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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 390 337
Rank change year-on-year -107 -53 -115
Permanent jobs citing Unix 201 254 681
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.65% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.07% 3.97% 5.58%
Number of salaries quoted 108 183 472
10th Percentile £46,446 £31,250 £37,525
25th Percentile £60,000 £43,125 £46,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,211 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,875 £93,778 £100,064
UK median annual salary £68,405 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.24% +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 4,943 6,394 12,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.03% 16.25% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,736 4,050 9,831
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £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 £83,750 £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 19 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 19 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 -41 104 £81,500 +8.67% 40
South West -36 32 £70,000 -2.77% 11
North of England -33 30 £62,500 -9.92% 21
North West -3 14 £60,000 -12.41% 14
East of England -14 14 £61,500 +123.64% 5
Yorkshire -49 10 £69,310 -12.05% 5
South East -61 10 £62,500 +48.81% 31
Midlands -37 8 £28,500 -52.50% 8
West Midlands -27 6 £28,500 -52.50% 7
North East -37 6 £69,310 -0.11% 2
East Midlands -25 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 (1.00%) Confluence
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.50%) IIS
2 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (7.46%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.49%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (1.99%) Line 50
2 4 (1.99%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.99%) 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 82 (40.80%) AWS
2 60 (29.85%) Azure
3 21 (10.45%) Pulumi
4 20 (9.95%) GCP
5 18 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (7.96%) SaaS
7 14 (6.97%) Azure AKS
7 14 (6.97%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (6.97%) GitHub
8 13 (6.47%) PaaS
9 10 (4.98%) IaaS
9 10 (4.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (3.98%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.99%) Apigee
11 6 (2.99%) Kong
11 6 (2.99%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.99%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.45%) Firewall
2 18 (8.96%) Broadband
3 15 (7.46%) TCP/IP
4 10 (4.98%) WAN
5 9 (4.48%) 5G
5 9 (4.48%) DNS
5 9 (4.48%) SD-WAN
6 8 (3.98%) HTTPS
7 7 (3.48%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.49%) Network Security
9 4 (1.99%) VoIP
10 3 (1.49%) CHAP
11 2 (1.00%) Internet
12 1 (0.50%) ATM
12 1 (0.50%) BGP
12 1 (0.50%) Bluetooth
12 1 (0.50%) DHCP
12 1 (0.50%) MPLS
12 1 (0.50%) OSPF
12 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.94%) NoSQL
2 22 (10.95%) Relational Database
3 19 (9.45%) RDBMS
4 18 (8.96%) MongoDB
4 18 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.47%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.99%) Power BI
6 6 (2.99%) Tableau
7 5 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.99%) FileMaker
8 4 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.99%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.49%) Big Data
9 3 (1.49%) DB2
9 3 (1.49%) Redis
10 2 (1.00%) Informix
11 1 (0.50%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.50%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 26 (12.94%) GitLab
2 18 (8.96%) Jaeger
3 14 (6.97%) Git
4 9 (4.48%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.48%) LabVIEW
5 8 (3.98%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.99%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.49%) JIRA
7 3 (1.49%) Selenium
8 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.00%) Gradle
8 2 (1.00%) JMeter
8 2 (1.00%) Maven
9 1 (0.50%) LSMW
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (37.31%) Finance
2 55 (27.36%) Social Skills
3 31 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (14.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (10.95%) Banking
5 22 (10.95%) Public Sector
6 16 (7.96%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.98%) Electronics
8 8 (3.98%) German Language
8 8 (3.98%) Legal
9 7 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.99%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.49%) Front Office
12 4 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.49%) Back Office
13 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.49%) Japanese Language
14 2 (1.00%) Law
14 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (19.90%) Senior
2 22 (10.95%) Lead
3 20 (9.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (8.46%) Automation Engineer
5 16 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (7.96%) Linux Engineer
6 15 (7.46%) Senior DevOps
6 15 (7.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.97%) Analyst
8 11 (5.47%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (5.47%) Developer
