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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 388 350
Rank change year-on-year -122 -38 -131
Permanent jobs citing Unix 211 286 633
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.66% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.71% 4.38% 5.55%
Number of salaries quoted 133 190 394
10th Percentile £41,500 £27,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £67,563 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.58% +12.61% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £86,000 £93,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £68,403 £67,626 £58,457
% change year-on-year +1.15% +15.69% -10.55%

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 5,684 6,526 11,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.42% 15.01% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,337 4,344 8,770
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,344 £31,843
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -8.70% -12.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,300
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.15% -9.90%

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 20 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 20 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 -64 98 £75,000 -6.25% 32
South West -32 41 £63,750 -19.11% 4
North of England -22 39 £69,306 +1.17% 21
North West -7 20 £60,000 -13.52% 19
Yorkshire -20 13 £69,310 +10.90% 1
Midlands -48 11 £61,500 -5.38% 6
South East -62 11 £62,500 +66.67% 13
West Midlands -34 9 £48,903 -24.76% 6
East of England -26 6 £61,500 +123.64% 2
North East -47 6 £69,310 +15.52% 1
East Midlands -24 2 £61,500 -3.91%
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 (0.95%) Confluence
1 2 (0.95%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.47%) Apache
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.47%) Documentum
2 1 (0.47%) JBoss
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (6.16%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (2.37%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (2.37%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.90%) Line 50
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.90%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.47%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (41.71%) AWS
2 63 (29.86%) Azure
3 28 (13.27%) GCP
4 18 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.64%) Azure AKS
5 14 (6.64%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (6.16%) GitHub
7 11 (5.21%) SaaS
8 8 (3.79%) OpenShift
8 8 (3.79%) Pulumi
9 7 (3.32%) PaaS
10 6 (2.84%) Apigee
10 6 (2.84%) Kong
11 5 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.37%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.90%) Datadog
12 4 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.90%) IaaS
12 4 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.53%) Firewall
2 15 (7.11%) TCP/IP
3 14 (6.64%) DNS
4 8 (3.79%) HTTPS
5 7 (3.32%) WAN
6 6 (2.84%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.37%) 5G
7 5 (2.37%) Broadband
7 5 (2.37%) Network Security
7 5 (2.37%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.37%) SSH
8 4 (1.90%) 3GPP
8 4 (1.90%) MGW
8 4 (1.90%) MVNO
8 4 (1.90%) Packet Switching
8 4 (1.90%) RTP
8 4 (1.90%) SGSN
8 4 (1.90%) SMPP
8 4 (1.90%) VoIP
9 3 (1.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.43%) MongoDB
2 20 (9.48%) Oracle Database
3 19 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.21%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.21%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.32%) RDBMS
5 7 (3.32%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.37%) Power BI
7 5 (2.37%) Tableau
8 4 (1.90%) Db2
8 4 (1.90%) FileMaker
8 4 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.42%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.42%) Redis
10 2 (0.95%) Big Data
10 2 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 25 (11.85%) GitLab
2 20 (9.48%) Git
3 12 (5.69%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.27%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.32%) Eclipse
5 7 (3.32%) JIRA
6 6 (2.84%) Subversion
7 5 (2.37%) Jaeger
7 5 (2.37%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.90%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.90%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.90%) Selenium
8 4 (1.90%) Toad
9 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.95%) Gradle
9 2 (0.95%) JMeter
9 2 (0.95%) Maven
10 1 (0.47%) NetBeans
10 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (39.81%) Finance
2 57 (27.01%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.11%) Public Sector
4 31 (14.69%) Banking
5 30 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.74%) Front Office
7 10 (4.74%) Retail
8 9 (4.27%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.27%) Legal
9 8 (3.79%) Electronics
10 6 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.37%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.90%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.90%) Retail Finance
13 3 (1.42%) Back Office
13 3 (1.42%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.47%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 66 (31.28%) Senior
2 32 (15.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (14.69%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (13.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.48%) Developer
