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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 389 356
Rank change year-on-year -139 -33 -138
Permanent jobs citing Unix 206 290 647
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.67% 0.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.66% 4.46% 5.37%
Number of salaries quoted 131 192 417
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,875 £35,958
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +12.50% -9.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,375 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,626 £58,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% +16.60% -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 5,634 6,509 12,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.43% 15.02% 13.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,295 4,322 9,328
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,192 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% -6.24% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,375
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -7.61% -12.38%

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 16 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 16 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 -77 96 £75,000 -4.83% 27
South West -27 40 £63,750 -19.11% 4
North of England -32 37 £69,306 +1.17% 28
North West -5 18 £60,000 -13.52% 21
Yorkshire -29 13 £69,310 +10.90% 4
Midlands -40 11 £61,500 -5.38% 14
South East -53 11 £62,500 +66.67% 12
West Midlands -46 9 £48,903 -24.76% 11
East of England -21 6 £61,500 +123.64% 2
North East -56 6 £69,310 +15.52% 3
East Midlands -39 2 £61,500 -3.91% 3
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 (0.49%) Apache
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.49%) Documentum
2 1 (0.49%) JBoss
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (6.31%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (2.43%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (2.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.94%) Line 50
3 4 (1.94%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.94%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.94%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.94%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (1.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.94%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.49%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (43.20%) AWS
2 63 (30.58%) Azure
3 28 (13.59%) GCP
4 18 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.80%) Azure AKS
5 14 (6.80%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (6.31%) GitHub
7 11 (5.34%) SaaS
8 9 (4.37%) Pulumi
9 8 (3.88%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.40%) PaaS
11 6 (2.91%) Apigee
11 6 (2.91%) Kong
12 5 (2.43%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.43%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.94%) Datadog
13 4 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.94%) IaaS
13 4 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (1.46%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.74%) Firewall
2 15 (7.28%) TCP/IP
3 14 (6.80%) DNS
4 8 (3.88%) HTTPS
5 7 (3.40%) WAN
6 6 (2.91%) Broadband
6 6 (2.91%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.43%) 5G
7 5 (2.43%) Network Security
7 5 (2.43%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.94%) 3GPP
8 4 (1.94%) MGW
8 4 (1.94%) MVNO
8 4 (1.94%) Packet Switching
8 4 (1.94%) RTP
8 4 (1.94%) SGSN
8 4 (1.94%) SMPP
8 4 (1.94%) SSH
8 4 (1.94%) VoIP
9 3 (1.46%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.68%) MongoDB
2 20 (9.71%) Oracle Database
3 19 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (5.83%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.83%) Relational Database
5 8 (3.88%) RDBMS
6 7 (3.40%) SQL Server
7 6 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.43%) Power BI
8 5 (2.43%) Tableau
9 4 (1.94%) Db2
9 4 (1.94%) FileMaker
9 4 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.46%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.46%) Redis
11 2 (0.97%) Big Data
11 2 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 25 (12.14%) GitLab
2 20 (9.71%) Git
3 12 (5.83%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.37%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.40%) Eclipse
5 7 (3.40%) JIRA
6 6 (2.91%) Jaeger
6 6 (2.91%) Subversion
7 5 (2.43%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.94%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.94%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.94%) Toad
9 3 (1.46%) Selenium
10 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.97%) Gradle
10 2 (0.97%) JMeter
10 2 (0.97%) Maven
11 1 (0.49%) LSMW
11 1 (0.49%) NetBeans
General
1 82 (39.81%) Finance
2 55 (26.70%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.50%) Public Sector
4 29 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (14.08%) Banking
5 16 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.85%) Retail
7 9 (4.37%) Legal
8 8 (3.88%) Electronics
8 8 (3.88%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.40%) Front Office
10 6 (2.91%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.43%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.94%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.94%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.94%) Retail Finance
13 3 (1.46%) Back Office
