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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 367 312
Rank change year-on-year -141 -55 -111
Permanent jobs citing Unix 250 289 584
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.67% 0.85%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.21% 4.77% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 182 178 300
10th Percentile £39,125 £27,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,538 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +10.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,625 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,576 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.92% +4.17% -7.69%

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 5,936 6,059 8,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.91% 14.10% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,461 3,918 5,565
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,475 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -4.76%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -75 106 £70,000 -12.50% 374
North of England -21 58 £65,576 +9.29% 42
South West -61 48 £66,250 -15.94% 34
North West +1 29 £64,038 +28.08% 19
Yorkshire -35 20 £69,306 +10.89% 13
Midlands -52 18 £62,000 -11.43% 25
West Midlands -38 15 £69,306 -7.59% 22
North East -56 9 £69,306 +45.91% 10
East of England -49 7 £61,500 +44.71% 21
South East -86 5 £60,000 +44.58% 54
East Midlands -32 3 £61,500 +6.03% 3
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 9 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.20%) Confluence
3 2 (0.80%) Documentum
3 2 (0.80%) JBoss
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.80%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.20%) Fidessa
3 5 (2.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (1.60%) Line 50
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (1.60%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.80%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.40%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 89 (35.60%) AWS
2 64 (25.60%) Azure
3 34 (13.60%) GCP
4 20 (8.00%) Azure AKS
5 19 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.60%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (3.60%) SaaS
8 8 (3.20%) GitHub
8 8 (3.20%) OCI
9 7 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (2.80%) dbt
10 6 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.40%) Slack
11 4 (1.60%) Datadog
11 4 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.80%) BlazeMeter
13 2 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 32 (12.80%) DNS
2 28 (11.20%) TCP/IP
3 16 (6.40%) DHCP
4 15 (6.00%) Firewall
5 14 (5.60%) 3GPP
5 14 (5.60%) MGW
5 14 (5.60%) MVNO
5 14 (5.60%) Packet Switching
5 14 (5.60%) RTP
5 14 (5.60%) SGSN
5 14 (5.60%) SMPP
6 9 (3.60%) VPN
7 8 (3.20%) FIX Connectivity
8 7 (2.80%) Network Security
9 6 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (2.40%) SSH
9 6 (2.40%) WAN
10 4 (1.60%) 5G
10 4 (1.60%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.60%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.80%) MongoDB
2 17 (6.80%) Oracle Database
2 17 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.80%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.60%) FileMaker
6 3 (1.20%) Db2
6 3 (1.20%) KDB
7 2 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.80%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.80%) Kdb+
7 2 (0.80%) MySQL
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.80%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.80%) Siebel EIM
8 1 (0.40%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 22 (8.80%) Git
1 22 (8.80%) GitLab
2 19 (7.60%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.80%) JIRA
4 8 (3.20%) Eclipse
5 7 (2.80%) Subversion
6 4 (1.60%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.60%) Maven
6 4 (1.60%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.60%) Selenium
6 4 (1.60%) Toad
7 3 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.80%) Gradle
8 2 (0.80%) JMeter
9 1 (0.40%) LSMW
9 1 (0.40%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.40%) NetBeans
9 1 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 81 (32.40%) Finance
2 57 (22.80%) Social Skills
3 47 (18.80%) Public Sector
4 37 (14.80%) Banking
5 29 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.40%) Retail
8 9 (3.60%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.60%) Front Office
9 6 (2.40%) Electronics
10 4 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.60%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.60%) Legal
10 4 (1.60%) Retail Finance
11 3 (1.20%) Aviation
11 3 (1.20%) Avionics
11 3 (1.20%) Back Office
11 3 (1.20%) Japanese Language
11 3 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 86 (34.40%) Senior
2 32 (12.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (12.40%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (11.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 23 (9.20%) Developer
6 18 (7.20%) Administrator
7 17 (6.80%) Analyst
7 17 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (6.00%) DBA
