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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 246 230
Rank change year-on-year -79 -16 -38
Permanent jobs citing Unix 318 586 658
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.19% 1.43%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.04% 7.74% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 178 209 496
10th Percentile £40,015 £41,250 £43,438
25th Percentile £46,709 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,190 £80,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £96,914
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.23% -10.00% +3.85%

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 4,518 7,570 7,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.67% 15.40% 16.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,448 4,326 6,413
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,375 £27,255
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,021 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% +0.04% -4.76%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 +15 153 £75,000 +8.21% 106
South East +9 47 £58,000 +5.45% 54
South West +24 46 £55,000 -23.60% 11
East of England +10 38 £43,085 -25.07% 21
North of England -89 17 £55,000 +7.32% 5
Midlands -48 13 £73,801 +34.18% 6
West Midlands -23 9 £74,401 +24.00% 3
Yorkshire -28 6 £25,750 -67.86% 3
North West -53 6 £66,901 +33.80% 2
North East +3 5 £73,801 +47.60%
East Midlands -22 4 £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 36 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (8.18%) Exchange Server 2003
3 22 (6.92%) WebSphere
4 21 (6.60%) Tomcat
5 16 (5.03%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (2.20%) Apache Spark
7 6 (1.89%) Apache
7 6 (1.89%) Confluence
7 6 (1.89%) nginx
8 5 (1.57%) Anypoint
8 5 (1.57%) WebLogic
9 4 (1.26%) IIS
9 4 (1.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.94%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.31%) JBoss
11 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.57%) Shopify
3 4 (1.26%) NEC Housing
3 4 (1.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.94%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.94%) Primavera
5 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 92 (28.93%) AWS
2 54 (16.98%) Azure
3 38 (11.95%) GCP
4 27 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (5.66%) Pulumi
6 17 (5.35%) Amazon ECR
7 15 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (4.72%) Serverless
7 15 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (4.40%) GitHub
8 14 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.09%) SaaS
10 12 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.77%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.77%) PaaS
11 11 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.46%) dbt
11 11 (3.46%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.49%) SSL
2 26 (8.18%) DNS
3 25 (7.86%) DHCP
4 24 (7.55%) TCP/IP
5 17 (5.35%) Firewall
6 10 (3.14%) Broadband
7 9 (2.83%) SAN
7 9 (2.83%) VLAN
7 9 (2.83%) WAN
8 8 (2.52%) HTTPS
8 8 (2.52%) VPN
9 7 (2.20%) MPLS
10 6 (1.89%) HTTP
10 6 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.89%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.57%) 5G
11 5 (1.57%) FIX Connectivity
11 5 (1.57%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.64%) Oracle Database
2 34 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.49%) Oracle Database 10g
4 23 (7.23%) Relational Database
5 18 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (5.66%) DB2
6 17 (5.35%) SQL Server
7 15 (4.72%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (3.46%) Big Data
9 11 (3.46%) Redis
10 8 (2.52%) Power BI
10 8 (2.52%) Tableau
11 7 (2.20%) MySQL
11 7 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (2.20%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.89%) FileMaker
12 6 (1.89%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.57%) Apache Hive
14 4 (1.26%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 20 (6.29%) Git
2 10 (3.14%) JIRA
3 9 (2.83%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.83%) LabVIEW
4 7 (2.20%) GitLab
4 7 (2.20%) Jaeger
5 4 (1.26%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.26%) Toad
6 3 (0.94%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.94%) Mocha
6 3 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.94%) webpack
7 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.63%) JUnit
8 1 (0.31%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.31%) Gradle
8 1 (0.31%) Jasmine
General
1 87 (27.36%) Finance
2 59 (18.55%) Social Skills
3 33 (10.38%) Banking
4 32 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.72%) German Language
6 15 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.40%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.09%) Investment Banking
8 13 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.46%) Electronics
10 10 (3.14%) Law
11 8 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.57%) Front Office
12 5 (1.57%) Legal
13 4 (1.26%) Advertising
13 4 (1.26%) Back Office
13 4 (1.26%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (15.72%) Senior
2 34 (10.69%) Administrator
3 31 (9.75%) Support Engineer
4 29 (9.12%) Applications Support
4 29 (9.12%) Linux Support
5 28 (8.81%) Systems Administrator
6 25 (7.86%) 3rd Line Support
7 24 (7.55%) Linux Engineer
8 23 (7.23%) Systems Support
