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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 248 304
Rank change year-on-year -113 +56 -105
Permanent jobs citing Unix 290 547 638
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.25% 0.95%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.20% 8.14% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 147 200 502
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,125 £40,525
25th Percentile £51,125 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £79,383 £74,258 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,378 £96,250
UK median annual salary £63,750 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -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 4,680 6,719 10,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.71% 15.40% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 3,529 3,870 8,797
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,004 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +9.48% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +3 149 £75,000 +15.38% 37
South East -26 44 £58,000 +11.54% 22
South West +1 34 £60,000 -16.66% 6
East of England -9 27 £43,085 -25.07% 8
North of England -134 19 £55,000 -8.33% 15
Midlands -63 12 £73,801 +31.79% 18
West Midlands -52 9 £74,401 +24.00% 15
North West -90 7 £73,801 +47.60% 13
North East -19 6 £73,801 +23.00% 2
Yorkshire -48 6 £25,750 -69.80%
East Midlands -33 3 £40,000 -27.27% 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 29 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (7.93%) Exchange Server 2003
3 15 (5.17%) Tomcat
4 12 (4.14%) WebSphere
5 11 (3.79%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (1.72%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.72%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.72%) Confluence
6 5 (1.72%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.03%) IIS
7 3 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (1.03%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.34%) Apache
8 1 (0.34%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.34%) nginx
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.72%) Shopify
3 4 (1.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.03%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (1.03%) NEC Housing
4 3 (1.03%) Primavera
5 2 (0.69%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 101 (34.83%) AWS
2 66 (22.76%) Azure
3 47 (16.21%) GCP
4 33 (11.38%) Pulumi
5 27 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (6.90%) PaaS
7 18 (6.21%) Amazon ECR
7 18 (6.21%) GitHub
7 18 (6.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (4.83%) dbt
8 14 (4.83%) SaaS
9 12 (4.14%) IaaS
10 11 (3.79%) Serverless
11 10 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (3.45%) OpenShift
12 9 (3.10%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 9 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.66%) TCP/IP
2 27 (9.31%) DNS
3 24 (8.28%) DHCP
4 21 (7.24%) Broadband
4 21 (7.24%) Firewall
5 13 (4.48%) SSL
6 10 (3.45%) WAN
7 9 (3.10%) VLAN
8 8 (2.76%) 5G
8 8 (2.76%) SD-WAN
8 8 (2.76%) VPN
9 7 (2.41%) MPLS
10 6 (2.07%) HTTPS
11 5 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (1.38%) FIX Connectivity
12 4 (1.38%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (1.03%) VoIP
14 2 (0.69%) LAN
14 2 (0.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.76%) Oracle Database
2 32 (11.03%) Relational Database
3 29 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 29 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (8.28%) Oracle Database 10g
5 20 (6.90%) RDBMS
6 19 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (5.86%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (4.83%) DB2
8 14 (4.83%) Redis
9 13 (4.48%) SQL Server
10 9 (3.10%) Big Data
10 9 (3.10%) Power BI
10 9 (3.10%) Tableau
11 7 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (2.07%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.72%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.72%) MySQL
14 4 (1.38%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.38%) FileMaker
Development Applications
1 19 (6.55%) Jaeger
2 17 (5.86%) Git
3 12 (4.14%) LabVIEW
4 10 (3.45%) GitLab
5 9 (3.10%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.41%) JIRA
7 4 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.38%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (1.03%) Toad
9 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.69%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.69%) Mocha
9 2 (0.69%) webpack
10 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 68 (23.45%) Finance
2 61 (21.03%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (10.00%) Banking
6 16 (5.52%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.17%) German Language
7 15 (5.17%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.48%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.14%) Electronics
10 11 (3.79%) Investment Banking
11 9 (3.10%) Legal
12 7 (2.41%) Law
13 6 (2.07%) Front Office
13 6 (2.07%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.38%) Back Office
14 4 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 52 (17.93%) Senior
2 24 (8.28%) 3rd Line Support
3 23 (7.93%) Lead
3 23 (7.93%) Systems Support
4 21 (7.24%) Analyst
5 20 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 19 (6.55%) Applications Support
6 19 (6.55%) Developer
