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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 392 348
Rank change year-on-year -126 -44 -131
Permanent jobs citing Unix 220 296 545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.68% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.77% 4.48% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 144 197 320
10th Percentile £45,795 £29,750 £37,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,240 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £69,384 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +10.51% -6.99%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £85,469
90th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £69,306 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.11% +15.64% -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 5,836 6,607 9,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.35% 15.11% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 4,423 4,407 6,933
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.58% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%

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 August 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 August 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 -84 97 £75,000 -6.25% 73
North of England -31 43 £69,306 +1.17% 21
South West -45 43 £66,250 -15.94% 9
North West +2 22 £62,500 -9.92% 14
Midlands -41 15 £65,403 +0.62% 10
Yorkshire -31 14 £69,308 +10.89% 4
West Midlands -39 13 £69,306 +4.51% 10
South East -60 10 £62,500 +66.67% 23
East of England -36 7 £61,500 +123.64% 2
North East -55 7 £69,310 +15.52% 3
East Midlands -25 2 £61,500 +6.03%
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 (0.91%) Confluence
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.91%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.45%) Apache
2 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.45%) Documentum
2 1 (0.45%) JBoss
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (5.45%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (2.27%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (2.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.82%) Line 50
3 4 (1.82%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.82%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (1.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.82%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.91%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.45%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (41.82%) AWS
2 71 (32.27%) Azure
3 35 (15.91%) GCP
4 18 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.36%) Azure AKS
5 14 (6.36%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (5.45%) GitHub
7 9 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (4.09%) dbt
7 9 (4.09%) SaaS
8 8 (3.64%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.73%) Apigee
9 6 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.73%) Kong
10 5 (2.27%) PaaS
11 4 (1.82%) Datadog
11 4 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.82%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (1.36%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.91%) TCP/IP
2 20 (9.09%) Firewall
3 16 (7.27%) DNS
4 8 (3.64%) HTTPS
5 6 (2.73%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.73%) WAN
6 5 (2.27%) Network Security
6 5 (2.27%) SSH
7 4 (1.82%) 3GPP
7 4 (1.82%) 5G
7 4 (1.82%) MGW
7 4 (1.82%) MVNO
7 4 (1.82%) Packet Switching
7 4 (1.82%) RTP
7 4 (1.82%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.82%) SGSN
7 4 (1.82%) SMPP
7 4 (1.82%) VoIP
8 3 (1.36%) DHCP
8 3 (1.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 19 (8.64%) Oracle Database
2 19 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.09%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.73%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.82%) FileMaker
6 4 (1.82%) Power BI
6 4 (1.82%) Tableau
7 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.36%) Db2
7 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.36%) Redis
8 2 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
8 2 (0.91%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.91%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (11.36%) GitLab
2 19 (8.64%) Git
3 14 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.09%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.18%) Eclipse
5 7 (3.18%) JIRA
6 6 (2.73%) Subversion
7 4 (1.82%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.82%) Metasploit
7 4 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.82%) Selenium
7 4 (1.82%) Toad
8 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.91%) Gradle
8 2 (0.91%) JMeter
8 2 (0.91%) Maven
9 1 (0.45%) LSMW
9 1 (0.45%) NetBeans
9 1 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
General
1 84 (38.18%) Finance
2 61 (27.73%) Social Skills
3 34 (15.45%) Public Sector
4 32 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (14.55%) Banking
5 15 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.55%) Front Office
6 10 (4.55%) Retail
7 9 (4.09%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.64%) Legal
9 7 (3.18%) Electronics
10 6 (2.73%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.73%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.82%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.82%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.82%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.36%) Back Office
12 3 (1.36%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.91%) Digital Economy
