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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 362 338
Rank change year-on-year -108 -24 -121
Permanent jobs citing Unix 212 285 673
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 0.75% 0.81%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.37% 4.72% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 103 179 484
10th Percentile £39,200 £34,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £82,548
90th Percentile £99,750 £95,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £67,000 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.44% +15.64% -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 4,847 6,033 12,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.06% 15.95% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,632 4,045 10,013
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -49 110 £81,500 +8.67% 43
North of England -85 32 £61,250 -11.72% 10
South West -41 28 £67,500 -6.24% 8
East of England -10 20 £61,500 +123.64% 8
North West -51 14 £60,000 -12.41% 6
Yorkshire -59 12 £69,310 -18.70% 2
South East -64 10 £62,500 +48.81% 21
Midlands -52 9 £28,500 -52.50% 17
West Midlands -43 8 £28,500 -52.50% 13
North East -35 6 £69,310 -0.11% 2
East Midlands -45 1 - - 4
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 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.47%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.47%) Apache
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.47%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) IIS
2 1 (0.47%) nginx
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (7.08%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.89%) Line 50
1 4 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.42%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 81 (38.21%) AWS
2 61 (28.77%) Azure
3 22 (10.38%) Pulumi
4 20 (9.43%) GCP
5 19 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (8.02%) SaaS
7 14 (6.60%) Azure AKS
7 14 (6.60%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (6.60%) PaaS
8 13 (6.13%) GitHub
9 11 (5.19%) IaaS
9 11 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (3.30%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.83%) Apigee
11 6 (2.83%) Kong
11 6 (2.83%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.89%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.91%) Firewall
2 19 (8.96%) Broadband
3 17 (8.02%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.25%) DNS
4 9 (4.25%) HTTPS
5 8 (3.77%) 5G
5 8 (3.77%) SD-WAN
5 8 (3.77%) WAN
6 7 (3.30%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.89%) Network Security
7 4 (1.89%) VoIP
8 3 (1.42%) CHAP
8 3 (1.42%) FIX Connectivity
8 3 (1.42%) MPLS
8 3 (1.42%) VLAN
8 3 (1.42%) VPN
9 2 (0.94%) Internet
10 1 (0.47%) BGP
10 1 (0.47%) DHCP
10 1 (0.47%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.79%) NoSQL
1 25 (11.79%) Relational Database
2 20 (9.43%) RDBMS
3 19 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (8.02%) MongoDB
5 8 (3.77%) Oracle Database
6 6 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.83%) Power BI
6 6 (2.83%) Tableau
7 4 (1.89%) FileMaker
7 4 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.42%) Big Data
8 3 (1.42%) DB2
8 3 (1.42%) Redis
9 2 (0.94%) Informix
9 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.47%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (11.79%) GitLab
2 19 (8.96%) Jaeger
3 14 (6.60%) Git
4 9 (4.25%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.77%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.77%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.89%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.42%) Selenium
8 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.94%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.94%) Gradle
8 2 (0.94%) JIRA
8 2 (0.94%) JMeter
8 2 (0.94%) Maven
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 69 (32.55%) Finance
2 57 (26.89%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 20 (9.43%) Banking
7 16 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (5.66%) German Language
9 9 (4.25%) Electronics
10 7 (3.30%) Legal
10 7 (3.30%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.83%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.36%) Front Office
13 4 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.42%) Back Office
14 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.42%) Japanese Language
14 3 (1.42%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (17.92%) Senior
2 21 (9.91%) Cloud Engineer
2 21 (9.91%) Lead
3 18 (8.49%) Automation Engineer
4 17 (8.02%) Linux Engineer
5 16 (7.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (7.08%) Senior DevOps
6 15 (7.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 14 (6.60%) Analyst
8 12 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (5.66%) Developer
9 11 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (5.19%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 11 (5.19%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 11 (5.19%) GCP Engineer
9 11 (5.19%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.19%) Security Engineer
