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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 372 359
Rank change year-on-year -140 -13 -128
Permanent jobs citing Unix 193 284 693
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.71% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.63% 4.58% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 111 204 462
10th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £35,953
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £79,688
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,250 £65,000 £58,457
% change year-on-year +3.46% +11.19% -11.43%

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 5,322 6,206 12,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.34% 15.56% 13.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,062 4,030 9,879
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% -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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -60 98 £75,000 -1.64% 33
South West -26 39 £70,000 -11.18% 5
North of England -36 29 £69,310 +4.52% 16
North West -3 15 £60,000 -13.52% 11
Yorkshire -33 10 £69,310 +10.90% 4
South East -76 10 £62,500 +50.60% 15
Midlands -37 9 £45,000 -30.77% 4
West Midlands -42 6 £28,500 -55.29% 2
East of England -20 5 £61,500 +123.64% 4
North East -50 4 £69,310 +15.52% 1
East Midlands -23 3 £61,500 -12.14% 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 2 (1.04%) Confluence
1 2 (1.04%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.52%) Apache
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.52%) JBoss
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.18%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.07%) Line 50
3 3 (1.55%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.55%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.04%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (44.04%) AWS
2 58 (30.05%) Azure
3 24 (12.44%) GCP
4 21 (10.88%) Pulumi
5 17 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (7.25%) Azure AKS
6 14 (7.25%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (7.25%) GitHub
6 14 (7.25%) SaaS
7 10 (5.18%) PaaS
8 8 (4.15%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.63%) IaaS
9 7 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.11%) Apigee
10 6 (3.11%) Kong
10 6 (3.11%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.55%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (1.55%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (1.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.33%) Broadband
2 17 (8.81%) Firewall
3 14 (7.25%) TCP/IP
4 13 (6.74%) DNS
5 11 (5.70%) WAN
6 9 (4.66%) 5G
6 9 (4.66%) SD-WAN
7 8 (4.15%) HTTPS
8 6 (3.11%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (2.59%) Network Security
10 4 (2.07%) 3GPP
10 4 (2.07%) MGW
10 4 (2.07%) MVNO
10 4 (2.07%) Packet Switching
10 4 (2.07%) RTP
10 4 (2.07%) SGSN
10 4 (2.07%) SMPP
10 4 (2.07%) VoIP
11 3 (1.55%) CHAP
12 2 (1.04%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.92%) NoSQL
1 23 (11.92%) Relational Database
2 21 (10.88%) MongoDB
3 20 (10.36%) RDBMS
4 19 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (8.81%) Oracle Database
6 7 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.11%) Power BI
7 6 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.11%) Tableau
8 4 (2.07%) Db2
8 4 (2.07%) FileMaker
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.55%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.55%) Redis
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.52%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 24 (12.44%) Git
1 24 (12.44%) GitLab
2 18 (9.33%) Jaeger
3 9 (4.66%) Bitbucket
3 9 (4.66%) LabVIEW
4 8 (4.15%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.63%) Eclipse
6 6 (3.11%) JIRA
6 6 (3.11%) Subversion
7 4 (2.07%) Metasploit
8 3 (1.55%) Selenium
9 2 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.04%) Gradle
9 2 (1.04%) JMeter
9 2 (1.04%) Maven
9 2 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (1.04%) Toad
10 1 (0.52%) NetBeans
10 1 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (39.38%) Finance
2 49 (25.39%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.51%) Banking
5 27 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (12.44%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.22%) Electronics
8 9 (4.66%) Legal
9 8 (4.15%) Investment Banking
9 8 (4.15%) Retail
10 6 (3.11%) Front Office
10 6 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.11%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.07%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.55%) Back Office
12 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.55%) Japanese Language
13 2 (1.04%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.04%) Retail Finance
14 1 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 45 (23.32%) Senior
2 25 (12.95%) Lead
3 20 (10.36%) Senior DevOps
4 19 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (9.33%) Developer
5 18 (9.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 17 (8.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (7.77%) DBA
