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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 252 305
Rank change year-on-year -124 +53 -108
Permanent jobs citing Unix 285 543 614
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.27% 0.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.10% 8.20% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 144 204 479
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,375 £40,500
25th Percentile £52,411 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.08% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,315 £75,000 £82,524
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,644 £96,539
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

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 4,671 6,621 10,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.60% 15.46% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,528 3,871 8,711
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,293 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% +10.09% -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 26 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 26 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 +6 148 £75,000 +8.21% 28
South East -24 43 £58,000 +11.54% 24
South West 0 34 £60,000 -16.66% 4
East of England -20 24 £59,042 +2.68% 6
North of England -130 19 £55,000 -15.38% 16
Midlands -56 12 £73,801 +26.16% 15
West Midlands -41 9 £74,401 +24.00% 14
North West -94 7 £73,801 +44.00% 14
North East -9 6 £73,801 +18.08% 2
Yorkshire -62 6 £25,750 -69.80%
East Midlands -26 3 £40,000 -28.57% 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 29 (10.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (8.07%) Exchange Server 2003
3 15 (5.26%) Tomcat
4 12 (4.21%) WebSphere
5 11 (3.86%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (2.11%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.75%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.75%) WebLogic
8 3 (1.05%) Confluence
8 3 (1.05%) IIS
8 3 (1.05%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.35%) Apache
9 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.35%) nginx
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.75%) Shopify
3 4 (1.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.05%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (1.05%) Primavera
5 2 (0.70%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.35%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.35%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 102 (35.79%) AWS
2 66 (23.16%) Azure
3 48 (16.84%) GCP
4 33 (11.58%) Pulumi
5 27 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (7.02%) PaaS
7 18 (6.32%) Amazon ECR
7 18 (6.32%) GitHub
7 18 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (4.91%) dbt
8 14 (4.91%) SaaS
9 12 (4.21%) IaaS
10 11 (3.86%) OpenShift
10 11 (3.86%) Serverless
11 10 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (3.16%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (3.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (3.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.82%) TCP/IP
2 27 (9.47%) DNS
3 24 (8.42%) DHCP
4 21 (7.37%) Broadband
4 21 (7.37%) Firewall
5 13 (4.56%) SSL
6 10 (3.51%) WAN
7 9 (3.16%) VLAN
8 8 (2.81%) 5G
8 8 (2.81%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.81%) VPN
9 7 (2.46%) MPLS
10 6 (2.11%) HTTPS
11 5 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.75%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.40%) FIX Connectivity
13 3 (1.05%) VoIP
13 3 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
14 2 (0.70%) CHAP
14 2 (0.70%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.98%) Oracle Database
2 31 (10.88%) Relational Database
3 29 (10.18%) NoSQL
3 29 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (8.42%) Oracle Database 10g
5 20 (7.02%) RDBMS
6 19 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (4.91%) DB2
8 14 (4.91%) Redis
9 10 (3.51%) Big Data
10 9 (3.16%) Power BI
10 9 (3.16%) SQL Server
10 9 (3.16%) Tableau
11 7 (2.46%) Hadoop
11 7 (2.46%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (2.11%) Apache Hive
13 4 (1.40%) BigQuery
14 3 (1.05%) DynamoDB
14 3 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (6.67%) Jaeger
2 17 (5.96%) Git
3 12 (4.21%) LabVIEW
4 10 (3.51%) GitLab
5 9 (3.16%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.75%) JIRA
7 4 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.40%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.70%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.70%) Mocha
9 2 (0.70%) webpack
10 1 (0.35%) Selenium
10 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 68 (23.86%) Finance
2 61 (21.40%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (9.82%) Banking
6 16 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.26%) German Language
7 15 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.21%) Electronics
9 11 (3.86%) Investment Banking
9 11 (3.86%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.16%) Legal
11 7 (2.46%) Law
12 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.40%) Back Office
13 4 (1.40%) Front Office
13 4 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (17.54%) Senior
2 24 (8.42%) 3rd Line Support
3 23 (8.07%) Lead
3 23 (8.07%) Systems Support
4 20 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (6.67%) Analyst
5 19 (6.67%) Developer
