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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 249 222
Rank change year-on-year -59 -27 -36
Permanent jobs citing Unix 353 663 737
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.77% 1.09% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.11% 8.04% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 207 259 566
10th Percentile £39,350 £39,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,780 £50,000 £48,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £59,125 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -8.33% -0.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,769
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 4,962 8,248 8,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.79% 13.55% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,783 4,810 6,878
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,991 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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 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 15 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 -1 166 £75,000 +7.14% 122
South East +12 63 £56,430 +2.60% 30
South West +28 38 £57,500 -20.13% 7
East of England +1 31 £43,085 -21.66% 7
Midlands -2 29 £73,801 +34.18% 11
North of England -76 24 £47,500 -5.00% 20
West Midlands -3 21 £75,000 +27.66% 6
North West -45 9 £50,000 -2.44% 12
East Midlands +14 8 £49,000 -10.91% 5
Yorkshire -18 8 £40,000 -20.00% 8
North East +4 7 £60,651 +21.30%
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 43 (12.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (7.93%) Apache Spark
3 26 (7.37%) Exchange Server 2003
4 24 (6.80%) Tomcat
5 22 (6.23%) WebSphere
6 16 (4.53%) WebSphere Application Server
7 7 (1.98%) Apache
8 6 (1.70%) Confluence
8 6 (1.70%) nginx
8 6 (1.70%) SharePoint
9 5 (1.42%) Anypoint
9 5 (1.42%) IIS
9 5 (1.42%) WebLogic
10 4 (1.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.85%) SAS
11 3 (0.85%) WebLogic Portal
12 2 (0.57%) JBoss
13 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (6.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Shopify
2 4 (1.13%) 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
1 116 (32.86%) AWS
2 74 (20.96%) Azure
3 34 (9.63%) GCP
4 30 (8.50%) Amazon S3
5 29 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
6 27 (7.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (5.10%) Amazon ELB
9 17 (4.82%) Amazon ECR
10 16 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.97%) Serverless
12 13 (3.68%) OpenShift
13 12 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.40%) Pulumi
13 12 (3.40%) SaaS
14 11 (3.12%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (3.12%) dbt
14 11 (3.12%) Entra ID
14 11 (3.12%) GitHub
15 10 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.50%) DNS
2 29 (8.22%) DHCP
2 29 (8.22%) SSL
3 28 (7.93%) Firewall
3 28 (7.93%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.68%) SAN
4 13 (3.68%) VPN
5 9 (2.55%) VLAN
6 8 (2.27%) HTTPS
7 7 (1.98%) MPLS
8 6 (1.70%) HTTP
8 6 (1.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 6 (1.70%) VoIP
8 6 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.70%) Wireshark
9 5 (1.42%) LAN
9 5 (1.42%) WAN
10 4 (1.13%) Broadband
10 4 (1.13%) Kerberos
10 4 (1.13%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.33%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (10.76%) Oracle Database
3 32 (9.07%) Relational Database
4 27 (7.65%) Oracle Database 10g
4 27 (7.65%) SQL Server
5 23 (6.52%) Metadata
6 21 (5.95%) Spark SQL
7 20 (5.67%) DynamoDB
8 19 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (5.38%) MySQL
9 18 (5.10%) DB2
9 18 (5.10%) Delta Lake
10 12 (3.40%) Big Data
10 12 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (3.40%) Redis
11 11 (3.12%) NoSQL
12 10 (2.83%) Power BI
12 10 (2.83%) Tableau
13 9 (2.55%) Hadoop
14 8 (2.27%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 26 (7.37%) Git
2 18 (5.10%) MLflow
3 14 (3.97%) JIRA
4 13 (3.68%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.42%) GitLab
6 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.13%) JUnit
6 4 (1.13%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.13%) 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%) Postman
8 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 113 (32.01%) Finance
2 96 (27.20%) Social Skills
3 43 (12.18%) Banking
4 27 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.37%) Law
6 25 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.68%) Investment Banking
8 13 (3.68%) Telecoms
9 12 (3.40%) Front Office
9 12 (3.40%) Marketing
10 6 (1.70%) Electronics
10 6 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.42%) German Language
11 5 (1.42%) Legal
12 4 (1.13%) Advertising
12 4 (1.13%) Back Office
12 4 (1.13%) Local Government
12 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (18.70%) Senior
2 38 (10.76%) Administrator
3 36 (10.20%) Applications Support
4 34 (9.63%) Support Engineer
5 29 (8.22%) Analyst
6 28 (7.93%) Developer
7 27 (7.65%) Systems Administrator
8 26 (7.37%) Linux Support
9 25 (7.08%) 3rd Line Support
10 23 (6.52%) Systems Support
11 20 (5.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 20 (5.67%) Support Analyst
12 19 (5.38%) Infrastructure Support
