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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 379 356
Rank change year-on-year -133 -23 -126
Permanent jobs citing Unix 197 283 679
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.70% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.67% 4.53% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 118 201 452
10th Percentile £39,625 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,308 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,875 £87,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -8.40%

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 5,371 6,247 12,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.36% 15.56% 13.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,088 4,064 9,832
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -83 97 £75,000 -3.23% 20
South West -22 42 £68,750 -12.76% 4
North of England -42 30 £69,310 +2.49% 17
North West -8 15 £60,000 -13.52% 14
Yorkshire -28 10 £69,310 +10.90% 3
South East -80 10 £62,500 +50.60% 18
Midlands -39 9 £61,500 -5.38% 2
West Midlands -36 7 £28,500 -56.15% 2
East of England -20 5 £61,500 +123.64% 4
North East -48 5 £69,310 +15.52%
East Midlands -30 2 £61,500 -12.14%
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 (1.02%) Confluence
1 2 (1.02%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.51%) Apache
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.51%) JBoss
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (6.60%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.58%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.03%) Line 50
2 4 (2.03%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (2.03%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.52%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (42.13%) AWS
2 58 (29.44%) Azure
3 24 (12.18%) GCP
4 18 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (7.61%) Pulumi
6 14 (7.11%) Azure AKS
6 14 (7.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (6.60%) GitHub
7 13 (6.60%) SaaS
8 9 (4.57%) PaaS
9 8 (4.06%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.05%) Apigee
10 6 (3.05%) IaaS
10 6 (3.05%) Kong
10 6 (3.05%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.52%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (1.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.63%) Firewall
2 14 (7.11%) TCP/IP
3 13 (6.60%) DNS
4 12 (6.09%) Broadband
5 10 (5.08%) WAN
6 8 (4.06%) 5G
6 8 (4.06%) HTTPS
6 8 (4.06%) SD-WAN
7 6 (3.05%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.54%) Network Security
9 4 (2.03%) 3GPP
9 4 (2.03%) MGW
9 4 (2.03%) MVNO
9 4 (2.03%) Packet Switching
9 4 (2.03%) RTP
9 4 (2.03%) SGSN
9 4 (2.03%) SMPP
9 4 (2.03%) VoIP
10 3 (1.52%) CHAP
11 2 (1.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.17%) MongoDB
2 19 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (9.14%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.14%) Oracle Database
3 18 (9.14%) Relational Database
4 14 (7.11%) RDBMS
5 7 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.05%) Power BI
6 6 (3.05%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.05%) Tableau
7 4 (2.03%) Db2
7 4 (2.03%) FileMaker
8 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.52%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.52%) Redis
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.51%) KDB
Development Applications
1 25 (12.69%) GitLab
2 23 (11.68%) Git
3 12 (6.09%) Jaeger
4 9 (4.57%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.57%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.06%) LabVIEW
6 7 (3.55%) Eclipse
7 6 (3.05%) JIRA
7 6 (3.05%) Subversion
8 4 (2.03%) Metasploit
9 3 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (1.52%) Selenium
9 3 (1.52%) Toad
10 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.02%) Gradle
10 2 (1.02%) JMeter
10 2 (1.02%) Maven
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 80 (40.61%) Finance
2 51 (25.89%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (14.72%) Banking
5 27 (13.71%) Public Sector
6 21 (10.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.58%) Electronics
8 9 (4.57%) Legal
8 9 (4.57%) Retail
9 8 (4.06%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.55%) Front Office
11 6 (3.05%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.03%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.52%) Back Office
14 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.52%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.52%) Japanese Language
14 3 (1.52%) Retail Finance
15 1 (0.51%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 51 (25.89%) Senior
2 23 (11.68%) Senior DevOps
3 22 (11.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (10.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 19 (9.64%) Developer
5 19 (9.64%) Lead
6 16 (8.12%) DBA
7 14 (7.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (6.60%) Analyst
9 12 (6.09%) Administrator
9 12 (6.09%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (6.09%) Test Engineer
10 11 (5.58%) Linux Engineer
