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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 356 277
Rank change year-on-year -157 -79 -63
Permanent jobs citing Unix 256 306 653
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.71% 1.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.18% 5.37% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 180 181 270
10th Percentile £38,625 £35,000 £38,508
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,991
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 6,118 5,695 8,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.86% 13.29% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 4,459 3,766 4,948
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £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 £70,000
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 14 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 14 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 -101 108 £72,500 -9.38% 243
North of England -19 60 £69,305 +45.91% 34
South West -52 48 £73,750 +40.48% 17
North West -8 28 £65,576 +63.94% 20
Yorkshire -21 20 £69,305 +17.97% 9
Midlands -56 19 £61,500 -12.14% 15
West Midlands -36 16 £65,903 -12.13% 9
North East -64 12 £69,306 +45.91% 5
East of England -53 6 £50,000 +17.65% 16
South East -79 6 £62,500 +48.77% 30
East Midlands -43 3 £61,500 +25.51% 6
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 (3.52%) Confluence
1 9 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.56%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.78%) Documentum
3 2 (0.78%) JBoss
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.78%) 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 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.69%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.13%) Fidessa
3 6 (2.34%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (2.34%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.34%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.95%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (1.56%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (1.56%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (1.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (1.56%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.78%) Line 50
6 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.78%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 103 (40.23%) AWS
2 72 (28.13%) Azure
3 39 (15.23%) GCP
4 19 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (6.64%) Azure AKS
6 13 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (4.69%) SaaS
8 11 (4.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (4.30%) OCI
9 10 (3.91%) GitHub
10 7 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.73%) dbt
11 6 (2.34%) Datadog
11 6 (2.34%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.34%) Slack
12 5 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.67%) DNS
2 30 (11.72%) TCP/IP
3 20 (7.81%) Firewall
4 18 (7.03%) DHCP
5 15 (5.86%) 3GPP
5 15 (5.86%) MGW
5 15 (5.86%) MVNO
5 15 (5.86%) Packet Switching
5 15 (5.86%) RTP
5 15 (5.86%) SGSN
5 15 (5.86%) SMPP
6 12 (4.69%) VPN
7 10 (3.91%) FIX Connectivity
8 7 (2.73%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (2.34%) SSH
9 6 (2.34%) WAN
10 5 (1.95%) Network Security
11 4 (1.56%) 5G
11 4 (1.56%) BGP
11 4 (1.56%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.42%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.03%) Oracle Database
3 16 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.56%) Oracle Database 11g
6 4 (1.56%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.17%) Db2
7 3 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.17%) KDB
7 3 (1.17%) Kdb+
7 3 (1.17%) MySQL
7 3 (1.17%) Redis
8 2 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.78%) FileMaker
8 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (9.38%) GitLab
2 23 (8.98%) Git
3 21 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.08%) JIRA
5 8 (3.13%) Eclipse
6 7 (2.73%) Subversion
7 4 (1.56%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.56%) Selenium
7 4 (1.56%) Toad
8 3 (1.17%) Maven
8 3 (1.17%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.78%) Flyway
9 2 (0.78%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.39%) Gradle
General
1 81 (31.64%) Finance
2 53 (20.70%) Social Skills
3 51 (19.92%) Public Sector
4 35 (13.67%) Banking
5 27 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.30%) Retail
8 9 (3.52%) Front Office
9 6 (2.34%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.34%) Electronics
10 5 (1.95%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.95%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.56%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.56%) Legal
11 4 (1.56%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.17%) Aviation
12 3 (1.17%) Avionics
12 3 (1.17%) Military
13 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (36.33%) Senior
2 35 (13.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (12.89%) Senior DevOps
4 30 (11.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 26 (10.16%) Developer
6 20 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (7.03%) Administrator
7 18 (7.03%) Analyst
8 17 (6.64%) DBA
9 16 (6.25%) Support Analyst
10 15 (5.86%) Network Engineer
