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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 473 355 335
Rank change year-on-year -118 -20 -120
Permanent jobs citing Unix 219 298 669
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.28% 0.79% 0.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.48% 4.93% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 107 181 480
10th Percentile £39,600 £35,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £54,375 £49,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £82,548
90th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% +15.64% -14.29%

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 4,883 6,047 12,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.14% 15.98% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,665 4,050 9,962
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -14.29%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -31 112 £81,500 +6.89% 42
North of England -84 30 £60,000 -13.52% 11
South West -41 26 £67,500 -6.24% 10
East of England -10 23 £61,500 -8.89% 7
South East -74 15 £58,000 +38.10% 23
North West -56 13 £60,000 -12.41% 7
Yorkshire -61 12 £69,310 -18.70% 1
Midlands -51 10 £28,500 -52.50% 15
West Midlands -35 9 £28,500 -52.50% 10
North East -41 5 £58,877 -15.14% 3
East Midlands -44 1 - - 5
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 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.28%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.91%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) IIS
4 1 (0.46%) nginx
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Line 50
1 4 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.37%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.91%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (36.53%) AWS
2 60 (27.40%) Azure
3 22 (10.05%) GCP
3 22 (10.05%) Pulumi
4 16 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (7.31%) SaaS
5 14 (6.39%) GitHub
5 14 (6.39%) PaaS
6 12 (5.48%) Azure AKS
6 12 (5.48%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (5.02%) IaaS
7 11 (5.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (3.65%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.74%) Apigee
10 6 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.74%) Kong
10 6 (2.74%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.50%) Firewall
2 19 (8.68%) Broadband
3 17 (7.76%) TCP/IP
4 13 (5.94%) DNS
5 9 (4.11%) HTTPS
6 8 (3.65%) 5G
6 8 (3.65%) SD-WAN
6 8 (3.65%) WAN
7 7 (3.20%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.28%) DHCP
9 4 (1.83%) FIX Connectivity
9 4 (1.83%) Network Security
9 4 (1.83%) VLAN
9 4 (1.83%) VoIP
10 3 (1.37%) CHAP
10 3 (1.37%) MPLS
10 3 (1.37%) VPN
11 2 (0.91%) Internet
11 2 (0.91%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.87%) NoSQL
2 24 (10.96%) Relational Database
3 20 (9.13%) RDBMS
4 18 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (6.85%) MongoDB
6 13 (5.94%) Oracle Database
7 6 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.74%) Power BI
7 6 (2.74%) Tableau
8 5 (2.28%) Oracle Database 10g
9 4 (1.83%) Big Data
9 4 (1.83%) DB2
9 4 (1.83%) FileMaker
9 4 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.37%) Redis
10 3 (1.37%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.91%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.91%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.91%) Informix
Development Applications
1 23 (10.50%) GitLab
2 19 (8.68%) Jaeger
3 14 (6.39%) Git
4 9 (4.11%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.65%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.65%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.83%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.37%) JIRA
7 3 (1.37%) Selenium
8 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.91%) Gradle
8 2 (0.91%) JMeter
8 2 (0.91%) Maven
9 1 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (30.14%) Finance
2 58 (26.48%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (10.05%) Banking
6 20 (9.13%) Public Sector
7 16 (7.31%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (5.94%) German Language
9 9 (4.11%) Electronics
10 8 (3.65%) Telecoms
11 7 (3.20%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.74%) Legal
13 5 (2.28%) Front Office
14 4 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.37%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.37%) Back Office
15 3 (1.37%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.37%) Japanese Language
15 3 (1.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (17.35%) Senior
2 20 (9.13%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (9.13%) Lead
3 18 (8.22%) Automation Engineer
3 18 (8.22%) Linux Engineer
4 15 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (6.39%) Analyst
5 14 (6.39%) Senior DevOps
5 14 (6.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 13 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (5.48%) Developer
7 12 (5.48%) Unix Engineer
7 12 (5.48%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 11 (5.02%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (5.02%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 11 (5.02%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 11 (5.02%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (5.02%) Python Engineer