5 19 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (5.96%) Linux Support
7 16 (5.61%) Administrator
7 16 (5.61%) Support Engineer
8 15 (5.26%) Applications Support
8 15 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
8 15 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
8 15 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
9 14 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (4.91%) Unix Support
9 14 (4.91%) Verification Engineer
10 13 (4.56%) Systems Administrator
11 12 (4.21%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.68%) JSON
2 37 (12.98%) XML
3 31 (10.88%) HTML
4 29 (10.18%) Regular Expression
5 27 (9.47%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
7 18 (6.32%) LDAP
8 14 (4.91%) Django
9 12 (4.21%) pytest
10 11 (3.86%) LAPP Stack
10 11 (3.86%) WebSphere MQ
11 9 (3.16%) REST
12 8 (2.81%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (2.81%) Middleware
12 8 (2.81%) OAuth
13 7 (2.46%) OAuth2
13 7 (2.46%) RESTful
14 6 (2.11%) Kafka
14 6 (2.11%) Node.js
14 6 (2.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 61 (21.40%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (11.58%) Onboarding
3 24 (8.42%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.21%) Hedge funds
5 12 (4.21%) Security Posture
6 11 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.81%) Self-Driving Car
8 7 (2.46%) Clustering
8 7 (2.46%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.11%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.40%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.40%) GNSS
10 4 (1.40%) NHS
10 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.40%) Satnav
10 4 (1.40%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 178 (62.46%) Linux
2 84 (29.47%) Windows
3 30 (10.53%) Solaris
4 25 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (8.42%) HPUX
6 23 (8.07%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (7.72%) Windows 7
7 22 (7.72%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (3.16%) AIX
9 8 (2.81%) Windows Server
10 6 (2.11%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.40%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.70%) Debian
13 2 (0.70%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.35%) CentOS
14 1 (0.35%) SUSE
14 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (23.86%) DevOps
2 66 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (20.00%) AI
5 47 (16.49%) Agile
6 46 (16.14%) High Availability
7 42 (14.74%) ITIL
8 41 (14.39%) CI/CD
8 41 (14.39%) Containerisation
9 37 (12.98%) Data Analysis
10 36 (12.63%) Incident Management
11 35 (12.28%) Task Automation
12 34 (11.93%) Computer Science
13 33 (11.58%) Change Management
14 31 (10.88%) Incident Response
15 29 (10.18%) LLM
16 28 (9.82%) Mentoring
16 28 (9.82%) Test Automation
17 26 (9.12%) Analytics
17 26 (9.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 182 (63.86%) Python
2 59 (20.70%) Bash
3 54 (18.95%) SQL
4 41 (14.39%) Java
4 41 (14.39%) PowerShell
5 39 (13.68%) JavaScript
6 26 (9.12%) Perl
7 22 (7.72%) Go
8 18 (6.32%) Shell Script
9 12 (4.21%) MATLAB
10 9 (3.16%) C#
11 8 (2.81%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.11%) R
13 5 (1.75%) C++
13 5 (1.75%) VB
14 4 (1.40%) C
14 4 (1.40%) VBA
14 4 (1.40%) VBScript
15 3 (1.05%) Korn
16 2 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 98 (34.39%) Degree
2 72 (25.26%) Security Cleared
3 60 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 39 (13.68%) AWS Certification
5 34 (11.93%) DV Cleared
6 29 (10.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (6.32%) CISSP
8 16 (5.61%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (4.91%) CCNA
9 14 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (4.21%) HND
11 11 (3.86%) CCSK
12 7 (2.46%) CCNP
12 7 (2.46%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (2.11%) CISA
14 5 (1.75%) Master's Degree
15 4 (1.40%) ACCA
15 4 (1.40%) CIMA
15 4 (1.40%) PhD
16 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (14.04%) SLA
2 11 (3.86%) GDPR
3 6 (2.11%) QA
4 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.70%) COBIT
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (18.60%) Docker
2 42 (14.74%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (1.40%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.70%) XenApp
6 2 (0.70%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (20.70%) Terraform
2 50 (17.54%) Ansible
3 46 (16.14%) Kubernetes
4 26 (9.12%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.67%) Argo
5 19 (6.67%) Kustomize
6 13 (4.56%) Grafana
7 9 (3.16%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (2.46%) SCCM
9 3 (1.05%) Data Guard
9 3 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.05%) Nagios
9 3 (1.05%) Netcool
9 3 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (1.05%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (1.05%) Podman
9 3 (1.05%) Puppet
10 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.35%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 57 (20.00%) Google
2 56 (19.65%) Oracle
3 45 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 40 (14.04%) VMware
5 30 (10.53%) IBM
5 30 (10.53%) Red Hat
6 20 (7.02%) Cisco
7 15 (5.26%) SAP
8 12 (4.21%) Dell
8 12 (4.21%) ServiceNow
8 12 (4.21%) Splunk
9 11 (3.86%) Juniper
9 11 (3.86%) Palo Alto
10 9 (3.16%) Workday
11 8 (2.81%) Fortinet
11 8 (2.81%) IFS
12 7 (2.46%) Arista
12 7 (2.46%) HP
12 7 (2.46%) Snow
12 7 (2.46%) Symantec