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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 268 329
Rank change year-on-year -129 +61 -129
Permanent jobs citing Unix 274 452 618
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 1.17% 0.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.74% 7.54% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 138 194 468
10th Percentile £40,875 £36,475 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,813 £47,938 £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 £79,555 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £100,064
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,626 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.58% +12.71% -11.76%

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 4,770 5,993 11,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.23% 15.49% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,613 4,025 9,618
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £25,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -11.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £62,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,712
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.04% -11.02%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -19 143 £75,000 +7.14% 37
South East -25 40 £58,000 +38.10% 22
South West -22 30 £60,000 -16.66% 3
East of England -19 25 £61,500 +2.50% 4
North of England -125 19 £55,000 -20.64% 19
Midlands -58 12 £73,801 +23.00% 10
West Midlands -47 9 £74,401 +24.00% 7
North West -88 8 £68,151 +0.78% 12
North East -26 6 £73,801 +6.48% 3
Yorkshire -54 5 £25,750 -69.80% 4
East Midlands - 3 £40,000 - 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 28 (10.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (8.39%) Exchange Server 2003
3 12 (4.38%) Tomcat
4 9 (3.28%) WebSphere
5 8 (2.92%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (2.19%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.82%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.82%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.46%) Confluence
9 3 (1.09%) IIS
9 3 (1.09%) WebLogic Portal
10 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.36%) Apache
11 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.36%) nginx
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (7.30%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.82%) Shopify
3 4 (1.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.09%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (1.09%) Primavera
5 2 (0.73%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.36%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 98 (35.77%) AWS
2 73 (26.64%) Azure
3 41 (14.96%) GCP
4 33 (12.04%) Pulumi
5 23 (8.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (7.66%) GitHub
7 20 (7.30%) PaaS
8 16 (5.84%) Amazon ECR
8 16 (5.84%) SaaS
9 14 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (5.11%) dbt
10 13 (4.74%) OpenShift
10 13 (4.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (4.38%) IaaS
12 9 (3.28%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (3.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (3.28%) Power Platform
12 9 (3.28%) Sentry
13 7 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.04%) TCP/IP
2 32 (11.68%) DNS
3 28 (10.22%) Firewall
4 24 (8.76%) DHCP
5 20 (7.30%) Broadband
6 11 (4.01%) HTTPS
7 10 (3.65%) SSL
8 9 (3.28%) VLAN
8 9 (3.28%) WAN
9 8 (2.92%) 5G
9 8 (2.92%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (2.92%) SD-WAN
9 8 (2.92%) VPN
10 7 (2.55%) MPLS
11 5 (1.82%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.46%) FIX Connectivity
13 2 (0.73%) CHAP
13 2 (0.73%) Internet
13 2 (0.73%) VoIP
14 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.41%) Oracle Database
2 30 (10.95%) NoSQL
3 28 (10.22%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (8.76%) Oracle Database 10g
6 20 (7.30%) RDBMS
7 17 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (6.20%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (5.11%) Redis
9 11 (4.01%) DB2
10 9 (3.28%) Power BI
10 9 (3.28%) Tableau
11 8 (2.92%) Big Data
12 7 (2.55%) Hadoop
12 7 (2.55%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (2.55%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.19%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.09%) Oracle Discoverer
15 2 (0.73%) Informix
15 2 (0.73%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (6.93%) Jaeger
2 17 (6.20%) Git
3 13 (4.74%) GitLab
4 12 (4.38%) LabVIEW
5 10 (3.65%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.28%) Jenkins
7 6 (2.19%) JIRA
8 4 (1.46%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.46%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.36%) Mocha
10 1 (0.36%) Selenium
10 1 (0.36%) webpack
10 1 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 70 (25.55%) Finance
2 65 (23.72%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (9.12%) Banking
6 16 (5.84%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.47%) German Language
8 14 (5.11%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.74%) Electronics
10 12 (4.38%) Investment Banking
11 11 (4.01%) Public Sector
12 10 (3.65%) Legal
13 7 (2.55%) Law
14 6 (2.19%) Front Office
14 6 (2.19%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.82%) Back Office
16 4 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 2 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (16.42%) Senior
2 24 (8.76%) 3rd Line Support
3 23 (8.39%) Lead
3 23 (8.39%) Systems Support
4 22 (8.03%) Analyst
5 20 (7.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (6.93%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (6.57%) Automation Engineer
