Unix Jobs in England

Unix
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 341 207
Rank change year-on-year +55 -134 -22
Permanent jobs citing Unix 504 711 1,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.02% 0.74% 1.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.54% 5.48% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 204 462 804
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £40,410
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -13.60% +6.84%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £89,852
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £58,228 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.63% -13.74% +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 6,685 12,976 13,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.57% 13.50% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,036 9,870 9,306
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in England

Unix
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in England.

Salary trend for Unix in England

Unix
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in England over the 6 months to 15 June 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 15 June 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 +75 214 £75,000 -6.25% 388
South East +49 87 £41,500 -20.95% 156
North of England -14 40 £66,313 +32.63% 43
East of England +57 37 £27,500 -46.60% 39
Midlands +38 30 £63,750 +27.50% 23
West Midlands +58 27 £62,500 +8.26% 15
North West -26 24 £69,384 +32.16% 15
South West +47 13 £69,405 +32.20% 32
North East +39 8 £60,000 +27.29% 3
Yorkshire +33 8 £62,500 +78.57% 25
East Midlands +31 3 £70,000 +40.00% 8
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (3.77%) Confluence
2 15 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.58%) IIS
4 12 (2.38%) Apache
5 10 (1.98%) Tomcat
6 9 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.79%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.39%) SharePoint
8 6 (1.19%) GemFire
9 3 (0.60%) SAS
9 3 (0.60%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 41 (8.13%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (1.19%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.79%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 283 (56.15%) AWS
2 225 (44.64%) Pulumi
3 64 (12.70%) Azure
4 27 (5.36%) GCP
5 18 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (2.78%) Entra ID
8 13 (2.58%) SaaS
9 11 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (1.98%) Amazon ECR
10 10 (1.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 10 (1.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 10 (1.98%) AWS CodeBuild
10 10 (1.98%) dbt
11 9 (1.79%) Apigee
11 9 (1.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (1.79%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.79%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 215 (42.66%) Broadband
2 33 (6.55%) TCP/IP
3 25 (4.96%) Firewall
4 16 (3.17%) DNS
5 14 (2.78%) SSL
6 13 (2.58%) DHCP
7 9 (1.79%) DMARC
8 7 (1.39%) SAN
9 6 (1.19%) VLAN
9 6 (1.19%) VPN
10 4 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
10 4 (0.79%) WAN
11 3 (0.60%) 5G
11 3 (0.60%) PuTTY
11 3 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.60%) Telnet
11 3 (0.60%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.40%) FTP
12 2 (0.40%) Internet
12 2 (0.40%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (50.99%) Relational Database
2 239 (47.42%) NoSQL
3 223 (44.25%) RDBMS
4 53 (10.52%) SQL Server
5 41 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.57%) Redis
7 17 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
8 15 (2.98%) MySQL
9 14 (2.78%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.58%) Oracle Database
11 12 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.79%) DB2
12 9 (1.79%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.39%) Oracle Exadata
14 6 (1.19%) Apache Iceberg
14 6 (1.19%) Big Data
14 6 (1.19%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.19%) KDB
Development Applications
1 215 (42.66%) Jaeger
2 47 (9.33%) Git
3 30 (5.95%) Jenkins
3 30 (5.95%) JIRA
4 14 (2.78%) Maven
5 12 (2.38%) JUnit
5 12 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 9 (1.79%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.79%) SoapUI
7 4 (0.79%) Subversion
8 3 (0.60%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.60%) Mockito
8 3 (0.60%) Postman
8 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.60%) Xcode
8 3 (0.60%) XCTest
9 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 254 (50.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 111 (22.02%) Finance
3 110 (21.83%) Social Skills
4 61 (12.10%) Banking
5 37 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.36%) Law
7 20 (3.97%) Front Office
8 16 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.18%) Marketing
10 10 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.79%) Czech Language
11 9 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.59%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.19%) Billing
14 5 (0.99%) Advertising
14 5 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.79%) Electronics
15 4 (0.79%) Legal
16 3 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 241 (47.82%) Lead
2 215 (42.66%) Team Leader
3 69 (13.69%) Senior
4 52 (10.32%) Analyst
5 39 (7.74%) Support Analyst
6 29 (5.75%) Software Engineer
7 24 (4.76%) Developer
8 23 (4.56%) Administrator
9 21 (4.17%) Applications Support
9 21 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 19 (3.77%) IT Support
11 16 (3.17%) Consultant
12 15 (2.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (2.98%) Unix Support