8 15 (6.00%) Support Analyst
9 14 (5.60%) Network Engineer
10 13 (5.20%) Applications Support
10 13 (5.20%) Linux Engineer
10 13 (5.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.20%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.80%) Lead
12 11 (4.40%) IT Support
12 11 (4.40%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.40%) Test Engineer
13 10 (4.00%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.00%) Terraform
2 18 (7.20%) FIX Protocol
3 14 (5.60%) Node.js
4 10 (4.00%) Web Services
5 9 (3.60%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (3.60%) REST
5 9 (3.60%) RESTful
6 8 (3.20%) Struts
7 7 (2.80%) HTML
7 7 (2.80%) Kafka
7 7 (2.80%) React
8 6 (2.40%) CSS
9 5 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.60%) Middleware
10 4 (1.60%) pytest
10 4 (1.60%) YAML
11 3 (1.20%) Spring
12 2 (0.80%) JMS
12 2 (0.80%) OpenMP
12 2 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.60%) IVR
1 14 (5.60%) Onboarding
2 12 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.20%) Eurex
4 8 (3.20%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.40%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (2.40%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.60%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.60%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (1.20%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 211 (84.40%) Linux
2 81 (32.40%) Windows
3 26 (10.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.20%) AIX
5 11 (4.40%) Solaris
6 10 (4.00%) CentOS
6 10 (4.00%) Mac OS
6 10 (4.00%) Oracle Linux
7 9 (3.60%) Rocky
7 9 (3.60%) Windows Server
8 7 (2.80%) Ubuntu
9 6 (2.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.80%) CI/CD
2 75 (30.00%) DevOps
3 63 (25.20%) Continuous Improvement
4 62 (24.80%) Mentoring
5 56 (22.40%) Agile
6 55 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (21.60%) Coaching
8 48 (19.20%) Test Automation
9 43 (17.20%) Scrum
10 39 (15.60%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (12.80%) Software Engineering
12 31 (12.40%) Containerisation
12 31 (12.40%) ITIL
13 27 (10.80%) Incident Response
14 24 (9.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (9.60%) Validation
15 23 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
16 22 (8.80%) Runbook
16 22 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (8.40%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 76 (30.40%) Python
2 70 (28.00%) SQL
3 47 (18.80%) Bash
4 37 (14.80%) Java
5 26 (10.40%) Shell Script
6 25 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.60%) Perl
8 18 (7.20%) C++
8 18 (7.20%) PL/SQL
9 14 (5.60%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.80%) Korn
11 8 (3.20%) C
11 8 (3.20%) Ruby
11 8 (3.20%) Rust
12 6 (2.40%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.60%) C#
13 4 (1.60%) Go
13 4 (1.60%) PHP
14 3 (1.20%) Ada
14 3 (1.20%) Ada 95
Qualifications
1 50 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 30 (12.00%) Degree
4 20 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.40%) A+ Certification
6 6 (2.40%) HND
6 6 (2.40%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (2.00%) CISSP
8 4 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.60%) CISM
9 3 (1.20%) CEH
9 3 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.20%) GCIH
9 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.20%) RHCE
9 3 (1.20%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.20%) SANS
10 2 (0.80%) CCNP
10 2 (0.80%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.60%) QA
2 4 (1.60%) ISO 14001
2 4 (1.60%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.60%) NIST
3 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) MIL-STD-1553
4 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.40%) COBIT
5 1 (0.40%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.40%) ITGC
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (10.80%) Docker
2 11 (4.40%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.40%) Firmware
6 1 (0.40%) GPFS
6 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.40%) KVM
6 1 (0.40%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 25 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (7.60%) Ansible
3 18 (7.20%) Puppet
4 14 (5.60%) Argo
5 13 (5.20%) Grafana
5 13 (5.20%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.80%) Oracle RMAN
7 10 (4.00%) Data Guard
7 10 (4.00%) Nagios
8 4 (1.60%) Podman
9 3 (1.20%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.80%) Kibana
10 2 (0.80%) logstash
11 1 (0.40%) Control-M
11 1 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.40%) Nmap
11 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (26.00%) Oracle
2 26 (10.40%) Microsoft
3 25 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.80%) IBM
4 12 (4.80%) Pega
5 9 (3.60%) Bloomberg
6 8 (3.20%) CQG
6 8 (3.20%) ION Trading
6 8 (3.20%) Patsystems
6 8 (3.20%) Reuters
6 8 (3.20%) Trayport
7 7 (2.80%) Google
8 6 (2.40%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.40%) VMware
9 5 (2.00%) Sybase
10 4 (1.60%) Adobe
10 4 (1.60%) Apple
10 4 (1.60%) Retek
10 4 (1.60%) Sage
10 4 (1.60%) SAP