8 13 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (6.22%) Analyst
9 12 (6.22%) Test Engineer
10 11 (5.70%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (5.18%) Oracle DBA
12 9 (4.66%) Administrator
12 9 (4.66%) Consultant
12 9 (4.66%) Network Engineer
12 9 (4.66%) Senior DBA
12 9 (4.66%) Senior Oracle DBA
12 9 (4.66%) Team Leader
12 9 (4.66%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.88%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (7.25%) Node.js
4 10 (5.18%) REST
5 9 (4.66%) pytest
6 7 (3.63%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (3.63%) J2EE
6 7 (3.63%) Kafka
6 7 (3.63%) React
6 7 (3.63%) RESTful
6 7 (3.63%) Struts
6 7 (3.63%) YAML
7 6 (3.11%) HTML
7 6 (3.11%) Jinja
7 6 (3.11%) JSON
7 6 (3.11%) Web Services
7 6 (3.11%) XML
7 6 (3.11%) YANG
8 5 (2.59%) CSS
9 4 (2.07%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.81%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (5.70%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.18%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.18%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.18%) Security Posture
5 9 (4.66%) Self-Driving Car
6 8 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (3.63%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.59%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.07%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.07%) IVR
10 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.04%) Analogue Electronics
11 2 (1.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 151 (78.24%) Linux
2 57 (29.53%) Windows
3 23 (11.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (6.22%) AIX
5 9 (4.66%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.59%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.07%) Kali Linux
7 4 (2.07%) Solaris
8 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.52%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.52%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (37.31%) DevOps
2 57 (29.53%) Agile
3 53 (27.46%) CI/CD
4 45 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (22.80%) Test Automation
6 43 (22.28%) Mentoring
7 42 (21.76%) Continuous Integration
7 42 (21.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 37 (19.17%) High Availability
9 34 (17.62%) Task Automation
10 32 (16.58%) Incident Response
11 31 (16.06%) Containerisation
12 28 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (14.51%) Roadmaps
13 26 (13.47%) Computer Science
14 23 (11.92%) Validation
15 22 (11.40%) Scrum
15 22 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 20 (10.36%) Coaching
16 20 (10.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 95 (49.22%) Python
2 53 (27.46%) Java
3 52 (26.94%) Bash
4 41 (21.24%) SQL
5 35 (18.13%) JavaScript
6 23 (11.92%) Shell Script
7 19 (9.84%) Go
8 13 (6.74%) C++
9 12 (6.22%) PL/SQL
10 11 (5.70%) MATLAB
10 11 (5.70%) PowerShell
11 10 (5.18%) Korn
12 9 (4.66%) Perl
13 6 (3.11%) Rust
14 5 (2.59%) VB
14 5 (2.59%) VBA
14 5 (2.59%) VBScript
15 4 (2.07%) C#
15 4 (2.07%) PHP
16 2 (1.04%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (22.28%) Degree
2 21 (10.88%) Security Cleared
3 20 (10.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (9.84%) AWS Certification
5 15 (7.77%) SC Cleared
6 12 (6.22%) CISSP
7 11 (5.70%) HND
8 7 (3.63%) CCSK
9 6 (3.11%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.59%) CISM
10 5 (2.59%) SANS
11 4 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (2.07%) CISA
11 4 (2.07%) OSCP
12 3 (1.55%) CGEIT
12 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.55%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.55%) Master's Degree
13 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.18%) QA
2 6 (3.11%) NIST
3 4 (2.07%) GDPR
3 4 (2.07%) ISO 14001
3 4 (2.07%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.55%) COBIT
4 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.52%) ITGC
6 1 (0.52%) MiFID
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (18.13%) Docker
2 12 (6.22%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.04%) Firmware
5 1 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 56 (29.02%) Terraform
2 41 (21.24%) Kubernetes
3 35 (18.13%) Ansible
4 32 (16.58%) Argo
5 25 (12.95%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.33%) Kustomize
7 13 (6.74%) Puppet
8 12 (6.22%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (4.66%) Data Guard
9 9 (4.66%) Nagios
10 7 (3.63%) Grafana
11 5 (2.59%) SCCM
12 3 (1.55%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (1.55%) Check_MK
13 2 (1.04%) Kibana
13 2 (1.04%) logstash
13 2 (1.04%) Podman
14 1 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 35 (18.13%) Oracle
2 28 (14.51%) Google
3 19 (9.84%) Red Hat
4 15 (7.77%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.25%) IBM
6 10 (5.18%) VMware
7 9 (4.66%) Adobe
8 7 (3.63%) Cisco
9 6 (3.11%) F5
9 6 (3.11%) Juniper
9 6 (3.11%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.59%) Snow
10 5 (2.59%) Splunk
11 4 (2.07%) Apple
11 4 (2.07%) Databricks
11 4 (2.07%) Pega
11 4 (2.07%) Sage
11 4 (2.07%) Sybase
11 4 (2.07%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.55%) SAP