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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 271 334
Rank change year-on-year -136 +63 -131
Permanent jobs citing Unix 271 402 624
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 1.09% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.55% 7.12% 5.27%
Number of salaries quoted 141 202 462
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,727 £82,688 £82,548
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £100,064
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -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 4,883 5,643 11,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.02% 15.32% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,705 4,043 9,862
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -13.46%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -9 143 £75,000 +7.14% 39
South East -44 38 £58,000 +41.46% 21
East of England -30 26 £61,500 +2.50% 4
South West -35 26 £60,000 -16.66% 3
North of England -116 21 £56,000 -19.29% 20
Midlands -56 12 £73,801 +23.00% 12
North West -80 10 £61,250 -10.54% 10
West Midlands -41 9 £74,401 +24.00% 8
North East -20 6 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Yorkshire -62 5 £25,750 -69.80% 7
East Midlands -37 3 £40,000 -42.86% 4
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 28 (10.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (8.49%) Exchange Server 2003
3 10 (3.69%) Tomcat
4 7 (2.58%) WebSphere
5 6 (2.21%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (1.85%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.85%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.48%) Apache Spark
7 4 (1.48%) Confluence
8 3 (1.11%) IIS
8 3 (1.11%) WebLogic Portal
9 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.37%) Apache
10 1 (0.37%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.37%) nginx
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.58%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.85%) Shopify
3 4 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.11%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (1.11%) Primavera
5 2 (0.74%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 94 (34.69%) AWS
2 71 (26.20%) Azure
3 39 (14.39%) GCP
4 33 (12.18%) Pulumi
5 23 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (7.38%) GitHub
6 20 (7.38%) PaaS
7 16 (5.90%) Amazon ECR
7 16 (5.90%) SaaS
8 14 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (5.17%) dbt
9 13 (4.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (4.43%) IaaS
11 11 (4.06%) OpenShift
12 9 (3.32%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (3.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (3.32%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.32%) Sentry
13 7 (2.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.18%) TCP/IP
2 32 (11.81%) DNS
3 28 (10.33%) Firewall
4 24 (8.86%) DHCP
5 20 (7.38%) Broadband
6 11 (4.06%) HTTPS
7 9 (3.32%) VLAN
7 9 (3.32%) WAN
8 8 (2.95%) 5G
8 8 (2.95%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (2.95%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.95%) SSL
8 8 (2.95%) VPN
9 7 (2.58%) MPLS
10 4 (1.48%) FIX Connectivity
10 4 (1.48%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.74%) CHAP
11 2 (0.74%) Internet
11 2 (0.74%) VoIP
12 1 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.92%) Oracle Database
2 30 (11.07%) NoSQL
3 28 (10.33%) Relational Database
4 24 (8.86%) Oracle Database 10g
4 24 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (7.38%) RDBMS
6 17 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (6.27%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (5.17%) Redis
8 9 (3.32%) DB2
8 9 (3.32%) Power BI
8 9 (3.32%) Tableau
9 7 (2.58%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (2.58%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.21%) Big Data
11 5 (1.85%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.48%) Apache Hive
13 3 (1.11%) Oracle Discoverer
14 2 (0.74%) Informix
14 2 (0.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (7.01%) Jaeger
2 16 (5.90%) Git
3 13 (4.80%) GitLab
4 11 (4.06%) LabVIEW
5 10 (3.69%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.32%) Jenkins
7 6 (2.21%) JIRA
8 4 (1.48%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.48%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.37%) Mocha
10 1 (0.37%) Selenium
10 1 (0.37%) webpack
10 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (25.83%) Social Skills
2 69 (25.46%) Finance
3 37 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (9.23%) Banking
6 16 (5.90%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.54%) German Language
8 14 (5.17%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.80%) Electronics
10 11 (4.06%) Investment Banking
10 11 (4.06%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.69%) Legal
12 7 (2.58%) Front Office
12 7 (2.58%) Law
13 6 (2.21%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.85%) Back Office
15 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 43 (15.87%) Senior
2 24 (8.86%) 3rd Line Support
3 23 (8.49%) Lead
3 23 (8.49%) Systems Support
4 21 (7.75%) Analyst
5 20 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (7.01%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (6.64%) Automation Engineer
8 17 (6.27%) Developer
9 16 (5.90%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (5.17%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (5.17%) Support Engineer
