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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 375 341
Rank change year-on-year -104 -34 -116
Permanent jobs citing Unix 213 277 667
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.71% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.37% 4.48% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 106 180 477
10th Percentile £40,625 £34,000 £38,800
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,500 £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 £83,750 £82,751 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,625 £95,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +15.64% -13.60%

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 4,875 6,187 12,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.99% 15.82% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3,643 4,091 9,980
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +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 7 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 7 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 -35 108 £81,500 +8.67% 60
North of England -68 32 £61,250 -11.72% 20
South West -38 30 £70,000 -2.77% 10
East of England -3 20 £61,500 +123.64% 8
North West -34 15 £60,000 -13.52% 13
Yorkshire -56 11 £69,310 -18.70% 6
Midlands -35 10 £28,500 -52.50% 17
South East -57 10 £62,500 +48.81% 30
West Midlands -34 8 £28,500 -52.50% 13
North East -25 6 £69,310 -0.11% 1
East Midlands -31 2 £61,500 -12.14% 4
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 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.47%) Apache
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) IIS
2 1 (0.47%) nginx
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Line 50
1 4 (1.88%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 81 (38.03%) AWS
2 61 (28.64%) Azure
3 22 (10.33%) Pulumi
4 20 (9.39%) GCP
5 19 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (8.45%) SaaS
7 14 (6.57%) Azure AKS
7 14 (6.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (6.57%) PaaS
8 13 (6.10%) GitHub
9 11 (5.16%) IaaS
9 11 (5.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (3.29%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.82%) Apigee
11 6 (2.82%) Kong
11 6 (2.82%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.88%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.92%) Broadband
1 19 (8.92%) Firewall
2 15 (7.04%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.23%) DNS
3 9 (4.23%) HTTPS
4 8 (3.76%) 5G
4 8 (3.76%) SD-WAN
4 8 (3.76%) WAN
5 7 (3.29%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (1.88%) Network Security
6 4 (1.88%) VoIP
7 3 (1.41%) CHAP
7 3 (1.41%) FIX Connectivity
8 2 (0.94%) Internet
9 1 (0.47%) ATM
9 1 (0.47%) BGP
9 1 (0.47%) MPLS
9 1 (0.47%) OSPF
9 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.74%) NoSQL
1 25 (11.74%) Relational Database
2 20 (9.39%) RDBMS
3 19 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (8.45%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.76%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.82%) Power BI
6 6 (2.82%) Tableau
7 4 (1.88%) FileMaker
7 4 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.41%) Big Data
8 3 (1.41%) DB2
8 3 (1.41%) Redis
8 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.94%) Informix
10 1 (0.47%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (11.74%) GitLab
2 19 (8.92%) Jaeger
3 14 (6.57%) Git
4 9 (4.23%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.76%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.76%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.88%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.41%) Selenium
8 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.94%) Gradle
8 2 (0.94%) JIRA
8 2 (0.94%) JMeter
8 2 (0.94%) Maven
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (33.80%) Finance
2 55 (25.82%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (10.33%) Public Sector
6 20 (9.39%) Banking
7 16 (7.51%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (5.63%) German Language
9 9 (4.23%) Electronics
10 8 (3.76%) Legal
11 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.82%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.35%) Front Office
14 4 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.41%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.41%) Back Office
15 3 (1.41%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.41%) Japanese Language
15 3 (1.41%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (17.84%) Senior
2 21 (9.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 21 (9.86%) Lead
3 18 (8.45%) Automation Engineer
3 18 (8.45%) Linux Engineer
4 16 (7.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.04%) Senior DevOps
5 15 (7.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.10%) Analyst
7 12 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (5.63%) Developer
7 12 (5.63%) Unix Engineer
7 12 (5.63%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 11 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.16%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 11 (5.16%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 11 (5.16%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (5.16%) Python Engineer
