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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 381 348
Rank change year-on-year -122 -33 -140
Permanent jobs citing Unix 237 298 537
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.68% 0.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.01% 4.53% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 158 195 309
10th Percentile £43,545 £29,000 £36,104
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,240 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £67,626 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +2.48% +7.71% -6.99%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £101,500
UK median annual salary £68,403 £67,626 £61,754
% change year-on-year +1.15% +9.51% -5.97%

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 5,917 6,577 9,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.22% 15.01% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4,462 4,384 6,692
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,355 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% -14.73% -7.62%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £48,925
% change year-on-year +7.14% -14.15% -6.81%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -78 100 £75,000 -6.25% 35
North of England -22 49 £69,306 +10.89% 19
South West -45 46 £72,500 -8.01% 14
North West +10 28 £62,500 -14.64% 13
Midlands -40 18 £62,000 -9.90% 6
West Midlands -27 15 £69,306 -0.99% 5
Yorkshire -26 14 £69,308 +10.89% 4
South East -68 10 £62,500 +66.67% 16
East of England -44 7 £61,500 +44.71% 2
North East -59 7 £69,310 +45.92% 2
East Midlands -27 3 £61,500 +6.03% 1
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 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.27%) Confluence
3 2 (0.84%) Documentum
3 2 (0.84%) JBoss
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.84%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (5.06%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (2.11%) Fidessa
2 5 (2.11%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.69%) Line 50
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.84%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.42%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 88 (37.13%) AWS
2 67 (28.27%) Azure
3 32 (13.50%) GCP
4 20 (8.44%) Azure AKS
5 18 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.91%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (5.06%) GitHub
8 7 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (2.95%) dbt
8 7 (2.95%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.95%) SaaS
9 6 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.69%) Apigee
10 4 (1.69%) Datadog
10 4 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.69%) Kong
11 3 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.27%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.84%) BlazeMeter
12 2 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.13%) TCP/IP
2 22 (9.28%) DNS
3 21 (8.86%) Firewall
4 7 (2.95%) 3GPP
4 7 (2.95%) HTTPS
4 7 (2.95%) MGW
4 7 (2.95%) MVNO
4 7 (2.95%) Packet Switching
4 7 (2.95%) RTP
4 7 (2.95%) SGSN
4 7 (2.95%) SMPP
5 6 (2.53%) DHCP
5 6 (2.53%) Network Security
5 6 (2.53%) WAN
6 5 (2.11%) FIX Connectivity
6 5 (2.11%) SSH
7 4 (1.69%) 5G
7 4 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.69%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.28%) MongoDB
2 19 (8.02%) Oracle Database
3 16 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.33%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.95%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.69%) FileMaker
7 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.27%) Db2
8 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.27%) KDB
8 3 (1.27%) Power BI
8 3 (1.27%) Tableau
9 2 (0.84%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.84%) Kdb+
9 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.84%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.84%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 23 (9.70%) GitLab
2 19 (8.02%) Git
3 15 (6.33%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.38%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.38%) JIRA
5 7 (2.95%) Eclipse
6 6 (2.53%) Subversion
7 4 (1.69%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.69%) Toad
8 3 (1.27%) Maven
8 3 (1.27%) Metasploit
8 3 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (1.27%) Selenium
9 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.84%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.84%) Gradle
9 2 (0.84%) JMeter
10 1 (0.42%) LSMW
10 1 (0.42%) NetBeans
General
1 87 (36.71%) Finance
2 63 (26.58%) Social Skills
3 40 (16.88%) Public Sector
4 33 (13.92%) Banking
5 32 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.06%) Front Office
8 10 (4.22%) Retail
9 9 (3.80%) Aerospace
10 8 (3.38%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.95%) Electronics
11 7 (2.95%) Legal
12 5 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.69%) General Ledger
13 4 (1.69%) Retail Finance
14 3 (1.27%) Aviation
14 3 (1.27%) Avionics
14 3 (1.27%) Back Office
14 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.27%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 77 (32.49%) Senior