9 11 (5.19%) Unix Engineer
9 11 (5.19%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 9 (4.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.68%) JSON
1 29 (13.68%) XML
2 26 (12.26%) HTML
3 24 (11.32%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (10.38%) Regular Expression
5 19 (8.96%) OpenTelemetry
6 16 (7.55%) Node.js
7 9 (4.25%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (4.25%) REST
8 8 (3.77%) pytest
9 6 (2.83%) Jinja
9 6 (2.83%) YAML
9 6 (2.83%) YANG
10 4 (1.89%) CSS
10 4 (1.89%) Kafka
11 3 (1.42%) .NET
11 3 (1.42%) Django
11 3 (1.42%) Middleware
11 3 (1.42%) OAuth
11 3 (1.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.15%) Linux Command Line
2 24 (11.32%) Onboarding
3 18 (8.49%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (7.55%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.13%) Hedge funds
5 13 (6.13%) Security Posture
6 12 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (4.25%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (3.77%) Data Centre
8 8 (3.77%) Self-Driving Car
9 7 (3.30%) Clustering
10 5 (2.36%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.36%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (1.89%) IoT
11 4 (1.89%) NHS
11 4 (1.89%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.42%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 146 (68.87%) Linux
2 56 (26.42%) Windows
3 17 (8.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.83%) AIX
4 6 (2.83%) Solaris
4 6 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.36%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.89%) Kali Linux
7 3 (1.42%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.94%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.47%) CentOS
9 1 (0.47%) Debian
9 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.47%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (31.60%) DevOps
2 53 (25.00%) Agile
3 52 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (22.64%) CI/CD
5 45 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (19.81%) Mentoring
6 42 (19.81%) Test Automation
7 40 (18.87%) AI
8 39 (18.40%) Continuous Integration
9 35 (16.51%) Task Automation
10 33 (15.57%) Containerisation
11 31 (14.62%) High Availability
12 29 (13.68%) Roadmaps
13 27 (12.74%) Data Analysis
14 26 (12.26%) Computer Science
15 25 (11.79%) Incident Response
16 22 (10.38%) Coaching
16 22 (10.38%) LLM
17 21 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (9.91%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 126 (59.43%) Python
2 55 (25.94%) Bash
3 48 (22.64%) Java
4 30 (14.15%) SQL
5 27 (12.74%) JavaScript
6 22 (10.38%) Go
7 12 (5.66%) PowerShell
7 12 (5.66%) Shell Script
8 8 (3.77%) MATLAB
9 7 (3.30%) C#
10 6 (2.83%) Rust
11 5 (2.36%) C++
11 5 (2.36%) VB
11 5 (2.36%) VBA
11 5 (2.36%) VBScript
12 4 (1.89%) Korn
12 4 (1.89%) Perl
12 4 (1.89%) PHP
12 4 (1.89%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.42%) C
Qualifications
1 65 (30.66%) Degree
2 24 (11.32%) AWS Certification
3 22 (10.38%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.55%) CISSP
5 16 (7.55%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.19%) CCSK
7 8 (3.77%) HND
8 6 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.36%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.36%) OSCP
10 4 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.89%) CISA
10 4 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.89%) CISM
10 4 (1.89%) SANS
11 3 (1.42%) CCNA
11 3 (1.42%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.72%) QA
2 5 (2.36%) NIST
2 5 (2.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (2.36%) SLA
3 4 (1.89%) GDPR
3 4 (1.89%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.89%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.42%) COBIT
5 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.47%) ITGC
6 1 (0.47%) MiFID
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (16.04%) Docker
2 15 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.30%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.36%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.47%) Firmware
5 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (29.25%) Terraform
2 48 (22.64%) Ansible
3 39 (18.40%) Kubernetes
4 33 (15.57%) Argo
5 24 (11.32%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.96%) Kustomize
7 8 (3.77%) Grafana
8 7 (3.30%) Puppet
9 5 (2.36%) SCCM
10 4 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
10 4 (1.89%) Podman
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.42%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.42%) Data Guard
11 3 (1.42%) Nagios
12 2 (0.94%) Kibana
12 2 (0.94%) logstash
13 1 (0.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 34 (16.04%) Google
2 24 (11.32%) Red Hat
3 21 (9.91%) VMware
4 20 (9.43%) Oracle
5 18 (8.49%) Microsoft
6 11 (5.19%) IBM
7 10 (4.72%) Cisco
8 9 (4.25%) Adobe
8 9 (4.25%) Juniper
8 9 (4.25%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.30%) SAP
9 7 (3.30%) Splunk
9 7 (3.30%) Symantec
10 6 (2.83%) F5
11 5 (2.36%) Databricks
11 5 (2.36%) Snow
11 5 (2.36%) Workday
12 4 (1.89%) Apple
12 4 (1.89%) Mirantis
12 4 (1.89%) Sage