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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 379 341
Rank change year-on-year -141 -38 -141
Permanent jobs citing Unix 229 296 547
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.68% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.89% 4.50% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 150 195 315
10th Percentile £49,399 £29,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,745 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £69,384 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +10.51% -6.99%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £104,500
UK median annual salary £69,306 £69,384 £62,783
% change year-on-year -0.11% +10.51% -6.99%

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 5,893 6,571 9,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.26% 15.01% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,435 4,374 6,791
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -13.54% -8.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -13.40% -7.62%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -92 99 £75,000 -6.25% 285
North of England -35 46 £69,306 +6.62% 31
South West -36 44 £66,250 -15.94% 24
North West +6 26 £62,500 -15.65% 21
Midlands -46 17 £62,500 -9.17% 9
West Midlands -30 15 £69,306 -0.99% 7
Yorkshire -21 13 £69,310 +10.90% 7
South East -58 10 £62,500 +66.67% 49
East of England -37 7 £61,500 +75.71% 11
North East -56 7 £69,310 +28.95% 3
East Midlands -33 2 £61,500 +6.03% 2
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 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.87%) Confluence
2 2 (0.87%) Documentum
2 2 (0.87%) JBoss
2 2 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.87%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.44%) Apache
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle 10gAS
3 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (5.24%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (2.18%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.75%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.75%) Line 50
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.75%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.87%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 91 (39.74%) AWS
2 70 (30.57%) Azure
3 35 (15.28%) GCP
4 18 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.99%) Azure AKS
6 14 (6.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (5.24%) GitHub
8 10 (4.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (4.37%) dbt
9 8 (3.49%) SaaS
10 7 (3.06%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.75%) Apigee
12 4 (1.75%) Datadog
12 4 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.75%) Kong
12 4 (1.75%) PaaS
12 4 (1.75%) Power Platform
13 3 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.31%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 27 (11.79%) TCP/IP
2 21 (9.17%) Firewall
3 20 (8.73%) DNS
4 8 (3.49%) HTTPS
5 6 (2.62%) Network Security
5 6 (2.62%) WAN
6 5 (2.18%) 3GPP
6 5 (2.18%) DHCP
6 5 (2.18%) MGW
6 5 (2.18%) MVNO
6 5 (2.18%) Packet Switching
6 5 (2.18%) RTP
6 5 (2.18%) SGSN
6 5 (2.18%) SMPP
6 5 (2.18%) SSH
7 4 (1.75%) 5G
7 4 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.75%) FIX Connectivity
7 4 (1.75%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.61%) MongoDB
2 19 (8.30%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.86%) Oracle Database
4 13 (5.68%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.62%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.18%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.18%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.75%) FileMaker
7 4 (1.75%) Power BI
7 4 (1.75%) Tableau
8 3 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.31%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.31%) Redis
9 2 (0.87%) Big Data
9 2 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.87%) KDB
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (10.04%) GitLab
2 19 (8.30%) Git
3 16 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.93%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.06%) Eclipse
5 7 (3.06%) JIRA
6 6 (2.62%) Subversion
7 4 (1.75%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.75%) Metasploit
7 4 (1.75%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.75%) Toad
8 3 (1.31%) Maven
8 3 (1.31%) Selenium
9 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.87%) Gradle
9 2 (0.87%) JMeter
9 2 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.44%) LSMW
10 1 (0.44%) NetBeans
General
1 86 (37.55%) Finance
2 61 (26.64%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.72%) Public Sector
4 32 (13.97%) Banking
5 29 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.80%) Front Office
8 10 (4.37%) Retail
9 8 (3.49%) Aerospace
9 8 (3.49%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.49%) Legal
10 7 (3.06%) Electronics
11 5 (2.18%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.75%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.75%) Retail Finance
13 3 (1.31%) Back Office
13 3 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.31%) Japanese Language
14 2 (0.87%) Avionics
14 2 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 76 (33.19%) Senior