8 17 (6.20%) Developer
9 14 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (5.11%) Infrastructure Support
9 14 (5.11%) Linux Support
9 14 (5.11%) Support Engineer
9 14 (5.11%) Verification Engineer
10 13 (4.74%) Linux Engineer
10 13 (4.74%) Unix Support
11 12 (4.38%) Administrator
11 12 (4.38%) Product Engineer
11 12 (4.38%) Product Test Engineer
11 12 (4.38%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.33%) JSON
2 40 (14.60%) XML
3 31 (11.31%) HTML
4 29 (10.58%) Regular Expression
5 27 (9.85%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (6.93%) OpenTelemetry
7 15 (5.47%) LDAP
8 14 (5.11%) Django
9 12 (4.38%) pytest
10 11 (4.01%) REST
11 8 (2.92%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (2.92%) LAPP Stack
11 8 (2.92%) OAuth
11 8 (2.92%) WebSphere MQ
12 7 (2.55%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.55%) RESTful
13 6 (2.19%) Jinja
13 6 (2.19%) Kafka
13 6 (2.19%) YAML
13 6 (2.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 58 (21.17%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (12.04%) Onboarding
3 24 (8.76%) Management Information System
4 17 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.38%) Hedge funds
5 12 (4.38%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.28%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.92%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (2.92%) Self-Driving Car
9 7 (2.55%) Clustering
10 6 (2.19%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.82%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.82%) IoT
12 4 (1.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.46%) GNSS
12 4 (1.46%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.46%) Satnav
12 4 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 175 (63.87%) Linux
2 84 (30.66%) Windows
3 29 (10.58%) Solaris
4 24 (8.76%) HPUX
5 23 (8.39%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (8.03%) Windows 7
6 22 (8.03%) Windows Server 2008
7 20 (7.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.55%) Windows Server
9 5 (1.82%) AIX
10 4 (1.46%) Kali Linux
10 4 (1.46%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.09%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.36%) CentOS
12 1 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.36%) ThreadX
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (26.64%) DevOps
2 68 (24.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 60 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (20.80%) AI
5 48 (17.52%) Agile
6 46 (16.79%) CI/CD
7 44 (16.06%) Containerisation
8 42 (15.33%) High Availability
9 39 (14.23%) ITIL
9 39 (14.23%) Task Automation
10 37 (13.50%) Computer Science
10 37 (13.50%) Data Analysis
10 37 (13.50%) Incident Management
11 35 (12.77%) Incident Response
12 30 (10.95%) Test Automation
13 29 (10.58%) LLM
13 29 (10.58%) Mentoring
14 27 (9.85%) Change Management
15 26 (9.49%) Roadmaps
16 24 (8.76%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 181 (66.06%) Python
2 60 (21.90%) Bash
3 46 (16.79%) SQL
4 43 (15.69%) Java
5 41 (14.96%) PowerShell
6 38 (13.87%) JavaScript
7 26 (9.49%) Perl
8 22 (8.03%) Go
9 16 (5.84%) Shell Script
10 12 (4.38%) MATLAB
11 11 (4.01%) C#
12 7 (2.55%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.19%) C++
14 5 (1.82%) VB
14 5 (1.82%) VBA
14 5 (1.82%) VBScript
15 4 (1.46%) C
15 4 (1.46%) Korn
15 4 (1.46%) R
15 4 (1.46%) Rust
Qualifications
1 98 (35.77%) Degree
2 64 (23.36%) Security Cleared
3 55 (20.07%) SC Cleared
4 34 (12.41%) AWS Certification
5 32 (11.68%) DV Cleared
6 29 (10.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (6.20%) CISSP
8 14 (5.11%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (4.38%) HND
10 11 (4.01%) CCNA
10 11 (4.01%) CCSK
10 11 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.55%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.82%) CISA
12 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.82%) OSCP
13 4 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (1.46%) CCNP
13 4 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.50%) SLA
2 7 (2.55%) GDPR
3 6 (2.19%) QA
4 5 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.09%) NIST
7 2 (0.73%) COBIT
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (18.25%) Docker
2 41 (14.96%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.82%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (1.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) XenApp
5 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (21.17%) Terraform
2 54 (19.71%) Ansible
3 51 (18.61%) Kubernetes
4 26 (9.49%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.93%) Argo
5 19 (6.93%) Kustomize
6 13 (4.74%) Grafana
7 9 (3.28%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (2.55%) SCCM
9 4 (1.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (1.46%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.09%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.09%) Nagios
11 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.73%) Podman
11 2 (0.73%) Puppet
12 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.36%) Ambari
12 1 (0.36%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (19.34%) Oracle
2 47 (17.15%) Google
2 47 (17.15%) Microsoft
3 41 (14.96%) VMware
4 28 (10.22%) Red Hat
5 25 (9.12%) IBM
6 20 (7.30%) Cisco
7 14 (5.11%) Juniper
7 14 (5.11%) Palo Alto
7 14 (5.11%) SAP
8 12 (4.38%) Dell
8 12 (4.38%) Splunk
9 9 (3.28%) Workday
10 8 (2.92%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.92%) IFS
10 8 (2.92%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.55%) Arista
11 7 (2.55%) Databricks
11 7 (2.55%) HP
11 7 (2.55%) Symantec