11 13 (5.08%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.08%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.69%) Lead
12 12 (4.69%) Oracle DBA
12 12 (4.69%) Test Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Senior DBA
13 10 (3.91%) Senior Oracle DBA
13 10 (3.91%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (19.53%) Terraform
2 18 (7.03%) FIX Protocol
3 13 (5.08%) Node.js
4 10 (3.91%) Web Services
5 9 (3.52%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (3.52%) REST
5 9 (3.52%) RESTful
6 8 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (3.13%) React
6 8 (3.13%) Struts
7 7 (2.73%) Kafka
8 6 (2.34%) Middleware
9 5 (1.95%) HTML
10 4 (1.56%) CSS
10 4 (1.56%) pytest
10 4 (1.56%) YAML
11 3 (1.17%) Spring
11 3 (1.17%) WebSockets
12 2 (0.78%) OpenMP
12 2 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.03%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.86%) IVR
3 13 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.30%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (3.91%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.91%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.13%) Eurex
7 7 (2.73%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.34%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.56%) Clustering
10 4 (1.56%) Culture of Ownership
10 4 (1.56%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.56%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (1.56%) Self-Driving Car
11 3 (1.17%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 221 (86.33%) Linux
2 84 (32.81%) Windows
3 24 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.08%) AIX
5 11 (4.30%) CentOS
5 11 (4.30%) Windows Server
6 10 (3.91%) Oracle Linux
6 10 (3.91%) Solaris
7 9 (3.52%) macOS
7 9 (3.52%) Rocky
8 7 (2.73%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.73%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.39%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (35.16%) DevOps
2 89 (34.77%) CI/CD
3 71 (27.73%) Mentoring
4 70 (27.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 68 (26.56%) Agile
6 62 (24.22%) Coaching
7 53 (20.70%) Test Automation
8 49 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (17.19%) Scrum
10 40 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
11 38 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (13.67%) Software Engineering
13 33 (12.89%) Containerisation
14 29 (11.33%) Incident Response
14 29 (11.33%) ITIL
15 28 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 27 (10.55%) Validation
17 25 (9.77%) Runbook
17 25 (9.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 22 (8.59%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 82 (32.03%) Python
2 69 (26.95%) SQL
3 50 (19.53%) Bash
4 35 (13.67%) Java
5 30 (11.72%) Shell Script
6 26 (10.16%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.20%) Perl
8 20 (7.81%) PL/SQL
9 18 (7.03%) C++
9 18 (7.03%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.69%) Korn
11 9 (3.52%) C
12 8 (3.13%) Ruby
12 8 (3.13%) Rust
13 6 (2.34%) C#
13 6 (2.34%) Go
13 6 (2.34%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.17%) Ada
14 3 (1.17%) Ada 95
14 3 (1.17%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 53 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 40 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 31 (12.11%) Degree
4 21 (8.20%) DV Cleared
5 18 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.34%) A+ Certification
6 6 (2.34%) HND
6 6 (2.34%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (1.95%) CISSP
8 4 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.56%) CISM
9 3 (1.17%) CEH
9 3 (1.17%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.17%) GCIH
9 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.17%) RHCE
9 3 (1.17%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.17%) SANS
10 2 (0.78%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.94%) QA
2 5 (1.95%) GDPR
2 5 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.56%) NIST
4 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.17%) MIL-STD-1553
5 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 14001
5 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) COBIT
6 1 (0.39%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 31 (12.11%) Docker
2 11 (4.30%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (2.73%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.78%) 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 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.81%) Ansible
2 20 (7.81%) Puppet
3 16 (6.25%) Grafana
3 16 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.47%) Oracle RMAN
5 11 (4.30%) Argo
6 10 (3.91%) Data Guard
6 10 (3.91%) Nagios
7 2 (0.78%) logstash
7 2 (0.78%) Nmap
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.78%) 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 (25.78%) Oracle
2 26 (10.16%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.38%) Red Hat
4 13 (5.08%) IBM
5 12 (4.69%) Pega
6 9 (3.52%) Bloomberg
6 9 (3.52%) Google
7 8 (3.13%) CQG
7 8 (3.13%) ION Trading
7 8 (3.13%) Patsystems
7 8 (3.13%) Reuters
7 8 (3.13%) Trayport
8 6 (2.34%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.95%) Sybase
10 4 (1.56%) New Relic
10 4 (1.56%) OpenText
10 4 (1.56%) Retek
10 4 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.56%) Splunk
10 4 (1.56%) YouTube