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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 337 350
Rank change year-on-year -117 +13 -141
Permanent jobs citing Unix 225 306 642
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.82% 0.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.60% 5.03% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 110 184 477
10th Percentile £41,125 £34,300 £39,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,555 £82,751 £82,548
90th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.92% +15.64% -14.29%

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 4,890 6,082 12,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.24% 16.27% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,673 4,091 10,026
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.22% +7.78% -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 24 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 24 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 -32 113 £81,500 +8.67% 29
North of England -90 28 £60,000 -13.52% 13
South West -46 27 £67,500 -6.24% 6
East of England -24 24 £61,500 +0.41% 3
South East -66 21 £58,000 +38.10% 21
North West -58 12 £60,000 -12.41% 8
Yorkshire -63 11 £69,310 -18.70% 1
Midlands -55 9 £28,500 -52.50% 13
West Midlands -34 8 £28,500 -52.50% 7
North East -35 5 £58,877 -15.14% 4
East Midlands -58 1 - - 6
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 13 (5.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (4.44%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (0.89%) Anypoint
3 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.89%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.33%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (1.33%) Line 50
3 2 (0.89%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.89%) Shopify
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 80 (35.56%) AWS
2 60 (26.67%) Azure
3 22 (9.78%) GCP
3 22 (9.78%) Pulumi
4 16 (7.11%) SaaS
5 15 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.22%) GitHub
6 14 (6.22%) PaaS
7 11 (4.89%) Azure AKS
7 11 (4.89%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (4.89%) IaaS
7 11 (4.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (3.56%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.67%) Apigee
10 6 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.67%) Kong
10 6 (2.67%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.22%) Firewall
2 19 (8.44%) Broadband
3 18 (8.00%) DNS
4 17 (7.56%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.44%) DHCP
6 9 (4.00%) HTTPS
7 8 (3.56%) 5G
7 8 (3.56%) SD-WAN
7 8 (3.56%) WAN
8 7 (3.11%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (1.78%) FIX Connectivity
9 4 (1.78%) VLAN
10 3 (1.33%) CHAP
10 3 (1.33%) MPLS
10 3 (1.33%) Network Security
10 3 (1.33%) VoIP
10 3 (1.33%) VPN
11 2 (0.89%) Internet
11 2 (0.89%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.56%) NoSQL
2 25 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 20 (8.89%) RDBMS
4 19 (8.44%) Oracle Database
5 17 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (6.22%) MongoDB
7 11 (4.89%) Oracle Database 10g
8 6 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.67%) Power BI
8 6 (2.67%) Tableau
9 4 (1.78%) Big Data
9 4 (1.78%) DB2
9 4 (1.78%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.33%) FileMaker
10 3 (1.33%) Redis
10 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.89%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.89%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.89%) Informix
Development Applications
1 22 (9.78%) GitLab
2 19 (8.44%) Jaeger
3 14 (6.22%) Git
4 9 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.56%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.56%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.78%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.33%) JIRA
7 3 (1.33%) Selenium
8 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.89%) Gradle
8 2 (0.89%) JMeter
8 2 (0.89%) Maven
9 1 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.44%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (28.89%) Finance
2 58 (25.78%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.78%) Banking
6 19 (8.44%) Public Sector
7 16 (7.11%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (6.67%) German Language
9 9 (4.00%) Electronics
10 8 (3.56%) Telecoms
11 7 (3.11%) Investment Banking
11 7 (3.11%) Legal
12 5 (2.22%) Front Office
13 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.78%) Law
13 4 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.33%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.33%) Back Office
14 3 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.33%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 36 (16.00%) Senior
2 20 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (8.89%) Lead
3 18 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
4 17 (7.56%) Linux Engineer
5 14 (6.22%) Analyst
5 14 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (5.78%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (5.78%) Senior DevOps
6 13 (5.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.33%) 3rd Line Support
8 11 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Developer
