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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 269 216
Rank change year-on-year -38 -53 -32
Permanent jobs citing Unix 350 639 709
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 1.07% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.32% 7.53% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 192 243 538
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £43,088
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -

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 4,782 8,490 8,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.19% 14.18% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,658 4,956 6,688
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +8 162 £75,000 +7.14% 39
South East +24 56 £58,000 +5.45% 27
East of England +18 40 £43,085 -23.41% 1
South West +19 39 £57,500 -28.13% 9
North of England -81 26 £51,250 +2.50% 7
Midlands +7 25 £73,801 +34.18% 15
West Midlands +12 17 £75,000 +42.86% 11
Yorkshire -14 10 £25,750 -54.22%
North West -35 10 £57,500 +15.00% 6
East Midlands +12 8 £49,000 -10.91% 4
North East +8 6 £73,801 +47.60% 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 43 (12.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (7.71%) Apache Spark
3 26 (7.43%) Exchange Server 2003
4 22 (6.29%) Tomcat
4 22 (6.29%) WebSphere
5 16 (4.57%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (1.71%) Apache
6 6 (1.71%) Confluence
6 6 (1.71%) nginx
7 5 (1.43%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.43%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.86%) IIS
9 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.86%) WebLogic Portal
10 2 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.57%) JBoss
10 2 (0.57%) SAS
11 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 22 (6.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.43%) Shopify
2 4 (1.14%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.86%) Primavera
4 2 (0.57%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.29%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 114 (32.57%) AWS
2 66 (18.86%) Azure
3 36 (10.29%) GCP
4 30 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (8.57%) Amazon S3
5 28 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (5.14%) Amazon ELB
7 17 (4.86%) Amazon ECR
8 16 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (4.29%) Serverless
10 13 (3.71%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.71%) OpenShift
11 12 (3.43%) Pulumi
12 11 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.14%) dbt
12 11 (3.14%) GitHub
12 11 (3.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (2.86%) SaaS
14 9 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.29%) DNS
2 28 (8.00%) DHCP
3 27 (7.71%) SSL
3 27 (7.71%) TCP/IP
4 24 (6.86%) Firewall
5 12 (3.43%) VPN
6 11 (3.14%) SAN
7 9 (2.57%) VLAN
8 8 (2.29%) HTTPS
9 7 (2.00%) MPLS
10 6 (1.71%) HTTP
10 6 (1.71%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (1.71%) VoIP
10 6 (1.71%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.71%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.43%) LAN
11 5 (1.43%) WAN
12 4 (1.14%) Broadband
12 4 (1.14%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.14%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.86%) Oracle Database
2 37 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (8.57%) Relational Database
4 27 (7.71%) Oracle Database 10g
5 22 (6.29%) Metadata
6 20 (5.71%) DynamoDB
6 20 (5.71%) Spark SQL
6 20 (5.71%) SQL Server
7 18 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (5.14%) DB2
7 18 (5.14%) Delta Lake
8 15 (4.29%) MySQL
9 12 (3.43%) Big Data
9 12 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (3.43%) Redis
10 11 (3.14%) NoSQL
11 9 (2.57%) Power BI
11 9 (2.57%) Tableau
12 8 (2.29%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.00%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 21 (6.00%) Git
2 18 (5.14%) MLflow
3 12 (3.43%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.43%) JIRA
4 7 (2.00%) GitLab
5 4 (1.14%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.14%) JUnit
5 4 (1.14%) LabVIEW
5 4 (1.14%) Toad
6 3 (0.86%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.86%) Maven
6 3 (0.86%) Mocha
6 3 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.86%) webpack
7 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.57%) Gradle
7 2 (0.57%) Postman
7 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 105 (30.00%) Finance
2 87 (24.86%) Social Skills
3 39 (11.14%) Banking
4 26 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.29%) Law
6 16 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 14 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.71%) Investment Banking
9 11 (3.14%) German Language
10 10 (2.86%) Marketing
11 8 (2.29%) Front Office
11 8 (2.29%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.71%) Electronics
13 5 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.43%) Legal
14 4 (1.14%) Advertising
14 4 (1.14%) Back Office
14 4 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (16.86%) Senior
2 36 (10.29%) Administrator
3 34 (9.71%) Applications Support
4 33 (9.43%) Support Engineer
5 29 (8.29%) Linux Support
6 28 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
7 26 (7.43%) Analyst
8 25 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
