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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 362 278
Rank change year-on-year -162 -84 -72
Permanent jobs citing Unix 258 307 659
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.72% 1.04%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.21% 5.41% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 182 182 275
10th Percentile £39,125 £36,250 £38,620
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,563 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,991
UK median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.89% +8.33% -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 6,126 5,673 8,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.86% 13.24% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,465 3,742 4,979
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -114 110 £71,250 -10.94% 29
North of England -28 60 £69,305 +45.91% 10
South West -59 48 £73,750 +40.48% 13
North West -7 28 £65,576 +63.94% 7
Yorkshire -22 20 £69,305 +17.97% 1
Midlands -49 19 £61,500 -12.14% 2
West Midlands -46 16 £65,903 -12.13% 2
North East -56 12 £69,306 +45.91% 2
East of England -67 6 £50,000 +17.65% 2
South East -93 6 £62,500 +47.91% 4
East Midlands -32 3 £61,500 +25.51%
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 9 (3.49%) Confluence
1 9 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.55%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.78%) Documentum
3 2 (0.78%) JBoss
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.78%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.65%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.10%) Fidessa
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.94%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.78%) Line 50
6 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.78%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 103 (39.92%) AWS
2 72 (27.91%) Azure
3 39 (15.12%) GCP
4 19 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (6.59%) Azure AKS
6 13 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (4.65%) SaaS
8 11 (4.26%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (4.26%) OCI
9 10 (3.88%) GitHub
10 7 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.71%) dbt
11 6 (2.33%) Datadog
11 6 (2.33%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.33%) Slack
12 5 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.57%) DNS
2 30 (11.63%) TCP/IP
3 20 (7.75%) Firewall
4 18 (6.98%) DHCP
5 15 (5.81%) 3GPP
5 15 (5.81%) MGW
5 15 (5.81%) MVNO
5 15 (5.81%) Packet Switching
5 15 (5.81%) RTP
5 15 (5.81%) SGSN
5 15 (5.81%) SMPP
6 12 (4.65%) VPN
7 10 (3.88%) FIX Connectivity
8 7 (2.71%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (2.33%) SSH
9 6 (2.33%) WAN
10 5 (1.94%) Network Security
11 4 (1.55%) 5G
11 4 (1.55%) BGP
11 4 (1.55%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.98%) Oracle Database
3 16 (6.20%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.49%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.10%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.55%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (1.55%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.16%) KDB
8 3 (1.16%) Kdb+
8 3 (1.16%) MySQL
8 3 (1.16%) Redis
9 2 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.78%) Db2
9 2 (0.78%) FileMaker
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database 10g
9 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (9.30%) GitLab
2 23 (8.91%) Git
3 21 (8.14%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.04%) JIRA
5 8 (3.10%) Eclipse
6 7 (2.71%) Subversion
7 4 (1.55%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.55%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.55%) Selenium
7 4 (1.55%) Toad
8 3 (1.16%) Maven
8 3 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.78%) Flyway
9 2 (0.78%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.39%) Gradle
General
1 81 (31.40%) Finance
2 53 (20.54%) Social Skills
3 51 (19.77%) Public Sector
4 34 (13.18%) Banking
5 26 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.26%) Retail
8 10 (3.88%) Front Office
9 6 (2.33%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.33%) Electronics
10 5 (1.94%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.55%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.55%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.55%) Legal
11 4 (1.55%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.16%) Aviation
12 3 (1.16%) Avionics
12 3 (1.16%) Military
13 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (36.43%) Senior
2 35 (13.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (12.79%) Senior DevOps
4 30 (11.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 27 (10.47%) Developer
6 20 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (6.98%) Administrator
7 18 (6.98%) Analyst
8 17 (6.59%) DBA
9 16 (6.20%) Support Analyst
10 15 (5.81%) Network Engineer
11 13 (5.04%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.04%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.65%) Lead
12 12 (4.65%) Oracle DBA
12 12 (4.65%) Test Engineer