10 11 (5.58%) Oracle DBA
11 10 (5.08%) Senior DBA
11 10 (5.08%) Senior Oracle DBA
12 9 (4.57%) Consultant
12 9 (4.57%) Network Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) Applications Support
13 8 (4.06%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.12%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (7.11%) Node.js
3 12 (6.09%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (5.08%) REST
5 8 (4.06%) pytest
6 7 (3.55%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (3.55%) J2EE
6 7 (3.55%) Kafka
6 7 (3.55%) React
6 7 (3.55%) RESTful
6 7 (3.55%) Struts
6 7 (3.55%) YAML
7 6 (3.05%) HTML
7 6 (3.05%) Jinja
7 6 (3.05%) JSON
7 6 (3.05%) Web Services
7 6 (3.05%) XML
7 6 (3.05%) YANG
8 5 (2.54%) CSS
9 4 (2.03%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.12%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (5.08%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.57%) Hedge funds
4 9 (4.57%) Security Posture
5 8 (4.06%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (4.06%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (3.55%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.54%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.54%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.03%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.03%) IVR
9 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.02%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (1.02%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 152 (77.16%) Linux
2 60 (30.46%) Windows
3 24 (12.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (6.60%) AIX
5 10 (5.08%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.54%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.03%) Kali Linux
7 4 (2.03%) Solaris
8 3 (1.52%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.51%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (35.53%) DevOps
2 57 (28.93%) CI/CD
3 55 (27.92%) Agile
4 47 (23.86%) Test Automation
5 44 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (20.30%) Mentoring
7 39 (19.80%) Continuous Integration
8 36 (18.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (16.75%) High Availability
9 33 (16.75%) Incident Response
10 31 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (14.21%) Task Automation
12 25 (12.69%) Computer Science
12 25 (12.69%) Containerisation
12 25 (12.69%) Scrum
13 24 (12.18%) Coaching
13 24 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (11.68%) Validation
15 22 (11.17%) Roadmaps
16 20 (10.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 89 (45.18%) Python
2 48 (24.37%) Java
3 47 (23.86%) Bash
4 44 (22.34%) SQL
5 29 (14.72%) JavaScript
6 24 (12.18%) Shell Script
7 14 (7.11%) PL/SQL
8 13 (6.60%) C++
8 13 (6.60%) Go
9 11 (5.58%) Korn
9 11 (5.58%) PowerShell
10 10 (5.08%) MATLAB
11 9 (4.57%) Perl
12 6 (3.05%) Rust
13 5 (2.54%) C#
13 5 (2.54%) VB
13 5 (2.54%) VBA
13 5 (2.54%) VBScript
14 4 (2.03%) PHP
15 2 (1.02%) C
Qualifications
1 41 (20.81%) Degree
2 25 (12.69%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.11%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.58%) CISSP
6 10 (5.08%) HND
7 9 (4.57%) DV Cleared
8 6 (3.05%) CCSK
8 6 (3.05%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.54%) CISM
9 5 (2.54%) SANS
10 4 (2.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (2.03%) CISA
10 4 (2.03%) OSCP
11 3 (1.52%) CGEIT
11 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.52%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.52%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.02%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.58%) QA
2 6 (3.05%) NIST
3 4 (2.03%) GDPR
3 4 (2.03%) ISO 14001
3 4 (2.03%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.52%) COBIT
4 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.51%) ITGC
6 1 (0.51%) MiFID
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (15.23%) Docker
2 13 (6.60%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.02%) Firmware
5 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.51%) GPFS
5 1 (0.51%) Lustre
5 1 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (25.38%) Terraform
2 36 (18.27%) Kubernetes
3 30 (15.23%) Ansible
4 26 (13.20%) Argo
5 20 (10.15%) Prometheus
6 14 (7.11%) Puppet
7 13 (6.60%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (6.09%) Kustomize
9 10 (5.08%) Data Guard
9 10 (5.08%) Nagios
10 8 (4.06%) Grafana
11 5 (2.54%) SCCM
12 3 (1.52%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (1.52%) Check_MK
13 2 (1.02%) Kibana
13 2 (1.02%) logstash
13 2 (1.02%) Podman
14 1 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 37 (18.78%) Oracle
2 21 (10.66%) Google
3 19 (9.64%) Red Hat
4 17 (8.63%) Microsoft
5 15 (7.61%) IBM
6 10 (5.08%) VMware
7 9 (4.57%) Adobe
8 7 (3.55%) Cisco
8 7 (3.55%) Pega
9 6 (3.05%) F5
9 6 (3.05%) Juniper
9 6 (3.05%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.54%) Snow
10 5 (2.54%) Splunk
11 4 (2.03%) Apple
11 4 (2.03%) Databricks
11 4 (2.03%) Sage
11 4 (2.03%) Sybase
11 4 (2.03%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.52%) SAP