11 13 (4.80%) Verification Engineer
12 12 (4.43%) Applications Support
12 12 (4.43%) Infrastructure Support
12 12 (4.43%) Linux Support
13 11 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (4.06%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 11 (4.06%) Product Engineer
13 11 (4.06%) Product Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.50%) JSON
2 40 (14.76%) XML
3 31 (11.44%) HTML
4 29 (10.70%) Regular Expression
5 27 (9.96%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (7.01%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (5.17%) Django
8 11 (4.06%) LDAP
8 11 (4.06%) pytest
8 11 (4.06%) REST
9 9 (3.32%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (2.58%) RESTful
11 6 (2.21%) Jinja
11 6 (2.21%) LAPP Stack
11 6 (2.21%) OAuth
11 6 (2.21%) WebSphere MQ
11 6 (2.21%) YAML
11 6 (2.21%) YANG
12 5 (1.85%) Middleware
12 5 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.93%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (12.18%) Onboarding
3 22 (8.12%) Management Information System
4 17 (6.27%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.80%) Hedge funds
6 12 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (4.43%) Security Posture
7 9 (3.32%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.32%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.95%) Self-Driving Car
9 7 (2.58%) Clustering
10 6 (2.21%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.85%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.85%) IoT
12 4 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.48%) NHS
12 4 (1.48%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 171 (63.10%) Linux
2 82 (30.26%) Windows
3 30 (11.07%) Solaris
4 24 (8.86%) HPUX
5 23 (8.49%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (8.12%) Windows 7
6 22 (8.12%) Windows Server 2008
7 19 (7.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.58%) Windows Server
9 5 (1.85%) AIX
10 4 (1.48%) Kali Linux
10 4 (1.48%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.11%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.11%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.37%) CentOS
12 1 (0.37%) Debian
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.37%) SUSE
12 1 (0.37%) ThreadX
12 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.57%) DevOps
2 68 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (20.30%) AI
5 48 (17.71%) Agile
6 46 (16.97%) CI/CD
7 43 (15.87%) Containerisation
8 39 (14.39%) Task Automation
9 38 (14.02%) Incident Management
9 38 (14.02%) ITIL
10 37 (13.65%) Data Analysis
10 37 (13.65%) High Availability
11 35 (12.92%) Computer Science
12 34 (12.55%) Incident Response
13 30 (11.07%) Test Automation
14 29 (10.70%) LLM
14 29 (10.70%) Mentoring
15 27 (9.96%) Roadmaps
16 26 (9.59%) Change Management
17 24 (8.86%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 177 (65.31%) Python
2 61 (22.51%) Bash
3 47 (17.34%) SQL
4 41 (15.13%) Java
4 41 (15.13%) PowerShell
5 38 (14.02%) JavaScript
6 26 (9.59%) Perl
7 22 (8.12%) Go
8 16 (5.90%) Shell Script
9 11 (4.06%) C#
9 11 (4.06%) MATLAB
10 7 (2.58%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.85%) C++
11 5 (1.85%) VB
11 5 (1.85%) VBA
11 5 (1.85%) VBScript
12 4 (1.48%) Korn
12 4 (1.48%) R
12 4 (1.48%) Rust
13 3 (1.11%) C
Qualifications
1 94 (34.69%) Degree
2 62 (22.88%) Security Cleared
3 53 (19.56%) SC Cleared
4 32 (11.81%) AWS Certification
5 28 (10.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (10.33%) DV Cleared
6 17 (6.27%) CISSP
7 12 (4.43%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (4.06%) CCSK
8 11 (4.06%) HND
9 7 (2.58%) CCNA
9 7 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.58%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.85%) CISA
10 5 (1.85%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.85%) OSCP
11 4 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.11%) ACCA
12 3 (1.11%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.92%) SLA
2 7 (2.58%) GDPR
2 7 (2.58%) QA
3 5 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.11%) NIST
6 2 (0.74%) COBIT
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (18.82%) Docker
2 39 (14.39%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.85%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (1.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.37%) XenApp
5 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (21.40%) Terraform
2 53 (19.56%) Ansible
3 49 (18.08%) Kubernetes
4 26 (9.59%) Prometheus
5 19 (7.01%) Argo
5 19 (7.01%) Kustomize
6 13 (4.80%) Grafana
7 9 (3.32%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (2.58%) SCCM
9 4 (1.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (1.48%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.11%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.11%) Nagios
10 3 (1.11%) Podman
11 2 (0.74%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.74%) Puppet
12 1 (0.37%) Ambari
12 1 (0.37%) SCOM
12 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (19.93%) Oracle
2 47 (17.34%) Google
2 47 (17.34%) Microsoft
3 43 (15.87%) VMware
4 27 (9.96%) Red Hat
5 23 (8.49%) IBM
6 16 (5.90%) Cisco
7 14 (5.17%) Juniper
7 14 (5.17%) Palo Alto
7 14 (5.17%) SAP
8 12 (4.43%) Splunk
9 10 (3.69%) Dell
10 9 (3.32%) Workday
11 8 (2.95%) Fortinet
11 8 (2.95%) IFS
12 7 (2.58%) Arista
12 7 (2.58%) HP
12 7 (2.58%) Symantec
13 6 (2.21%) Databricks
13 6 (2.21%) MuleSoft