2 32 (13.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (13.08%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (11.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 24 (10.13%) Developer
6 18 (7.59%) Administrator
7 17 (7.17%) DBA
8 13 (5.49%) Analyst
8 13 (5.49%) Applications Support
8 13 (5.49%) Linux Engineer
9 12 (5.06%) Lead
9 12 (5.06%) Oracle DBA
10 11 (4.64%) Senior DBA
10 11 (4.64%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 10 (4.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (3.80%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.80%) Site Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.75%) FIX Protocol
2 14 (5.91%) Node.js
3 10 (4.22%) REST
4 9 (3.80%) Kafka
5 8 (3.38%) Jakarta EE
5 8 (3.38%) RESTful
5 8 (3.38%) YAML
6 7 (2.95%) HTML
6 7 (2.95%) Struts
6 7 (2.95%) Web Services
7 6 (2.53%) CSS
7 6 (2.53%) React
8 4 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.69%) Jinja
8 4 (1.69%) JSON
8 4 (1.69%) Middleware
8 4 (1.69%) pytest
8 4 (1.69%) XML
8 4 (1.69%) YANG
9 2 (0.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (4.22%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.80%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (2.95%) IVR
5 7 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.53%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.11%) Eurex
7 5 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.69%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.69%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.27%) Derivative
9 3 (1.27%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.27%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 194 (81.86%) Linux
2 71 (29.96%) Windows
3 27 (11.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.91%) AIX
5 11 (4.64%) Oracle Linux
6 9 (3.80%) Solaris
7 8 (3.38%) Windows Server
8 6 (2.53%) CentOS
8 6 (2.53%) Mac OS
9 5 (2.11%) Rocky
10 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.27%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.42%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (35.02%) DevOps
2 77 (32.49%) CI/CD
3 57 (24.05%) Mentoring
4 55 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (21.94%) Agile
7 48 (20.25%) Test Automation
8 47 (19.83%) Coaching
9 35 (14.77%) Incident Response
9 35 (14.77%) Scrum
10 33 (13.92%) Continuous Integration
11 30 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (11.39%) Containerisation
12 27 (11.39%) Software Engineering
13 25 (10.55%) High Availability
13 25 (10.55%) ITIL
14 24 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (9.70%) Computer Science
16 22 (9.28%) Microservices
17 21 (8.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 82 (34.60%) Python
2 62 (26.16%) SQL
3 46 (19.41%) Bash
4 40 (16.88%) Java
5 28 (11.81%) Shell Script
6 24 (10.13%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.59%) C++
7 18 (7.59%) PL/SQL
8 15 (6.33%) Perl
9 14 (5.91%) Korn
10 13 (5.49%) PowerShell
11 11 (4.64%) Rust
12 9 (3.80%) C
13 7 (2.95%) C#
14 6 (2.53%) MATLAB
15 5 (2.11%) Ruby
16 4 (1.69%) Go
16 4 (1.69%) PHP
17 3 (1.27%) VBA
17 3 (1.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (20.68%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 36 (15.19%) Degree
4 21 (8.86%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.53%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (2.53%) HND
7 5 (2.11%) CISSP
7 5 (2.11%) OSCP
8 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.27%) CISM
9 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.27%) GCIH
9 3 (1.27%) RHCE
9 3 (1.27%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.27%) SANS
10 2 (0.84%) CCSP
10 2 (0.84%) CISA
10 2 (0.84%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.17%) QA
2 4 (1.69%) ISO 14001
2 4 (1.69%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.69%) NIST
3 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.27%) MIL-STD-1553
4 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) COBIT
5 1 (0.42%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.42%) ITGC
System Software
1 22 (9.28%) Docker
2 13 (5.49%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.84%) Firmware
6 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.42%) GPFS
6 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.42%) KVM
6 1 (0.42%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 45 (18.99%) Terraform
2 28 (11.81%) Kubernetes
3 26 (10.97%) Ansible
4 17 (7.17%) Puppet
5 14 (5.91%) Argo
5 14 (5.91%) Oracle RMAN
6 12 (5.06%) Grafana
6 12 (5.06%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.64%) Data Guard
7 11 (4.64%) Nagios
8 4 (1.69%) Podman
9 3 (1.27%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.27%) SCCM
10 2 (0.84%) Kibana
10 2 (0.84%) logstash
11 1 (0.42%) Control-M
11 1 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 53 (22.36%) Oracle
2 26 (10.97%) Microsoft
3 25 (10.55%) Red Hat
4 16 (6.75%) IBM
5 12 (5.06%) Pega
6 9 (3.80%) VMware
7 8 (3.38%) Google
8 7 (2.95%) Adobe
9 6 (2.53%) Bloomberg
10 5 (2.11%) Cisco
10 5 (2.11%) CQG
10 5 (2.11%) ION Trading
10 5 (2.11%) Patsystems
10 5 (2.11%) Reuters
10 5 (2.11%) Sybase
10 5 (2.11%) Trayport
11 4 (1.69%) F5
11 4 (1.69%) New Relic
11 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.69%) Splunk