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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 256 300
Rank change year-on-year -109 +44 -100
Permanent jobs citing Unix 291 549 634
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.25% 0.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.22% 8.06% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 148 202 496
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,625
25th Percentile £50,469 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £79,211 £74,258 £82,512
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £96,394
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 4,676 6,815 10,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.73% 15.48% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,526 3,888 8,747
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,043
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,860 £52,008 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.74% +9.49% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 0 148 £75,000 +15.38% 38
South East -25 44 £58,000 +11.54% 22
South West -5 34 £60,000 -16.66% 7
East of England -9 29 £43,085 -25.07% 8
North of England -114 19 £55,000 -4.35% 15
Midlands -67 12 £73,801 +34.18% 19
West Midlands -44 9 £74,401 +29.39% 16
North West -85 7 £73,801 +47.60% 13
North East -16 6 £73,801 +34.18% 2
Yorkshire -50 6 £25,750 -69.80%
East Midlands -24 3 £40,000 -27.27% 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 29 (9.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (7.90%) Exchange Server 2003
3 16 (5.50%) Tomcat
4 13 (4.47%) WebSphere
5 12 (4.12%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (1.72%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.72%) Confluence
6 5 (1.72%) WebLogic
7 4 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (1.03%) IIS
8 3 (1.03%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.34%) Apache
9 1 (0.34%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.34%) nginx
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (6.53%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.72%) Shopify
3 4 (1.37%) NEC Housing
3 4 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.03%) Primavera
5 2 (0.69%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.69%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 103 (35.40%) AWS
2 66 (22.68%) Azure
3 47 (16.15%) GCP
4 33 (11.34%) Pulumi
5 27 (9.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (6.87%) PaaS
7 18 (6.19%) Amazon ECR
7 18 (6.19%) GitHub
7 18 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (4.81%) dbt
9 13 (4.47%) SaaS
10 12 (4.12%) IaaS
11 11 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (3.78%) Serverless
12 10 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (3.44%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 9 (3.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.28%) TCP/IP
2 26 (8.93%) DNS
3 24 (8.25%) DHCP
4 21 (7.22%) Broadband
5 20 (6.87%) Firewall
6 14 (4.81%) SSL
7 10 (3.44%) WAN
8 9 (3.09%) VLAN
9 8 (2.75%) 5G
9 8 (2.75%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.75%) VPN
10 7 (2.41%) MPLS
11 5 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.72%) HTTPS
12 4 (1.37%) FIX Connectivity
12 4 (1.37%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (1.03%) VoIP
14 2 (0.69%) Internet
14 2 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.37%) Oracle Database
2 32 (11.00%) Relational Database
3 30 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (9.97%) NoSQL
5 24 (8.25%) Oracle Database 10g
6 20 (6.87%) RDBMS
7 19 (6.53%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (5.15%) DB2
10 14 (4.81%) Redis
10 14 (4.81%) SQL Server
11 9 (3.09%) Big Data
12 8 (2.75%) Power BI
12 8 (2.75%) Tableau
13 7 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (2.06%) Hadoop
15 5 (1.72%) Apache Hive
15 5 (1.72%) MySQL
16 4 (1.37%) MS Access
16 4 (1.37%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 19 (6.53%) Jaeger
2 17 (5.84%) Git
3 12 (4.12%) LabVIEW
4 10 (3.44%) GitLab
5 9 (3.09%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.41%) JIRA
7 4 (1.37%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (1.37%) Toad
8 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.69%) Mocha
9 2 (0.69%) webpack
10 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 67 (23.02%) Finance
2 60 (20.62%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (9.97%) Banking
6 16 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (5.50%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.15%) German Language
7 15 (5.15%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.47%) Electronics
9 12 (4.12%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.75%) Legal
11 7 (2.41%) Law
11 7 (2.41%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.06%) Front Office
13 4 (1.37%) Back Office
13 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.37%) Local Government
14 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (17.53%) Senior
2 24 (8.25%) 3rd Line Support
3 23 (7.90%) Lead
3 23 (7.90%) Systems Support
4 21 (7.22%) Analyst
4 21 (7.22%) Applications Support
5 20 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (6.87%) Support Engineer
