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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 242 309
Rank change year-on-year -142 +67 -111
Permanent jobs citing Unix 280 529 611
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 1.29% 0.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.92% 8.32% 5.75%
Number of salaries quoted 139 202 470
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,450
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,630 £77,500 £82,188
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £96,885
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

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 4,733 6,356 10,621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.46% 15.47% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,579 3,854 8,996
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,500
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -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 March 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 March 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 -3 147 £75,000 +8.09% 36
South East -38 40 £58,000 +11.54% 27
South West -5 34 £60,000 -16.66% 6
East of England -19 23 £75,000 +27.66% 10
North of England -134 19 £55,000 -15.38% 18
Midlands -62 12 £73,801 +23.00% 11
West Midlands -55 9 £74,401 +24.00% 9
North West -98 7 £73,801 +37.30% 12
North East -21 6 £73,801 +18.08% 2
Yorkshire -53 6 £25,750 -69.80% 4
East Midlands -25 3 £40,000 -29.82% 2
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 29 (10.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (8.21%) Exchange Server 2003
3 14 (5.00%) Tomcat
4 11 (3.93%) WebSphere
5 10 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (2.14%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.79%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.79%) WebLogic
8 3 (1.07%) Confluence
8 3 (1.07%) IIS
8 3 (1.07%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.36%) Apache
9 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.36%) nginx
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.79%) Shopify
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.07%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (1.07%) Primavera
5 2 (0.71%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 98 (35.00%) AWS
2 68 (24.29%) Azure
3 47 (16.79%) GCP
4 33 (11.79%) Pulumi
5 27 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (7.14%) PaaS
7 19 (6.79%) GitHub
8 18 (6.43%) Amazon ECR
9 16 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 15 (5.36%) SaaS
11 14 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (5.00%) dbt
12 12 (4.29%) IaaS
13 11 (3.93%) OpenShift
14 10 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (3.57%) Serverless
15 9 (3.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 9 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (3.21%) Power Platform
15 9 (3.21%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 29 (10.36%) DNS
3 24 (8.57%) DHCP
4 23 (8.21%) Firewall
5 20 (7.14%) Broadband
6 12 (4.29%) SSL
7 10 (3.57%) WAN
8 9 (3.21%) VLAN
9 8 (2.86%) 5G
9 8 (2.86%) HTTPS
9 8 (2.86%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.86%) VPN
10 7 (2.50%) MPLS
11 5 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.79%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.43%) FIX Connectivity
13 3 (1.07%) VoIP
14 2 (0.71%) Internet
14 2 (0.71%) LAN
14 2 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.86%) Oracle Database
2 30 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 29 (10.36%) NoSQL
4 28 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (8.57%) Oracle Database 10g
6 20 (7.14%) RDBMS
7 19 (6.79%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (5.00%) Redis
10 13 (4.64%) DB2
11 10 (3.57%) Big Data
12 9 (3.21%) Power BI
12 9 (3.21%) Tableau
13 8 (2.86%) SQL Server
14 7 (2.50%) Hadoop
14 7 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (2.14%) Apache Hive
16 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
17 3 (1.07%) DynamoDB
17 3 (1.07%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 19 (6.79%) Jaeger
2 16 (5.71%) Git
3 12 (4.29%) LabVIEW
4 10 (3.57%) GitLab
5 9 (3.21%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.14%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.43%) JIRA
7 4 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.07%) Metasploit
8 3 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.36%) Mocha
9 1 (0.36%) Selenium
9 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 71 (25.36%) Finance
2 61 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 35 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (10.00%) Banking
6 16 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.36%) German Language
7 15 (5.36%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.29%) Electronics
9 11 (3.93%) Investment Banking
10 10 (3.57%) Public Sector
11 9 (3.21%) Legal
12 7 (2.50%) Law
13 6 (2.14%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.79%) Front Office
15 4 (1.43%) Back Office
15 4 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 48 (17.14%) Senior
2 24 (8.57%) 3rd Line Support
3 23 (8.21%) Lead
3 23 (8.21%) Systems Support
4 20 (7.14%) Analyst
4 20 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (6.79%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (6.43%) Developer
