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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 386 336
Rank change year-on-year -120 -50 -136
Permanent jobs citing Unix 249 294 536
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.67% 0.76%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.21% 4.59% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 180 190 299
10th Percentile £42,125 £27,500 £36,104
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,493 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,688 £83,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.89% +8.33% -7.69%

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 5,912 6,399 9,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.08% 14.68% 12.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,458 4,218 6,201
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,428 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% -17.15% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -4.76%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -95 102 £71,250 -10.94% 304
North of England -10 57 £67,440 +12.40% 36
South West -51 48 £66,250 -15.94% 35
North West +5 29 £64,038 +6.73% 21
Yorkshire -43 19 £69,306 +10.89% 8
Midlands -46 18 £62,000 -11.43% 10
West Midlands -30 15 £69,306 -4.41% 9
North East -52 9 £69,306 +45.91% 7
East of England -55 8 £60,750 +42.94% 13
South East -78 8 £62,500 +50.60% 51
East Midlands -25 3 £61,500 +6.03% 1
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 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.01%) Confluence
3 2 (0.80%) Documentum
3 2 (0.80%) JBoss
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (4.82%) FLEXCUBE
2 7 (2.81%) Fidessa
3 5 (2.01%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.61%) Line 50
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.80%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 92 (36.95%) AWS
2 68 (27.31%) Azure
3 34 (13.65%) GCP
4 20 (8.03%) Azure AKS
5 19 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (3.61%) GitHub
8 8 (3.21%) OCI
9 7 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.81%) dbt
9 7 (2.81%) SaaS
10 4 (1.61%) Datadog
10 4 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.61%) OpenShift
11 3 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.20%) Slack
12 2 (0.80%) Apigee
12 2 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.84%) DNS
2 26 (10.44%) TCP/IP
3 18 (7.23%) Firewall
4 12 (4.82%) DHCP
5 11 (4.42%) 3GPP
5 11 (4.42%) MGW
5 11 (4.42%) MVNO
5 11 (4.42%) Packet Switching
5 11 (4.42%) RTP
5 11 (4.42%) SGSN
5 11 (4.42%) SMPP
6 7 (2.81%) FIX Connectivity
6 7 (2.81%) Network Security
7 6 (2.41%) SSH
7 6 (2.41%) VPN
7 6 (2.41%) WAN
8 5 (2.01%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (1.61%) 5G
9 4 (1.61%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.84%) MongoDB
2 17 (6.83%) Oracle Database
2 17 (6.83%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.81%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.81%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.61%) FileMaker
6 3 (1.20%) Db2
6 3 (1.20%) KDB
7 2 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.80%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.80%) MySQL
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.80%) Siebel EIM
8 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
Development Applications
1 24 (9.64%) GitLab
2 23 (9.24%) Git
3 19 (7.63%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.02%) JIRA
5 8 (3.21%) Eclipse
6 7 (2.81%) Subversion
7 4 (1.61%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.61%) Maven
7 4 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.61%) Selenium
7 4 (1.61%) Toad
8 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.80%) Gradle
9 2 (0.80%) JMeter
9 2 (0.80%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.40%) LSMW
10 1 (0.40%) NetBeans
General
1 80 (32.13%) Finance
2 59 (23.69%) Social Skills
3 47 (18.88%) Public Sector
4 33 (13.25%) Banking
5 31 (12.45%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.42%) Retail
8 9 (3.61%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.61%) Front Office
9 7 (2.81%) Electronics
10 5 (2.01%) Legal
11 4 (1.61%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.61%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.61%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.20%) Aviation
12 3 (1.20%) Avionics
12 3 (1.20%) Back Office
12 3 (1.20%) Japanese Language
12 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (34.94%) Senior
2 32 (12.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (12.45%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (11.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 23 (9.24%) Developer
6 18 (7.23%) Administrator
7 17 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (6.43%) DBA
9 14 (5.62%) Analyst
10 13 (5.22%) Applications Support
10 13 (5.22%) Linux Engineer
10 13 (5.22%) Network Engineer
10 13 (5.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.22%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.82%) Lead
12 11 (4.42%) Oracle DBA
12 11 (4.42%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.42%) Support Analyst