2 32 (13.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (13.54%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (12.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 23 (10.04%) Developer
6 18 (7.86%) Administrator
7 17 (7.42%) DBA
8 13 (5.68%) Analyst
8 13 (5.68%) Linux Engineer
9 12 (5.24%) Applications Support
9 12 (5.24%) Oracle DBA
10 11 (4.80%) Lead
10 11 (4.80%) Senior DBA
10 11 (4.80%) Senior Oracle DBA
11 10 (4.37%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (3.93%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.93%) Site Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Test Engineer
13 8 (3.49%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.55%) FIX Protocol
2 14 (6.11%) Node.js
3 10 (4.37%) REST
4 8 (3.49%) Jakarta EE
4 8 (3.49%) Kafka
4 8 (3.49%) RESTful
4 8 (3.49%) YAML
5 7 (3.06%) HTML
5 7 (3.06%) React
5 7 (3.06%) Struts
5 7 (3.06%) Web Services
6 6 (2.62%) CSS
7 4 (1.75%) Django
7 4 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.75%) Jinja
7 4 (1.75%) JSON
7 4 (1.75%) Middleware
7 4 (1.75%) pytest
7 4 (1.75%) XML
7 4 (1.75%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (5.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (4.37%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (3.93%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.49%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.62%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.18%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.18%) IVR
9 4 (1.75%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.75%) Eurex
9 4 (1.75%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.75%) Self-Driving Car
10 3 (1.31%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 186 (81.22%) Linux
2 66 (28.82%) Windows
3 27 (11.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (6.11%) AIX
5 11 (4.80%) Oracle Linux
6 9 (3.93%) Solaris
7 5 (2.18%) CentOS
7 5 (2.18%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.75%) Kali Linux
8 4 (1.75%) Rocky
8 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.75%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.44%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.68%) DevOps
2 80 (34.93%) CI/CD
3 54 (23.58%) Agile
4 51 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (21.83%) Mentoring
6 49 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (20.96%) Test Automation
8 42 (18.34%) Coaching
9 39 (17.03%) Incident Response
10 37 (16.16%) Continuous Integration
11 35 (15.28%) Scrum
12 28 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (11.35%) Containerisation
14 25 (10.92%) High Availability
14 25 (10.92%) Software Engineering
15 24 (10.48%) ITIL
15 24 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (10.48%) Task Automation
16 22 (9.61%) Computer Science
17 21 (9.17%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 87 (37.99%) Python
2 58 (25.33%) SQL
3 46 (20.09%) Bash
4 42 (18.34%) Java
5 28 (12.23%) Shell Script
6 23 (10.04%) JavaScript
7 18 (7.86%) C++
7 18 (7.86%) PL/SQL
8 14 (6.11%) Korn
8 14 (6.11%) Perl
8 14 (6.11%) PowerShell
9 10 (4.37%) Rust
10 8 (3.49%) C
11 6 (2.62%) C#
11 6 (2.62%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.75%) PHP
12 4 (1.75%) Ruby
12 4 (1.75%) VB
12 4 (1.75%) VBA
12 4 (1.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 35 (15.28%) Degree
4 19 (8.30%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.62%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (2.62%) HND
7 5 (2.18%) CISSP
7 5 (2.18%) OSCP
8 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.31%) CISM
9 3 (1.31%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.31%) GCIH
9 3 (1.31%) RHCE
9 3 (1.31%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.31%) SANS
10 2 (0.87%) CCSP
10 2 (0.87%) CISA
10 2 (0.87%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.11%) QA
2 4 (1.75%) ISO 14001
2 4 (1.75%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.75%) NIST
3 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.87%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) MIL-STD-1553
5 1 (0.44%) COBIT
5 1 (0.44%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.44%) ITGC
System Software
1 26 (11.35%) Docker
2 13 (5.68%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.87%) Firmware
6 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.44%) GPFS
6 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) KVM
6 1 (0.44%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 46 (20.09%) Terraform
2 29 (12.66%) Kubernetes
3 25 (10.92%) Ansible
4 17 (7.42%) Puppet
5 14 (6.11%) Argo
5 14 (6.11%) Oracle RMAN
6 12 (5.24%) Grafana
6 12 (5.24%) Prometheus
7 11 (4.80%) Data Guard
7 11 (4.80%) Nagios
8 4 (1.75%) Podman
8 4 (1.75%) SCCM
9 3 (1.31%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.31%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.87%) Kibana
10 2 (0.87%) logstash
11 1 (0.44%) Control-M
11 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 49 (21.40%) Oracle
2 24 (10.48%) Red Hat
3 22 (9.61%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.42%) IBM
5 12 (5.24%) Pega
6 11 (4.80%) Google
7 10 (4.37%) VMware
8 8 (3.49%) Adobe
9 5 (2.18%) Bloomberg
9 5 (2.18%) Cisco
9 5 (2.18%) Sybase
10 4 (1.75%) Apple
10 4 (1.75%) CQG
10 4 (1.75%) Juniper
10 4 (1.75%) OpenText
10 4 (1.75%) Retek
10 4 (1.75%) Reuters
10 4 (1.75%) Sage
10 4 (1.75%) SAP
10 4 (1.75%) TOWER Software