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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 247 217
Rank change year-on-year -56 -30 -36
Permanent jobs citing Unix 352 655 723
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 1.09% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.18% 7.98% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 198 254 551
10th Percentile £39,750 £39,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,125 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -9.04% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -

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 4,901 8,203 8,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.62% 13.63% 17.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 4,766 6,719
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +2.00% -4.76%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -10 164 £75,000 +7.14% 114
South East +20 59 £57,500 +4.55% 27
South West +27 39 £57,500 -20.13% 7
East of England 0 34 £43,085 -21.66% 4
Midlands +11 29 £73,801 +34.18% 12
North of England -74 25 £47,500 -5.00% 19
West Midlands +3 21 £75,000 +27.66% 7
North West -49 10 £50,000 - 12
Yorkshire -22 9 £32,875 -35.85% 7
East Midlands +14 8 £49,000 -10.91% 5
North East +3 6 £73,801 +47.60%
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 42 (11.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (7.67%) Apache Spark
3 26 (7.39%) Exchange Server 2003
4 23 (6.53%) Tomcat
5 22 (6.25%) WebSphere
6 16 (4.55%) WebSphere Application Server
7 6 (1.70%) Apache
7 6 (1.70%) Confluence
7 6 (1.70%) nginx
8 5 (1.42%) Anypoint
8 5 (1.42%) WebLogic
9 4 (1.14%) IIS
9 4 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (1.14%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
11 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.57%) JBoss
11 2 (0.57%) SAS
12 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 21 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Shopify
2 4 (1.14%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.85%) Primavera
4 2 (0.57%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.28%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 115 (32.67%) AWS
2 72 (20.45%) Azure
3 35 (9.94%) GCP
4 30 (8.52%) Amazon S3
5 29 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (7.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (5.11%) Amazon ELB
7 18 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (4.83%) Amazon ECR
9 16 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.98%) Serverless
11 13 (3.69%) OpenShift
12 12 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.41%) Pulumi
13 11 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (3.13%) dbt
13 11 (3.13%) GitHub
13 11 (3.13%) SaaS
13 11 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.52%) DNS
2 29 (8.24%) DHCP
3 28 (7.95%) SSL
3 28 (7.95%) TCP/IP
4 26 (7.39%) Firewall
5 13 (3.69%) VPN
6 12 (3.41%) SAN
7 9 (2.56%) VLAN
8 8 (2.27%) HTTPS
9 7 (1.99%) MPLS
10 6 (1.70%) HTTP
10 6 (1.70%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (1.70%) VoIP
10 6 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.70%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.42%) LAN
11 5 (1.42%) WAN
12 4 (1.14%) Broadband
12 4 (1.14%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.14%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.80%) Oracle Database
1 38 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 27 (7.67%) Oracle Database 10g
4 23 (6.53%) SQL Server
5 22 (6.25%) Metadata
6 20 (5.68%) DynamoDB
6 20 (5.68%) Spark SQL
7 19 (5.40%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (5.11%) DB2
8 18 (5.11%) Delta Lake
9 17 (4.83%) MySQL
10 12 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (3.41%) Redis
11 11 (3.13%) Big Data
11 11 (3.13%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.56%) Power BI
12 9 (2.56%) Tableau
13 8 (2.27%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.99%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 23 (6.53%) Git
2 18 (5.11%) MLflow
3 14 (3.98%) JIRA
4 12 (3.41%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.70%) GitLab
6 4 (1.14%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.14%) JUnit
6 4 (1.14%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.14%) Toad
7 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.85%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.85%) Maven
7 3 (0.85%) Mocha
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.85%) webpack
8 2 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.57%) Gradle
8 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.57%) Xcode
General
1 109 (30.97%) Finance
2 90 (25.57%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.93%) Banking
4 26 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (7.39%) Law
5 17 (4.83%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.98%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.69%) Investment Banking
8 12 (3.41%) Marketing
9 10 (2.84%) Front Office
10 7 (1.99%) German Language
10 7 (1.99%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.70%) Electronics
12 5 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.42%) Legal
13 4 (1.14%) Advertising
13 4 (1.14%) Back Office
13 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 64 (18.18%) Senior
2 38 (10.80%) Administrator
3 35 (9.94%) Applications Support
4 33 (9.38%) Support Engineer
5 28 (7.95%) Developer
5 28 (7.95%) Systems Administrator
6 26 (7.39%) Analyst
6 26 (7.39%) Linux Support
