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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 389 340
Rank change year-on-year -116 -49 -117
Permanent jobs citing Unix 189 253 686
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.67% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.74% 4.17% 5.63%
Number of salaries quoted 105 179 476
10th Percentile £47,867 £27,500 £37,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,313
90th Percentile £101,000 £88,000 £100,064
UK median annual salary £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -11.44%

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 5,053 6,073 12,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.10% 15.98% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,827 3,777 9,814
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,000 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -46 98 £81,500 +8.67% 47
South West -37 35 £72,500 +0.71% 8
North of England -40 28 £69,310 -0.11% 16
North West -14 13 £60,000 -13.52% 12
South East -54 11 £62,500 +50.60% 24
Yorkshire -48 9 £69,310 +10.90% 3
Midlands -49 8 £28,500 -52.50% 7
East of England -29 6 £61,500 +123.64% 7
North East -40 6 £69,310 -0.11% 1
West Midlands -54 6 £28,500 -52.50% 6
East Midlands -31 2 £61,500 -12.14% 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 2 (1.06%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.53%) IIS
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.17%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.12%) Line 50
2 4 (2.12%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (41.27%) AWS
2 57 (30.16%) Azure
3 21 (11.11%) Pulumi
4 18 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.52%) GCP
5 15 (7.94%) SaaS
6 14 (7.41%) Azure AKS
6 14 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (7.41%) GitHub
7 12 (6.35%) PaaS
8 9 (4.76%) IaaS
8 9 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (4.23%) OpenShift
10 6 (3.17%) Apigee
10 6 (3.17%) Kong
10 6 (3.17%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.12%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.52%) Broadband
1 18 (9.52%) Firewall
2 15 (7.94%) TCP/IP
3 11 (5.82%) WAN
4 10 (5.29%) 5G
4 10 (5.29%) DNS
4 10 (5.29%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.23%) HTTPS
6 7 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.65%) Network Security
8 4 (2.12%) VoIP
9 3 (1.59%) CHAP
10 1 (0.53%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.53%) BGP
10 1 (0.53%) Internet
10 1 (0.53%) MPLS
10 1 (0.53%) OSPF
10 1 (0.53%) Packet Switching
10 1 (0.53%) RTP
10 1 (0.53%) SMPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.17%) NoSQL
2 21 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 19 (10.05%) MongoDB
3 19 (10.05%) RDBMS
4 18 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (6.88%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.17%) Power BI
6 6 (3.17%) Tableau
7 4 (2.12%) FileMaker
7 4 (2.12%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.12%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.59%) DB2
8 3 (1.59%) Redis
9 2 (1.06%) Big Data
9 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.53%) KDB
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 25 (13.23%) GitLab
2 18 (9.52%) Jaeger
3 16 (8.47%) Git
4 10 (5.29%) LabVIEW
5 9 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.70%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.12%) JIRA
7 4 (2.12%) Metasploit
8 3 (1.59%) Selenium
9 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.06%) Gradle
9 2 (1.06%) JMeter
9 2 (1.06%) Maven
10 1 (0.53%) LSMW
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (39.68%) Finance
2 53 (28.04%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (12.70%) Banking
6 23 (12.17%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.88%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (5.82%) Electronics
9 8 (4.23%) Legal
10 7 (3.70%) Investment Banking
11 6 (3.17%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.65%) Front Office
13 4 (2.12%) German Language
13 4 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.59%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.59%) Back Office
14 3 (1.59%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.59%) Japanese Language
15 1 (0.53%) Law
15 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (21.69%) Senior
2 23 (12.17%) Lead
3 19 (10.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (8.47%) Automation Engineer
4 16 (8.47%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.94%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.35%) Developer
8 11 (5.82%) Analyst
8 11 (5.82%) Test Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) DBA
9 10 (5.29%) Product Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Product Test Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Unix Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Unix Linux Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Verification Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (7.41%) Node.js
