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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 382 344
Rank change year-on-year -130 -38 -126
Permanent jobs citing Unix 207 295 652
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.68% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.66% 4.54% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 129 198 423
10th Percentile £41,000 £30,125 £35,520
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,060 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% +10.42% -8.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,188 £79,375
90th Percentile £85,250 £93,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,563 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.79% +16.49% -10.77%

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 5,661 6,495 12,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.49% 15.02% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,303 4,306 9,419
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £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 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,998
% change year-on-year +5.88% -7.60% -12.39%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -65 97 £75,000 -3.85% 39
South West -29 42 £67,500 -14.35% 4
North of England -37 36 £69,306 +2.48% 29
North West -10 18 £60,000 -13.52% 23
Yorkshire -24 12 £69,310 +10.90% 3
Midlands -53 11 £61,500 -5.38% 11
South East -75 11 £62,500 +66.67% 15
West Midlands -35 9 £48,903 -24.76% 11
East of England -23 6 £61,500 +123.64% 4
North East -51 6 £69,310 +15.52% 3
East Midlands -33 2 £61,500 -3.91%
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 (0.97%) Confluence
1 2 (0.97%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.48%) Apache
2 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.48%) Documentum
2 1 (0.48%) JBoss
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (5.80%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (2.42%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (2.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.93%) Line 50
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.48%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (42.51%) AWS
2 63 (30.43%) Azure
3 29 (14.01%) GCP
4 19 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.76%) Azure AKS
5 14 (6.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (6.28%) GitHub
7 12 (5.80%) SaaS
8 9 (4.35%) Pulumi
9 8 (3.86%) OpenShift
9 8 (3.86%) PaaS
10 6 (2.90%) Apigee
10 6 (2.90%) Kong
11 5 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.42%) IaaS
11 5 (2.42%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.45%) Datadog
12 3 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.18%) Firewall
2 15 (7.25%) TCP/IP
3 14 (6.76%) DNS
4 8 (3.86%) HTTPS
4 8 (3.86%) WAN
5 6 (2.90%) 5G
5 6 (2.90%) Broadband
5 6 (2.90%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.90%) SD-WAN
6 5 (2.42%) Network Security
7 4 (1.93%) 3GPP
7 4 (1.93%) MGW
7 4 (1.93%) MVNO
7 4 (1.93%) Packet Switching
7 4 (1.93%) RTP
7 4 (1.93%) SGSN
7 4 (1.93%) SMPP
7 4 (1.93%) VoIP
8 3 (1.45%) CHAP
8 3 (1.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.63%) MongoDB
2 19 (9.18%) Oracle Database
2 19 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.80%) NoSQL
3 12 (5.80%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.86%) RDBMS
5 7 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.38%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.42%) Power BI
6 5 (2.42%) Tableau
7 4 (1.93%) Db2
7 4 (1.93%) FileMaker
7 4 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.45%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.45%) Redis
9 2 (0.97%) Big Data
9 2 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 26 (12.56%) GitLab
2 21 (10.14%) Git
3 12 (5.80%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.38%) Eclipse
6 6 (2.90%) Jaeger
6 6 (2.90%) JIRA
6 6 (2.90%) LabVIEW
6 6 (2.90%) Subversion
7 4 (1.93%) Metasploit
7 4 (1.93%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.93%) Toad
8 3 (1.45%) Selenium
9 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.97%) Gradle
9 2 (0.97%) JMeter
9 2 (0.97%) Maven
10 1 (0.48%) LSMW
10 1 (0.48%) NetBeans
General
1 83 (40.10%) Finance
2 53 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.46%) Public Sector
4 30 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (14.01%) Banking
6 16 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.83%) Retail
8 9 (4.35%) Electronics
8 9 (4.35%) Legal
9 8 (3.86%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.38%) Front Office
11 6 (2.90%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.42%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.93%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.93%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.93%) Retail Finance
14 3 (1.45%) Back Office
14 3 (1.45%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (29.47%) Senior
2 29 (14.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (13.53%) Senior DevOps
4 26 (12.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 21 (10.14%) Developer
6 17 (8.21%) DBA
7 15 (7.25%) Administrator
8 14 (6.76%) Analyst