9 10 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) GCP Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Python Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Test Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Unix Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.44%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (9.95%) JSON
2 20 (9.95%) XML
3 18 (8.96%) HTML
3 18 (8.96%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (6.97%) Node.js
4 14 (6.97%) Regular Expression
5 9 (4.48%) pytest
6 8 (3.98%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (3.98%) REST
7 6 (2.99%) Jinja
7 6 (2.99%) YAML
7 6 (2.99%) YANG
8 4 (1.99%) CSS
8 4 (1.99%) Kafka
9 3 (1.49%) Django
9 3 (1.49%) Middleware
10 2 (1.00%) .NET
10 2 (1.00%) LDAP
10 2 (1.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.45%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (8.96%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (6.97%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.97%) Onboarding
4 13 (6.47%) Security Posture
5 12 (5.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (5.97%) Hedge funds
6 10 (4.98%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (4.48%) Data Centre
7 9 (4.48%) Self-Driving Car
8 7 (3.48%) Clustering
9 6 (2.99%) Cloud Native
10 5 (2.49%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.49%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.99%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.99%) IoT
12 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.49%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 144 (71.64%) Linux
2 57 (28.36%) Windows
3 23 (11.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (3.98%) AIX
5 7 (3.48%) Solaris
6 6 (2.99%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.49%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.49%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (1.99%) Kali Linux
9 2 (1.00%) 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 (33.83%) DevOps
2 52 (25.87%) CI/CD
3 51 (25.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (24.88%) Agile
5 46 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (21.39%) Test Automation
7 41 (20.40%) Mentoring
8 38 (18.91%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (16.92%) Task Automation
10 32 (15.92%) High Availability
11 31 (15.42%) AI
11 31 (15.42%) Containerisation
12 28 (13.93%) Roadmaps
13 27 (13.43%) Incident Response
14 26 (12.94%) Computer Science
15 22 (10.95%) Coaching
15 22 (10.95%) ITIL
15 22 (10.95%) Validation
16 20 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (9.95%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 110 (54.73%) Python
2 55 (27.36%) Bash
3 46 (22.89%) Java
4 31 (15.42%) SQL
5 25 (12.44%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.95%) Go
7 14 (6.97%) Shell Script
8 13 (6.47%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.48%) MATLAB
10 6 (2.99%) C#
10 6 (2.99%) Korn
10 6 (2.99%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.99%) Rust
11 5 (2.49%) C++
11 5 (2.49%) VB
11 5 (2.49%) VBA
11 5 (2.49%) VBScript
12 4 (1.99%) Perl
12 4 (1.99%) PHP
13 3 (1.49%) C
Qualifications
1 56 (27.86%) Degree
2 23 (11.44%) AWS Certification
3 20 (9.95%) Security Cleared
4 19 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.96%) SC Cleared
6 15 (7.46%) CISSP
7 10 (4.98%) CCSK
8 9 (4.48%) HND
9 6 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.49%) CISM
10 5 (2.49%) SANS
11 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.99%) CISA
11 4 (1.99%) OSCP
12 3 (1.49%) CGEIT
12 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.49%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
13 2 (1.00%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.98%) QA
2 6 (2.99%) NIST
3 5 (2.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.49%) SLA
4 4 (1.99%) GDPR
4 4 (1.99%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.99%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.49%) COBIT
5 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.00%) 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 32 (15.92%) Docker
2 15 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.48%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.49%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.50%) Firmware
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (31.34%) Terraform
2 47 (23.38%) Ansible
3 38 (18.91%) Kubernetes
4 32 (15.92%) Argo
5 23 (11.44%) Prometheus
6 18 (8.96%) Kustomize
7 11 (5.47%) Puppet
8 7 (3.48%) Grafana
9 6 (2.99%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (2.49%) Data Guard
10 5 (2.49%) Nagios
10 5 (2.49%) SCCM
11 4 (1.99%) Podman
12 3 (1.49%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (1.49%) Check_MK
13 2 (1.00%) Kibana
13 2 (1.00%) logstash
14 1 (0.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 32 (15.92%) Google
2 28 (13.93%) Red Hat
3 23 (11.44%) Oracle
4 21 (10.45%) VMware
5 18 (8.96%) Microsoft
6 12 (5.97%) IBM
7 9 (4.48%) Adobe
8 8 (3.98%) Cisco
9 7 (3.48%) Symantec
10 6 (2.99%) F5
10 6 (2.99%) Juniper
10 6 (2.99%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.99%) SAP
10 6 (2.99%) Splunk
11 5 (2.49%) Snow
12 4 (1.99%) Apple
12 4 (1.99%) Databricks
12 4 (1.99%) Mirantis
12 4 (1.99%) Sage
12 4 (1.99%) Workday