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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 287 341
Rank change year-on-year -128 +54 -141
Permanent jobs citing Unix 263 376 626
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 1.03% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.39% 6.77% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 139 199 463
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £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 £78,915 £82,751 £82,548
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £100,064
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.82% +15.51% -13.60%

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 4,882 5,556 11,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.87% 15.20% 15.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,700 3,989 9,913
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -13.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,000 £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 3 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 3 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 -27 135 £75,000 +7.14% 39
South East -49 36 £58,000 +41.46% 21
East of England -22 27 £61,500 +2.50% 4
South West -31 25 £60,000 -16.66% 3
North of England -126 22 £55,000 -20.73% 20
Midlands -60 13 £73,801 +20.49% 12
North West -74 11 £60,000 -13.43% 10
West Midlands -45 10 £73,801 +23.00% 8
North East -24 6 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Yorkshire -68 5 £25,750 -69.80% 7
East Midlands -41 3 £40,000 -42.86% 4
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 25 (9.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (7.98%) Exchange Server 2003
3 8 (3.04%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.90%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.90%) WebLogic
4 5 (1.90%) WebSphere
4 5 (1.90%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (1.14%) Confluence
5 3 (1.14%) IIS
5 3 (1.14%) WebLogic Portal
6 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (7.60%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.66%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.90%) Shopify
3 4 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.14%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (1.14%) Primavera
5 2 (0.76%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.38%) Line 50
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 89 (33.84%) AWS
2 68 (25.86%) Azure
3 36 (13.69%) GCP
4 33 (12.55%) Pulumi
5 23 (8.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (7.60%) PaaS
7 19 (7.22%) GitHub
8 16 (6.08%) Amazon ECR
8 16 (6.08%) SaaS
9 14 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (5.32%) dbt
10 13 (4.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (4.56%) IaaS
12 9 (3.42%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (3.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (3.42%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.42%) Sentry
13 8 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (3.04%) OpenShift
14 7 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.55%) TCP/IP
2 30 (11.41%) DNS
3 27 (10.27%) Firewall
4 22 (8.37%) DHCP
5 19 (7.22%) Broadband
6 11 (4.18%) HTTPS
7 9 (3.42%) VLAN
8 8 (3.04%) 5G
8 8 (3.04%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (3.04%) SD-WAN
8 8 (3.04%) VPN
8 8 (3.04%) WAN
9 7 (2.66%) MPLS
10 6 (2.28%) SSL
11 4 (1.52%) FIX Connectivity
12 2 (0.76%) CHAP
12 2 (0.76%) Internet
12 2 (0.76%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.76%) VoIP
13 1 (0.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.93%) Oracle Database
2 29 (11.03%) NoSQL
3 28 (10.65%) Relational Database
4 22 (8.37%) Oracle Database 10g
4 22 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (7.60%) RDBMS
6 17 (6.46%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (5.32%) Redis
9 9 (3.42%) Power BI
9 9 (3.42%) Tableau
10 7 (2.66%) DB2
10 7 (2.66%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (2.66%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.52%) Big Data
12 3 (1.14%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.14%) Oracle Discoverer
13 2 (0.76%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.76%) Informix
Development Applications
1 19 (7.22%) Jaeger
2 14 (5.32%) Git
3 13 (4.94%) GitLab
4 10 (3.80%) Bitbucket
4 10 (3.80%) LabVIEW
5 9 (3.42%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.52%) JIRA
6 4 (1.52%) Metasploit
6 4 (1.52%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.38%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 67 (25.48%) Finance
3 37 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (9.51%) Banking
6 16 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.70%) German Language
8 14 (5.32%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.94%) Electronics
10 12 (4.56%) Public Sector
11 10 (3.80%) Investment Banking
11 10 (3.80%) Legal
12 7 (2.66%) Law
13 6 (2.28%) Front Office
13 6 (2.28%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.90%) Back Office
15 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
16 3 (1.14%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 40 (15.21%) Senior
2 23 (8.75%) 3rd Line Support
2 23 (8.75%) Lead
3 21 (7.98%) Systems Support
4 20 (7.60%) Analyst
4 20 (7.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (6.84%) Automation Engineer
