) Terraform
2 40 (20.51%) Ansible
3 39 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 32 (16.41%) Argo
5 23 (11.79%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.23%) Kustomize
7 13 (6.67%) Puppet
8 8 (4.10%) Oracle RMAN
9 6 (3.08%) Data Guard
9 6 (3.08%) Nagios
10 5 (2.56%) Grafana
10 5 (2.56%) SCCM
11 3 (1.54%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.54%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.54%) Podman
12 2 (1.03%) Kibana
12 2 (1.03%) logstash
13 1 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 31 (15.90%) Google
2 30 (15.38%) Oracle
3 24 (12.31%) Red Hat
4 17 (8.72%) Microsoft
5 16 (8.21%) VMware
6 12 (6.15%) IBM
7 9 (4.62%) Adobe
8 8 (4.10%) Cisco
9 7 (3.59%) SAP
10 6 (3.08%) F5
10 6 (3.08%) Juniper
10 6 (3.08%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.56%) Snow
11 5 (2.56%) Splunk
12 4 (2.05%) Apple
12 4 (2.05%) Databricks
12 4 (2.05%) Sage
12 4 (2.05%) TOWER Software
12 4 (2.05%) Workday
13 3 (1.54%) Citrix