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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 393 330
Rank change year-on-year -105 -63 -101
Permanent jobs citing Unix 187 253 684
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.66% 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.71% 4.13% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 104 180 476
10th Percentile £47,512 £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 £81,563 £80,313
90th Percentile £101,375 £90,500 £100,064
UK median annual salary £68,405 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.24% +8.33% -11.11%

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 5,034 6,126 12,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.09% 16.00% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,811 3,825 9,805
10th Percentile £27,750 £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 £82,751 £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 25 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 25 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 -48 97 £81,500 +8.67% 47
South West -33 34 £72,500 +0.71% 8
North of England -40 28 £69,310 -0.11% 16
North West -9 13 £60,000 -13.52% 12
South East -60 11 £62,500 +50.60% 23
Yorkshire -46 9 £69,310 +10.90% 3
Midlands -45 8 £28,500 -52.50% 7
East of England -21 6 £61,500 +123.64% 7
North East -40 6 £69,310 -0.11% 1
West Midlands -40 6 £28,500 -52.50% 6
East Midlands -24 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 (1.07%) 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 14 (7.49%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.67%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.14%) Line 50
2 4 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.14%) 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 (41.71%) AWS
2 57 (30.48%) Azure
3 21 (11.23%) Pulumi
4 18 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (9.63%) GCP
5 15 (8.02%) SaaS
6 14 (7.49%) Azure AKS
6 14 (7.49%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (6.95%) GitHub
8 12 (6.42%) PaaS
9 9 (4.81%) IaaS
9 9 (4.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (4.28%) OpenShift
11 6 (3.21%) Apigee
11 6 (3.21%) Kong
11 6 (3.21%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.14%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.63%) Broadband
1 18 (9.63%) Firewall
2 15 (8.02%) TCP/IP
3 10 (5.35%) DNS
3 10 (5.35%) WAN
4 9 (4.81%) 5G
4 9 (4.81%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.28%) HTTPS
6 7 (3.74%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.67%) Network Security
8 4 (2.14%) VoIP
9 3 (1.60%) CHAP
10 1 (0.53%) BGP
10 1 (0.53%) Internet
10 1 (0.53%) LTE
10 1 (0.53%) MPLS
10 1 (0.53%) OSPF
10 1 (0.53%) RTP
10 1 (0.53%) SMPP
10 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.30%) NoSQL
2 21 (11.23%) Relational Database
3 19 (10.16%) MongoDB
3 19 (10.16%) RDBMS
4 18 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.42%) Oracle Database
6 6 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.21%) Power BI
6 6 (3.21%) Tableau
7 4 (2.14%) FileMaker
7 4 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.14%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.60%) DB2
8 3 (1.60%) Redis
9 2 (1.07%) Big Data
9 2 (1.07%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.53%) KDB
10 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 25 (13.37%) GitLab
2 18 (9.63%) Jaeger
3 15 (8.02%) Git
4 9 (4.81%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.81%) LabVIEW
5 7 (3.74%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.14%) JIRA
6 4 (2.14%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.60%) Selenium
8 2 (1.07%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.07%) Gradle
8 2 (1.07%) JMeter
8 2 (1.07%) Maven
9 1 (0.53%) LSMW
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 74 (39.57%) Finance
2 52 (27.81%) Social Skills
3 30 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (12.30%) Banking
5 23 (12.30%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.95%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.35%) Electronics
8 8 (4.28%) Legal
9 7 (3.74%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.67%) Front Office
12 4 (2.14%) German Language
12 4 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.60%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.60%) Back Office
13 3 (1.60%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.60%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.53%) Law
14 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (21.39%) Senior
2 23 (12.30%) Lead
3 19 (10.16%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (8.56%) Automation Engineer
4 16 (8.56%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (8.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (8.02%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (7.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.42%) Developer
8 11 (5.88%) Analyst