6 18 (8.53%) DBA
7 17 (8.06%) Administrator
8 13 (6.16%) Lead
8 13 (6.16%) Oracle DBA
9 12 (5.69%) Analyst
9 12 (5.69%) Senior DBA
9 12 (5.69%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 11 (5.21%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.27%) Applications Support
12 9 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.27%) Consultant
12 9 (4.27%) Network Engineer
12 9 (4.27%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (4.27%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.64%) Node.js
2 11 (5.21%) REST
3 10 (4.74%) YAML
4 9 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (3.79%) Kafka
6 7 (3.32%) Jakarta EE
6 7 (3.32%) React
6 7 (3.32%) RESTful
6 7 (3.32%) Struts
6 7 (3.32%) Web Services
7 6 (2.84%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (2.84%) HTML
7 6 (2.84%) Jinja
7 6 (2.84%) JSON
7 6 (2.84%) XML
7 6 (2.84%) YANG
8 5 (2.37%) CSS
8 5 (2.37%) Middleware
8 5 (2.37%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.37%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 13 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (4.74%) Cyber Threat
2 10 (4.74%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (3.79%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.32%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.84%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.37%) Blockchain
6 5 (2.37%) Self-Driving Car
7 4 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.90%) IVR
8 3 (1.42%) Derivative
8 3 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.95%) Analogue Electronics
9 2 (0.95%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 166 (78.67%) Linux
2 66 (31.28%) Windows
3 26 (12.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (7.11%) AIX
5 12 (5.69%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.37%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.37%) Solaris
7 4 (1.90%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.47%) CentOS
9 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.47%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (36.97%) DevOps
2 68 (32.23%) CI/CD
3 56 (26.54%) Agile
4 51 (24.17%) Test Automation
5 46 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (19.91%) Mentoring
7 39 (18.48%) Continuous Integration
8 35 (16.59%) Incident Response
9 33 (15.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (15.17%) Coaching
10 32 (15.17%) Scrum
11 30 (14.22%) High Availability
12 28 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (12.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (12.32%) Containerisation
14 26 (12.32%) Task Automation
15 24 (11.37%) Computer Science
16 22 (10.43%) ITIL
17 21 (9.95%) Microservices
17 21 (9.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 84 (39.81%) Python
2 51 (24.17%) SQL
3 46 (21.80%) Bash
4 44 (20.85%) Java
5 27 (12.80%) Shell Script
6 25 (11.85%) JavaScript
7 18 (8.53%) PL/SQL
8 13 (6.16%) C++
8 13 (6.16%) Korn
9 11 (5.21%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.74%) Perl
11 8 (3.79%) Go
12 7 (3.32%) MATLAB
13 6 (2.84%) Rust
14 5 (2.37%) C#
14 5 (2.37%) VB
14 5 (2.37%) VBA
14 5 (2.37%) VBScript
15 4 (1.90%) PHP
16 2 (0.95%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 37 (17.54%) Degree
2 29 (13.74%) Security Cleared
3 22 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (6.64%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.27%) CISSP
7 7 (3.32%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.32%) HND
8 6 (2.84%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.37%) CISM
9 5 (2.37%) SANS
10 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.90%) CCSK
10 4 (1.90%) CISA
10 4 (1.90%) OSCP
11 3 (1.42%) CGEIT
11 3 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.42%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.42%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) QA
2 6 (2.84%) NIST
3 4 (1.90%) GDPR
3 4 (1.90%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.90%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.42%) COBIT
4 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.47%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.47%) ITGC
System Software
1 26 (12.32%) Docker
2 15 (7.11%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.95%) Firmware
5 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.47%) GPFS
5 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.47%) KVM
5 1 (0.47%) Lustre
5 1 (0.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 42 (19.91%) Terraform
2 29 (13.74%) Kubernetes
3 26 (12.32%) Ansible
4 19 (9.00%) Argo
5 17 (8.06%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.11%) Oracle RMAN
6 15 (7.11%) Puppet
7 12 (5.69%) Data Guard
7 12 (5.69%) Grafana
7 12 (5.69%) Nagios
8 5 (2.37%) Kustomize
8 5 (2.37%) SCCM
9 3 (1.42%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.42%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.95%) Kibana
10 2 (0.95%) logstash
10 2 (0.95%) Podman
11 1 (0.47%) Control-M
11 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 42 (19.91%) Oracle
2 20 (9.48%) Red Hat
3 18 (8.53%) Microsoft
4 17 (8.06%) IBM
5 12 (5.69%) Google
5 12 (5.69%) Pega
6 11 (5.21%) VMware
7 9 (4.27%) Adobe
8 7 (3.32%) Cisco
9 6 (2.84%) F5
9 6 (2.84%) Juniper
9 6 (2.84%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.37%) Snow
10 5 (2.37%) Splunk
11 4 (1.90%) Apple
11 4 (1.90%) New Relic
11 4 (1.90%) Retek
11 4 (1.90%) Sage
11 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.90%) TOWER Software