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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 288 342
Rank change year-on-year -130 +54 -138
Permanent jobs citing Unix 267 377 623
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 1.03% 0.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.46% 6.77% 5.24%
Number of salaries quoted 140 200 463
10th Percentile £41,125 £36,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £49,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,852 £82,751 £82,548
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £100,064
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -13.60%

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 4,886 5,568 11,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.90% 15.23% 15.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,698 3,994 9,905
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £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 2 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 2 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 -22 138 £75,000 +7.14% 39
South East -48 37 £58,000 +41.46% 21
East of England -22 27 £61,500 +2.50% 4
South West -26 26 £60,000 -16.66% 3
North of England -127 21 £56,000 -19.29% 20
Midlands -59 13 £73,801 +20.49% 12
West Midlands -44 10 £73,801 +23.00% 8
North West -73 10 £61,250 -10.54% 10
North East -27 6 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Yorkshire -62 5 £25,750 -69.80% 7
East Midlands -45 3 £40,000 -42.86% 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 26 (9.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (8.24%) Exchange Server 2003
3 8 (3.00%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.87%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.87%) WebLogic
4 5 (1.87%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.87%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (1.50%) Confluence
6 3 (1.12%) IIS
6 3 (1.12%) WebLogic Portal
7 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.37%) Apache
8 1 (0.37%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.37%) nginx
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (7.49%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.62%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.87%) Shopify
3 4 (1.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.12%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (1.12%) Primavera
5 2 (0.75%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.37%) Line 50
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.37%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 90 (33.71%) AWS
2 68 (25.47%) Azure
3 37 (13.86%) GCP
4 33 (12.36%) Pulumi
5 23 (8.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (7.49%) GitHub
6 20 (7.49%) PaaS
7 16 (5.99%) Amazon ECR
7 16 (5.99%) SaaS
8 14 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (5.24%) dbt
9 13 (4.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (4.49%) IaaS
11 9 (3.37%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 9 (3.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (3.37%) Power Platform
11 9 (3.37%) Sentry
12 8 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (3.00%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.36%) TCP/IP
2 31 (11.61%) DNS
3 27 (10.11%) Firewall
4 23 (8.61%) DHCP
5 20 (7.49%) Broadband
6 11 (4.12%) HTTPS
7 9 (3.37%) VLAN
8 8 (3.00%) 5G
8 8 (3.00%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (3.00%) SD-WAN
8 8 (3.00%) VPN
8 8 (3.00%) WAN
9 7 (2.62%) MPLS
10 6 (2.25%) SSL
11 4 (1.50%) FIX Connectivity
12 2 (0.75%) CHAP
12 2 (0.75%) Internet
12 2 (0.75%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.75%) VoIP
13 1 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.11%) Oracle Database
2 30 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 28 (10.49%) Relational Database
4 23 (8.61%) Oracle Database 10g
5 22 (8.24%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (7.49%) RDBMS
7 17 (6.37%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (5.24%) Redis
10 9 (3.37%) Power BI
10 9 (3.37%) Tableau
11 7 (2.62%) DB2
11 7 (2.62%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (2.62%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.50%) Big Data
13 3 (1.12%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.12%) MongoDB
13 3 (1.12%) Oracle Discoverer
14 2 (0.75%) Informix
14 2 (0.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (7.12%) Jaeger
2 16 (5.99%) Git
3 13 (4.87%) GitLab
4 11 (4.12%) LabVIEW
5 10 (3.75%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.37%) Jenkins
7 6 (2.25%) JIRA
8 4 (1.50%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.50%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.37%) Mocha
10 1 (0.37%) Selenium
10 1 (0.37%) webpack
10 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 71 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 68 (25.47%) Finance
3 38 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (9.36%) Banking
6 16 (5.99%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.62%) German Language
8 14 (5.24%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.87%) Electronics
10 12 (4.49%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.75%) Investment Banking
11 10 (3.75%) Legal
12 7 (2.62%) Law
13 6 (2.25%) Back Office
13 6 (2.25%) Front Office
13 6 (2.25%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 41 (15.36%) Senior
2 23 (8.61%) 3rd Line Support
2 23 (8.61%) Lead
3 22 (8.24%) Systems Support
