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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 255 222
Rank change year-on-year -62 -33 -36
Permanent jobs citing Unix 338 586 673
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.17% 1.48%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.29% 7.60% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 180 211 505
10th Percentile £40,015 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,236 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,813 £80,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 4,635 7,708 7,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.80% 15.36% 16.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,538 4,495 6,415
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,242 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +0.48% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.87% +1.00% -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 26 December 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 26 December 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 0 155 £76,250 +10.02% 62
South East +20 49 £58,000 +5.45% 93
South West +26 47 £55,000 -23.60% 34
East of England +12 40 £43,085 -25.07% 47
North of England -80 23 £55,000 +10.00% 67
Midlands -33 20 £65,901 +19.82% 58
West Midlands -18 11 £74,401 +29.39% 32
East Midlands -14 9 £49,000 -10.91% 22
Yorkshire -34 9 £25,750 -67.86% 28
North West -55 8 £66,901 +33.80% 37
North East +9 6 £73,801 +47.60% 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 39 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2003
3 25 (7.40%) Apache Spark
4 22 (6.51%) Tomcat
4 22 (6.51%) WebSphere
5 16 (4.73%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (1.78%) Apache
6 6 (1.78%) Confluence
6 6 (1.78%) nginx
7 5 (1.48%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.48%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.18%) IIS
8 4 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.89%) WebLogic Portal
10 2 (0.59%) JBoss
11 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.07%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.48%) Shopify
3 4 (1.18%) NEC Housing
3 4 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.89%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.89%) Primavera
5 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 109 (32.25%) AWS
2 53 (15.68%) Azure
3 37 (10.95%) GCP
4 30 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (8.88%) Amazon S3
5 27 (7.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (5.33%) Amazon ELB
6 18 (5.33%) Pulumi
7 17 (5.03%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (4.44%) Serverless
9 14 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 13 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.85%) GitHub
10 13 (3.85%) OpenShift
11 12 (3.55%) SaaS
12 11 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (3.25%) dbt
12 11 (3.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.99%) SSL
2 26 (7.69%) DNS
3 25 (7.40%) DHCP
4 24 (7.10%) TCP/IP
5 18 (5.33%) Firewall
6 10 (2.96%) Broadband
7 9 (2.66%) SAN
7 9 (2.66%) VLAN
7 9 (2.66%) WAN
8 8 (2.37%) HTTPS
8 8 (2.37%) VPN
9 7 (2.07%) MPLS
10 6 (1.78%) HTTP
10 6 (1.78%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (1.78%) VoIP
10 6 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.78%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.48%) FIX Connectivity
11 5 (1.48%) LAN
12 4 (1.18%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.95%) Oracle Database
2 34 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (7.99%) Oracle Database 10g
4 25 (7.40%) Relational Database
5 20 (5.92%) DynamoDB
5 20 (5.92%) Metadata
6 18 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (5.33%) DB2
6 18 (5.33%) Delta Lake
6 18 (5.33%) Spark SQL
7 17 (5.03%) SQL Server
8 15 (4.44%) NoSQL
9 12 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (3.25%) Big Data
10 11 (3.25%) Redis
11 7 (2.07%) MySQL
11 7 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (2.07%) Power BI
11 7 (2.07%) RDBMS
11 7 (2.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (5.92%) Git
2 18 (5.33%) MLflow
3 11 (3.25%) JIRA
4 10 (2.96%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.37%) LabVIEW
6 7 (2.07%) GitLab
6 7 (2.07%) Jaeger
7 4 (1.18%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.18%) Toad
8 3 (0.89%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.89%) JUnit
8 3 (0.89%) Mocha
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.89%) webpack
9 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.59%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.59%) Gradle
9 2 (0.59%) Maven
9 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 91 (26.92%) Finance
2 78 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.47%) Banking
4 30 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.73%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.44%) German Language
6 15 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.14%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.85%) Investment Banking
9 11 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.96%) Electronics
10 10 (2.96%) Law
11 8 (2.37%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.48%) Front Office
12 5 (1.48%) Legal
13 4 (1.18%) Advertising
13 4 (1.18%) Back Office
13 4 (1.18%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (15.09%) Senior
2 35 (10.36%) Administrator
3 31 (9.17%) Support Engineer
4 30 (8.88%) Applications Support
4 30 (8.88%) Linux Support
