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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 253 275
Rank change year-on-year -86 +22 -82
Permanent jobs citing Unix 305 556 666
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.21% 1.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.71% 7.85% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 162 202 513
10th Percentile £40,002 £41,250 £40,581
25th Percentile £46,709 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -8.05%
75th Percentile £79,697 £75,938 £82,548
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,754 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.84% -1.19% -3.85%

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 4,544 7,085 10,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.97% 15.38% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,432 3,978 8,626
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,425 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +8.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +9.47% -9.52%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +14 152 £75,000 +15.38% 48
South East +2 45 £58,000 +11.54% 29
South West +18 40 £58,750 -18.39% 11
East of England +2 33 £43,085 -25.07% 9
North of England -105 18 £55,000 +7.32% 21
Midlands -48 12 £73,801 +29.48% 13
West Midlands -33 9 £74,401 +24.00% 9
Yorkshire -37 7 £25,750 -69.80%
North West -82 6 £64,401 +28.80% 19
North East -16 5 £73,801 +47.60% 2
East Midlands -23 3 £40,000 -27.27% 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 30 (9.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (7.87%) Exchange Server 2003
3 19 (6.23%) WebSphere
4 18 (5.90%) Tomcat
5 14 (4.59%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (2.30%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.64%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.64%) Confluence
7 5 (1.64%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.31%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.98%) IIS
9 3 (0.98%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.33%) Apache
10 1 (0.33%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.33%) nginx
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (5.57%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.64%) Shopify
3 4 (1.31%) NEC Housing
3 4 (1.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.98%) Primavera
5 2 (0.66%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.66%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.33%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 104 (34.10%) AWS
2 58 (19.02%) Azure
3 42 (13.77%) GCP
4 30 (9.84%) Pulumi
5 26 (8.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.57%) GitHub
6 17 (5.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 16 (5.25%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (4.92%) PaaS
9 14 (4.59%) Serverless
10 13 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (3.61%) dbt
12 11 (3.61%) SaaS
13 10 (3.28%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.28%) IaaS
14 9 (2.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.87%) DHCP
1 24 (7.87%) DNS
2 22 (7.21%) TCP/IP
3 21 (6.89%) Broadband
4 19 (6.23%) SSL
5 16 (5.25%) Firewall
6 10 (3.28%) WAN
7 9 (2.95%) VLAN
8 8 (2.62%) 5G
8 8 (2.62%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.62%) VPN
9 7 (2.30%) MPLS
10 6 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.97%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.64%) SAN
12 4 (1.31%) FIX Connectivity
12 4 (1.31%) Kerberos
13 3 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.98%) HTTPS
13 3 (0.98%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.80%) Oracle Database
2 34 (11.15%) Relational Database
3 29 (9.51%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (8.52%) NoSQL
5 25 (8.20%) Oracle Database 10g
6 19 (6.23%) RDBMS
7 17 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (5.57%) DB2
8 15 (4.92%) SQL Server
9 13 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (3.61%) Big Data
10 11 (3.61%) Redis
11 7 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (1.97%) FileMaker
12 6 (1.97%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.97%) MySQL
12 6 (1.97%) Power BI
12 6 (1.97%) Tableau
13 5 (1.64%) Apache Hive
14 4 (1.31%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 19 (6.23%) Jaeger
2 18 (5.90%) Git
3 12 (3.93%) LabVIEW
4 9 (2.95%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.62%) GitLab
6 7 (2.30%) JIRA
7 4 (1.31%) Toad
8 3 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.98%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.66%) Mocha
9 2 (0.66%) webpack
10 1 (0.33%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
10 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.33%) Xcode
General
1 70 (22.95%) Finance
2 58 (19.02%) Social Skills
3 33 (10.82%) Banking
4 32 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (8.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.25%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (5.25%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.92%) German Language
7 15 (4.92%) Telecoms
8 14 (4.59%) Electronics
9 11 (3.61%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.95%) Law
11 8 (2.62%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.97%) Legal
13 5 (1.64%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.31%) Back Office
14 4 (1.31%) Front Office
14 4 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.31%) Local Government
14 4 (1.31%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 49 (16.07%) Senior
2 27 (8.85%) Support Engineer
3 26 (8.52%) Applications Support
