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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 382 341
Rank change year-on-year -90 -41 -122
Permanent jobs citing Unix 212 277 663
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.71% 0.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.37% 4.48% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 106 181 474
10th Percentile £40,625 £31,250 £38,275
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £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 £100,625 £95,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,626 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% +12.71% -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 4,849 6,180 12,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.01% 15.88% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,629 4,077 9,919
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -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 8 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 8 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 -34 108 £81,500 +8.67% 60
North of England -71 32 £61,250 -11.72% 20
South West -36 30 £70,000 -2.77% 8
East of England -3 20 £61,500 +123.64% 8
North West -39 15 £60,000 -13.52% 12
Yorkshire -52 11 £69,310 -18.70% 7
South East -71 10 £62,500 +48.81% 29
Midlands -36 9 £28,500 -52.50% 17
West Midlands -36 7 £28,500 -52.50% 13
North East -32 6 £69,310 -0.11% 1
East Midlands -28 2 £61,500 -12.14% 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 2 (0.94%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) IIS
3 1 (0.47%) nginx
3 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
Cloud Services
1 82 (38.68%) AWS
2 62 (29.25%) Azure
3 22 (10.38%) Pulumi
4 21 (9.91%) GCP
5 19 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (8.49%) 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 8 (3.77%) 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 20 (9.43%) Firewall
2 19 (8.96%) Broadband
3 15 (7.08%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.25%) DNS
4 9 (4.25%) HTTPS
4 9 (4.25%) WAN
5 8 (3.77%) 5G
5 8 (3.77%) SD-WAN
6 7 (3.30%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.36%) Network Security
8 4 (1.89%) VoIP
9 3 (1.42%) CHAP
10 2 (0.94%) BGP
10 2 (0.94%) FIX Connectivity
10 2 (0.94%) Internet
10 2 (0.94%) MPLS
10 2 (0.94%) OSPF
10 2 (0.94%) VPN
11 1 (0.47%) DHCP
11 1 (0.47%) SSL
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 18 (8.49%) 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
8 3 (1.42%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.94%) Informix
10 1 (0.47%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.47%) KDB
Development Applications
1 26 (12.26%) 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%) JIRA
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%) JMeter
8 2 (0.94%) Maven
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (33.96%) Finance
2 56 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 31 (14.62%) 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 8 (3.77%) Legal
11 7 (3.30%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.83%) Investment Banking
13 5 (2.36%) Front Office
14 4 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.42%) Aerospace
15 3 (1.42%) Back Office
15 3 (1.42%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.42%) Japanese Language
15 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.94%) 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 13 (6.13%) 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%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.21%) JSON
1 28 (13.21%) 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 8 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.77%) pytest
7 8 (3.77%) REST
8 6 (2.83%) Jinja
8 6 (2.83%) YAML
8 6 (2.83%) YANG
9 4 (1.89%) CSS
9 4 (1.89%) Kafka
10 3 (1.42%) .NET
10 3 (1.42%) Django
10 3 (1.42%) Middleware
10 3 (1.42%) OAuth
11 2 (0.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.15%) Linux Command Line
2 23 (10.85%) Onboarding
3 18 (8.49%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (7.55%) Management Information System
5 14 (6.60%) Security Posture
6 13 (6.13%) Hedge funds
7 12 (5.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (4.72%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (4.25%) Data Centre
10 8 (3.77%) Self-Driving Car
11 7 (3.30%) Clustering
12 5 (2.36%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.89%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (1.89%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.89%) IoT
13 4 (1.89%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
14 3 (1.42%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 146 (68.87%) Linux
2 57 (26.89%) Windows
3 19 (8.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.30%) Solaris
5 6 (2.83%) AIX
5 6 (2.83%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.36%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.89%) Kali Linux
8 3 (1.42%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.94%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.47%) CentOS
10 1 (0.47%) Debian
10 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.47%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (32.55%) DevOps
2 53 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (24.53%) Agile
4 51 (24.06%) 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 32 (15.09%) Containerisation
10 32 (15.09%) High Availability
11 30 (14.15%) Roadmaps
12 27 (12.74%) Computer Science
12 27 (12.74%) Data Analysis
13 26 (12.26%) Incident Response
14 22 (10.38%) Coaching
14 22 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (10.38%) Information Security
14 22 (10.38%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 124 (58.49%) Python
2 56 (26.42%) Bash
3 47 (22.17%) Java
4 29 (13.68%) SQL
5 26 (12.26%) JavaScript
6 22 (10.38%) Go
7 13 (6.13%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.66%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.77%) MATLAB
10 6 (2.83%) 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 20 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (8.02%) CISSP
5 17 (8.02%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.19%) CCSK
7 8 (3.77%) HND
8 6 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (2.36%) CISM
9 5 (2.36%) OSCP
9 5 (2.36%) SANS
10 4 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.89%) CISA
10 4 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.42%) CGEIT
11 3 (1.42%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.25%) QA
2 6 (2.83%) NIST
3 5 (2.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.36%) SLA
4 4 (1.89%) ISO 14001
4 4 (1.89%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.42%) COBIT
5 3 (1.42%) GDPR
5 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) ITGC
7 1 (0.47%) MiFID
7 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (15.57%) 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 65 (30.66%) Terraform
2 49 (23.11%) Ansible
3 39 (18.40%) Kubernetes
4 33 (15.57%) Argo
5 24 (11.32%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.96%) Kustomize
7 9 (4.25%) Puppet
8 8 (3.77%) Grafana
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 27 (12.74%) Red Hat
3 21 (9.91%) VMware
4 20 (9.43%) Oracle
5 19 (8.96%) Microsoft
6 10 (4.72%) IBM
7 9 (4.25%) Adobe
7 9 (4.25%) Cisco
8 7 (3.30%) Juniper
8 7 (3.30%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.30%) Splunk
8 7 (3.30%) Symantec
9 6 (2.83%) F5
9 6 (2.83%) SAP
10 5 (2.36%) Databricks
10 5 (2.36%) Snow
11 4 (1.89%) Apple
11 4 (1.89%) Mirantis
11 4 (1.89%) Sage
11 4 (1.89%) Workday