6 19 (6.55%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (6.55%) Support Engineer
7 18 (6.21%) Linux Support
8 16 (5.52%) Administrator
8 16 (5.52%) Linux Engineer
8 16 (5.52%) Unix Support
9 15 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
9 15 (5.17%) Infrastructure Support
10 14 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (4.83%) Verification Engineer
11 13 (4.48%) Systems Administrator
12 12 (4.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.45%) JSON
2 37 (12.76%) XML
3 33 (11.38%) HTML
4 29 (10.00%) Regular Expression
5 27 (9.31%) Elastic Stack
6 19 (6.55%) OpenTelemetry
7 17 (5.86%) LDAP
8 14 (4.83%) Django
9 12 (4.14%) pytest
10 11 (3.79%) LAPP Stack
10 11 (3.79%) WebSphere MQ
11 9 (3.10%) REST
12 8 (2.76%) Middleware
13 7 (2.41%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (2.41%) OAuth
13 7 (2.41%) RESTful
14 6 (2.07%) Kafka
14 6 (2.07%) Node.js
14 6 (2.07%) OAuth2
14 6 (2.07%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.69%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (11.38%) Onboarding
3 26 (8.97%) Management Information System
4 14 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.14%) Hedge funds
5 12 (4.14%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.76%) Self-Driving Car
8 7 (2.41%) Clustering
8 7 (2.41%) e-Learning
9 6 (2.07%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.38%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.38%) IoT
11 4 (1.38%) NHS
11 4 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 180 (62.07%) Linux
2 88 (30.34%) Windows
3 33 (11.38%) Solaris
4 26 (8.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (8.28%) HPUX
6 23 (7.93%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (7.59%) Windows 7
7 22 (7.59%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (4.14%) Windows Server
9 9 (3.10%) AIX
10 7 (2.41%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.38%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.03%) Debian
12 3 (1.03%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.69%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.34%) CentOS
14 1 (0.34%) SUSE
14 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (23.45%) DevOps
2 66 (22.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (19.31%) AI
5 50 (17.24%) Agile
6 45 (15.52%) High Availability
7 42 (14.48%) ITIL
8 41 (14.14%) CI/CD
8 41 (14.14%) Containerisation
9 37 (12.76%) Data Analysis
10 36 (12.41%) Incident Management
11 35 (12.07%) Task Automation
12 34 (11.72%) Computer Science
13 33 (11.38%) Change Management
14 31 (10.69%) Incident Response
15 30 (10.34%) Test Automation
16 29 (10.00%) LLM
17 28 (9.66%) Mentoring
18 26 (8.97%) Analytics
18 26 (8.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 185 (63.79%) Python
2 61 (21.03%) Bash
3 58 (20.00%) SQL
4 43 (14.83%) PowerShell
5 40 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 39 (13.45%) Java
7 26 (8.97%) Perl
8 22 (7.59%) Go
8 22 (7.59%) Shell Script
9 12 (4.14%) MATLAB
10 11 (3.79%) C#
11 8 (2.76%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.41%) VB
13 6 (2.07%) C++
13 6 (2.07%) R
14 5 (1.72%) C
15 4 (1.38%) Korn
15 4 (1.38%) VBA
15 4 (1.38%) VBScript
16 3 (1.03%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 100 (34.48%) Degree
2 73 (25.17%) Security Cleared
3 60 (20.69%) SC Cleared
4 39 (13.45%) AWS Certification
5 34 (11.72%) DV Cleared
6 28 (9.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (6.21%) CISSP
8 16 (5.52%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (4.83%) CCNA
9 14 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (4.14%) HND
11 11 (3.79%) CCSK
12 7 (2.41%) CCNP
12 7 (2.41%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (2.07%) CISA
13 6 (2.07%) Master's Degree
14 5 (1.72%) PhD
15 4 (1.38%) ACCA
15 4 (1.38%) CIMA
16 2 (0.69%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.14%) SLA
2 11 (3.79%) GDPR
3 8 (2.76%) QA
4 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.38%) NIST
6 2 (0.69%) COBIT
7 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (18.28%) Docker
2 41 (14.14%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.72%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (1.38%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.69%) XenApp
6 2 (0.69%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (20.34%) Terraform
2 50 (17.24%) Ansible
3 45 (15.52%) Kubernetes
4 26 (8.97%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.55%) Argo
5 19 (6.55%) Kustomize
6 13 (4.48%) Grafana
7 9 (3.10%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (2.41%) SCCM
9 4 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.03%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (1.03%) Nagios
10 3 (1.03%) Netcool
10 3 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (1.03%) Podman
10 3 (1.03%) Puppet
11 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.34%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 58 (20.00%) Google
1 58 (20.00%) Oracle
2 45 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 41 (14.14%) VMware
4 30 (10.34%) IBM
4 30 (10.34%) Red Hat
5 20 (6.90%) Cisco
6 17 (5.86%) SAP
7 12 (4.14%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.14%) Splunk
8 11 (3.79%) Dell
8 11 (3.79%) Juniper
8 11 (3.79%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.10%) Workday
10 8 (2.76%) Fortinet
10 8 (2.76%) IFS
11 7 (2.41%) Arista
11 7 (2.41%) HP
11 7 (2.41%) Snow
11 7 (2.41%) Symantec