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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 378 302
Rank change year-on-year -136 -76 -100
Permanent jobs citing Unix 256 289 598
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.67% 0.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.29% 4.77% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 185 177 301
10th Percentile £38,000 £27,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £48,750
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 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,576 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.92% +4.17% -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 5,968 6,062 8,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.93% 14.05% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 4,465 3,919 5,558
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £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 16 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 16 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 -79 109 £70,000 -12.50% 379
North of England -29 59 £67,440 +17.29% 51
South West -52 48 £66,250 -15.94% 34
North West +4 29 £64,038 +60.09% 23
Yorkshire -24 20 £69,306 +10.89% 18
Midlands -33 19 £61,500 -12.14% 29
West Midlands -38 16 £65,903 -12.13% 26
North East -57 10 £69,308 +45.91% 10
East of England -53 7 £60,750 +42.94% 25
South East -97 6 £62,500 +50.60% 57
East Midlands -35 3 £61,500 +6.03% 3
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 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.13%) Confluence
3 3 (1.17%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.78%) Documentum
4 2 (0.78%) JBoss
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.39%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.69%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.13%) Fidessa
3 5 (1.95%) Oracle Applications
3 5 (1.95%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.95%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (1.95%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.56%) Line 50
4 4 (1.56%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (1.56%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (1.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.56%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.78%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 93 (36.33%) AWS
2 67 (26.17%) Azure
3 36 (14.06%) GCP
4 20 (7.81%) Azure AKS
5 19 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.47%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (4.30%) SaaS
8 9 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (3.52%) GitHub
9 8 (3.13%) OCI
10 7 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.73%) dbt
11 6 (2.34%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.34%) Slack
12 5 (1.95%) Datadog
12 5 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (0.78%) Amazon S3
14 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.89%) DNS
2 30 (11.72%) TCP/IP
3 17 (6.64%) DHCP
3 17 (6.64%) Firewall
4 14 (5.47%) 3GPP
4 14 (5.47%) MGW
4 14 (5.47%) MVNO
4 14 (5.47%) Packet Switching
4 14 (5.47%) RTP
4 14 (5.47%) SGSN
4 14 (5.47%) SMPP
5 11 (4.30%) VPN
6 8 (3.13%) FIX Connectivity
7 7 (2.73%) Network Security
8 6 (2.34%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (2.34%) SSH
8 6 (2.34%) WAN
9 4 (1.56%) 5G
9 4 (1.56%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.20%) MongoDB
2 19 (7.42%) Oracle Database
3 18 (7.03%) SQL Server
4 17 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (2.73%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (2.73%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.56%) FileMaker
7 3 (1.17%) Db2
7 3 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.17%) KDB
7 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.78%) MySQL
8 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.78%) Redis
8 2 (0.78%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 23 (8.98%) Git
1 23 (8.98%) GitLab
2 19 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.69%) JIRA
4 8 (3.13%) Eclipse
5 7 (2.73%) Subversion
6 5 (1.95%) Selenium
7 4 (1.56%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.56%) Maven
7 4 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.56%) Toad
8 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.17%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.78%) Gradle
9 2 (0.78%) JMeter
9 2 (0.78%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.39%) Flyway
General
1 82 (32.03%) Finance
2 60 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 48 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 37 (14.45%) Banking
5 30 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.30%) Retail
8 9 (3.52%) Front Office
9 8 (3.13%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.34%) Electronics
11 4 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.56%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.56%) Legal
11 4 (1.56%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.17%) Aviation
12 3 (1.17%) Avionics
12 3 (1.17%) Japanese Language
12 3 (1.17%) Military
13 2 (0.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 87 (33.98%) Senior
2 32 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (12.11%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (10.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 24 (9.38%) Developer
