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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 332 344
Rank change year-on-year -117 +12 -137
Permanent jobs citing Unix 234 314 634
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.84% 0.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.78% 5.20% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 115 183 471
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £47,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,383 £82,751 £82,548
90th Percentile £88,250 £93,778 £100,064
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,626 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.58% +12.71% -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 4,896 6,043 12,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.34% 16.20% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,674 4,051 10,070
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,225 £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 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -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 19 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 19 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 -30 117 £80,000 +6.67% 44
South East -74 27 £58,000 +38.10% 22
East of England -17 26 £61,500 -1.60% 6
North of England -98 26 £60,000 -13.52% 8
South West -45 24 £60,000 -16.66% 6
North West -56 12 £60,000 -11.28% 5
Midlands -58 9 £28,500 -52.50% 15
West Midlands -44 8 £28,500 -52.50% 9
Yorkshire -54 8 £40,375 -52.64% 1
North East -31 6 £69,310 -0.11% 2
East Midlands -55 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 18 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (6.41%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (1.28%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.28%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) Confluence
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.43%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.43%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 15 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.28%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (1.28%) Line 50
3 3 (1.28%) Shopify
4 2 (0.85%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.43%) Primavera
5 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.62%) AWS
2 61 (26.07%) Azure
3 28 (11.97%) GCP
4 27 (11.54%) Pulumi
5 16 (6.84%) PaaS
5 16 (6.84%) SaaS
6 15 (6.41%) GitHub
7 13 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (4.70%) IaaS
8 11 (4.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.42%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.42%) dbt
10 8 (3.42%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.56%) Apigee
11 6 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.56%) Kong
11 6 (2.56%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.26%) Firewall
2 23 (9.83%) DNS
2 23 (9.83%) TCP/IP
3 19 (8.12%) Broadband
4 15 (6.41%) DHCP
5 11 (4.70%) HTTPS
6 8 (3.42%) 5G
6 8 (3.42%) SD-WAN
6 8 (3.42%) WAN
7 7 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.14%) VLAN
9 4 (1.71%) FIX Connectivity
9 4 (1.71%) MPLS
9 4 (1.71%) VPN
10 3 (1.28%) CHAP
10 3 (1.28%) Network Security
10 3 (1.28%) SSL
10 3 (1.28%) VoIP
11 2 (0.85%) Internet
11 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.54%) NoSQL
2 26 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 25 (10.68%) Oracle Database
4 20 (8.55%) RDBMS
5 17 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (6.84%) Oracle Database 10g
7 11 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.42%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.42%) Redis
9 6 (2.56%) Power BI
9 6 (2.56%) Tableau
10 5 (2.14%) DB2
10 5 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.71%) Big Data
12 3 (1.28%) FileMaker
12 3 (1.28%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.85%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.85%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.85%) Informix
Development Applications
1 19 (8.12%) Jaeger
2 17 (7.26%) GitLab
3 13 (5.56%) Git
4 9 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.42%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.71%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.28%) JIRA
8 2 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.85%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.43%) Gradle
9 1 (0.43%) JMeter
9 1 (0.43%) Maven
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 62 (26.50%) Social Skills
2 61 (26.07%) Finance
3 34 (14.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.83%) Banking
6 16 (6.84%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (6.41%) German Language
7 15 (6.41%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.85%) Electronics
8 9 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.42%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.42%) Legal
10 5 (2.14%) Front Office
10 5 (2.14%) Law
11 4 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.28%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.28%) Back Office
12 3 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.28%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 36 (15.38%) Senior
2 20 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (8.55%) Lead
3 18 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 18 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 17 (7.26%) 3rd Line Support
5 15 (6.41%) Analyst
5 15 (6.41%) Systems Support
6 14 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (5.56%) Developer