9 10 (5.35%) Test Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Unix Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Unix Linux Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Cloud Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Product Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.23%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (7.49%) Node.js
4 10 (5.35%) JSON
4 10 (5.35%) XML
5 9 (4.81%) pytest
5 9 (4.81%) REST
6 8 (4.28%) HTML
7 7 (3.74%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (3.21%) Jinja
8 6 (3.21%) YAML
8 6 (3.21%) YANG
9 5 (2.67%) Kafka
10 4 (2.14%) CSS
10 4 (2.14%) Django
10 4 (2.14%) Regular Expression
11 3 (1.60%) Middleware
12 2 (1.07%) .NET
12 2 (1.07%) LDAP
12 2 (1.07%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.63%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (6.95%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.42%) Security Posture
4 11 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (5.88%) Hedge funds
4 11 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (5.35%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (4.81%) Self-Driving Car
7 7 (3.74%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.21%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.67%) Blockchain
10 4 (2.14%) Clustering
10 4 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (2.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 4 (2.14%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.60%) Equities
11 3 (1.60%) IoT
11 3 (1.60%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 140 (74.87%) Linux
2 55 (29.41%) Windows
3 22 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (4.28%) AIX
5 6 (3.21%) Solaris
5 6 (3.21%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.67%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.67%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (2.14%) Kali Linux
8 2 (1.07%) 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 (36.90%) DevOps
2 53 (28.34%) CI/CD
3 51 (27.27%) Agile
4 48 (25.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (22.99%) Test Automation
6 41 (21.93%) Mentoring
7 38 (20.32%) Continuous Integration
8 33 (17.65%) Task Automation
9 30 (16.04%) Containerisation
9 30 (16.04%) High Availability
10 29 (15.51%) Roadmaps
11 26 (13.90%) Incident Response
12 24 (12.83%) Computer Science
13 23 (12.30%) Validation
14 22 (11.76%) Coaching
15 21 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (10.70%) AI
16 20 (10.70%) Microservices
17 19 (10.16%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 96 (51.34%) Python
2 51 (27.27%) Bash
3 46 (24.60%) Java
4 32 (17.11%) SQL
5 25 (13.37%) JavaScript
6 19 (10.16%) Go
7 15 (8.02%) Shell Script
8 12 (6.42%) PowerShell
9 9 (4.81%) MATLAB
10 6 (3.21%) C#
10 6 (3.21%) Korn
10 6 (3.21%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.21%) Rust
11 5 (2.67%) C++
11 5 (2.67%) VB
11 5 (2.67%) VBA
11 5 (2.67%) VBScript
12 4 (2.14%) PHP
13 3 (1.60%) Perl
14 2 (1.07%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 42 (22.46%) Degree
2 20 (10.70%) AWS Certification
2 20 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 17 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.49%) CISSP
6 9 (4.81%) CCSK
6 9 (4.81%) HND
7 6 (3.21%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.67%) CISM
8 5 (2.67%) SANS
9 4 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (2.14%) CISA
9 4 (2.14%) OSCP
10 3 (1.60%) CGEIT
10 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.60%) FFIEC
10 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.28%) QA
2 6 (3.21%) NIST
3 5 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.14%) GDPR
4 4 (2.14%) ISO 14001
4 4 (2.14%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.60%) COBIT
5 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.07%) 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 (15.51%) Docker
2 12 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.74%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.07%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.53%) Firmware
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (33.16%) Terraform
2 43 (22.99%) Ansible
3 37 (19.79%) Kubernetes
4 32 (17.11%) Argo
5 23 (12.30%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.63%) Kustomize
7 13 (6.95%) Puppet
8 7 (3.74%) Oracle RMAN
9 5 (2.67%) Data Guard
9 5 (2.67%) Grafana
9 5 (2.67%) Nagios
9 5 (2.67%) SCCM
10 3 (1.60%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.60%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.60%) Podman
11 2 (1.07%) Kibana
11 2 (1.07%) logstash
12 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 31 (16.58%) Google
2 26 (13.90%) Red Hat
3 25 (13.37%) Oracle
4 17 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 17 (9.09%) VMware
5 11 (5.88%) IBM
6 9 (4.81%) Adobe
7 8 (4.28%) Cisco
8 6 (3.21%) F5
8 6 (3.21%) Juniper
8 6 (3.21%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.21%) SAP
8 6 (3.21%) Splunk
9 5 (2.67%) Snow
10 4 (2.14%) Apple
10 4 (2.14%) Databricks
10 4 (2.14%) Sage
10 4 (2.14%) Symantec
10 4 (2.14%) TOWER Software
10 4 (2.14%) Workday