7 17 (6.46%) Linux Engineer
8 16 (6.08%) Developer
9 14 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (4.94%) Support Engineer
11 12 (4.56%) Verification Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) GCP Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) Python Engineer
12 11 (4.18%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.97%) JSON
2 40 (15.21%) XML
3 32 (12.17%) HTML
4 29 (11.03%) Regular Expression
5 27 (10.27%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (7.22%) OpenTelemetry
7 14 (5.32%) Django
8 11 (4.18%) REST
9 10 (3.80%) pytest
10 9 (3.42%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (3.04%) LDAP
12 7 (2.66%) RESTful
13 6 (2.28%) Jinja
13 6 (2.28%) YAML
13 6 (2.28%) YANG
14 5 (1.90%) LAPP Stack
14 5 (1.90%) Middleware
14 5 (1.90%) SOAP
14 5 (1.90%) Web Services
14 5 (1.90%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 52 (19.77%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (12.55%) Onboarding
3 21 (7.98%) Management Information System
4 17 (6.46%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (4.94%) Hedge funds
6 12 (4.56%) Security Posture
7 11 (4.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (3.42%) Data Centre
9 8 (3.04%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (3.04%) Self-Driving Car
10 7 (2.66%) Clustering
10 7 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.28%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.90%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.90%) IoT
13 4 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (1.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (1.52%) NHS
13 4 (1.52%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 167 (63.50%) Linux
2 78 (29.66%) Windows
3 29 (11.03%) Solaris
4 22 (8.37%) HPUX
5 21 (7.98%) Windows Server 2003
6 20 (7.60%) Windows 7
6 20 (7.60%) Windows Server 2008
7 18 (6.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.66%) Windows Server
9 5 (1.90%) AIX
10 4 (1.52%) Kali Linux
10 4 (1.52%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.52%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.38%) CentOS
12 1 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.38%) ThreadX
12 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.00%) DevOps
2 67 (25.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (20.15%) AI
5 47 (17.87%) Agile
6 45 (17.11%) CI/CD
7 43 (16.35%) Containerisation
8 39 (14.83%) Task Automation
9 37 (14.07%) Data Analysis
9 37 (14.07%) Incident Management
10 35 (13.31%) High Availability
10 35 (13.31%) ITIL
11 32 (12.17%) Computer Science
11 32 (12.17%) Incident Response
12 29 (11.03%) LLM
12 29 (11.03%) Mentoring
12 29 (11.03%) Test Automation
13 27 (10.27%) Roadmaps
14 24 (9.13%) Change Management
14 24 (9.13%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 171 (65.02%) Python
2 62 (23.57%) Bash
3 45 (17.11%) SQL
4 39 (14.83%) Java
5 38 (14.45%) PowerShell
6 37 (14.07%) JavaScript
7 24 (9.13%) Perl
8 22 (8.37%) Go
9 16 (6.08%) Shell Script
10 11 (4.18%) C#
11 10 (3.80%) MATLAB
12 7 (2.66%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.90%) C++
13 5 (1.90%) VB
13 5 (1.90%) VBA
13 5 (1.90%) VBScript
14 4 (1.52%) Korn
14 4 (1.52%) Rust
15 3 (1.14%) C
15 3 (1.14%) R
Qualifications
1 89 (33.84%) Degree
2 60 (22.81%) Security Cleared
3 52 (19.77%) SC Cleared
4 30 (11.41%) AWS Certification
5 26 (9.89%) DV Cleared
6 25 (9.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (6.46%) CISSP
8 11 (4.18%) CCSK
8 11 (4.18%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (3.80%) HND
10 7 (2.66%) CCNA
10 7 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.66%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.90%) CISA
11 5 (1.90%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.90%) OSCP
12 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.52%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.14%) ACCA
13 3 (1.14%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.17%) SLA
2 7 (2.66%) GDPR
2 7 (2.66%) QA
3 5 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.14%) NIST
6 2 (0.76%) COBIT
7 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.38%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (19.77%) Docker
2 34 (12.93%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.90%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (1.90%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (22.05%) Terraform
2 52 (19.77%) Ansible
3 47 (17.87%) Kubernetes
4 26 (9.89%) Prometheus
5 19 (7.22%) Argo
5 19 (7.22%) Kustomize
6 13 (4.94%) Grafana
7 9 (3.42%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (2.28%) SCCM
9 4 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.52%) Podman
10 3 (1.14%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.14%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.14%) Nagios
11 2 (0.76%) Puppet
12 1 (0.38%) Ambari
12 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.38%) SCOM
12 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (20.15%) Oracle
2 46 (17.49%) Google
3 44 (16.73%) Microsoft
4 43 (16.35%) VMware
5 27 (10.27%) Red Hat
6 20 (7.60%) IBM
7 16 (6.08%) Cisco
8 14 (5.32%) Juniper
8 14 (5.32%) Palo Alto
8 14 (5.32%) SAP
9 12 (4.56%) Splunk
10 9 (3.42%) Workday
11 8 (3.04%) Dell
11 8 (3.04%) Fortinet
11 8 (3.04%) IFS
12 7 (2.66%) Arista
12 7 (2.66%) Symantec
13 6 (2.28%) CheckPoint
13 6 (2.28%) F5
13 6 (2.28%) MuleSoft