13 10 (3.88%) Senior DBA
13 10 (3.88%) Senior Oracle DBA
13 10 (3.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (19.38%) Terraform
2 18 (6.98%) FIX Protocol
3 13 (5.04%) Node.js
4 10 (3.88%) Web Services
5 9 (3.49%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (3.49%) REST
5 9 (3.49%) RESTful
6 8 (3.10%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (3.10%) React
6 8 (3.10%) Struts
7 7 (2.71%) Kafka
8 5 (1.94%) HTML
8 5 (1.94%) Middleware
8 5 (1.94%) WebSockets
9 4 (1.55%) CSS
9 4 (1.55%) pytest
9 4 (1.55%) YAML
10 3 (1.16%) .NET
10 3 (1.16%) Spring
11 2 (0.78%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.98%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.81%) IVR
3 13 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (3.88%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.10%) Eurex
7 7 (2.71%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.33%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (1.94%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.55%) Clustering
10 4 (1.55%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.55%) Derivative
10 4 (1.55%) Equities
10 4 (1.55%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.55%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 224 (86.82%) Linux
2 84 (32.56%) Windows
3 24 (9.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.65%) AIX
5 11 (4.26%) CentOS
5 11 (4.26%) Solaris
5 11 (4.26%) Windows Server
6 10 (3.88%) Oracle Linux
7 9 (3.49%) macOS
7 9 (3.49%) Rocky
8 7 (2.71%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.71%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.39%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.88%) CI/CD
1 90 (34.88%) DevOps
2 72 (27.91%) Mentoring
3 70 (27.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 68 (26.36%) Agile
5 61 (23.64%) Coaching
6 54 (20.93%) Test Automation
7 49 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (17.05%) Scrum
9 40 (15.50%) Continuous Integration
10 38 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (13.95%) Software Engineering
12 33 (12.79%) Containerisation
13 29 (11.24%) ITIL
14 28 (10.85%) Incident Response
14 28 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (10.08%) Validation
16 25 (9.69%) Runbook
16 25 (9.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 23 (8.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (32.17%) Python
2 71 (27.52%) SQL
3 50 (19.38%) Bash
4 35 (13.57%) Java
5 30 (11.63%) Shell Script
6 27 (10.47%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.14%) Perl
8 20 (7.75%) PL/SQL
9 18 (6.98%) C++
9 18 (6.98%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.65%) Korn
11 9 (3.49%) C
12 8 (3.10%) Ruby
12 8 (3.10%) Rust
13 7 (2.71%) C#
14 6 (2.33%) Go
14 6 (2.33%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.16%) Ada
15 3 (1.16%) Fortran
15 3 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (20.54%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.02%) Degree
4 21 (8.14%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.33%) A+ Certification
6 6 (2.33%) HND
6 6 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (1.55%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.55%) CISSP
8 3 (1.16%) CEH
8 3 (1.16%) CISM
8 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.16%) GCIH
8 3 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.16%) RHCE
8 3 (1.16%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.78%) CCSP
9 2 (0.78%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.63%) QA
2 5 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.55%) GDPR
4 3 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.16%) MIL-STD-1553
4 3 (1.16%) NIST
5 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 14001
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 32 (12.40%) Docker
2 11 (4.26%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (2.71%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.78%) Lustre
6 1 (0.39%) Ceph
6 1 (0.39%) Firmware
6 1 (0.39%) GPFS
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) KVM
6 1 (0.39%) NFS
6 1 (0.39%) Samba
6 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (10.85%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.75%) Ansible
2 20 (7.75%) Puppet
3 16 (6.20%) Grafana
3 16 (6.20%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.43%) Oracle RMAN
5 11 (4.26%) Argo
6 10 (3.88%) Data Guard
6 10 (3.88%) Nagios
7 2 (0.78%) logstash
7 2 (0.78%) Nmap
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.78%) Podman
8 1 (0.39%) Control-M
8 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.39%) Kibana
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (25.58%) Oracle
2 26 (10.08%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.30%) Red Hat
4 13 (5.04%) IBM
5 12 (4.65%) Pega
6 9 (3.49%) Bloomberg
6 9 (3.49%) Google
7 8 (3.10%) CQG
7 8 (3.10%) ION Trading
7 8 (3.10%) Patsystems
7 8 (3.10%) Reuters
7 8 (3.10%) Trayport
8 6 (2.33%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.94%) Sybase
10 4 (1.55%) New Relic
10 4 (1.55%) OpenText
10 4 (1.55%) Retek
10 4 (1.55%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.55%) Splunk
10 4 (1.55%) YouTube