4 21 (7.87%) Analyst
5 20 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (7.12%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
8 17 (6.37%) Developer
9 16 (5.99%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (5.24%) Support Engineer
11 13 (4.87%) Verification Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) Product Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) Product Test Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) Security Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.73%) JSON
2 40 (14.98%) XML
3 32 (11.99%) HTML
4 29 (10.86%) Regular Expression
5 27 (10.11%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (7.12%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (5.24%) Django
8 11 (4.12%) pytest
8 11 (4.12%) REST
9 9 (3.37%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (3.00%) LDAP
11 7 (2.62%) RESTful
12 6 (2.25%) Jinja
12 6 (2.25%) YAML
12 6 (2.25%) YANG
13 5 (1.87%) LAPP Stack
13 5 (1.87%) Node.js
13 5 (1.87%) SOAP
13 5 (1.87%) Web Services
13 5 (1.87%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (19.48%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (12.36%) Onboarding
3 21 (7.87%) Management Information System
4 17 (6.37%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.87%) Hedge funds
6 12 (4.49%) Security Posture
7 11 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (3.37%) Data Centre
9 8 (3.00%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (3.00%) Self-Driving Car
10 7 (2.62%) Clustering
10 7 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.25%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.87%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.87%) IoT
13 4 (1.50%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (1.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (1.50%) NHS
13 4 (1.50%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 168 (62.92%) Linux
2 81 (30.34%) Windows
3 29 (10.86%) Solaris
4 23 (8.61%) HPUX
5 22 (8.24%) Windows Server 2003
6 21 (7.87%) Windows 7
6 21 (7.87%) Windows Server 2008
7 17 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.62%) Windows Server
9 5 (1.87%) AIX
10 4 (1.50%) Kali Linux
10 4 (1.50%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.50%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.37%) CentOS
12 1 (0.37%) Debian
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.37%) SUSE
12 1 (0.37%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.97%) DevOps
2 67 (25.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (19.85%) AI
5 48 (17.98%) Agile
6 46 (17.23%) CI/CD
7 43 (16.10%) Containerisation
8 39 (14.61%) Task Automation
9 38 (14.23%) Incident Management
10 37 (13.86%) Data Analysis
11 36 (13.48%) ITIL
12 35 (13.11%) High Availability
13 34 (12.73%) Computer Science
13 34 (12.73%) Incident Response
14 30 (11.24%) Test Automation
15 29 (10.86%) LLM
15 29 (10.86%) Mentoring
16 27 (10.11%) Roadmaps
17 25 (9.36%) Change Management
18 24 (8.99%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 174 (65.17%) Python
2 61 (22.85%) Bash
3 46 (17.23%) SQL
4 39 (14.61%) Java
4 39 (14.61%) PowerShell
5 38 (14.23%) JavaScript
6 25 (9.36%) Perl
7 22 (8.24%) Go
8 16 (5.99%) Shell Script
9 11 (4.12%) C#
9 11 (4.12%) MATLAB
10 7 (2.62%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.87%) C++
11 5 (1.87%) VB
11 5 (1.87%) VBA
11 5 (1.87%) VBScript
12 4 (1.50%) Korn
12 4 (1.50%) R
12 4 (1.50%) Rust
13 3 (1.12%) C
Qualifications
1 92 (34.46%) Degree
2 62 (23.22%) Security Cleared
3 53 (19.85%) SC Cleared
4 30 (11.24%) AWS Certification
5 27 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (10.11%) DV Cleared
6 17 (6.37%) CISSP
7 11 (4.12%) CCSK
7 11 (4.12%) HND
7 11 (4.12%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.62%) CCNA
8 7 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.62%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (1.87%) CISA
9 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.87%) OSCP
10 4 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.12%) ACCA
11 3 (1.12%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.36%) SLA
2 7 (2.62%) GDPR
2 7 (2.62%) QA
3 5 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.12%) NIST
6 2 (0.75%) COBIT
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (19.10%) Docker
2 35 (13.11%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.87%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (1.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (21.72%) Terraform
2 51 (19.10%) Ansible
3 47 (17.60%) Kubernetes
4 26 (9.74%) Prometheus
5 19 (7.12%) Argo
5 19 (7.12%) Kustomize
6 13 (4.87%) Grafana
7 9 (3.37%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (2.25%) SCCM
9 4 (1.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.12%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.12%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.12%) Nagios
10 3 (1.12%) Podman
11 2 (0.75%) Puppet
12 1 (0.37%) Ambari
12 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.37%) SCOM
12 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (20.22%) Oracle
2 47 (17.60%) Google
3 45 (16.85%) Microsoft
4 43 (16.10%) VMware
5 26 (9.74%) Red Hat
6 21 (7.87%) IBM
7 16 (5.99%) Cisco
8 14 (5.24%) Juniper
8 14 (5.24%) Palo Alto
8 14 (5.24%) SAP
9 12 (4.49%) Splunk
10 9 (3.37%) Workday
11 8 (3.00%) Dell
11 8 (3.00%) Fortinet
11 8 (3.00%) IFS
12 7 (2.62%) Arista
12 7 (2.62%) Symantec
13 6 (2.25%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.25%) HP
13 6 (2.25%) MuleSoft