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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 370 312
Rank change year-on-year -142 -58 -113
Permanent jobs citing Unix 250 292 578
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.67% 0.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.19% 4.71% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 182 182 297
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,275 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,493 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,538 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,625 £93,375 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,576 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.92% +4.17% -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 5,973 6,205 8,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.97% 14.30% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,500 4,041 5,687
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £35,510
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -77 106 £70,000 -12.50% 184
North of England -20 57 £67,440 +12.40% 22
South West -60 48 £66,250 -15.94% 26
North West +1 29 £64,038 +6.73% 7
Yorkshire -40 19 £69,306 +10.89% 8
Midlands -41 18 £62,000 -11.43% 9
West Midlands -39 15 £69,306 -7.59% 9
North East -57 9 £69,306 +45.91% 7
East of England -48 7 £61,500 +44.71% 8
South East -79 6 £61,250 +47.59% 32
East Midlands -39 3 £61,500 +6.03%
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 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.80%) Confluence
3 2 (0.80%) Documentum
3 2 (0.80%) JBoss
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.80%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (2.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.60%) Line 50
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.80%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 91 (36.40%) AWS
2 66 (26.40%) Azure
3 34 (13.60%) GCP
4 20 (8.00%) Azure AKS
5 19 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.60%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (3.60%) GitHub
8 8 (3.20%) OCI
8 8 (3.20%) SaaS
9 7 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.80%) dbt
10 5 (2.00%) Entra ID
10 5 (2.00%) Slack
11 4 (1.60%) Datadog
11 4 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.20%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.80%) BlazeMeter
13 2 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.80%) DNS
2 28 (11.20%) TCP/IP
3 17 (6.80%) Firewall
4 15 (6.00%) DHCP
5 14 (5.60%) 3GPP
5 14 (5.60%) MGW
5 14 (5.60%) MVNO
5 14 (5.60%) Packet Switching
5 14 (5.60%) RTP
5 14 (5.60%) SGSN
5 14 (5.60%) SMPP
6 8 (3.20%) FIX Connectivity
6 8 (3.20%) VPN
7 7 (2.80%) Network Security
8 6 (2.40%) SSH
8 6 (2.40%) WAN
9 5 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.60%) 5G
10 4 (1.60%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.80%) MongoDB
2 17 (6.80%) Oracle Database
2 17 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.60%) FileMaker
6 3 (1.20%) Db2
6 3 (1.20%) KDB
7 2 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.80%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.80%) MySQL
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.80%) Siebel EIM
8 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 23 (9.20%) GitLab
2 22 (8.80%) Git
3 19 (7.60%) Jenkins
4 11 (4.40%) JIRA
5 8 (3.20%) Eclipse
6 7 (2.80%) Subversion
7 4 (1.60%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.60%) Maven
7 4 (1.60%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.60%) Selenium
7 4 (1.60%) Toad
8 3 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.80%) Gradle
9 2 (0.80%) JMeter
10 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.40%) LSMW
10 1 (0.40%) NetBeans
General
1 81 (32.40%) Finance
2 57 (22.80%) Social Skills
3 47 (18.80%) Public Sector
4 36 (14.40%) Banking
5 30 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.40%) Retail
8 9 (3.60%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.60%) Front Office
9 6 (2.40%) Electronics
10 4 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.60%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.60%) Legal
10 4 (1.60%) Retail Finance
11 3 (1.20%) Aviation
11 3 (1.20%) Avionics
11 3 (1.20%) Back Office
11 3 (1.20%) Japanese Language
11 3 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 86 (34.40%) Senior
2 32 (12.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (12.40%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (11.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 23 (9.20%) Developer
6 18 (7.20%) Administrator
7 17 (6.80%) Analyst
7 17 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (6.00%) DBA
8 15 (6.00%) Network Engineer
9 14 (5.60%) Support Analyst
10 13 (5.20%) Applications Support
10 13 (5.20%) Linux Engineer