9 13 (6.28%) Lead
10 12 (5.80%) Linux Engineer
10 12 (5.80%) Oracle DBA
11 11 (5.31%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (5.31%) Senior DBA
11 11 (5.31%) Senior Oracle DBA
12 10 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.83%) Test Engineer
13 9 (4.35%) Consultant
13 9 (4.35%) Network Engineer
14 8 (3.86%) Applications Support
14 8 (3.86%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.76%) Node.js
2 11 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (5.31%) REST
3 9 (4.35%) YAML
4 7 (3.38%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (3.38%) J2EE
4 7 (3.38%) Kafka
4 7 (3.38%) React
4 7 (3.38%) RESTful
4 7 (3.38%) Struts
5 6 (2.90%) HTML
5 6 (2.90%) Jinja
5 6 (2.90%) JSON
5 6 (2.90%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (2.90%) pytest
5 6 (2.90%) Web Services
5 6 (2.90%) XML
5 6 (2.90%) YANG
6 5 (2.42%) CSS
7 4 (1.93%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.76%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (4.83%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (4.83%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.86%) Hedge funds
6 7 (3.38%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.38%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.90%) Self-Driving Car
8 5 (2.42%) Blockchain
8 5 (2.42%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.93%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.93%) IVR
10 3 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.45%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 162 (78.26%) Linux
2 64 (30.92%) Windows
3 25 (12.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (6.76%) AIX
5 11 (5.31%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.42%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.42%) Solaris
7 4 (1.93%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.48%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (35.75%) DevOps
2 65 (31.40%) CI/CD
3 55 (26.57%) Agile
4 51 (24.64%) Test Automation
5 45 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (19.32%) Mentoring
7 38 (18.36%) Continuous Integration
8 35 (16.91%) Incident Response
9 33 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (14.49%) Coaching
10 30 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (14.49%) Scrum
11 29 (14.01%) High Availability
12 26 (12.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (12.56%) Task Automation
13 25 (12.08%) Computer Science
14 24 (11.59%) Containerisation
15 22 (10.63%) Validation
16 20 (9.66%) ITIL
16 20 (9.66%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 84 (40.58%) Python
2 47 (22.71%) SQL
3 46 (22.22%) Bash
4 43 (20.77%) Java
5 27 (13.04%) Shell Script
6 25 (12.08%) JavaScript
7 17 (8.21%) PL/SQL
8 13 (6.28%) C++
9 12 (5.80%) Korn
10 10 (4.83%) PowerShell
11 9 (4.35%) Perl
12 8 (3.86%) Go
12 8 (3.86%) MATLAB
13 6 (2.90%) Rust
14 5 (2.42%) C#
14 5 (2.42%) VB
14 5 (2.42%) VBA
14 5 (2.42%) VBScript
15 4 (1.93%) PHP
16 2 (0.97%) C
Qualifications
1 39 (18.84%) Degree
2 28 (13.53%) Security Cleared
3 21 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 19 (9.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.31%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.83%) CISSP
7 8 (3.86%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.86%) HND
8 6 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.42%) CCSK
9 5 (2.42%) CISM
9 5 (2.42%) SANS
10 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.93%) CISA
10 4 (1.93%) OSCP
11 3 (1.45%) CGEIT
11 3 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.45%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.45%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) QA
2 5 (2.42%) NIST
3 4 (1.93%) GDPR
3 4 (1.93%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.93%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.45%) COBIT
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.48%) ITGC
6 1 (0.48%) MiFID
System Software
1 27 (13.04%) Docker
2 14 (6.76%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.97%) Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) GPFS
5 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.48%) KVM
5 1 (0.48%) Lustre
5 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 44 (21.26%) Terraform
2 31 (14.98%) Kubernetes
3 26 (12.56%) Ansible
4 20 (9.66%) Argo
5 17 (8.21%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.73%) Puppet
7 14 (6.76%) Oracle RMAN
8 11 (5.31%) Data Guard
8 11 (5.31%) Grafana
8 11 (5.31%) Nagios
9 6 (2.90%) Kustomize
10 5 (2.42%) SCCM
11 3 (1.45%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.45%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.97%) Kibana
12 2 (0.97%) logstash
12 2 (0.97%) Podman
13 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 41 (19.81%) Oracle
2 20 (9.66%) Red Hat
3 18 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.73%) IBM
5 14 (6.76%) Google
6 12 (5.80%) Pega
7 11 (5.31%) VMware
8 9 (4.35%) Adobe
9 7 (3.38%) Cisco
10 6 (2.90%) F5
10 6 (2.90%) Juniper
10 6 (2.90%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.42%) Snow
11 5 (2.42%) Splunk
12 4 (1.93%) Apple
12 4 (1.93%) Databricks
12 4 (1.93%) Retek
12 4 (1.93%) Sage
12 4 (1.93%) SAP
12 4 (1.93%) Sybase