7 25 (7.10%) 3rd Line Support
8 23 (6.53%) Systems Support
9 20 (5.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 19 (5.40%) Lead
10 19 (5.40%) Linux Engineer
11 18 (5.11%) Infrastructure Support
11 18 (5.11%) Operations Engineer
11 18 (5.11%) Software Engineer
11 18 (5.11%) Support Analyst
12 13 (3.69%) Linux Support Engineer
12 13 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.67%) JSON
2 25 (7.10%) HTML
2 25 (7.10%) XML
3 22 (6.25%) LDAP
4 21 (5.97%) Regular Expression
5 20 (5.68%) NumPy
5 20 (5.68%) OAuth
5 20 (5.68%) Pandas
5 20 (5.68%) PySpark
5 20 (5.68%) PyTorch
5 20 (5.68%) TensorFlow
6 19 (5.40%) REST
7 18 (5.11%) FIX Protocol
7 18 (5.11%) Keras
7 18 (5.11%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (5.11%) Metaflow
7 18 (5.11%) scikit-learn
7 18 (5.11%) WebSphere MQ
7 18 (5.11%) YAML
8 16 (4.55%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 70 (19.89%) Linux Command Line
2 31 (8.81%) Onboarding
3 25 (7.10%) e-Learning
4 19 (5.40%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.69%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.41%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.13%) PKI
8 9 (2.56%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.27%) Driving Licence
9 8 (2.27%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.27%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.99%) Replication
11 6 (1.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 6 (1.70%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.70%) Equities
11 6 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.70%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.42%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 219 (62.22%) Linux
2 108 (30.68%) Windows
3 50 (14.20%) Solaris
4 34 (9.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (8.81%) HPUX
6 26 (7.39%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (6.25%) Windows 7
7 22 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 20 (5.68%) Windows Server
9 11 (3.13%) Mac OS
10 9 (2.56%) CentOS
10 9 (2.56%) Debian
11 5 (1.42%) AIX
12 4 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.85%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.28%) Android
14 1 (0.28%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.28%) SUSE
14 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (16.76%) Agile
3 55 (15.63%) AI
4 54 (15.34%) CI/CD
5 52 (14.77%) DevOps
6 50 (14.20%) ITIL
7 44 (12.50%) High Availability
8 42 (11.93%) SDLC
9 37 (10.51%) Incident Management
10 36 (10.23%) Machine Learning
11 35 (9.94%) Containerisation
12 34 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
13 33 (9.38%) Software Engineering
14 32 (9.09%) Computer Science
15 31 (8.81%) Data Analysis
16 29 (8.24%) Visualisation
17 28 (7.95%) Change Management
18 27 (7.67%) Data Science
19 26 (7.39%) Incident Response
19 26 (7.39%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 190 (53.98%) Python
2 101 (28.69%) SQL
3 47 (13.35%) Bash
4 46 (13.07%) PowerShell
5 33 (9.38%) Shell Script
6 29 (8.24%) JavaScript
7 28 (7.95%) Java
8 26 (7.39%) Perl
9 14 (3.98%) R
10 11 (3.13%) C#
11 10 (2.84%) TypeScript
12 8 (2.27%) C
12 8 (2.27%) C++
12 8 (2.27%) Korn
13 7 (1.99%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.70%) MATLAB
15 5 (1.42%) Go
16 4 (1.14%) Fortran
16 4 (1.14%) VB
17 3 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 100 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 96 (27.27%) Degree
3 86 (24.43%) SC Cleared
4 60 (17.05%) DV Cleared
5 32 (9.09%) CCNA
5 32 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (7.10%) AWS Certification
6 25 (7.10%) CCNP
7 22 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (5.11%) ITIL Certification
9 16 (4.55%) CISSP
10 12 (3.41%) Network+ Certification
11 11 (3.13%) CISA
12 8 (2.27%) Master's Degree
12 8 (2.27%) PhD
13 7 (1.99%) ACCA
13 7 (1.99%) CIMA
14 6 (1.70%) GCIA
14 6 (1.70%) GCIH
14 6 (1.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (14.20%) SLA
2 11 (3.13%) GDPR
2 11 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.84%) QA
4 7 (1.99%) NIST
5 3 (0.85%) COBIT
5 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.85%) ITGC
6 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (17.61%) Docker
2 51 (14.49%) Active Directory
3 20 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.42%) XenApp
4 5 (1.42%) XenDesktop
5 4 (1.14%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.57%) HDFS
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (15.63%) Terraform
2 42 (11.93%) Kubernetes
3 41 (11.65%) Ansible
4 22 (6.25%) Grafana
5 18 (5.11%) Kubeflow
6 15 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (2.56%) SCCM
8 7 (1.99%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.70%) AWS Copilot
9 6 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.42%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.85%) Netcool
11 3 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.85%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.85%) Puppet
12 2 (0.57%) Kibana
12 2 (0.57%) logstash
12 2 (0.57%) Oozie
12 2 (0.57%) Suricata
Vendors
1 75 (21.31%) Oracle
2 70 (19.89%) Microsoft
3 51 (14.49%) VMware
4 40 (11.36%) Cisco
5 38 (10.80%) Google
6 36 (10.23%) Red Hat
7 31 (8.81%) IBM
8 23 (6.53%) Databricks
9 21 (5.97%) SAP
10 16 (4.55%) ServiceNow
11 13 (3.69%) Fortinet
11 13 (3.69%) Splunk
12 12 (3.41%) Dell
13 11 (3.13%) Atlassian
14 9 (2.56%) Apple
15 8 (2.27%) IFS
15 8 (2.27%) Juniper
15 8 (2.27%) NetApp
15 8 (2.27%) Palo Alto
16 7 (1.99%) Arista