7 16 (5.71%) Linux Support
8 15 (5.36%) Administrator
8 15 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
8 15 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
8 15 (5.36%) Support Engineer
9 14 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
9 14 (5.00%) Verification Engineer
10 13 (4.64%) Applications Support
10 13 (4.64%) Unix Support
11 12 (4.29%) Systems Administrator
11 12 (4.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.93%) JSON
2 37 (13.21%) XML
3 31 (11.07%) HTML
4 29 (10.36%) Regular Expression
5 27 (9.64%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (6.79%) OpenTelemetry
7 17 (6.07%) LDAP
8 14 (5.00%) Django
9 12 (4.29%) pytest
10 10 (3.57%) LAPP Stack
10 10 (3.57%) WebSphere MQ
11 9 (3.21%) REST
12 8 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (2.86%) OAuth
13 7 (2.50%) Kafka
13 7 (2.50%) OAuth2
13 7 (2.50%) RESTful
14 6 (2.14%) Middleware
14 6 (2.14%) SOAP
15 5 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 60 (21.43%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (11.79%) Onboarding
3 23 (8.21%) Management Information System
4 14 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.29%) Hedge funds
5 12 (4.29%) Security Posture
6 11 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.86%) Self-Driving Car
8 7 (2.50%) Clustering
8 7 (2.50%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.14%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.43%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.43%) GNSS
11 4 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.43%) Satnav
11 4 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 175 (62.50%) Linux
2 83 (29.64%) Windows
3 29 (10.36%) Solaris
4 24 (8.57%) HPUX
5 23 (8.21%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (7.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (7.86%) Windows 7
6 22 (7.86%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (2.50%) Windows Server
8 6 (2.14%) AIX
9 5 (1.79%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.43%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.07%) Kali Linux
11 3 (1.07%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.36%) CentOS
12 1 (0.36%) Debian
12 1 (0.36%) SUSE
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (25.00%) DevOps
2 66 (23.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (20.36%) AI
5 47 (16.79%) Agile
6 45 (16.07%) High Availability
7 42 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 41 (14.64%) Containerisation
9 40 (14.29%) ITIL
10 37 (13.21%) Data Analysis
10 37 (13.21%) Incident Management
11 35 (12.50%) Computer Science
11 35 (12.50%) Task Automation
12 32 (11.43%) Incident Response
13 30 (10.71%) Change Management
14 29 (10.36%) LLM
14 29 (10.36%) Test Automation
15 28 (10.00%) Mentoring
16 27 (9.64%) Roadmaps
17 26 (9.29%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 183 (65.36%) Python
2 60 (21.43%) Bash
3 52 (18.57%) SQL
4 42 (15.00%) Java
5 40 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 37 (13.21%) JavaScript
7 26 (9.29%) Perl
8 22 (7.86%) Go
9 16 (5.71%) Shell Script
10 12 (4.29%) MATLAB
11 10 (3.57%) C#
12 8 (2.86%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.14%) C++
14 5 (1.79%) R
15 4 (1.43%) C
15 4 (1.43%) VB
15 4 (1.43%) VBA
15 4 (1.43%) VBScript
16 3 (1.07%) Korn
16 3 (1.07%) Rust
Qualifications
1 97 (34.64%) Degree
2 70 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 58 (20.71%) SC Cleared
4 38 (13.57%) AWS Certification
5 34 (12.14%) DV Cleared
6 29 (10.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (6.43%) CISSP
8 15 (5.36%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (5.00%) CCNA
9 14 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (4.29%) HND
11 11 (3.93%) CCSK
12 7 (2.50%) CCNP
12 7 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (2.14%) CISA
14 5 (1.79%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.43%) ACCA
15 4 (1.43%) CIMA
15 4 (1.43%) PhD
16 3 (1.07%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.93%) SLA
2 11 (3.93%) GDPR
3 6 (2.14%) QA
4 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.07%) NIST
6 2 (0.71%) COBIT
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (18.57%) Docker
2 42 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.71%) XenApp
6 2 (0.71%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (20.71%) Terraform
2 51 (18.21%) Ansible
3 48 (17.14%) Kubernetes
4 26 (9.29%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.79%) Argo
5 19 (6.79%) Kustomize
6 13 (4.64%) Grafana
7 9 (3.21%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (2.50%) SCCM
9 3 (1.07%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.07%) Nagios
9 3 (1.07%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (1.07%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.71%) Podman
10 2 (0.71%) Puppet
10 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.36%) Ambari
Vendors
1 55 (19.64%) Google
2 54 (19.29%) Oracle
3 46 (16.43%) Microsoft
4 39 (13.93%) VMware
5 27 (9.64%) IBM
5 27 (9.64%) Red Hat
6 20 (7.14%) Cisco
7 14 (5.00%) SAP
8 12 (4.29%) Dell
8 12 (4.29%) Splunk
9 11 (3.93%) Juniper
9 11 (3.93%) Palo Alto
10 9 (3.21%) ServiceNow
10 9 (3.21%) Workday
11 8 (2.86%) Fortinet
11 8 (2.86%) IFS
12 7 (2.50%) Arista
12 7 (2.50%) HP
12 7 (2.50%) Symantec
13 6 (2.14%) Software AG