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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 267 217
Rank change year-on-year -58 -50 -27
Permanent jobs citing Unix 335 582 670
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 1.15% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.22% 7.50% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 182 209 506
10th Percentile £40,139 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,813 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £83,438 £80,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.08% -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 4,637 7,756 7,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.95% 15.35% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,546 4,544 6,357
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,887
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,850 £88,750
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,242 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% +0.48% -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 21 December 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 21 December 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 +8 152 £77,500 +11.82% 34
South East +28 49 £58,000 +5.45% 26
South West +24 46 £55,000 -23.60% 9
East of England +8 41 £43,085 -25.07% 4
North of England -86 23 £55,000 +10.00% 12
Midlands -44 20 £73,801 +34.18% 6
West Midlands -19 12 £75,000 +42.86% 5
Yorkshire -25 9 £25,750 -67.86% 2
East Midlands -18 8 £49,000 -10.91% 1
North West -48 8 £66,901 +33.80% 11
North East +1 6 £73,801 +47.60%
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 40 (11.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (7.76%) Exchange Server 2003
3 25 (7.46%) Apache Spark
4 22 (6.57%) Tomcat
4 22 (6.57%) WebSphere
5 16 (4.78%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (1.79%) Apache
6 6 (1.79%) Confluence
6 6 (1.79%) nginx
7 5 (1.49%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.49%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.19%) IIS
8 4 (1.19%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.90%) WebLogic Portal
10 2 (0.60%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.09%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.49%) Shopify
3 4 (1.19%) NEC Housing
3 4 (1.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.90%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.90%) Primavera
5 2 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 103 (30.75%) AWS
2 53 (15.82%) Azure
3 36 (10.75%) GCP
4 30 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (8.96%) Amazon S3
5 27 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (5.37%) Amazon ELB
7 17 (5.07%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (4.48%) Serverless
9 13 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.88%) OpenShift
9 13 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (3.58%) GitHub
10 12 (3.58%) Pulumi
11 11 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.28%) dbt
11 11 (3.28%) SaaS
12 10 (2.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.06%) SSL
2 26 (7.76%) DNS
3 25 (7.46%) DHCP
4 24 (7.16%) TCP/IP
5 18 (5.37%) Firewall
6 9 (2.69%) SAN
6 9 (2.69%) VLAN
7 8 (2.39%) HTTPS
7 8 (2.39%) VPN
7 8 (2.39%) WAN
8 7 (2.09%) MPLS
9 6 (1.79%) HTTP
9 6 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (1.79%) VoIP
9 6 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.79%) Wireshark
10 5 (1.49%) FIX Connectivity
10 5 (1.49%) LAN
11 4 (1.19%) Broadband
11 4 (1.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.04%) Oracle Database
2 34 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.06%) Oracle Database 10g
4 20 (5.97%) DynamoDB
4 20 (5.97%) Metadata
4 20 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 18 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (5.37%) DB2
5 18 (5.37%) Delta Lake
5 18 (5.37%) Spark SQL
6 17 (5.07%) SQL Server
7 12 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (3.28%) Big Data
8 11 (3.28%) Redis
9 9 (2.69%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.09%) MySQL
10 7 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (2.09%) Power BI
10 7 (2.09%) Tableau
11 6 (1.79%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 19 (5.67%) Git
2 18 (5.37%) MLflow
3 11 (3.28%) JIRA
4 10 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.09%) GitLab
5 7 (2.09%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.19%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.19%) Toad
7 3 (0.90%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.90%) JUnit
7 3 (0.90%) Mocha
7 3 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.90%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.90%) webpack
8 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.60%) Gradle
8 2 (0.60%) Maven
8 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.30%) Jasmine
General
1 93 (27.76%) Finance
2 80 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.55%) Banking
4 29 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.07%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.48%) German Language
7 14 (4.18%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.88%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.99%) Law
9 10 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.69%) Electronics
10 9 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.39%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.49%) Front Office
12 5 (1.49%) Legal
13 4 (1.19%) Advertising