8 11 (4.89%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Python Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Security Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Unix Engineer
8 11 (4.89%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.56%) JSON
1 35 (15.56%) XML
2 30 (13.33%) HTML
3 27 (12.00%) Regular Expression
4 25 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (8.44%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (5.78%) Node.js
7 10 (4.44%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (4.00%) REST
9 8 (3.56%) pytest
10 6 (2.67%) Jinja
10 6 (2.67%) YAML
10 6 (2.67%) YANG
11 4 (1.78%) Kafka
11 4 (1.78%) LDAP
11 4 (1.78%) OAuth
11 4 (1.78%) RESTful
12 3 (1.33%) .NET
12 3 (1.33%) CSS
12 3 (1.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.44%) Linux Command Line
2 29 (12.89%) Onboarding
3 18 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (7.56%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.78%) Hedge funds
6 12 (5.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (5.33%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.56%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (3.56%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.56%) Self-Driving Car
8 7 (3.11%) Clustering
9 5 (2.22%) Blockchain
9 5 (2.22%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.22%) IoT
10 4 (1.78%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.78%) NHS
10 4 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.78%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 143 (63.56%) Linux
2 64 (28.44%) Windows
3 18 (8.00%) Solaris
4 16 (7.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.89%) HPUX
6 10 (4.44%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (4.00%) Windows 7
7 9 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (3.11%) Windows Server
9 6 (2.67%) AIX
10 4 (1.78%) Kali Linux
10 4 (1.78%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.33%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.44%) CentOS
12 1 (0.44%) Debian
12 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.44%) ThreadX
12 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.44%) DevOps
2 54 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (22.22%) Agile
4 48 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (20.89%) AI
6 45 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 38 (16.89%) Mentoring
7 38 (16.89%) Test Automation
8 37 (16.44%) Containerisation
9 36 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
9 36 (16.00%) Task Automation
10 33 (14.67%) High Availability
11 32 (14.22%) Data Analysis
12 29 (12.89%) Roadmaps
13 28 (12.44%) Computer Science
14 27 (12.00%) LLM
15 25 (11.11%) Incident Response
16 24 (10.67%) ITIL
17 21 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 21 (9.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (60.00%) Python
2 57 (25.33%) Bash
3 46 (20.44%) Java
4 31 (13.78%) SQL
5 29 (12.89%) JavaScript
6 23 (10.22%) PowerShell
7 22 (9.78%) Go
8 13 (5.78%) Perl
8 13 (5.78%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.56%) C#
9 8 (3.56%) MATLAB
10 5 (2.22%) C++
10 5 (2.22%) Rust
10 5 (2.22%) VB
10 5 (2.22%) VBA
10 5 (2.22%) VBScript
11 4 (1.78%) Korn
11 4 (1.78%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.33%) C
12 3 (1.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 72 (32.00%) Degree
2 34 (15.11%) Security Cleared
3 26 (11.56%) AWS Certification
4 25 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 21 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.67%) CISSP
7 12 (5.33%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.89%) CCSK
9 8 (3.56%) HND
10 7 (3.11%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (2.22%) OSCP
12 4 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.78%) CISA
12 4 (1.78%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.33%) CCNA
13 3 (1.33%) CGEIT
13 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.33%) CISM
13 3 (1.33%) FFIEC
13 3 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.11%) SLA
2 9 (4.00%) QA
3 5 (2.22%) GDPR
3 5 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.78%) NIST
5 3 (1.33%) COBIT
5 3 (1.33%) ISO 14001
5 3 (1.33%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) ITGC
6 1 (0.44%) MiFID
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (16.00%) Docker
2 19 (8.44%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.44%) Firmware
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (25.78%) Terraform
2 50 (22.22%) Ansible
3 42 (18.67%) Kubernetes
4 30 (13.33%) Argo
5 24 (10.67%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.44%) Kustomize
7 9 (4.00%) Grafana
8 5 (2.22%) SCCM
9 4 (1.78%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.78%) Podman
9 4 (1.78%) Puppet
10 3 (1.33%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.33%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.33%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.33%) Nagios
11 2 (0.89%) Kibana
11 2 (0.89%) logstash
12 1 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 34 (15.11%) Google
2 33 (14.67%) Oracle
3 31 (13.78%) VMware
4 28 (12.44%) Microsoft
5 24 (10.67%) Red Hat
6 13 (5.78%) IBM
7 11 (4.89%) Cisco
8 9 (4.00%) Juniper
8 9 (4.00%) Palo Alto
9 8 (3.56%) Adobe
9 8 (3.56%) SAP
9 8 (3.56%) Splunk
10 7 (3.11%) Symantec
11 6 (2.67%) F5
11 6 (2.67%) Workday
12 5 (2.22%) Databricks
12 5 (2.22%) Dell
12 5 (2.22%) Snow
13 4 (1.78%) HP
13 4 (1.78%) Mirantis