12 11 (4.42%) Test Engineer
13 10 (4.02%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.07%) Terraform
2 17 (6.83%) FIX Protocol
3 14 (5.62%) Node.js
4 11 (4.42%) REST
5 10 (4.02%) Web Services
6 9 (3.61%) Jakarta EE
6 9 (3.61%) RESTful
7 8 (3.21%) Struts
8 7 (2.81%) HTML
8 7 (2.81%) Kafka
8 7 (2.81%) React
9 6 (2.41%) CSS
9 6 (2.41%) YAML
10 5 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.61%) Middleware
11 4 (1.61%) pytest
12 3 (1.20%) Spring
13 2 (0.80%) JSON
13 2 (0.80%) OpenMP
13 2 (0.80%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (4.42%) IVR
3 10 (4.02%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.02%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.02%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.81%) Eurex
4 7 (2.81%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.41%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.01%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.01%) Hedge funds
6 5 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.61%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.61%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (1.20%) Derivative
8 3 (1.20%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 209 (83.94%) Linux
2 79 (31.73%) Windows
3 26 (10.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.22%) AIX
5 10 (4.02%) Oracle Linux
5 10 (4.02%) Solaris
6 9 (3.61%) Mac OS
6 9 (3.61%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.21%) CentOS
8 7 (2.81%) Rocky
9 5 (2.01%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.40%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (32.53%) CI/CD
2 78 (31.33%) DevOps
3 63 (25.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 63 (25.30%) Mentoring
4 56 (22.49%) Agile
5 55 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (21.69%) Coaching
7 48 (19.28%) Test Automation
8 43 (17.27%) Scrum
9 39 (15.66%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (13.25%) Containerisation
10 33 (13.25%) Software Engineering
11 29 (11.65%) Incident Response
12 28 (11.24%) ITIL
13 26 (10.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 23 (9.24%) Validation
16 22 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (8.43%) High Availability
17 21 (8.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.92%) Python
2 66 (26.51%) SQL
3 45 (18.07%) Bash
4 37 (14.86%) Java
5 27 (10.84%) Shell Script
6 26 (10.44%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.23%) C++
7 18 (7.23%) Perl
7 18 (7.23%) PL/SQL
8 13 (5.22%) Korn
9 12 (4.82%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.61%) C
11 8 (3.21%) Rust
12 7 (2.81%) Ruby
13 6 (2.41%) MATLAB
14 4 (1.61%) C#
14 4 (1.61%) Go
14 4 (1.61%) PHP
15 3 (1.20%) Ada
15 3 (1.20%) Ada 95
Qualifications
1 51 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.47%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.25%) Degree
4 21 (8.43%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.41%) HND
7 5 (2.01%) CISSP
8 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.61%) CISM
8 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.20%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.20%) CEH
9 3 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.20%) GCIH
9 3 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.20%) RHCE
9 3 (1.20%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.20%) SANS
10 2 (0.80%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.04%) QA
2 4 (1.61%) ISO 14001
2 4 (1.61%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.61%) NIST
3 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) MIL-STD-1553
4 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) COBIT
5 1 (0.40%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.40%) ITGC
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (10.84%) Docker
2 12 (4.82%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 3 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.80%) Firmware
5 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.40%) GPFS
5 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.40%) KVM
5 1 (0.40%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 27 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.43%) Ansible
3 18 (7.23%) Puppet
4 14 (5.62%) Argo
5 13 (5.22%) Grafana
5 13 (5.22%) Oracle RMAN
5 13 (5.22%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.02%) Data Guard
6 10 (4.02%) Nagios
7 4 (1.61%) Podman
8 3 (1.20%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.80%) Kibana
9 2 (0.80%) logstash
10 1 (0.40%) Control-M
10 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.40%) Nmap
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.40%) SCCM
10 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (25.30%) Oracle
2 25 (10.04%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.04%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.22%) IBM
4 12 (4.82%) Pega
5 8 (3.21%) Bloomberg
6 7 (2.81%) CQG
6 7 (2.81%) Google
6 7 (2.81%) ION Trading
6 7 (2.81%) Patsystems
6 7 (2.81%) Reuters
6 7 (2.81%) Trayport
6 7 (2.81%) VMware
7 5 (2.01%) Adobe
7 5 (2.01%) Sybase
8 4 (1.61%) Apple
8 4 (1.61%) Cisco
8 4 (1.61%) Retek
8 4 (1.61%) Sage
8 4 (1.61%) SAP