7 13 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Python Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Security Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Unix Engineer
8 11 (4.70%) Unix Linux Engineer
9 9 (3.85%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (17.09%) JSON
2 38 (16.24%) XML
3 34 (14.53%) HTML
4 29 (12.39%) Regular Expression
5 26 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (8.12%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (4.27%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (3.85%) Node.js
8 9 (3.85%) REST
9 8 (3.42%) Django
9 8 (3.42%) pytest
10 6 (2.56%) Jinja
10 6 (2.56%) YAML
10 6 (2.56%) YANG
11 5 (2.14%) CSS
11 5 (2.14%) LDAP
11 5 (2.14%) RESTful
12 4 (1.71%) Kafka
12 4 (1.71%) OAuth
13 3 (1.28%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 42 (17.95%) Linux Command Line
2 31 (13.25%) Onboarding
3 18 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 18 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (5.56%) Hedge funds
5 12 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 12 (5.13%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.42%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.42%) Self-Driving Car
7 7 (2.99%) Clustering
8 5 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.14%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.14%) IoT
9 4 (1.71%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.71%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (1.71%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.71%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 147 (62.82%) Linux
2 66 (28.21%) Windows
3 23 (9.83%) Solaris
4 16 (6.84%) HPUX
5 15 (6.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (6.41%) Windows Server 2003
6 14 (5.98%) Windows 7
6 14 (5.98%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (2.99%) Windows Server
8 6 (2.56%) AIX
8 6 (2.56%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.71%) Kali Linux
10 3 (1.28%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (1.28%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.43%) CentOS
11 1 (0.43%) Debian
11 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.43%) SUSE
11 1 (0.43%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.50%) DevOps
2 60 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (21.79%) AI
4 50 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (19.66%) Agile
6 43 (18.38%) CI/CD
7 39 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 37 (15.81%) Task Automation
9 34 (14.53%) Data Analysis
9 34 (14.53%) High Availability
10 33 (14.10%) Test Automation
11 32 (13.68%) Mentoring
12 29 (12.39%) Computer Science
12 29 (12.39%) Continuous Integration
12 29 (12.39%) LLM
13 28 (11.97%) Incident Management
13 28 (11.97%) Roadmaps
14 26 (11.11%) Incident Response
14 26 (11.11%) ITIL
15 20 (8.55%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 146 (62.39%) Python
2 58 (24.79%) Bash
3 41 (17.52%) Java
4 33 (14.10%) JavaScript
4 33 (14.10%) SQL
5 29 (12.39%) PowerShell
6 22 (9.40%) Go
7 18 (7.69%) Perl
8 14 (5.98%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.85%) C#
10 8 (3.42%) MATLAB
11 5 (2.14%) C++
11 5 (2.14%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.14%) VB
11 5 (2.14%) VBA
11 5 (2.14%) VBScript
12 4 (1.71%) Korn
12 4 (1.71%) Rust
13 3 (1.28%) C
13 3 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 77 (32.91%) Degree
2 45 (19.23%) Security Cleared
3 36 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 27 (11.54%) AWS Certification
5 22 (9.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (7.69%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.41%) CISSP
8 11 (4.70%) CCSK
9 8 (3.42%) HND
9 8 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.14%) OSCP
11 4 (1.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.71%) CCNA
11 4 (1.71%) CISA
11 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.71%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.28%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.40%) SLA
2 8 (3.42%) QA
3 6 (2.56%) GDPR
4 5 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.71%) NIST
6 3 (1.28%) COBIT
6 3 (1.28%) ISO 14001
6 3 (1.28%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) ITGC
7 1 (0.43%) MiFID
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (18.38%) Docker
2 25 (10.68%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.14%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.43%) Firmware
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (23.93%) Terraform
2 51 (21.79%) Ansible
3 44 (18.80%) Kubernetes
4 25 (10.68%) Prometheus
5 24 (10.26%) Argo
6 19 (8.12%) Kustomize
7 10 (4.27%) Grafana
8 5 (2.14%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (2.14%) SCCM
9 4 (1.71%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.71%) Podman
10 3 (1.28%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.28%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.28%) Nagios
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 2 (0.85%) Puppet
12 1 (0.43%) Kibana
12 1 (0.43%) logstash
Vendors
1 40 (17.09%) Oracle
2 39 (16.67%) Google
3 36 (15.38%) VMware
4 33 (14.10%) Microsoft
5 23 (9.83%) Red Hat
6 15 (6.41%) IBM
7 12 (5.13%) Cisco
8 10 (4.27%) Juniper
8 10 (4.27%) Palo Alto
8 10 (4.27%) SAP
9 9 (3.85%) Splunk
10 8 (3.42%) Adobe
11 7 (2.99%) Symantec
11 7 (2.99%) Workday
12 6 (2.56%) Dell
12 6 (2.56%) F5
13 5 (2.14%) Databricks
13 5 (2.14%) Snow
14 4 (1.71%) Arista
14 4 (1.71%) Mirantis