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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 392 351
Rank change year-on-year -129 -41 -142
Permanent jobs citing Unix 219 285 558
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.66% 0.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.76% 4.35% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 142 191 330
10th Percentile £50,000 £27,500 £37,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,240 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £69,384 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +10.51% -6.99%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £69,306 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% +15.64% -8.40%

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 5,829 6,554 9,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.39% 15.06% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,428 4,369 7,439
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -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 31 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 31 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 -73 97 £75,000 -6.25% 64
South West -36 44 £67,500 -14.35% 5
North of England -24 42 £69,306 +1.17% 19
North West +4 22 £62,500 -9.92% 13
Midlands -55 14 £61,500 -5.38% 7
Yorkshire -29 13 £69,310 +10.90% 3
West Midlands -30 12 £69,306 +4.51% 7
South East -76 10 £62,500 +66.67% 18
East of England -30 7 £61,500 +123.64% 2
North East -50 7 £69,310 +15.52% 3
East Midlands -28 2 £61,500 +6.03%
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 (0.91%) Confluence
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.91%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.46%) Apache
2 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.46%) Documentum
2 1 (0.46%) JBoss
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (5.94%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (2.28%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (2.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.83%) Line 50
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.91%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.46%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (41.55%) AWS
2 70 (31.96%) Azure
3 34 (15.53%) GCP
4 18 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.39%) Azure AKS
5 14 (6.39%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (5.48%) GitHub
7 10 (4.57%) SaaS
8 8 (3.65%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (3.20%) dbt
10 6 (2.74%) Apigee
10 6 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.74%) Kong
10 6 (2.74%) PaaS
11 4 (1.83%) Datadog
11 4 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.83%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.05%) TCP/IP
2 20 (9.13%) Firewall
3 16 (7.31%) DNS
4 8 (3.65%) HTTPS
5 6 (2.74%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.74%) WAN
6 5 (2.28%) Network Security
6 5 (2.28%) SSH
7 4 (1.83%) 3GPP
7 4 (1.83%) 5G
7 4 (1.83%) MGW
7 4 (1.83%) MVNO
7 4 (1.83%) Packet Switching
7 4 (1.83%) RTP
7 4 (1.83%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.83%) SGSN
7 4 (1.83%) SMPP
7 4 (1.83%) VoIP
8 3 (1.37%) DHCP
8 3 (1.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.05%) MongoDB
2 20 (9.13%) Oracle Database
3 19 (8.68%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.11%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.74%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.74%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.83%) FileMaker
7 4 (1.83%) Power BI
7 4 (1.83%) Tableau
8 3 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.37%) Db2
8 3 (1.37%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.37%) Redis
9 2 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (11.42%) GitLab
2 19 (8.68%) Git
3 14 (6.39%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.11%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.20%) Eclipse
5 7 (3.20%) JIRA
6 6 (2.74%) Subversion
7 4 (1.83%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.83%) Metasploit
7 4 (1.83%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.83%) Selenium
7 4 (1.83%) Toad
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%) LSMW
9 1 (0.46%) NetBeans
9 1 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
General
1 86 (39.27%) Finance
2 60 (27.40%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.53%) Public Sector
4 33 (15.07%) Banking
5 32 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.57%) Front Office
7 10 (4.57%) Retail
8 9 (4.11%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.65%) Legal
10 7 (3.20%) Electronics
11 6 (2.74%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.74%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.83%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.83%) Retail Finance
13 3 (1.37%) Back Office
13 3 (1.37%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.91%) Digital Economy
14 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (31.51%) Senior
2 32 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (14.16%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (12.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 22 (10.05%) Developer
6 19 (8.68%) Administrator
7 18 (8.22%) DBA