8 11 (5.16%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.23%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.15%) JSON
1 28 (13.15%) XML
2 26 (12.21%) HTML
3 24 (11.27%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (10.33%) Regular Expression
5 19 (8.92%) OpenTelemetry
6 16 (7.51%) Node.js
7 9 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.76%) pytest
8 8 (3.76%) REST
9 6 (2.82%) Jinja
9 6 (2.82%) YAML
9 6 (2.82%) YANG
10 4 (1.88%) CSS
10 4 (1.88%) Kafka
11 3 (1.41%) .NET
11 3 (1.41%) Django
11 3 (1.41%) Middleware
11 3 (1.41%) OAuth
12 2 (0.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.08%) Linux Command Line
2 24 (11.27%) Onboarding
3 18 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (7.51%) Management Information System
5 14 (6.57%) Security Posture
6 13 (6.10%) Hedge funds
7 12 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (4.69%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (3.76%) Data Centre
9 8 (3.76%) Self-Driving Car
10 7 (3.29%) Clustering
11 5 (2.35%) Blockchain
12 4 (1.88%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.88%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.88%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.88%) IoT
12 4 (1.88%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
13 3 (1.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 147 (69.01%) Linux
2 57 (26.76%) Windows
3 19 (8.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.29%) Solaris
5 6 (2.82%) AIX
5 6 (2.82%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.35%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.88%) Kali Linux
8 3 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.94%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.47%) CentOS
10 1 (0.47%) Debian
10 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.47%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (32.39%) DevOps
2 52 (24.41%) Agile
2 52 (24.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (23.47%) CI/CD
4 44 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (19.72%) Mentoring
5 42 (19.72%) Test Automation
6 40 (18.78%) AI
7 39 (18.31%) Continuous Integration
8 35 (16.43%) Task Automation
9 32 (15.02%) Containerisation
9 32 (15.02%) High Availability
10 30 (14.08%) Roadmaps
11 27 (12.68%) Computer Science
11 27 (12.68%) Data Analysis
12 26 (12.21%) Incident Response
13 22 (10.33%) Coaching
13 22 (10.33%) Information Security
13 22 (10.33%) LLM
14 21 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 123 (57.75%) Python
2 55 (25.82%) Bash
3 47 (22.07%) Java
4 30 (14.08%) SQL
5 26 (12.21%) JavaScript
6 22 (10.33%) Go
7 12 (5.63%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.63%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.76%) MATLAB
9 6 (2.82%) C#
9 6 (2.82%) Rust
10 5 (2.35%) C++
10 5 (2.35%) VB
10 5 (2.35%) VBA
10 5 (2.35%) VBScript
11 4 (1.88%) Korn
11 4 (1.88%) Perl
11 4 (1.88%) PHP
11 4 (1.88%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.41%) C
Qualifications
1 65 (30.52%) Degree
2 24 (11.27%) AWS Certification
3 23 (10.80%) Security Cleared
4 20 (9.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (7.98%) CISSP
5 17 (7.98%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.16%) CCSK
7 8 (3.76%) HND
8 6 (2.82%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.35%) CISM
9 5 (2.35%) OSCP
9 5 (2.35%) SANS
10 4 (1.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.88%) CISA
11 3 (1.41%) CGEIT
11 3 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.41%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.41%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.23%) QA
2 6 (2.82%) NIST
3 5 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.35%) SLA
4 4 (1.88%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.88%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.41%) COBIT
5 3 (1.41%) GDPR
5 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) ITGC
7 1 (0.47%) MiFID
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (15.49%) Docker
2 15 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.29%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.35%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.35%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.47%) Firmware
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (30.05%) Terraform
2 48 (22.54%) Ansible
3 38 (17.84%) Kubernetes
4 33 (15.49%) Argo
5 24 (11.27%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.92%) Kustomize
7 9 (4.23%) Puppet
8 8 (3.76%) Grafana
9 5 (2.35%) SCCM
10 4 (1.88%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.88%) Podman
11 3 (1.41%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.41%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.41%) Data Guard
11 3 (1.41%) Nagios
12 2 (0.94%) Kibana
12 2 (0.94%) logstash
13 1 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 34 (15.96%) Google
2 26 (12.21%) Red Hat
3 21 (9.86%) VMware
4 20 (9.39%) Oracle
5 19 (8.92%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.69%) IBM
7 9 (4.23%) Adobe
8 8 (3.76%) Cisco
9 7 (3.29%) Juniper
9 7 (3.29%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.29%) Splunk
9 7 (3.29%) Symantec
10 6 (2.82%) F5
10 6 (2.82%) SAP
11 5 (2.35%) Databricks
11 5 (2.35%) Snow
12 4 (1.88%) Apple
12 4 (1.88%) Mirantis
12 4 (1.88%) Sage
12 4 (1.88%) Workday