5 29 (8.58%) Systems Administrator
6 25 (7.40%) 3rd Line Support
7 24 (7.10%) Linux Engineer
8 23 (6.80%) Systems Support
9 22 (6.51%) Infrastructure Support
10 20 (5.92%) Analyst
10 20 (5.92%) Developer
10 20 (5.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 19 (5.62%) Operations Engineer
11 19 (5.62%) Unix Support
12 16 (4.73%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (4.14%) Support Analyst
14 13 (3.85%) Linux Support Engineer
15 11 (3.25%) Audit Manager
15 11 (3.25%) IT Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.95%) JSON
2 35 (10.36%) XML
3 34 (10.06%) HTML
4 30 (8.88%) Regular Expression
5 22 (6.51%) LDAP
6 20 (5.92%) NumPy
6 20 (5.92%) Pandas
6 20 (5.92%) PyTorch
6 20 (5.92%) TensorFlow
7 18 (5.33%) Keras
7 18 (5.33%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (5.33%) Metaflow
7 18 (5.33%) PySpark
7 18 (5.33%) scikit-learn
7 18 (5.33%) WebSphere MQ
7 18 (5.33%) YAML
8 16 (4.73%) LAPP Stack
9 14 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (3.55%) OAuth
11 11 (3.25%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 81 (23.96%) Linux Command Line
2 37 (10.95%) Onboarding
3 24 (7.10%) e-Learning
4 22 (6.51%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.25%) PKI
7 8 (2.37%) Clustering
7 8 (2.37%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.37%) Security Posture
8 7 (2.07%) Replication
9 6 (1.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.78%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.48%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.18%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.18%) GNSS
11 4 (1.18%) NHS
11 4 (1.18%) Satnav
11 4 (1.18%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 212 (62.72%) Linux
2 100 (29.59%) Windows
3 46 (13.61%) Solaris
4 37 (10.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (7.69%) HPUX
5 26 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (6.51%) Windows 7
6 22 (6.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 12 (3.55%) Windows Server
8 10 (2.96%) Debian
9 8 (2.37%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.48%) AIX
10 5 (1.48%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.59%) CentOS
11 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.30%) Android
12 1 (0.30%) CoreOS
12 1 (0.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (19.82%) AI
2 58 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (16.86%) DevOps
3 57 (16.86%) ITIL
4 51 (15.09%) CI/CD
5 47 (13.91%) High Availability
6 46 (13.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (12.72%) Containerisation
8 40 (11.83%) Agile
8 40 (11.83%) Data Analysis
9 37 (10.95%) Incident Management
10 35 (10.36%) Change Management
11 30 (8.88%) Computer Science
11 30 (8.88%) LLM
11 30 (8.88%) Machine Learning
12 27 (7.99%) Visualisation
13 26 (7.69%) Analytics
14 25 (7.40%) Data Science
14 25 (7.40%) Information Security
15 24 (7.10%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 200 (59.17%) Python
2 80 (23.67%) SQL
3 51 (15.09%) Bash
4 43 (12.72%) PowerShell
5 31 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 28 (8.28%) Perl
7 27 (7.99%) Java
8 22 (6.51%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.55%) R
10 10 (2.96%) C#
10 10 (2.96%) Go
10 10 (2.96%) MATLAB
11 8 (2.37%) Korn
12 6 (1.78%) C
13 5 (1.48%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.18%) C++
14 4 (1.18%) Fortran
14 4 (1.18%) VB
15 3 (0.89%) Scala
16 2 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 106 (31.36%) Degree
2 98 (28.99%) Security Cleared
3 82 (24.26%) SC Cleared
4 59 (17.46%) DV Cleared
5 34 (10.06%) AWS Certification
6 31 (9.17%) CCNA
6 31 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (7.10%) CCNP
8 23 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (6.80%) ITIL Certification
9 19 (5.62%) CISSP
10 8 (2.37%) CISA
10 8 (2.37%) HND
10 8 (2.37%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.37%) PhD
11 7 (2.07%) ACCA
11 7 (2.07%) CIMA
11 7 (2.07%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (1.78%) GCIA
12 6 (1.78%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (16.27%) SLA
2 11 (3.25%) GDPR
3 9 (2.66%) QA
4 7 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.07%) NIST
5 5 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.89%) COBIT
System Software
1 58 (17.16%) Docker
2 47 (13.91%) Active Directory
3 26 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 5 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.48%) XenApp
4 5 (1.48%) XenDesktop
5 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 63 (18.64%) Terraform
2 50 (14.79%) Ansible
2 50 (14.79%) Kubernetes
3 18 (5.33%) Kubeflow
4 16 (4.73%) Grafana
5 14 (4.14%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.37%) Argo
7 7 (2.07%) Kustomize
8 6 (1.78%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.78%) SCCM
9 5 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.89%) Netcool
10 3 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.89%) Podman
10 3 (0.89%) Puppet
11 2 (0.59%) Suricata
12 1 (0.30%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 63 (18.64%) Oracle
2 54 (15.98%) VMware
3 52 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 44 (13.02%) Red Hat
5 40 (11.83%) Google
6 35 (10.36%) Cisco
7 33 (9.76%) IBM
8 21 (6.21%) Databricks
9 20 (5.92%) SAP
10 16 (4.73%) ServiceNow
11 12 (3.55%) Dell
11 12 (3.55%) Splunk
12 9 (2.66%) Workday
13 8 (2.37%) Fortinet
13 8 (2.37%) HP
13 8 (2.37%) IFS
13 8 (2.37%) Juniper
13 8 (2.37%) NetApp
13 8 (2.37%) Palo Alto
14 7 (2.07%) Atlassian