8 11 (5.02%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.61%) JSON
1 32 (14.61%) XML
2 29 (13.24%) HTML
3 25 (11.42%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (11.42%) Regular Expression
4 19 (8.68%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (6.39%) Node.js
6 10 (4.57%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (4.11%) REST
8 8 (3.65%) pytest
9 6 (2.74%) Jinja
9 6 (2.74%) YAML
9 6 (2.74%) YANG
10 4 (1.83%) CSS
10 4 (1.83%) Kafka
10 4 (1.83%) LDAP
10 4 (1.83%) OAuth
11 3 (1.37%) .NET
11 3 (1.37%) Middleware
11 3 (1.37%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.98%) Linux Command Line
2 27 (12.33%) Onboarding
3 18 (8.22%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (7.76%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.94%) Hedge funds
6 12 (5.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (5.48%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.65%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (3.65%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.65%) Self-Driving Car
8 7 (3.20%) Clustering
9 6 (2.74%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.28%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.28%) IoT
11 4 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.83%) NHS
11 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.37%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 145 (66.21%) Linux
2 61 (27.85%) Windows
3 16 (7.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (5.48%) Solaris
5 7 (3.20%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.74%) AIX
7 5 (2.28%) HPUX
7 5 (2.28%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.28%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.83%) Kali Linux
8 4 (1.83%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (1.37%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.46%) CentOS
10 1 (0.46%) Debian
10 1 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.46%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (29.68%) DevOps
2 54 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (23.29%) Agile
4 49 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (21.00%) CI/CD
6 45 (20.55%) AI
7 39 (17.81%) Mentoring
7 39 (17.81%) Test Automation
8 37 (16.89%) Continuous Integration
9 36 (16.44%) Containerisation
9 36 (16.44%) Task Automation
10 33 (15.07%) High Availability
11 30 (13.70%) Data Analysis
12 29 (13.24%) Roadmaps
13 28 (12.79%) Computer Science
14 25 (11.42%) Incident Response
14 25 (11.42%) LLM
15 23 (10.50%) ITIL
16 20 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (9.13%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 133 (60.73%) Python
2 57 (26.03%) Bash
3 46 (21.00%) Java
4 30 (13.70%) SQL
5 28 (12.79%) JavaScript
6 22 (10.05%) Go
7 18 (8.22%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.48%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.65%) MATLAB
9 8 (3.65%) Perl
10 7 (3.20%) C#
11 6 (2.74%) Rust
12 5 (2.28%) C++
12 5 (2.28%) VB
12 5 (2.28%) VBA
12 5 (2.28%) VBScript
13 4 (1.83%) Korn
13 4 (1.83%) PHP
13 4 (1.83%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.37%) C
Qualifications
1 70 (31.96%) Degree
2 28 (12.79%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.87%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (9.13%) SC Cleared
6 15 (6.85%) CISSP
7 11 (5.02%) CCSK
8 8 (3.65%) HND
9 7 (3.20%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.28%) OSCP
11 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.83%) CISA
11 4 (1.83%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.37%) CCNA
12 3 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.37%) CISM
12 3 (1.37%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.57%) SLA
2 9 (4.11%) QA
3 5 (2.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.83%) GDPR
4 4 (1.83%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.83%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.83%) NIST
5 3 (1.37%) COBIT
6 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) ITGC
6 1 (0.46%) MiFID
6 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (15.98%) Docker
2 15 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (6.39%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.28%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.46%) Firmware
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (26.94%) Terraform
2 50 (22.83%) Ansible
3 41 (18.72%) Kubernetes
4 31 (14.16%) Argo
5 24 (10.96%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.68%) Kustomize
7 9 (4.11%) Grafana
8 5 (2.28%) SCCM
9 4 (1.83%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.83%) Podman
9 4 (1.83%) Puppet
10 3 (1.37%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.37%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.37%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.37%) Nagios
11 2 (0.91%) Kibana
11 2 (0.91%) logstash
12 1 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 34 (15.53%) Google
2 26 (11.87%) Oracle
2 26 (11.87%) VMware
3 24 (10.96%) Red Hat
4 23 (10.50%) Microsoft
5 12 (5.48%) IBM
6 11 (5.02%) Cisco
7 9 (4.11%) Adobe
7 9 (4.11%) Juniper
7 9 (4.11%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.65%) Splunk
9 7 (3.20%) SAP
9 7 (3.20%) Symantec
10 6 (2.74%) F5
11 5 (2.28%) Databricks
11 5 (2.28%) Snow
11 5 (2.28%) Workday
12 4 (1.83%) Apple
12 4 (1.83%) Mirantis
12 4 (1.83%) Sage