6 19 (6.53%) Developer
6 19 (6.53%) Linux Support
6 19 (6.53%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (5.84%) Unix Support
8 16 (5.50%) Administrator
8 16 (5.50%) Infrastructure Support
8 16 (5.50%) Linux Engineer
9 15 (5.15%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (4.81%) Verification Engineer
11 13 (4.47%) Systems Administrator
12 12 (4.12%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.40%) JSON
2 37 (12.71%) XML
3 33 (11.34%) HTML
4 29 (9.97%) Regular Expression
5 27 (9.28%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (6.53%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (6.19%) LDAP
8 14 (4.81%) Django
9 12 (4.12%) LAPP Stack
9 12 (4.12%) pytest
9 12 (4.12%) WebSphere MQ
10 9 (3.09%) REST
11 8 (2.75%) Middleware
12 7 (2.41%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (2.41%) OAuth
12 7 (2.41%) RESTful
13 6 (2.06%) Kafka
13 6 (2.06%) Node.js
13 6 (2.06%) OAuth2
13 6 (2.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.96%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (11.34%) Onboarding
3 27 (9.28%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.12%) Hedge funds
5 12 (4.12%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.09%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.75%) Self-Driving Car
9 7 (2.41%) Clustering
9 7 (2.41%) e-Learning
10 6 (2.06%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.37%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.37%) IoT
12 4 (1.37%) NHS
12 4 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 179 (61.51%) Linux
2 90 (30.93%) Windows
3 33 (11.34%) Solaris
4 26 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (8.25%) HPUX
6 23 (7.90%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (7.56%) Windows 7
7 22 (7.56%) Windows Server 2008
8 13 (4.47%) Windows Server
9 8 (2.75%) AIX
10 7 (2.41%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.03%) Debian
13 2 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.34%) CentOS
14 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.34%) SUSE
14 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (23.37%) DevOps
2 66 (22.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 60 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (19.24%) AI
5 51 (17.53%) Agile
6 44 (15.12%) High Availability
7 42 (14.43%) ITIL
8 41 (14.09%) Containerisation
9 40 (13.75%) CI/CD
10 36 (12.37%) Data Analysis
10 36 (12.37%) Incident Management
11 35 (12.03%) Computer Science
12 34 (11.68%) Task Automation
13 33 (11.34%) Change Management
14 30 (10.31%) Test Automation
15 29 (9.97%) Incident Response
15 29 (9.97%) LLM
16 27 (9.28%) Mentoring
17 26 (8.93%) Analytics
17 26 (8.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 184 (63.23%) Python
2 59 (20.27%) Bash
3 58 (19.93%) SQL
4 43 (14.78%) PowerShell
5 40 (13.75%) JavaScript
6 39 (13.40%) Java
7 26 (8.93%) Perl
8 22 (7.56%) Go
8 22 (7.56%) Shell Script
9 12 (4.12%) MATLAB
10 11 (3.78%) C#
11 7 (2.41%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.41%) VB
12 6 (2.06%) C++
12 6 (2.06%) R
13 5 (1.72%) C
14 3 (1.03%) Fortran
14 3 (1.03%) Korn
14 3 (1.03%) VBA
14 3 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 103 (35.40%) Degree
2 74 (25.43%) Security Cleared
3 61 (20.96%) SC Cleared
4 41 (14.09%) AWS Certification
5 34 (11.68%) DV Cleared
6 29 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (6.19%) CISSP
8 17 (5.84%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (4.81%) CCNA
9 14 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (4.12%) HND
11 11 (3.78%) CCSK
12 7 (2.41%) CCNP
12 7 (2.41%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (2.06%) CISA
13 6 (2.06%) Master's Degree
14 5 (1.72%) PhD
15 4 (1.37%) ACCA
15 4 (1.37%) CIMA
16 2 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.43%) SLA
2 11 (3.78%) GDPR
3 8 (2.75%) QA
4 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.37%) NIST
6 2 (0.69%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (18.21%) Docker
2 41 (14.09%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.72%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (1.03%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.69%) XenApp
6 2 (0.69%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (20.27%) Terraform
2 49 (16.84%) Ansible
3 44 (15.12%) Kubernetes
4 26 (8.93%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.53%) Argo
5 19 (6.53%) Kustomize
6 13 (4.47%) Grafana
7 9 (3.09%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (2.06%) SCCM
9 4 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.03%) Netcool
10 3 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.03%) Podman
10 3 (1.03%) Puppet
11 2 (0.69%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.69%) Nagios
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (19.93%) Google
2 57 (19.59%) Oracle
3 44 (15.12%) Microsoft
4 41 (14.09%) VMware
5 31 (10.65%) Red Hat
6 29 (9.97%) IBM
7 20 (6.87%) Cisco
8 19 (6.53%) SAP
9 13 (4.47%) ServiceNow
10 12 (4.12%) Splunk
11 11 (3.78%) Dell
11 11 (3.78%) Juniper
11 11 (3.78%) Palo Alto
12 9 (3.09%) Workday
13 8 (2.75%) Fortinet
13 8 (2.75%) IFS
14 7 (2.41%) Arista
14 7 (2.41%) HP
14 7 (2.41%) Symantec
15 6 (2.06%) CheckPoint