8 25 (7.14%) Developer
9 23 (6.57%) Systems Support
10 21 (6.00%) Infrastructure Support
11 20 (5.71%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 19 (5.43%) Linux Engineer
13 18 (5.14%) Operations Engineer
13 18 (5.14%) Support Analyst
14 16 (4.57%) Unix Support
15 15 (4.29%) Lead
15 15 (4.29%) Software Engineer
16 13 (3.71%) Linux Support Engineer
16 13 (3.71%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.00%) JSON
2 33 (9.43%) HTML
2 33 (9.43%) XML
3 30 (8.57%) Regular Expression
4 22 (6.29%) LDAP
5 20 (5.71%) NumPy
5 20 (5.71%) Pandas
5 20 (5.71%) PySpark
5 20 (5.71%) PyTorch
5 20 (5.71%) TensorFlow
6 18 (5.14%) FIX Protocol
6 18 (5.14%) Keras
6 18 (5.14%) Lambda Expressions
6 18 (5.14%) Metaflow
6 18 (5.14%) OAuth
6 18 (5.14%) scikit-learn
6 18 (5.14%) WebSphere MQ
6 18 (5.14%) YAML
7 16 (4.57%) LAPP Stack
7 16 (4.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 79 (22.57%) Linux Command Line
2 39 (11.14%) Onboarding
3 25 (7.14%) e-Learning
4 19 (5.43%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.14%) PKI
7 10 (2.86%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.29%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.00%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.00%) Replication
10 6 (1.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 6 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.71%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.71%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.43%) Clustering
11 5 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 218 (62.29%) Linux
2 104 (29.71%) Windows
3 48 (13.71%) Solaris
4 36 (10.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (8.29%) HPUX
6 26 (7.43%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (6.29%) Windows 7
7 22 (6.29%) Windows Server 2008
8 17 (4.86%) Windows Server
9 10 (2.86%) Mac OS
10 9 (2.57%) Debian
11 6 (1.71%) CentOS
12 5 (1.43%) AIX
13 3 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.86%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.29%) Android
15 1 (0.29%) CoreOS
15 1 (0.29%) SUSE
15 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (18.00%) AI
3 53 (15.14%) CI/CD
3 53 (15.14%) DevOps
3 53 (15.14%) ITIL
4 51 (14.57%) Agile
5 44 (12.57%) High Availability
6 40 (11.43%) Data Analysis
7 37 (10.57%) Incident Management
7 37 (10.57%) SDLC
8 35 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 35 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (10.00%) Machine Learning
9 31 (8.86%) Change Management
9 31 (8.86%) Computer Science
10 29 (8.29%) Visualisation
11 28 (8.00%) LLM
11 28 (8.00%) Software Engineering
12 27 (7.71%) Data Science
13 26 (7.43%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 200 (57.14%) Python
2 94 (26.86%) SQL
3 50 (14.29%) Bash
4 43 (12.29%) PowerShell
5 30 (8.57%) Shell Script
6 27 (7.71%) JavaScript
7 26 (7.43%) Perl
8 25 (7.14%) Java
9 14 (4.00%) R
10 10 (2.86%) C#
11 8 (2.29%) C
11 8 (2.29%) Korn
11 8 (2.29%) TypeScript
12 7 (2.00%) C++
13 6 (1.71%) MATLAB
13 6 (1.71%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.43%) Go
15 4 (1.14%) Fortran
15 4 (1.14%) VB
16 3 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 105 (30.00%) Degree
2 99 (28.29%) Security Cleared
3 84 (24.00%) SC Cleared
4 60 (17.14%) DV Cleared
5 32 (9.14%) CCNA
5 32 (9.14%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (8.00%) AWS Certification
7 25 (7.14%) CCNP
8 22 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (6.00%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (4.57%) CISSP
11 11 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (2.86%) CISA
13 8 (2.29%) Master's Degree
13 8 (2.29%) PhD
14 7 (2.00%) ACCA
14 7 (2.00%) CIMA
15 6 (1.71%) GCFA
15 6 (1.71%) GCIA
15 6 (1.71%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (15.14%) SLA
2 11 (3.14%) GDPR
2 11 (3.14%) QA
3 9 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.00%) NIST
5 3 (0.86%) COBIT
6 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.57%) ITGC
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (17.14%) Docker
2 48 (13.71%) Active Directory
3 23 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.43%) XenApp
4 5 (1.43%) XenDesktop
5 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.57%) HDFS
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (15.71%) Terraform
2 44 (12.57%) Ansible
3 43 (12.29%) Kubernetes
4 23 (6.57%) Grafana
5 18 (5.14%) Kubeflow
6 12 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (2.29%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.29%) SCCM
8 6 (1.71%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.14%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.86%) Netcool
11 3 (0.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.86%) Puppet
12 2 (0.57%) Kibana
12 2 (0.57%) logstash
12 2 (0.57%) Oozie
12 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.57%) Suricata
Vendors
1 68 (19.43%) Oracle
2 64 (18.29%) Microsoft
3 53 (15.14%) VMware
4 41 (11.71%) Red Hat
5 39 (11.14%) Cisco
6 36 (10.29%) Google
7 32 (9.14%) IBM
8 23 (6.57%) Databricks
9 20 (5.71%) SAP
10 16 (4.57%) ServiceNow
11 12 (3.43%) Atlassian
11 12 (3.43%) Dell
11 12 (3.43%) Fortinet
11 12 (3.43%) Splunk
12 8 (2.29%) Apple
12 8 (2.29%) IFS
12 8 (2.29%) Juniper
12 8 (2.29%) NetApp
12 8 (2.29%) Palo Alto
13 7 (2.00%) Arista