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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 399 330
Rank change year-on-year -93 -69 -109
Permanent jobs citing Unix 199 251 682
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.64% 0.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.00% 3.93% 5.59%
Number of salaries quoted 107 182 473
10th Percentile £48,578 £31,250 £37,550
25th Percentile £60,000 £41,250 £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 £78,895 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,250 £90,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -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 4,979 6,388 12,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.06% 16.27% 14.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,756 4,009 9,822
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,250 £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 £82,800 £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 21 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 21 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 -48 103 £81,500 +8.67% 39
South West -34 33 £71,250 -1.03% 10
North of England -41 29 £65,905 -3.79% 17
North West -3 14 £60,000 -12.41% 12
East of England -11 13 £61,500 +123.64% 7
South East -61 10 £62,500 +49.70% 28
Yorkshire -38 9 £69,310 +10.90% 3
Midlands -36 8 £28,500 -52.50% 7
North East -38 6 £69,310 -0.11% 2
West Midlands -50 6 £28,500 -52.50% 6
East Midlands -21 2 £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 (1.01%) Confluence
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.50%) IIS
2 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (7.54%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.51%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.01%) Line 50
2 4 (2.01%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.50%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (40.70%) AWS
2 58 (29.15%) Azure
3 21 (10.55%) Pulumi
4 18 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.05%) GCP
5 15 (7.54%) SaaS
6 14 (7.04%) Azure AKS
6 14 (7.04%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (6.53%) GitHub
8 12 (6.03%) PaaS
9 9 (4.52%) IaaS
9 9 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (4.02%) OpenShift
11 6 (3.02%) Apigee
11 6 (3.02%) Kong
11 6 (3.02%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.01%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.05%) Broadband
1 18 (9.05%) Firewall
2 15 (7.54%) TCP/IP
3 10 (5.03%) DNS
3 10 (5.03%) WAN
4 9 (4.52%) 5G
4 9 (4.52%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.02%) HTTPS
6 7 (3.52%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.51%) Network Security
8 4 (2.01%) VoIP
9 3 (1.51%) CHAP
10 2 (1.01%) Internet
11 1 (0.50%) BGP
11 1 (0.50%) DHCP
11 1 (0.50%) MPLS
11 1 (0.50%) OSPF
11 1 (0.50%) RTP
11 1 (0.50%) SMPP
11 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.56%) NoSQL
2 22 (11.06%) Relational Database
3 19 (9.55%) MongoDB
3 19 (9.55%) RDBMS
4 18 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.53%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.02%) Power BI
6 6 (3.02%) Tableau
7 4 (2.01%) FileMaker
7 4 (2.01%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.01%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.51%) Big Data
8 3 (1.51%) DB2
8 3 (1.51%) Redis
9 2 (1.01%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.01%) Informix
10 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.50%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 25 (12.56%) GitLab
2 18 (9.05%) Jaeger
3 15 (7.54%) Git
4 9 (4.52%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.52%) LabVIEW
5 7 (3.52%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.01%) JIRA
6 4 (2.01%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.51%) Selenium
8 2 (1.01%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.01%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.01%) Gradle
8 2 (1.01%) JMeter
8 2 (1.01%) Maven
9 1 (0.50%) LSMW
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (37.69%) Finance
2 53 (26.63%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (11.56%) Public Sector
6 22 (11.06%) Banking
7 16 (8.04%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (5.03%) Electronics
9 8 (4.02%) German Language
9 8 (4.02%) Legal
10 6 (3.02%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.51%) Front Office
12 4 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.51%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.51%) Back Office
13 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.51%) Japanese Language
14 2 (1.01%) Law
15 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (20.10%) Senior
2 23 (11.56%) Lead
3 19 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (8.04%) Automation Engineer
4 16 (8.04%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (7.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.54%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (7.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.03%) Analyst
8 11 (5.53%) Developer
9 10 (5.03%) Test Engineer
9 10 (5.03%) Unix Engineer
9 10 (5.03%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 9 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.52%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.52%) Product Engineer