10 13 (5.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.20%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.80%) Lead
12 11 (4.40%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.40%) Test Engineer
13 10 (4.00%) Oracle DBA
13 10 (4.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.00%) Terraform
2 18 (7.20%) FIX Protocol
3 14 (5.60%) Node.js
4 10 (4.00%) REST
4 10 (4.00%) Web Services
5 9 (3.60%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (3.60%) RESTful
6 8 (3.20%) Struts
7 7 (2.80%) HTML
7 7 (2.80%) Kafka
7 7 (2.80%) React
8 6 (2.40%) CSS
9 5 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.00%) YAML
10 4 (1.60%) Middleware
10 4 (1.60%) pytest
11 3 (1.20%) Spring
12 2 (0.80%) Hibernate
12 2 (0.80%) JMS
12 2 (0.80%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.60%) IVR
2 13 (5.20%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 10 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.20%) Eurex
7 7 (2.80%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (2.00%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.60%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.60%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.60%) Self-Driving Car
10 4 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 211 (84.40%) Linux
2 80 (32.00%) Windows
3 26 (10.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.20%) AIX
5 11 (4.40%) Solaris
6 10 (4.00%) CentOS
6 10 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
7 9 (3.60%) Mac OS
7 9 (3.60%) Rocky
7 9 (3.60%) Windows Server
8 7 (2.80%) Ubuntu
9 5 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (31.60%) CI/CD
2 77 (30.80%) DevOps
3 62 (24.80%) Continuous Improvement
3 62 (24.80%) Mentoring
4 56 (22.40%) Agile
5 54 (21.60%) Coaching
5 54 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (19.20%) Test Automation
7 43 (17.20%) Scrum
8 39 (15.60%) Continuous Integration
9 32 (12.80%) Containerisation
9 32 (12.80%) Software Engineering
10 30 (12.00%) ITIL
11 28 (11.20%) Incident Response
12 25 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 24 (9.60%) Validation
14 22 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 21 (8.40%) High Availability
15 21 (8.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.80%) Python
2 70 (28.00%) SQL
3 47 (18.80%) Bash
4 37 (14.80%) Java
5 26 (10.40%) JavaScript
5 26 (10.40%) Shell Script
6 19 (7.60%) Perl
7 18 (7.20%) C++
7 18 (7.20%) PL/SQL
8 14 (5.60%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.80%) Korn
10 8 (3.20%) C
10 8 (3.20%) Ruby
10 8 (3.20%) Rust
11 6 (2.40%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.60%) C#
12 4 (1.60%) Go
12 4 (1.60%) PHP
13 3 (1.20%) Ada
13 3 (1.20%) Ada 95
Qualifications
1 50 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.40%) Degree
4 20 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.40%) HND
7 5 (2.00%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.00%) CISSP
7 5 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.60%) CISM
9 3 (1.20%) CEH
9 3 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.20%) GCIH
9 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.20%) RHCE
9 3 (1.20%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.20%) SANS
10 2 (0.80%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.20%) QA
2 4 (1.60%) ISO 14001
2 4 (1.60%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.60%) NIST
3 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) MIL-STD-1553
4 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) COBIT
5 1 (0.40%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.40%) ITGC
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (10.80%) Docker
2 11 (4.40%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.40%) Firmware
6 1 (0.40%) GPFS
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.40%) KVM
6 1 (0.40%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 26 (10.40%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.00%) Ansible
3 18 (7.20%) Puppet
4 14 (5.60%) Argo
5 13 (5.20%) Grafana
5 13 (5.20%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.80%) Oracle RMAN
7 10 (4.00%) Data Guard
7 10 (4.00%) Nagios
8 4 (1.60%) Podman
9 3 (1.20%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.80%) Kibana
10 2 (0.80%) logstash
11 1 (0.40%) Control-M
11 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.40%) Nmap
11 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (26.00%) Oracle
2 26 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.40%) Red Hat
3 12 (4.80%) IBM
3 12 (4.80%) Pega
4 9 (3.60%) Bloomberg
5 8 (3.20%) CQG
5 8 (3.20%) ION Trading
5 8 (3.20%) Patsystems
5 8 (3.20%) Reuters
5 8 (3.20%) Trayport
6 7 (2.80%) Google
7 6 (2.40%) VMware
8 5 (2.00%) Atlassian
8 5 (2.00%) Sybase
9 4 (1.60%) Adobe
9 4 (1.60%) Apple
9 4 (1.60%) Retek
9 4 (1.60%) Sage
9 4 (1.60%) SAP