13 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (31.82%) Senior
2 32 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (14.09%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (12.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 22 (10.00%) Developer
6 18 (8.18%) Administrator
7 17 (7.73%) DBA
8 12 (5.45%) Applications Support
8 12 (5.45%) Oracle DBA
9 11 (5.00%) Analyst
9 11 (5.00%) Lead
9 11 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
9 11 (5.00%) Senior DBA
9 11 (5.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 10 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
11 9 (4.09%) Network Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Consultant
12 8 (3.64%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.64%) Test Engineer
12 8 (3.64%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.36%) Node.js
2 12 (5.45%) FIX Protocol
3 11 (5.00%) REST
4 10 (4.55%) YAML
5 8 (3.64%) Kafka
6 7 (3.18%) Jakarta EE
6 7 (3.18%) React
6 7 (3.18%) RESTful
6 7 (3.18%) Struts
6 7 (3.18%) Web Services
7 6 (2.73%) HTML
7 6 (2.73%) Jinja
7 6 (2.73%) JSON
7 6 (2.73%) XML
7 6 (2.73%) YANG
8 5 (2.27%) CSS
9 4 (1.82%) Django
9 4 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.82%) Middleware
9 4 (1.82%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (4.09%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.18%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.27%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.82%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.82%) IVR
8 4 (1.82%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.82%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 177 (80.45%) Linux
2 64 (29.09%) Windows
3 25 (11.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.91%) AIX
5 11 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
6 7 (3.18%) Solaris
7 5 (2.27%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.82%) Kali Linux
9 3 (1.36%) CentOS
10 2 (0.91%) Rocky
10 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.91%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.45%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (37.73%) DevOps
2 79 (35.91%) CI/CD
3 54 (24.55%) Agile
4 49 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (22.27%) Test Automation
5 44 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 39 (17.73%) Incident Response
7 38 (17.27%) Coaching
8 36 (16.36%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (15.45%) Scrum
10 28 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (11.82%) High Availability
12 25 (11.36%) Containerisation
12 25 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (10.91%) Computer Science
14 23 (10.45%) Task Automation
15 22 (10.00%) ITIL
15 22 (10.00%) Microservices
15 22 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (39.55%) Python
2 54 (24.55%) SQL
3 43 (19.55%) Bash
4 40 (18.18%) Java
5 28 (12.73%) Shell Script
6 22 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.73%) C++
7 17 (7.73%) PL/SQL
8 13 (5.91%) Perl
9 12 (5.45%) Korn
10 11 (5.00%) PowerShell
11 9 (4.09%) Rust
12 6 (2.73%) C
12 6 (2.73%) C#
12 6 (2.73%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.82%) Go
13 4 (1.82%) PHP
13 4 (1.82%) VB
13 4 (1.82%) VBA
13 4 (1.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.36%) Degree
3 35 (15.91%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (8.18%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.73%) CISSP
5 6 (2.73%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (2.73%) HND
6 4 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.82%) CISM
6 4 (1.82%) OSCP
6 4 (1.82%) SANS
7 3 (1.36%) CISA
7 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.36%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.91%) CCSP
8 2 (0.91%) CEH
8 2 (0.91%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.36%) QA
2 5 (2.27%) NIST
3 4 (1.82%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.82%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.36%) GDPR
4 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.91%) COBIT
5 2 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.45%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.45%) ITGC
6 1 (0.45%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 23 (10.45%) Docker
2 14 (6.36%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.91%) Firmware
6 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.45%) GPFS
6 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.45%) KVM
6 1 (0.45%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 44 (20.00%) Terraform
2 26 (11.82%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.00%) Ansible
4 15 (6.82%) Puppet
5 14 (6.36%) Argo
5 14 (6.36%) Oracle RMAN
6 12 (5.45%) Grafana
6 12 (5.45%) Prometheus
7 11 (5.00%) Data Guard
7 11 (5.00%) Nagios
8 4 (1.82%) SCCM
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.36%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.91%) Kibana
10 2 (0.91%) logstash
10 2 (0.91%) Podman
11 1 (0.45%) Control-M
11 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 43 (19.55%) Oracle
2 22 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 19 (8.64%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.82%) IBM
5 12 (5.45%) Pega
6 11 (5.00%) Google
7 10 (4.55%) VMware
8 8 (3.64%) Adobe
9 7 (3.18%) Cisco
10 6 (2.73%) F5
10 6 (2.73%) Juniper
10 6 (2.73%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.27%) Splunk
12 4 (1.82%) Apple
12 4 (1.82%) New Relic
12 4 (1.82%) Retek
12 4 (1.82%) Sage
12 4 (1.82%) SAP
12 4 (1.82%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.82%) Sybase