6 18 (7.03%) Administrator
6 18 (7.03%) Analyst
7 17 (6.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (6.25%) DBA
8 16 (6.25%) Support Analyst
9 14 (5.47%) Network Engineer
10 13 (5.08%) Applications Support
10 13 (5.08%) Linux Engineer
10 13 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.08%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.69%) Lead
11 12 (4.69%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.69%) Test Engineer
12 11 (4.30%) IT Support
12 11 (4.30%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (18.36%) Terraform
2 18 (7.03%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (5.86%) Node.js
4 10 (3.91%) Web Services
5 9 (3.52%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (3.52%) REST
5 9 (3.52%) RESTful
6 8 (3.13%) React
6 8 (3.13%) Struts
7 7 (2.73%) HTML
7 7 (2.73%) Kafka
8 6 (2.34%) CSS
9 5 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.95%) Middleware
10 4 (1.56%) pytest
10 4 (1.56%) YAML
11 3 (1.17%) Spring
12 2 (0.78%) Django
12 2 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (0.78%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.86%) Onboarding
2 14 (5.47%) IVR
3 13 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.13%) Eurex
5 8 (3.13%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.34%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.56%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.56%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.17%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 216 (84.38%) Linux
2 83 (32.42%) Windows
3 26 (10.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.08%) AIX
5 11 (4.30%) Solaris
5 11 (4.30%) Windows Server
6 10 (3.91%) CentOS
6 10 (3.91%) Mac OS
6 10 (3.91%) Oracle Linux
7 9 (3.52%) Rocky
8 7 (2.73%) Ubuntu
9 6 (2.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (31.64%) CI/CD
2 79 (30.86%) DevOps
3 64 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 64 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 59 (23.05%) Agile
5 57 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (21.88%) Coaching
7 50 (19.53%) Test Automation
8 43 (16.80%) Scrum
9 39 (15.23%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (12.89%) Software Engineering
11 32 (12.50%) Containerisation
12 30 (11.72%) ITIL
13 27 (10.55%) Incident Response
14 25 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 24 (9.38%) Validation
16 23 (8.98%) Runbook
17 22 (8.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 22 (8.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 81 (31.64%) Python
2 71 (27.73%) SQL
3 49 (19.14%) Bash
4 38 (14.84%) Java
5 26 (10.16%) JavaScript
5 26 (10.16%) Shell Script
6 19 (7.42%) Perl
6 19 (7.42%) PL/SQL
7 18 (7.03%) C++
8 16 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.69%) Korn
10 8 (3.13%) C
10 8 (3.13%) Ruby
10 8 (3.13%) Rust
11 6 (2.34%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.95%) C#
12 5 (1.95%) Go
13 4 (1.56%) PHP
14 3 (1.17%) Ada
14 3 (1.17%) Ada 95
Qualifications
1 51 (19.92%) Security Cleared
2 41 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.11%) Degree
4 20 (7.81%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.34%) A+ Certification
6 6 (2.34%) HND
6 6 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (1.95%) CISSP
8 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.56%) CISM
9 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.17%) CEH
9 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.17%) GCIH
9 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.17%) RHCE
9 3 (1.17%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.17%) SANS
10 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.33%) QA
2 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.56%) GDPR
3 4 (1.56%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.56%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.56%) NIST
4 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.17%) MIL-STD-1553
5 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) COBIT
6 1 (0.39%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.39%) ITGC
System Software
1 29 (11.33%) Docker
2 11 (4.30%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.39%) Firmware
6 1 (0.39%) GPFS
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) KVM
6 1 (0.39%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 25 (9.77%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.42%) Ansible
3 18 (7.03%) Puppet
4 14 (5.47%) Argo
5 13 (5.08%) Grafana
5 13 (5.08%) Oracle RMAN
5 13 (5.08%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.91%) Data Guard
6 10 (3.91%) Nagios
7 4 (1.56%) Podman
8 3 (1.17%) logstash
9 2 (0.78%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.78%) Kibana
9 2 (0.78%) Nmap
10 1 (0.39%) Control-M
10 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (26.17%) Oracle
2 26 (10.16%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.77%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.69%) IBM
4 12 (4.69%) Pega
5 9 (3.52%) Bloomberg
6 8 (3.13%) CQG
6 8 (3.13%) Google
6 8 (3.13%) ION Trading
6 8 (3.13%) Patsystems
6 8 (3.13%) Reuters
6 8 (3.13%) Trayport
7 6 (2.34%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.95%) Sybase
8 5 (1.95%) VMware
9 4 (1.56%) Adobe
9 4 (1.56%) Apple
9 4 (1.56%) Retek
9 4 (1.56%) Sage
9 4 (1.56%) SAP