9 22 (6.92%) Infrastructure Support
10 19 (5.97%) Developer
10 19 (5.97%) Unix Support
11 18 (5.66%) Analyst
12 16 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.09%) Linux Support Engineer
13 13 (4.09%) Support Analyst
14 11 (3.46%) Audit Manager
14 11 (3.46%) IT Audit Manager
14 11 (3.46%) IT Manager
14 11 (3.46%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.64%) JSON
2 35 (11.01%) XML
3 34 (10.69%) HTML
4 30 (9.43%) Regular Expression
5 23 (7.23%) LDAP
6 18 (5.66%) WebSphere MQ
7 16 (5.03%) LAPP Stack
8 14 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (3.77%) OAuth
10 11 (3.46%) Django
11 10 (3.14%) Middleware
12 9 (2.83%) pytest
13 8 (2.52%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (2.52%) REST
14 7 (2.20%) Node.js
14 7 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
14 7 (2.20%) RESTful
14 7 (2.20%) SOAP
15 6 (1.89%) OAuth2
15 6 (1.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (19.81%) Linux Command Line
2 37 (11.64%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.23%) e-Learning
3 23 (7.23%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.14%) PKI
5 10 (3.14%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.52%) Clustering
6 8 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.20%) Replication
7 7 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 6 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.89%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.89%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.57%) Self-Driving Car
10 4 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.26%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.26%) GNSS
10 4 (1.26%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 208 (65.41%) Linux
2 101 (31.76%) Windows
3 46 (14.47%) Solaris
4 37 (11.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (8.18%) HPUX
5 26 (8.18%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (6.92%) Windows 7
6 22 (6.92%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (4.09%) Windows Server
8 10 (3.14%) Debian
9 8 (2.52%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.57%) AIX
10 5 (1.57%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.63%) CentOS
11 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.31%) Android
12 1 (0.31%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.31%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (18.24%) DevOps
3 56 (17.61%) ITIL
4 50 (15.72%) AI
5 46 (14.47%) High Availability
5 46 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (12.58%) Agile
6 40 (12.58%) Data Analysis
7 38 (11.95%) Incident Management
8 35 (11.01%) Change Management
9 33 (10.38%) CI/CD
10 31 (9.75%) Computer Science
11 30 (9.43%) LLM
12 26 (8.18%) Analytics
13 25 (7.86%) Containerisation
14 24 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (7.55%) Incident Response
15 23 (7.23%) Innovative Thinking
16 22 (6.92%) SDLC
16 22 (6.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 183 (57.55%) Python
2 60 (18.87%) SQL
3 50 (15.72%) Bash
4 43 (13.52%) PowerShell
5 31 (9.75%) JavaScript
6 28 (8.81%) Perl
7 26 (8.18%) Java
8 21 (6.60%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.77%) R
10 11 (3.46%) MATLAB
11 10 (3.14%) C#
11 10 (3.14%) Go
12 8 (2.52%) Korn
13 6 (1.89%) C
14 5 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.26%) C++
15 4 (1.26%) Fortran
15 4 (1.26%) VB
16 3 (0.94%) Scala
17 2 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 106 (33.33%) Degree
2 97 (30.50%) Security Cleared
3 81 (25.47%) SC Cleared
4 58 (18.24%) DV Cleared
5 34 (10.69%) AWS Certification
6 30 (9.43%) CCNA
6 30 (9.43%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (7.23%) CCNP
8 23 (7.23%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (6.29%) CISSP
10 9 (2.83%) HND
11 8 (2.52%) CISA
11 8 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 8 (2.52%) PhD
12 7 (2.20%) ACCA
12 7 (2.20%) CIMA
12 7 (2.20%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (1.89%) GCIA
13 6 (1.89%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (17.30%) SLA
2 11 (3.46%) GDPR
3 9 (2.83%) QA
4 8 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.52%) NIST
5 6 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.94%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (14.78%) Active Directory
2 40 (12.58%) Docker
3 26 (8.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.26%) XenApp
5 4 (1.26%) XenDesktop
6 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 50 (15.72%) Ansible
2 46 (14.47%) Terraform
3 32 (10.06%) Kubernetes
4 14 (4.40%) Grafana
4 14 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.52%) Argo
6 7 (2.20%) Kustomize
7 6 (1.89%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.57%) SCCM
9 4 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.94%) Netcool
10 3 (0.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.94%) Podman
10 3 (0.94%) Puppet
11 2 (0.63%) Suricata
12 1 (0.31%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle ZFS
12 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 62 (19.50%) Oracle
2 54 (16.98%) VMware
3 49 (15.41%) Microsoft
4 44 (13.84%) Red Hat
5 41 (12.89%) Google
6 34 (10.69%) Cisco
7 33 (10.38%) IBM
8 20 (6.29%) SAP
9 16 (5.03%) ServiceNow
10 12 (3.77%) Dell
10 12 (3.77%) Splunk
11 9 (2.83%) Workday
12 8 (2.52%) Fortinet
12 8 (2.52%) HP
12 8 (2.52%) IFS
12 8 (2.52%) Juniper
12 8 (2.52%) NetApp
12 8 (2.52%) Palo Alto
13 7 (2.20%) Arista
13 7 (2.20%) Symantec