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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 362 270
Rank change year-on-year -155 -92 -60
Permanent jobs citing Unix 254 297 648
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.68% 1.00%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.22% 5.04% 7.55%
Number of salaries quoted 180 174 276
10th Percentile £38,625 £36,250 £38,060
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,563 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £70,000 £59,563
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +17.52% -8.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,995
UK median annual salary £65,576 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.89% +8.33% -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 6,020 5,888 8,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.81% 13.57% 13.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,420 3,781 5,057
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -100 105 £71,250 -10.94% 322
North of England -30 62 £69,305 +45.91% 36
South West -62 47 £73,750 +40.48% 18
North West -2 28 £65,576 +63.94% 19
Yorkshire -20 22 £69,306 +17.97% 10
Midlands -48 19 £61,500 -16.67% 20
West Midlands -41 16 £65,903 -12.13% 13
North East -58 12 £69,306 +45.91% 7
East of England -62 6 £50,000 +17.65% 12
South East -91 6 £62,500 +48.77% 38
East Midlands -37 3 £61,500 +6.03% 7
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 (3.54%) Confluence
1 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.57%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.79%) Documentum
3 2 (0.79%) JBoss
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.79%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.72%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.15%) Fidessa
3 6 (2.36%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (2.36%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.36%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.97%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (1.57%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (1.57%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (1.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (1.57%) Oracle Retail
6 3 (1.18%) Line 50
7 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.79%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 105 (41.34%) AWS
2 74 (29.13%) Azure
3 39 (15.35%) GCP
4 21 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (7.48%) Azure AKS
6 13 (5.12%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (4.33%) OCI
8 11 (4.33%) SaaS
9 10 (3.94%) GitHub
10 7 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.76%) dbt
11 6 (2.36%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.36%) Slack
12 5 (1.97%) Datadog
12 5 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.78%) DNS
2 30 (11.81%) TCP/IP
3 20 (7.87%) Firewall
4 18 (7.09%) DHCP
5 15 (5.91%) 3GPP
5 15 (5.91%) MGW
5 15 (5.91%) MVNO
5 15 (5.91%) Packet Switching
5 15 (5.91%) RTP
5 15 (5.91%) SGSN
5 15 (5.91%) SMPP
6 12 (4.72%) VPN
7 9 (3.54%) FIX Connectivity
8 7 (2.76%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (2.36%) Network Security
9 6 (2.36%) SSH
9 6 (2.36%) WAN
10 4 (1.57%) 5G
10 4 (1.57%) OSPF
10 4 (1.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.48%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.09%) MongoDB
2 18 (7.09%) Oracle Database
3 17 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.15%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (3.15%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.57%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (1.57%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.18%) Db2
6 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.18%) FileMaker
6 3 (1.18%) MySQL
7 2 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.79%) KDB
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.79%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 26 (10.24%) GitLab
2 23 (9.06%) Git
3 21 (8.27%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.12%) JIRA
5 8 (3.15%) Eclipse
6 7 (2.76%) Subversion
7 4 (1.57%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.57%) Selenium
7 4 (1.57%) Toad
8 3 (1.18%) Maven
8 3 (1.18%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.79%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.79%) Flyway
9 2 (0.79%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.79%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.39%) Mocha
General
1 78 (30.71%) Finance
2 53 (20.87%) Public Sector
3 52 (20.47%) Social Skills
4 33 (12.99%) Banking
5 27 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.33%) Retail
8 9 (3.54%) Front Office
9 6 (2.36%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.36%) Electronics
10 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.57%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.57%) Legal
10 4 (1.57%) Retail Finance
11 3 (1.18%) Aviation
11 3 (1.18%) Avionics
11 3 (1.18%) Military
12 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 92 (36.22%) Senior
2 37 (14.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (13.78%) Senior DevOps
4 32 (12.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 25 (9.84%) Developer
6 20 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.09%) Administrator
7 18 (7.09%) Analyst
8 17 (6.69%) DBA
9 16 (6.30%) Support Analyst
10 15 (5.91%) Network Engineer