10 9 (4.52%) Product Test Engineer
10 9 (4.52%) Security Engineer
10 9 (4.52%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.55%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (9.55%) JSON
2 19 (9.55%) XML
3 18 (9.05%) OpenTelemetry
4 17 (8.54%) HTML
5 14 (7.04%) Node.js
6 13 (6.53%) Regular Expression
7 9 (4.52%) pytest
8 8 (4.02%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (4.02%) REST
9 6 (3.02%) Jinja
9 6 (3.02%) YAML
9 6 (3.02%) YANG
10 5 (2.51%) Kafka
11 4 (2.01%) CSS
12 3 (1.51%) Django
12 3 (1.51%) Middleware
13 2 (1.01%) .NET
13 2 (1.01%) LDAP
13 2 (1.01%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.05%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (9.05%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.53%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.53%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (6.03%) Security Posture
5 11 (5.53%) Hedge funds
6 10 (5.03%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (4.52%) Data Centre
7 9 (4.52%) Self-Driving Car
8 7 (3.52%) Clustering
9 6 (3.02%) Cloud Native
10 5 (2.51%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.51%) Public Cloud
11 4 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (2.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (2.01%) IoT
12 3 (1.51%) Equities
12 3 (1.51%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 144 (72.36%) Linux
2 55 (27.64%) Windows
3 25 (12.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.02%) AIX
5 7 (3.52%) Solaris
6 6 (3.02%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.51%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.51%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.01%) Kali Linux
9 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.50%) CentOS
10 1 (0.50%) Debian
10 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.50%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.17%) DevOps
2 51 (25.63%) Agile
2 51 (25.63%) CI/CD
3 48 (24.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (21.61%) Test Automation
6 41 (20.60%) Mentoring
7 38 (19.10%) Continuous Integration
8 33 (16.58%) Task Automation
9 31 (15.58%) High Availability
10 30 (15.08%) Containerisation
11 29 (14.57%) AI
11 29 (14.57%) Roadmaps
12 26 (13.07%) Incident Response
13 24 (12.06%) Computer Science
14 23 (11.56%) Validation
15 22 (11.06%) Coaching
16 21 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (10.55%) ITIL
17 20 (10.05%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 107 (53.77%) Python
2 52 (26.13%) Bash
3 47 (23.62%) Java
4 32 (16.08%) SQL
5 25 (12.56%) JavaScript
6 19 (9.55%) Go
7 14 (7.04%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.03%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.52%) MATLAB
10 6 (3.02%) C#
10 6 (3.02%) Korn
10 6 (3.02%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.02%) Rust
11 5 (2.51%) C++
11 5 (2.51%) VB
11 5 (2.51%) VBA
11 5 (2.51%) VBScript
12 4 (2.01%) Perl
12 4 (2.01%) PHP
13 3 (1.51%) C
Qualifications
1 53 (26.63%) Degree
2 23 (11.56%) AWS Certification
3 20 (10.05%) Security Cleared
4 17 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (8.04%) SC Cleared
6 14 (7.04%) CISSP
7 9 (4.52%) CCSK
7 9 (4.52%) HND
8 6 (3.02%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (3.02%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.51%) CISM
9 5 (2.51%) SANS
10 4 (2.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (2.01%) CISA
10 4 (2.01%) OSCP
11 3 (1.51%) CGEIT
11 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.51%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.51%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.01%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.02%) QA
2 6 (3.02%) NIST
3 5 (2.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.51%) SLA
4 4 (2.01%) GDPR
4 4 (2.01%) ISO 14001
4 4 (2.01%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.51%) COBIT
5 3 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.50%) ITGC
7 1 (0.50%) MiFID
7 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (15.08%) Docker
2 15 (7.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.52%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.52%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.50%) Firmware
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (30.65%) Terraform
2 46 (23.12%) Ansible
3 37 (18.59%) Kubernetes
4 32 (16.08%) Argo
5 23 (11.56%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.05%) Kustomize
7 12 (6.03%) Puppet
8 6 (3.02%) Grafana
8 6 (3.02%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (2.51%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.51%) Nagios
9 5 (2.51%) SCCM
10 4 (2.01%) Podman
11 3 (1.51%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.51%) Check_MK
12 2 (1.01%) Kibana
12 2 (1.01%) logstash
13 1 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 31 (15.58%) Google
2 29 (14.57%) Red Hat
3 24 (12.06%) Oracle
4 21 (10.55%) VMware
5 18 (9.05%) Microsoft
6 12 (6.03%) IBM
7 9 (4.52%) Adobe
8 8 (4.02%) Cisco
9 7 (3.52%) Symantec
10 6 (3.02%) F5
10 6 (3.02%) Juniper
10 6 (3.02%) Palo Alto
10 6 (3.02%) SAP
10 6 (3.02%) Splunk
11 5 (2.51%) Snow
12 4 (2.01%) Apple
12 4 (2.01%) Databricks
12 4 (2.01%) Mirantis
12 4 (2.01%) Sage
12 4 (2.01%) Workday