13 14 (2.78%) Linux Support
13 14 (2.78%) SQL Analyst
14 13 (2.58%) SQL Support Analyst
15 11 (2.18%) Site Engineer
15 11 (2.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 11 (2.18%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (44.05%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (42.66%) OpenTelemetry
3 26 (5.16%) REST
4 23 (4.56%) FIX Protocol
5 19 (3.77%) Kafka
6 17 (3.37%) Spring
7 14 (2.78%) Middleware
7 14 (2.78%) SOAP
8 13 (2.58%) Hibernate
9 12 (2.38%) React
9 12 (2.38%) RESTful
9 12 (2.38%) Spring Boot
9 12 (2.38%) XML
10 11 (2.18%) JSON
11 10 (1.98%) Django
12 9 (1.79%) PySpark
13 8 (1.59%) HTML
13 8 (1.59%) OAuth
13 8 (1.59%) OpenID
14 7 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.56%) Algorithms
2 20 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (3.77%) Equities
4 18 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.78%) Derivative
6 13 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.58%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (2.18%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.98%) Clustering
9 10 (1.98%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.98%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.59%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.39%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.39%) Driving Licence
13 5 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (0.99%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 417 (82.74%) Linux
2 78 (15.48%) Windows
3 23 (4.56%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (3.57%) CentOS
6 17 (3.37%) Solaris
7 9 (1.79%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.39%) Rocky
9 6 (1.19%) AIX
10 5 (0.99%) HPUX
11 4 (0.79%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.60%) zOS
13 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (53.77%) DevOps
2 270 (53.57%) Agile
3 246 (48.81%) Continuous Integration
4 235 (46.63%) Roadmaps
5 234 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 231 (45.83%) Task Automation
7 226 (44.84%) High Availability
8 224 (44.44%) Containerisation
9 223 (44.25%) Mentoring
10 218 (43.25%) Performance Optimisation
11 217 (43.06%) Resource Management
12 216 (42.86%) Product Management
13 215 (42.66%) Budget Control
13 215 (42.66%) Cost Optimisation
13 215 (42.66%) GitOps
14 100 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
15 60 (11.90%) CI/CD
16 46 (9.13%) Computer Science
17 41 (8.13%) Software Engineering
18 36 (7.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 333 (66.07%) Python
2 276 (54.76%) Java
3 264 (52.38%) Bash
4 245 (48.61%) JavaScript
5 230 (45.63%) Go
6 144 (28.57%) SQL
7 40 (7.94%) Shell Script
8 37 (7.34%) PowerShell
9 27 (5.36%) C++
10 20 (3.97%) T-SQL
11 17 (3.37%) C
12 15 (2.98%) Perl
12 15 (2.98%) PL/SQL
13 11 (2.18%) TypeScript
14 10 (1.98%) Fortran
14 10 (1.98%) VBA
15 7 (1.39%) C#
16 6 (1.19%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.79%) ABAP
18 3 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 222 (44.05%) AWS Certification
2 48 (9.52%) Degree
3 34 (6.75%) Security Cleared
4 28 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.98%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.98%) PhD
7 7 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.39%) RHCE
8 5 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (0.99%) OCA
8 5 (0.99%) OCP
8 5 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.79%) CISA
9 4 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.60%) HND
10 3 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.20%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 13 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.98%) SLA
4 5 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.99%) QA
5 4 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.79%) ITGC
5 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.20%) GDPR
6 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 259 (51.39%) Docker
2 32 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.79%) HDFS
5 7 (1.39%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (0.60%) Apache Flume
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.40%) KVM
8 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.40%) Xen
9 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) LXC
9 1 (0.20%) NFS
9 1 (0.20%) Samba
9 1 (0.20%) vCloud
9 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 252 (50.00%) Ansible
2 251 (49.80%) Terraform
3 249 (49.40%) Kubernetes
4 225 (44.64%) Prometheus
5 216 (42.86%) Argo
5 216 (42.86%) Kustomize
6 28 (5.56%) Grafana
7 19 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (2.18%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.98%) AWS Copilot
9 10 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.79%) Istio
11 7 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (1.39%) SCCM
12 6 (1.19%) FortiGate
12 6 (1.19%) Puppet
13 4 (0.79%) Kibana
13 4 (0.79%) logstash
14 3 (0.60%) Oozie
15 2 (0.40%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 237 (47.02%) Google
2 95 (18.85%) Oracle
3 58 (11.51%) Microsoft
4 32 (6.35%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.96%) VMware
6 15 (2.98%) Splunk
7 12 (2.38%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.38%) SAP
8 11 (2.18%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.59%) Cisco
10 6 (1.19%) Symantec
10 6 (1.19%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.99%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.99%) Solace
11 5 (0.99%) Sybase
11 5 (0.99%) Veritas
12 4 (0.79%) Apple
12 4 (0.79%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.79%) EMC
12 4 (0.79%) Reuters