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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 316 342
Rank change year-on-year -128 +26 -134
Permanent jobs citing Unix 245 326 641
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.32% 0.88% 0.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.98% 5.52% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 123 186 476
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,875 £39,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,790 £82,751 £82,548
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £100,064
UK median annual salary £61,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +12.50% -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 4,917 5,908 12,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.46% 15.94% 14.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,698 4,043 10,093
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -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 16 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 16 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 -19 122 £75,338 +0.45% 42
South East -63 31 £58,000 +38.10% 24
East of England -17 26 £61,500 -1.60% 3
South West -48 26 £60,000 -16.66% 6
North of England -100 25 £58,500 -15.69% 8
North West -66 12 £60,000 -11.28% 4
Midlands -61 10 £51,151 -14.75% 12
West Midlands -33 9 £51,151 -14.75% 7
Yorkshire -57 7 £25,750 -69.80% 2
North East -32 6 £69,310 -0.11% 2
East Midlands -51 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 22 (8.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (7.35%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (2.04%) Anypoint
4 4 (1.63%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.22%) Confluence
5 3 (1.22%) IIS
5 3 (1.22%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.82%) WebLogic Portal
6 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.82%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.45%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.04%) Shopify
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.22%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.82%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.82%) Line 50
5 2 (0.82%) Primavera
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (33.88%) AWS
2 64 (26.12%) Azure
3 29 (11.84%) GCP
4 28 (11.43%) Pulumi
5 16 (6.53%) GitHub
5 16 (6.53%) PaaS
5 16 (6.53%) SaaS
6 14 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (4.90%) IaaS
8 11 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (3.67%) Amazon ECR
9 9 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (3.67%) dbt
10 8 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.27%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.45%) Apigee
12 6 (2.45%) Kong
12 6 (2.45%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.02%) DNS
2 25 (10.20%) Firewall
2 25 (10.20%) TCP/IP
3 19 (7.76%) Broadband
3 19 (7.76%) DHCP
4 11 (4.49%) HTTPS
5 8 (3.27%) 5G
5 8 (3.27%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (3.27%) SD-WAN
5 8 (3.27%) WAN
6 6 (2.45%) VLAN
7 5 (2.04%) VPN
8 4 (1.63%) FIX Connectivity
8 4 (1.63%) MPLS
9 3 (1.22%) CHAP
9 3 (1.22%) SSL
9 3 (1.22%) VoIP
10 2 (0.82%) Internet
10 2 (0.82%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.65%) Oracle Database
2 28 (11.43%) Relational Database
3 27 (11.02%) NoSQL
4 20 (8.16%) RDBMS
5 19 (7.76%) Oracle Database 10g
6 17 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.67%) Redis
9 6 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.45%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (2.45%) Power BI
9 6 (2.45%) Tableau
10 5 (2.04%) DB2
10 5 (2.04%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.63%) Big Data
12 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.82%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.82%) Informix
13 2 (0.82%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 19 (7.76%) Jaeger
2 15 (6.12%) GitLab
3 14 (5.71%) Git
4 10 (4.08%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.67%) Jenkins
5 9 (3.67%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.63%) JIRA
6 4 (1.63%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.22%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.82%) Selenium
9 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.41%) Gradle
9 1 (0.41%) JMeter
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 64 (26.12%) Finance
3 34 (13.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.80%) Banking
6 16 (6.53%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.12%) German Language
7 15 (6.12%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.49%) Electronics
8 11 (4.49%) Telecoms
9 10 (4.08%) Legal
10 9 (3.67%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.86%) Law
12 5 (2.04%) Front Office
12 5 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.63%) Back Office
13 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.22%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.22%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 37 (15.10%) Senior
2 21 (8.57%) Lead
3 20 (8.16%) 3rd Line Support
3 20 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (7.35%) Automation Engineer
4 18 (7.35%) Linux Engineer
4 18 (7.35%) Systems Support
5 15 (6.12%) Analyst
6 14 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 14 (5.71%) Developer