8 13 (5.94%) Oracle DBA
9 12 (5.48%) Senior DBA
9 12 (5.48%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 11 (5.02%) Analyst
10 11 (5.02%) Applications Support
10 11 (5.02%) Lead
10 11 (5.02%) Linux Engineer
10 11 (5.02%) Systems Administrator
11 9 (4.11%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Network Engineer
12 8 (3.65%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.65%) Test Engineer
12 8 (3.65%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.39%) Node.js
2 11 (5.02%) FIX Protocol
2 11 (5.02%) REST
3 10 (4.57%) YAML
4 8 (3.65%) Kafka
5 7 (3.20%) Jakarta EE
5 7 (3.20%) React
5 7 (3.20%) RESTful
5 7 (3.20%) Struts
5 7 (3.20%) Web Services
6 6 (2.74%) HTML
6 6 (2.74%) Jinja
6 6 (2.74%) JSON
6 6 (2.74%) XML
6 6 (2.74%) YANG
7 5 (2.28%) CSS
8 4 (1.83%) Django
8 4 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.83%) Middleware
8 4 (1.83%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (5.02%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.57%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.20%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.74%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.74%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.28%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.83%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.83%) IVR
8 4 (1.83%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.37%) Derivative
9 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 175 (79.91%) Linux
2 63 (28.77%) Windows
3 26 (11.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (6.39%) AIX
5 12 (5.48%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (3.20%) Solaris
7 4 (1.83%) Kali Linux
7 4 (1.83%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.37%) CentOS
9 2 (0.91%) Rocky
9 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.91%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.46%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (36.99%) DevOps
2 77 (35.16%) CI/CD
3 54 (24.66%) Agile
4 49 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (22.37%) Test Automation
5 42 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (19.18%) Mentoring
6 38 (17.35%) Incident Response
7 36 (16.44%) Coaching
7 36 (16.44%) Continuous Integration
8 34 (15.53%) Scrum
9 27 (12.33%) High Availability
9 27 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (11.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (11.42%) Computer Science
11 25 (11.42%) Containerisation
12 24 (10.96%) ITIL
13 23 (10.50%) Task Automation
14 22 (10.05%) Microservices
15 21 (9.59%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (39.27%) Python
2 54 (24.66%) SQL
3 45 (20.55%) Bash
4 40 (18.26%) Java
5 29 (13.24%) Shell Script
6 22 (10.05%) JavaScript
7 18 (8.22%) PL/SQL
8 17 (7.76%) C++
9 13 (5.94%) Korn
9 13 (5.94%) Perl
10 11 (5.02%) PowerShell
11 9 (4.11%) Rust
12 6 (2.74%) C
12 6 (2.74%) C#
12 6 (2.74%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.83%) Go
13 4 (1.83%) PHP
13 4 (1.83%) VB
13 4 (1.83%) VBA
13 4 (1.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 37 (16.89%) Degree
3 33 (15.07%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (8.22%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.20%) CISSP
7 6 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (2.74%) HND
8 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.83%) CISM
8 4 (1.83%) OSCP
8 4 (1.83%) SANS
9 3 (1.37%) CCSK
9 3 (1.37%) CISA
9 3 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.37%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.94%) QA
2 5 (2.28%) NIST
3 4 (1.83%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.83%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.37%) GDPR
4 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.91%) COBIT
5 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.46%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.46%) ITGC
6 1 (0.46%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 23 (10.50%) Docker
2 15 (6.85%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.91%) Firmware
6 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.46%) GPFS
6 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.46%) KVM
6 1 (0.46%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 43 (19.63%) Terraform
2 26 (11.87%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.05%) Ansible
4 15 (6.85%) Oracle RMAN
4 15 (6.85%) Puppet
5 14 (6.39%) Argo
6 12 (5.48%) Data Guard
6 12 (5.48%) Grafana
6 12 (5.48%) Nagios
6 12 (5.48%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.83%) SCCM
8 3 (1.37%) AWS Copilot
8 3 (1.37%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.91%) Kibana
9 2 (0.91%) logstash
9 2 (0.91%) Podman
10 1 (0.46%) Control-M
10 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 44 (20.09%) Oracle
2 22 (10.05%) Red Hat
3 19 (8.68%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.31%) IBM
5 12 (5.48%) Pega
6 10 (4.57%) Google
6 10 (4.57%) VMware
7 8 (3.65%) Adobe
8 7 (3.20%) Cisco
9 6 (2.74%) F5
9 6 (2.74%) Juniper
9 6 (2.74%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.28%) Splunk
11 4 (1.83%) Apple
11 4 (1.83%) New Relic
11 4 (1.83%) Retek
11 4 (1.83%) Sage
11 4 (1.83%) SAP
11 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.83%) Sybase