12 19 (5.38%) Lead
13 18 (5.10%) Linux Engineer
13 18 (5.10%) Operations Engineer
14 17 (4.82%) Software Engineer
15 14 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.68%) Consultant
16 13 (3.68%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.52%) JSON
2 22 (6.23%) LDAP
3 21 (5.95%) PySpark
3 21 (5.95%) XML
4 20 (5.67%) HTML
4 20 (5.67%) NumPy
4 20 (5.67%) OAuth
4 20 (5.67%) Pandas
4 20 (5.67%) PyTorch
4 20 (5.67%) REST
4 20 (5.67%) TensorFlow
5 19 (5.38%) FIX Protocol
6 18 (5.10%) Keras
6 18 (5.10%) Lambda Expressions
6 18 (5.10%) Metaflow
6 18 (5.10%) scikit-learn
6 18 (5.10%) WebSphere MQ
6 18 (5.10%) YAML
7 17 (4.82%) LAPP Stack
7 17 (4.82%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 65 (18.41%) Linux Command Line
2 26 (7.37%) Onboarding
3 25 (7.08%) e-Learning
4 18 (5.10%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.40%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.12%) PKI
8 9 (2.55%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.55%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.27%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.98%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.98%) 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)
13 4 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 222 (62.89%) Linux
2 111 (31.44%) Windows
3 50 (14.16%) Solaris
4 34 (9.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (8.78%) HPUX
6 26 (7.37%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (6.23%) Windows 7
7 22 (6.23%) Windows Server
7 22 (6.23%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (3.40%) Mac OS
9 9 (2.55%) CentOS
9 9 (2.55%) Debian
10 5 (1.42%) AIX
11 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
11 4 (1.13%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.85%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.28%) Android
13 1 (0.28%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.28%) SUSE
13 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (17.85%) Agile
3 56 (15.86%) CI/CD
4 52 (14.73%) DevOps
5 51 (14.45%) ITIL
6 50 (14.16%) AI
7 45 (12.75%) High Availability
8 43 (12.18%) SDLC
9 37 (10.48%) Machine Learning
10 36 (10.20%) Incident Management
11 34 (9.63%) Containerisation
12 33 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (9.35%) Software Engineering
13 30 (8.50%) Computer Science
13 30 (8.50%) Visualisation
14 28 (7.93%) Change Management
14 28 (7.93%) Data Science
15 27 (7.65%) Data Analysis
16 26 (7.37%) Test Automation
16 26 (7.37%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 186 (52.69%) Python
2 107 (30.31%) SQL
3 48 (13.60%) Bash
3 48 (13.60%) PowerShell
4 34 (9.63%) Shell Script
5 32 (9.07%) Java
6 30 (8.50%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.37%) Perl
8 15 (4.25%) R
9 13 (3.68%) C#
10 10 (2.83%) TypeScript
11 9 (2.55%) C++
12 8 (2.27%) C
12 8 (2.27%) Korn
12 8 (2.27%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.70%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.13%) Fortran
14 4 (1.13%) Go
14 4 (1.13%) VB
15 3 (0.85%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 98 (27.76%) Security Cleared
2 90 (25.50%) Degree
3 85 (24.08%) SC Cleared
4 59 (16.71%) DV Cleared
5 32 (9.07%) CCNA
5 32 (9.07%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (7.37%) AWS Certification
7 25 (7.08%) CCNP
8 20 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (5.38%) ITIL Certification
10 15 (4.25%) CISSP
11 12 (3.40%) CISA
11 12 (3.40%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (2.27%) Master's Degree
12 8 (2.27%) PhD
13 7 (1.98%) ACCA
13 7 (1.98%) CIMA
14 6 (1.70%) GCIA
14 6 (1.70%) GCIH
14 6 (1.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (14.16%) SLA
2 13 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.12%) GDPR
4 9 (2.55%) QA
5 8 (2.27%) NIST
6 5 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.13%) ITGC
8 3 (0.85%) COBIT
8 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (17.28%) Docker
2 54 (15.30%) Active Directory
3 22 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.42%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.42%) XenApp
4 5 (1.42%) XenDesktop
5 3 (0.85%) Apache Flume
5 3 (0.85%) HDFS
6 1 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 54 (15.30%) Terraform
2 42 (11.90%) Kubernetes
3 41 (11.61%) Ansible
4 23 (6.52%) Grafana
5 18 (5.10%) Kubeflow
6 17 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.83%) SCCM
8 7 (1.98%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.70%) AWS Copilot
9 6 (1.70%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.42%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.42%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.13%) Puppet
12 3 (0.85%) Kibana
12 3 (0.85%) logstash
12 3 (0.85%) Netcool
12 3 (0.85%) Oozie
12 3 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.57%) Suricata
Vendors
1 81 (22.95%) Oracle
2 78 (22.10%) Microsoft
3 53 (15.01%) VMware
4 40 (11.33%) Cisco
5 37 (10.48%) Google
6 36 (10.20%) Red Hat
7 31 (8.78%) IBM
8 24 (6.80%) Databricks
9 23 (6.52%) SAP
10 16 (4.53%) ServiceNow
11 13 (3.68%) Fortinet
11 13 (3.68%) Splunk
12 12 (3.40%) Dell
13 11 (3.12%) Atlassian
14 10 (2.83%) Apple
15 8 (2.27%) IFS
15 8 (2.27%) Informatica
15 8 (2.27%) Juniper
15 8 (2.27%) NetApp
15 8 (2.27%) Palo Alto