7 13 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Python Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Security Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Unix Engineer
8 11 (4.49%) Unix Linux Engineer
9 10 (4.08%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.14%) JSON
2 40 (16.33%) XML
3 33 (13.47%) HTML
4 29 (11.84%) Regular Expression
5 26 (10.61%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (7.76%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (4.49%) REST
8 10 (4.08%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (3.67%) Django
9 9 (3.67%) pytest
10 7 (2.86%) Node.js
10 7 (2.86%) RESTful
11 6 (2.45%) Jinja
11 6 (2.45%) YAML
11 6 (2.45%) YANG
12 5 (2.04%) LDAP
12 5 (2.04%) SOAP
12 5 (2.04%) Web Services
13 4 (1.63%) CSS
13 4 (1.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.14%) Linux Command Line
2 31 (12.65%) Onboarding
3 18 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 18 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (5.31%) Hedge funds
5 12 (4.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (4.90%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.67%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.27%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (3.27%) Self-Driving Car
8 7 (2.86%) Clustering
9 6 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.45%) Low-Code
10 5 (2.04%) Driving Licence
10 5 (2.04%) IoT
11 4 (1.63%) Blockchain
11 4 (1.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.63%) NHS
11 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 152 (62.04%) Linux
2 69 (28.16%) Windows
3 26 (10.61%) Solaris
4 19 (7.76%) HPUX
5 18 (7.35%) Windows Server 2003
6 17 (6.94%) Windows 7
6 17 (6.94%) Windows Server 2008
7 15 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.27%) Windows Server
9 6 (2.45%) AIX
10 5 (2.04%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.63%) Kali Linux
11 4 (1.63%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.41%) CentOS
13 1 (0.41%) Debian
13 1 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.41%) SUSE
13 1 (0.41%) ThreadX
13 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (26.12%) DevOps
2 61 (24.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (21.22%) AI
5 50 (20.41%) Agile
6 43 (17.55%) CI/CD
7 41 (16.73%) Containerisation
8 37 (15.10%) Task Automation
9 35 (14.29%) High Availability
10 34 (13.88%) Data Analysis
11 33 (13.47%) Incident Management
12 32 (13.06%) Test Automation
13 31 (12.65%) Mentoring
14 30 (12.24%) Computer Science
15 29 (11.84%) LLM
16 28 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
16 28 (11.43%) Roadmaps
17 27 (11.02%) Incident Response
17 27 (11.02%) ITIL
18 23 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 152 (62.04%) Python
2 60 (24.49%) Bash
3 42 (17.14%) Java
4 38 (15.51%) SQL
5 36 (14.69%) JavaScript
6 33 (13.47%) PowerShell
7 22 (8.98%) Go
8 21 (8.57%) Perl
9 17 (6.94%) Shell Script
10 11 (4.49%) C#
11 9 (3.67%) MATLAB
12 6 (2.45%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.04%) C++
13 5 (2.04%) VB
13 5 (2.04%) VBA
13 5 (2.04%) VBScript
14 4 (1.63%) Korn
14 4 (1.63%) Rust
15 3 (1.22%) C
16 2 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 80 (32.65%) Degree
2 52 (21.22%) Security Cleared
3 43 (17.55%) SC Cleared
4 27 (11.02%) AWS Certification
5 23 (9.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (8.98%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.12%) CISSP
8 11 (4.49%) CCSK
9 9 (3.67%) HND
10 8 (3.27%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (2.04%) OSCP
12 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.63%) CCNA
12 4 (1.63%) CISA
12 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.63%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.22%) FFIEC
13 3 (1.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.61%) SLA
2 8 (3.27%) GDPR
2 8 (3.27%) QA
3 5 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.63%) NIST
5 3 (1.22%) COBIT
6 2 (0.82%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.82%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) ITGC
7 1 (0.41%) MiFID
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (18.78%) Docker
2 30 (12.24%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.04%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.41%) Firmware
5 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (22.45%) Terraform
2 51 (20.82%) Ansible
3 46 (18.78%) Kubernetes
4 25 (10.20%) Prometheus
5 22 (8.98%) Argo
6 19 (7.76%) Kustomize
7 11 (4.49%) Grafana
8 6 (2.45%) SCCM
9 5 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (1.63%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.63%) Podman
11 3 (1.22%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.22%) Data Guard
11 3 (1.22%) Nagios
11 3 (1.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (1.22%) Puppet
12 1 (0.41%) Ambari
12 1 (0.41%) Kibana
12 1 (0.41%) logstash
12 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (19.59%) Oracle
2 40 (16.33%) Google
2 40 (16.33%) VMware
3 37 (15.10%) Microsoft
4 24 (9.80%) Red Hat
5 17 (6.94%) IBM
6 13 (5.31%) Cisco
6 13 (5.31%) SAP
7 11 (4.49%) Juniper
7 11 (4.49%) Palo Alto
8 9 (3.67%) Splunk
8 9 (3.67%) Workday
9 8 (3.27%) Dell
10 7 (2.86%) Adobe
10 7 (2.86%) IFS
10 7 (2.86%) Symantec
11 6 (2.45%) F5
11 6 (2.45%) MuleSoft
12 5 (2.04%) Jitterbit
12 5 (2.04%) SnapLogic