4 25 (8.20%) 3rd Line Support
4 25 (8.20%) Linux Support
5 23 (7.54%) Lead
5 23 (7.54%) Systems Support
6 21 (6.89%) Administrator
6 21 (6.89%) Linux Engineer
7 20 (6.56%) Analyst
8 19 (6.23%) Infrastructure Support
9 18 (5.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (5.90%) Developer
9 18 (5.90%) Unix Support
10 17 (5.57%) Systems Administrator
11 16 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.59%) Verification Engineer
13 12 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (3.93%) Product Engineer
13 12 (3.93%) Product Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.13%) JSON
2 35 (11.48%) XML
3 33 (10.82%) HTML
4 29 (9.51%) Regular Expression
5 27 (8.85%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (6.56%) LDAP
7 19 (6.23%) OpenTelemetry
8 16 (5.25%) WebSphere MQ
9 14 (4.59%) LAPP Stack
10 12 (3.93%) pytest
11 11 (3.61%) Django
12 10 (3.28%) Middleware
13 7 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (2.30%) OAuth
13 7 (2.30%) REST
13 7 (2.30%) RESTful
14 6 (1.97%) Node.js
14 6 (1.97%) OAuth2
14 6 (1.97%) SOAP
15 5 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 34 (11.15%) Onboarding
3 26 (8.52%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.93%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.61%) e-Learning
5 11 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.95%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.95%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.62%) Self-Driving Car
8 7 (2.30%) Clustering
9 6 (1.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (1.97%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.31%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.31%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.31%) GNSS
11 4 (1.31%) NHS
11 4 (1.31%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.31%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 191 (62.62%) Linux
2 97 (31.80%) Windows
3 37 (12.13%) Solaris
4 32 (10.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (8.20%) HPUX
6 24 (7.87%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (7.21%) Windows 7
7 22 (7.21%) Windows Server 2008
8 13 (4.26%) Windows Server
9 9 (2.95%) Mac OS
10 8 (2.62%) AIX
11 6 (1.97%) Debian
12 4 (1.31%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.66%) CentOS
13 2 (0.66%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.33%) Android
14 1 (0.33%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.33%) SUSE
14 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (20.33%) DevOps
2 58 (19.02%) Infrastructure as Code
2 58 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (17.38%) AI
4 48 (15.74%) ITIL
5 46 (15.08%) High Availability
6 44 (14.43%) Agile
7 37 (12.13%) Incident Management
8 36 (11.80%) Data Analysis
9 35 (11.48%) Change Management
9 35 (11.48%) Containerisation
10 33 (10.82%) CI/CD
10 33 (10.82%) Computer Science
11 29 (9.51%) LLM
12 28 (9.18%) Task Automation
13 27 (8.85%) Incident Response
13 27 (8.85%) Test Automation
14 26 (8.52%) Analytics
14 26 (8.52%) Mentoring
14 26 (8.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 181 (59.34%) Python
2 60 (19.67%) Bash
3 56 (18.36%) SQL
4 42 (13.77%) JavaScript
5 41 (13.44%) PowerShell
6 35 (11.48%) Java
7 26 (8.52%) Perl
8 22 (7.21%) Go
9 19 (6.23%) Shell Script
10 13 (4.26%) MATLAB
11 9 (2.95%) C#
12 7 (2.30%) R
13 6 (1.97%) C
13 6 (1.97%) Korn
13 6 (1.97%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.64%) VB
15 4 (1.31%) C++
15 4 (1.31%) Fortran
16 3 (0.98%) Scala
17 2 (0.66%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 105 (34.43%) Degree
2 81 (26.56%) Security Cleared
3 66 (21.64%) SC Cleared
4 44 (14.43%) AWS Certification
5 41 (13.44%) DV Cleared
6 27 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (6.56%) ITIL Certification
8 18 (5.90%) CCNA
8 18 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (5.25%) CISSP
10 12 (3.93%) HND
11 11 (3.61%) CCNP
12 9 (2.95%) CCSK
13 7 (2.30%) Master's Degree
13 7 (2.30%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (2.30%) PhD
14 6 (1.97%) CISA
14 6 (1.97%) GCFA
14 6 (1.97%) GCIA
14 6 (1.97%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (15.74%) SLA
2 11 (3.61%) GDPR
3 9 (2.95%) NIST
3 9 (2.95%) QA
4 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.31%) COBIT
6 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.33%) MiFID
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (16.39%) Docker
2 42 (13.77%) Active Directory
3 21 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.66%) XenApp
5 2 (0.66%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (18.03%) Terraform
2 51 (16.72%) Ansible
3 42 (13.77%) Kubernetes
4 26 (8.52%) Prometheus
5 20 (6.56%) Argo
6 19 (6.23%) Kustomize
7 13 (4.26%) Grafana
8 6 (1.97%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.97%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.31%) Puppet
9 4 (1.31%) SCCM
10 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.98%) Netcool
10 3 (0.98%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.98%) Podman
11 2 (0.66%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.66%) Nagios
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.66%) Suricata
Vendors
1 56 (18.36%) Oracle
2 55 (18.03%) Google
3 47 (15.41%) VMware
4 43 (14.10%) Microsoft
5 33 (10.82%) IBM
5 33 (10.82%) Red Hat
6 22 (7.21%) Cisco
7 20 (6.56%) SAP
8 15 (4.92%) ServiceNow
9 12 (3.93%) Splunk
10 11 (3.61%) Dell
11 9 (2.95%) Juniper
11 9 (2.95%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.95%) Workday
12 8 (2.62%) Fortinet
12 8 (2.62%) IFS
13 7 (2.30%) Arista
13 7 (2.30%) HP
13 7 (2.30%) Symantec
14 6 (1.97%) Software AG