11 13 (5.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.12%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.72%) Lead
12 12 (4.72%) Oracle DBA
12 12 (4.72%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.72%) Test Engineer
13 10 (3.94%) IT Support
13 10 (3.94%) Senior Oracle DBA
13 10 (3.94%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (20.08%) Terraform
2 17 (6.69%) FIX Protocol
3 14 (5.51%) Node.js
4 10 (3.94%) Web Services
5 9 (3.54%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (3.54%) REST
5 9 (3.54%) RESTful
6 8 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (3.15%) React
6 8 (3.15%) Struts
7 7 (2.76%) Kafka
8 6 (2.36%) HTML
8 6 (2.36%) Middleware
9 5 (1.97%) CSS
10 4 (1.57%) pytest
10 4 (1.57%) YAML
11 3 (1.18%) Spring
11 3 (1.18%) WebSockets
12 2 (0.79%) OpenMP
12 2 (0.79%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.69%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.91%) IVR
3 13 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.94%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (3.94%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.15%) Eurex
6 7 (2.76%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.36%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.97%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.57%) Culture of Ownership
9 4 (1.57%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.57%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (1.57%) Self-Driving Car
10 3 (1.18%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 220 (86.61%) Linux
2 86 (33.86%) Windows
3 24 (9.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.12%) AIX
5 11 (4.33%) CentOS
5 11 (4.33%) Windows Server
6 10 (3.94%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (3.94%) Solaris
7 9 (3.54%) Mac OS
7 9 (3.54%) Rocky
8 7 (2.76%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.76%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.39%) Debian
9 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (35.83%) CI/CD
1 91 (35.83%) DevOps
2 72 (28.35%) Mentoring
3 70 (27.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 69 (27.17%) Agile
5 64 (25.20%) Coaching
6 55 (21.65%) Test Automation
7 48 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (18.11%) Scrum
9 42 (16.54%) Continuous Integration
10 37 (14.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (13.39%) Software Engineering
12 33 (12.99%) Containerisation
13 28 (11.02%) Incident Response
13 28 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (11.02%) ITIL
14 27 (10.63%) Validation
15 24 (9.45%) Runbook
15 24 (9.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (8.66%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (31.89%) Python
2 69 (27.17%) SQL
3 50 (19.69%) Bash
4 36 (14.17%) Java
5 30 (11.81%) Shell Script
6 26 (10.24%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.87%) Perl
7 20 (7.87%) PL/SQL
8 18 (7.09%) C++
8 18 (7.09%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.72%) Korn
10 9 (3.54%) C
11 8 (3.15%) Ruby
11 8 (3.15%) Rust
12 6 (2.36%) C#
12 6 (2.36%) MATLAB
13 5 (1.97%) Go
14 3 (1.18%) Ada
14 3 (1.18%) Ada 95
14 3 (1.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 52 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.81%) Degree
4 20 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.36%) A+ Certification
6 6 (2.36%) HND
6 6 (2.36%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (1.97%) CISSP
8 4 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.57%) CISM
9 3 (1.18%) CEH
9 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.18%) GCIH
9 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.18%) RHCE
9 3 (1.18%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.18%) SANS
10 2 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (11.02%) QA
2 5 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.57%) GDPR
3 4 (1.57%) NIST
4 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.18%) ISO 14001
4 3 (1.18%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.18%) MIL-STD-1553
5 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) COBIT
6 1 (0.39%) DO-178B
System Software
1 30 (11.81%) Docker
2 11 (4.33%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.79%) Lustre
6 1 (0.39%) Ceph
6 1 (0.39%) Firmware
6 1 (0.39%) GPFS
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) KVM
6 1 (0.39%) NFS
6 1 (0.39%) Samba
6 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.87%) Ansible
2 20 (7.87%) Puppet
3 16 (6.30%) Grafana
3 16 (6.30%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.51%) Oracle RMAN
5 13 (5.12%) Argo
6 10 (3.94%) Data Guard
6 10 (3.94%) Nagios
7 2 (0.79%) logstash
7 2 (0.79%) Nmap
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.79%) Podman
8 1 (0.39%) Control-M
8 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.39%) Kibana
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (25.98%) Oracle
2 25 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.45%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.72%) IBM
4 12 (4.72%) Pega
5 9 (3.54%) Bloomberg
5 9 (3.54%) Google
6 8 (3.15%) CQG
6 8 (3.15%) ION Trading
6 8 (3.15%) Patsystems
6 8 (3.15%) Reuters
6 8 (3.15%) Trayport
7 6 (2.36%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.97%) Sybase
9 4 (1.57%) Apple
9 4 (1.57%) New Relic
9 4 (1.57%) OpenText
9 4 (1.57%) Retek
9 4 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.57%) Splunk