4 10 (5.29%) JSON
4 10 (5.29%) pytest
4 10 (5.29%) XML
5 9 (4.76%) REST
6 8 (4.23%) HTML
7 7 (3.70%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (3.17%) Jinja
8 6 (3.17%) YAML
8 6 (3.17%) YANG
9 5 (2.65%) Kafka
10 4 (2.12%) CSS
10 4 (2.12%) Django
10 4 (2.12%) Regular Expression
11 3 (1.59%) Middleware
12 2 (1.06%) .NET
12 2 (1.06%) LDAP
12 2 (1.06%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.88%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.35%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (5.82%) Hedge funds
4 11 (5.82%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (5.29%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (5.29%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (3.70%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.17%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.65%) Blockchain
9 4 (2.12%) Clustering
9 4 (2.12%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.59%) Equities
10 3 (1.59%) IoT
10 3 (1.59%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 141 (74.60%) Linux
2 56 (29.63%) Windows
3 23 (12.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.76%) AIX
5 6 (3.17%) Oracle Linux
5 6 (3.17%) Solaris
5 6 (3.17%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.65%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.12%) Kali Linux
8 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.53%) Debian
9 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.53%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.51%) DevOps
2 53 (28.04%) CI/CD
3 51 (26.98%) Agile
4 48 (25.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (23.28%) Test Automation
6 43 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (21.69%) Mentoring
8 38 (20.11%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (17.46%) Task Automation
10 31 (16.40%) High Availability
11 30 (15.87%) Containerisation
12 29 (15.34%) Roadmaps
13 27 (14.29%) Incident Response
14 24 (12.70%) Computer Science
15 23 (12.17%) Validation
16 22 (11.64%) Coaching
17 21 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
18 20 (10.58%) AI
18 20 (10.58%) Microservices
19 19 (10.05%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 97 (51.32%) Python
2 52 (27.51%) Bash
3 46 (24.34%) Java
4 33 (17.46%) SQL
5 25 (13.23%) JavaScript
6 19 (10.05%) Go
7 16 (8.47%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.35%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.29%) MATLAB
10 7 (3.70%) Korn
10 7 (3.70%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.17%) C#
11 6 (3.17%) Rust
12 5 (2.65%) C++
12 5 (2.65%) VB
12 5 (2.65%) VBA
12 5 (2.65%) VBScript
13 4 (2.12%) PHP
14 3 (1.59%) Perl
15 2 (1.06%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (22.75%) Degree
2 20 (10.58%) AWS Certification
2 20 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.94%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.41%) CISSP
6 10 (5.29%) HND
7 9 (4.76%) CCSK
8 6 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.65%) CISM
9 5 (2.65%) SANS
10 4 (2.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (2.12%) CISA
10 4 (2.12%) OSCP
11 3 (1.59%) CGEIT
11 3 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.59%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.23%) QA
2 6 (3.17%) NIST
3 5 (2.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.12%) GDPR
4 4 (2.12%) ISO 14001
4 4 (2.12%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.59%) COBIT
5 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.06%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.53%) ITGC
7 1 (0.53%) MiFID
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (15.34%) Docker
2 12 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.23%) Oracle RAC
4 7 (3.70%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (32.80%) Terraform
2 43 (22.75%) Ansible
3 37 (19.58%) Kubernetes
4 32 (16.93%) Argo
5 23 (12.17%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.52%) Kustomize
7 13 (6.88%) Puppet
8 8 (4.23%) Oracle RMAN
9 6 (3.17%) Data Guard
9 6 (3.17%) Nagios
10 5 (2.65%) Grafana
10 5 (2.65%) SCCM
11 3 (1.59%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.59%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.59%) Podman
12 2 (1.06%) Kibana
12 2 (1.06%) logstash
13 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 31 (16.40%) Google
2 26 (13.76%) Oracle
2 26 (13.76%) Red Hat
3 17 (8.99%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.99%) VMware
4 12 (6.35%) IBM
5 9 (4.76%) Adobe
6 8 (4.23%) Cisco
7 6 (3.17%) F5
7 6 (3.17%) Juniper
7 6 (3.17%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.17%) SAP
7 6 (3.17%) Splunk
8 5 (2.65%) Snow
9 4 (2.12%) Apple
9 4 (2.12%) Databricks
9 4 (2.12%) Sage
9 4 (2.12%) Symantec
9 4 (2.12%) TOWER Software
9 4 (2.12%) Workday