13 3 (1.46%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (31.55%) Senior
2 32 (15.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (15.05%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (13.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.71%) Developer
6 18 (8.74%) DBA
7 16 (7.77%) Administrator
8 13 (6.31%) Lead
8 13 (6.31%) Oracle DBA
9 12 (5.83%) Analyst
9 12 (5.83%) Senior DBA
9 12 (5.83%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 11 (5.34%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.37%) Consultant
12 9 (4.37%) Network Engineer
12 9 (4.37%) Test Engineer
13 8 (3.88%) Applications Support
13 8 (3.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.80%) Node.js
2 11 (5.34%) REST
3 10 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (4.85%) YAML
4 7 (3.40%) J2EE
4 7 (3.40%) Kafka
4 7 (3.40%) React
4 7 (3.40%) RESTful
4 7 (3.40%) Struts
5 6 (2.91%) FIX Protocol
5 6 (2.91%) HTML
5 6 (2.91%) Jinja
5 6 (2.91%) JSON
5 6 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (2.91%) Web Services
5 6 (2.91%) XML
5 6 (2.91%) YANG
6 5 (2.43%) CSS
6 5 (2.43%) Middleware
6 5 (2.43%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (5.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (4.85%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (4.85%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (3.88%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.40%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.40%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.43%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.43%) Self-Driving Car
8 4 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.94%) IVR
9 3 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.97%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.97%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 163 (79.13%) Linux
2 64 (31.07%) Windows
3 26 (12.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (7.28%) AIX
5 12 (5.83%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.43%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.43%) Solaris
7 4 (1.94%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.49%) CentOS
9 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.49%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (37.38%) DevOps
2 67 (32.52%) CI/CD
3 57 (27.67%) Agile
4 51 (24.76%) Test Automation
5 45 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (20.39%) Mentoring
7 40 (19.42%) Continuous Integration
8 35 (16.99%) Incident Response
9 32 (15.53%) Coaching
9 32 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (15.53%) Scrum
10 31 (15.05%) High Availability
11 28 (13.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 27 (13.11%) Task Automation
13 25 (12.14%) Containerisation
14 24 (11.65%) Computer Science
15 21 (10.19%) ITIL
15 21 (10.19%) Validation
16 20 (9.71%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (39.81%) Python
2 49 (23.79%) SQL
3 46 (22.33%) Bash
4 43 (20.87%) Java
5 26 (12.62%) JavaScript
5 26 (12.62%) Shell Script
6 18 (8.74%) PL/SQL
7 13 (6.31%) C++
7 13 (6.31%) Korn
8 11 (5.34%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.37%) Perl
10 8 (3.88%) Go
11 7 (3.40%) MATLAB
12 6 (2.91%) Rust
13 5 (2.43%) C#
13 5 (2.43%) VB
13 5 (2.43%) VBA
13 5 (2.43%) VBScript
14 4 (1.94%) PHP
15 2 (0.97%) C
Qualifications
1 37 (17.96%) Degree
2 27 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 21 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.37%) CISSP
7 8 (3.88%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.40%) HND
9 6 (2.91%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.43%) CISM
10 5 (2.43%) SANS
11 4 (1.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.94%) CCSK
11 4 (1.94%) CISA
11 4 (1.94%) OSCP
12 3 (1.46%) CGEIT
12 3 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.46%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.46%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.83%) QA
2 5 (2.43%) NIST
3 4 (1.94%) GDPR
3 4 (1.94%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.94%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.46%) COBIT
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.49%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.49%) ITGC
System Software
1 27 (13.11%) Docker
2 15 (7.28%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.97%) Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) GPFS
5 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.49%) KVM
5 1 (0.49%) Lustre
5 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 42 (20.39%) Terraform
2 30 (14.56%) Kubernetes
3 25 (12.14%) Ansible
4 20 (9.71%) Argo
5 17 (8.25%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.28%) Oracle RMAN
6 15 (7.28%) Puppet
7 12 (5.83%) Data Guard
7 12 (5.83%) Grafana
7 12 (5.83%) Nagios
8 6 (2.91%) Kustomize
9 5 (2.43%) SCCM
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.46%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.97%) Kibana
11 2 (0.97%) logstash
11 2 (0.97%) Podman
12 1 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 42 (20.39%) Oracle
2 20 (9.71%) Red Hat
3 18 (8.74%) Microsoft
4 17 (8.25%) IBM
5 13 (6.31%) Google
6 12 (5.83%) Pega
7 11 (5.34%) VMware
8 9 (4.37%) Adobe
9 7 (3.40%) Cisco
10 6 (2.91%) F5
10 6 (2.91%) Juniper
10 6 (2.91%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.43%) Snow
12 4 (1.94%) Apple
12 4 (1.94%) Databricks
12 4 (1.94%) New Relic
12 4 (1.94%) Retek
12 4 (1.94%) Sage
12 4 (1.94%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.94%) Splunk