13 4 (1.19%) Back Office
13 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (15.52%) Senior
2 36 (10.75%) Administrator
3 31 (9.25%) Applications Support
3 31 (9.25%) Support Engineer
4 30 (8.96%) Linux Support
4 30 (8.96%) Systems Administrator
5 25 (7.46%) 3rd Line Support
6 24 (7.16%) Linux Engineer
7 23 (6.87%) Systems Support
8 22 (6.57%) Infrastructure Support
9 21 (6.27%) Analyst
10 20 (5.97%) Developer
10 20 (5.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 19 (5.67%) Unix Support
12 18 (5.37%) Operations Engineer
13 16 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (4.48%) Support Analyst
15 13 (3.88%) Linux Support Engineer
16 11 (3.28%) Audit Manager
16 11 (3.28%) IT Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.34%) JSON
2 36 (10.75%) XML
3 35 (10.45%) HTML
4 31 (9.25%) Regular Expression
5 22 (6.57%) LDAP
6 20 (5.97%) NumPy
6 20 (5.97%) Pandas
6 20 (5.97%) PyTorch
6 20 (5.97%) TensorFlow
7 18 (5.37%) Keras
7 18 (5.37%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (5.37%) Metaflow
7 18 (5.37%) PySpark
7 18 (5.37%) scikit-learn
7 18 (5.37%) WebSphere MQ
7 18 (5.37%) YAML
8 16 (4.78%) LAPP Stack
9 12 (3.58%) OAuth
10 11 (3.28%) Django
10 11 (3.28%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 82 (24.48%) Linux Command Line
2 39 (11.64%) Onboarding
3 25 (7.46%) e-Learning
4 21 (6.27%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.28%) PKI
7 8 (2.39%) Clustering
7 8 (2.39%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.09%) Replication
8 7 (2.09%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.79%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.19%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.19%) GNSS
11 4 (1.19%) NHS
11 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.19%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 209 (62.39%) Linux
2 101 (30.15%) Windows
3 46 (13.73%) Solaris
4 37 (11.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (7.76%) HPUX
5 26 (7.76%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (6.57%) Windows 7
6 22 (6.57%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (3.88%) Windows Server
8 10 (2.99%) Debian
9 8 (2.39%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.49%) AIX
10 5 (1.49%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.60%) CentOS
11 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.30%) Android
12 1 (0.30%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (20.00%) AI
2 57 (17.01%) ITIL
2 57 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (15.22%) CI/CD
3 51 (15.22%) DevOps
4 42 (12.54%) High Availability
5 41 (12.24%) Data Analysis
6 39 (11.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (11.04%) Containerisation
7 37 (11.04%) Incident Management
8 35 (10.45%) Change Management
9 34 (10.15%) Agile
10 31 (9.25%) LLM
11 30 (8.96%) Machine Learning
12 29 (8.66%) Computer Science
13 27 (8.06%) Visualisation
14 26 (7.76%) Analytics
15 25 (7.46%) Data Science
15 25 (7.46%) Innovative Thinking
16 24 (7.16%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 194 (57.91%) Python
2 82 (24.48%) SQL
3 45 (13.43%) Bash
4 43 (12.84%) PowerShell
5 28 (8.36%) Perl
6 25 (7.46%) JavaScript
7 22 (6.57%) Shell Script
8 21 (6.27%) Java
9 12 (3.58%) R
10 10 (2.99%) C#
11 9 (2.69%) MATLAB
12 8 (2.39%) Korn
13 6 (1.79%) C
14 5 (1.49%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.19%) C++
15 4 (1.19%) Fortran
15 4 (1.19%) Go
15 4 (1.19%) VB
16 3 (0.90%) Scala
17 2 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 107 (31.94%) Degree
2 99 (29.55%) Security Cleared
3 83 (24.78%) SC Cleared
4 60 (17.91%) DV Cleared
5 32 (9.55%) CCNA
5 32 (9.55%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (8.36%) AWS Certification
7 25 (7.46%) CCNP
8 23 (6.87%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (5.37%) CISSP
11 9 (2.69%) CISA
12 8 (2.39%) Master's Degree
12 8 (2.39%) PhD
13 7 (2.09%) ACCA
13 7 (2.09%) CIMA
13 7 (2.09%) HND
13 7 (2.09%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (1.79%) GCIA
14 6 (1.79%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (16.42%) SLA
2 11 (3.28%) GDPR
3 9 (2.69%) QA
4 7 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.09%) NIST
5 5 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.90%) COBIT
7 1 (0.30%) ITGC
System Software
1 52 (15.52%) Docker
2 48 (14.33%) Active Directory
3 26 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.49%) XenApp
4 5 (1.49%) XenDesktop
5 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 56 (16.72%) Terraform
2 44 (13.13%) Ansible
2 44 (13.13%) Kubernetes
3 18 (5.37%) Kubeflow
4 17 (5.07%) Grafana
5 8 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.79%) AWS Copilot
6 6 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.79%) SCCM
7 5 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.90%) Netcool
8 3 (0.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.90%) Podman
8 3 (0.90%) Puppet
9 2 (0.60%) Argo
9 2 (0.60%) Suricata
10 1 (0.30%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 64 (19.10%) Oracle
2 54 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 54 (16.12%) VMware
3 44 (13.13%) Red Hat
4 36 (10.75%) Cisco
5 33 (9.85%) Google
5 33 (9.85%) IBM
6 21 (6.27%) Databricks
6 21 (6.27%) SAP
7 16 (4.78%) ServiceNow
8 12 (3.58%) Dell
8 12 (3.58%) Splunk
9 9 (2.69%) Workday
10 8 (2.39%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.39%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.39%) HP
10 8 (2.39%) IFS
10 8 (2.39%) Juniper
10 8 (2.39%) NetApp
10 8 (2.39%) Palo Alto