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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 379 354
Rank change year-on-year -122 -25 -129
Permanent jobs citing Unix 203 294 664
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.71% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.70% 4.65% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 123 199 438
10th Percentile £40,250 £30,500 £35,520
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £88,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £58,228
% change year-on-year +3.85% +11.63% -10.90%

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 5,484 6,318 12,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.39% 15.33% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,179 4,148 9,717
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -74 97 £75,000 -3.23% 50
South West -23 42 £68,750 -12.76% 9
North of England -48 33 £69,306 +2.48% 22
North West -12 15 £60,000 -13.52% 20
Yorkshire -32 12 £69,310 +10.90% 2
Midlands -60 11 £61,500 -5.38% 15
South East -77 10 £62,500 +50.60% 20
West Midlands -48 9 £48,903 -24.76% 14
North East -54 6 £69,310 +15.52%
East of England -23 5 £61,500 +123.64% 3
East Midlands -29 2 £61,500 -3.91% 1
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 2 (0.99%) Confluence
1 2 (0.99%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.49%) Apache
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.49%) Documentum
2 1 (0.49%) JBoss
2 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (5.42%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (1.97%) Line 50
2 4 (1.97%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.48%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (44.33%) AWS
2 60 (29.56%) Azure
3 26 (12.81%) GCP
4 19 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (7.39%) Pulumi
6 14 (6.90%) Azure AKS
6 14 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (6.40%) GitHub
7 13 (6.40%) SaaS
8 9 (4.43%) PaaS
9 8 (3.94%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.96%) Apigee
10 6 (2.96%) IaaS
10 6 (2.96%) Kong
10 6 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.46%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (1.48%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (1.48%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.87%) Firewall
2 14 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 13 (6.40%) DNS
4 12 (5.91%) Broadband
5 9 (4.43%) WAN
6 8 (3.94%) HTTPS
7 7 (3.45%) 5G
7 7 (3.45%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.96%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (2.46%) Network Security
10 4 (1.97%) 3GPP
10 4 (1.97%) MGW
10 4 (1.97%) MVNO
10 4 (1.97%) Packet Switching
10 4 (1.97%) RTP
10 4 (1.97%) SGSN
10 4 (1.97%) SMPP
10 4 (1.97%) VoIP
11 3 (1.48%) CHAP
12 2 (0.99%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.84%) MongoDB
2 19 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (8.87%) NoSQL
3 18 (8.87%) Oracle Database
3 18 (8.87%) Relational Database
4 14 (6.90%) RDBMS
5 7 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.46%) Power BI
6 5 (2.46%) Tableau
7 4 (1.97%) Db2
7 4 (1.97%) FileMaker
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.48%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.48%) Redis
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.99%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.49%) Big Data
10 1 (0.49%) KDB
Development Applications
1 26 (12.81%) GitLab
2 22 (10.84%) Git
3 12 (5.91%) Jaeger
4 11 (5.42%) Jenkins
5 9 (4.43%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.45%) Eclipse
6 7 (3.45%) LabVIEW
7 6 (2.96%) JIRA
7 6 (2.96%) Subversion
8 4 (1.97%) Metasploit
9 3 (1.48%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (1.48%) Selenium
9 3 (1.48%) Toad
10 2 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.99%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.99%) Gradle
10 2 (0.99%) JMeter
10 2 (0.99%) Maven
11 1 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.49%) Zephyr
General
1 81 (39.90%) Finance
2 51 (25.12%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.76%) Public Sector
4 29 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (13.79%) Banking
6 21 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.93%) Electronics
8 9 (4.43%) Legal
8 9 (4.43%) Retail
9 8 (3.94%) Investment Banking
10 7 (3.45%) Front Office
11 6 (2.96%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.48%) Back Office
13 3 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.48%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.48%) Japanese Language
13 3 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.48%) Retail Finance
14 1 (0.49%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 56 (27.59%) Senior
2 28 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (13.79%) Senior DevOps
3 26 (12.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 20 (9.85%) Developer
5 18 (8.87%) Lead
6 16 (7.88%) DBA
7 14 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (6.40%) Analyst
9 12 (5.91%) Administrator
9 12 (5.91%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (5.42%) Linux Engineer
10 11 (5.42%) Oracle DBA
10 11 (5.42%) Test Engineer
11 10 (4.93%) Senior DBA
11 10 (4.93%) Senior Oracle DBA
12 9 (4.43%) Consultant
12 9 (4.43%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.94%) Applications Support
13 8 (3.94%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.37%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (6.90%) Node.js
3 12 (5.91%) OpenTelemetry
4 11 (5.42%) REST
5 8 (3.94%) YAML
6 7 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (3.45%) J2EE
6 7 (3.45%) Kafka
6 7 (3.45%) pytest
6 7 (3.45%) React
6 7 (3.45%) RESTful
6 7 (3.45%) Struts
7 6 (2.96%) HTML
7 6 (2.96%) Jinja
7 6 (2.96%) JSON
7 6 (2.96%) Web Services
7 6 (2.96%) XML
7 6 (2.96%) YANG
8 5 (2.46%) CSS
9 4 (1.97%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.39%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (5.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (4.93%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (4.93%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.43%) Hedge funds
4 9 (4.43%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (3.94%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.45%) Self-Driving Car
7 5 (2.46%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.97%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.97%) IVR
9 3 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.99%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.99%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 159 (78.33%) Linux
2 64 (31.53%) Windows
3 24 (11.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (6.40%) AIX
5 10 (4.93%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.46%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.97%) Kali Linux
7 4 (1.97%) Solaris
8 2 (0.99%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.49%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (37.44%) DevOps
2 64 (31.53%) CI/CD
3 60 (29.56%) Agile
4 52 (25.62%) Test Automation
5 44 (21.67%) Continuous Integration
5 44 (21.67%) Mentoring
5 44 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (18.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (16.26%) High Availability
7 33 (16.26%) Incident Response
8 31 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (14.78%) Scrum
10 29 (14.29%) Coaching
10 29 (14.29%) Task Automation
11 26 (12.81%) Containerisation
12 25 (12.32%) Computer Science
13 24 (11.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (11.33%) Validation
15 21 (10.34%) Roadmaps
16 20 (9.85%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 89 (43.84%) Python
2 49 (24.14%) Bash
2 49 (24.14%) Java
3 44 (21.67%) SQL
4 30 (14.78%) JavaScript
5 25 (12.32%) Shell Script
6 14 (6.90%) PL/SQL
7 13 (6.40%) C++
7 13 (6.40%) Go
8 11 (5.42%) Korn
9 10 (4.93%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.43%) MATLAB
10 9 (4.43%) Perl
11 6 (2.96%) Rust
12 5 (2.46%) C#
12 5 (2.46%) VB
12 5 (2.46%) VBA
12 5 (2.46%) VBScript
13 4 (1.97%) PHP
14 2 (0.99%) C
Qualifications
1 40 (19.70%) Degree
2 26 (12.81%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.42%) CISSP
6 9 (4.43%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.43%) HND
7 6 (2.96%) CCSK
7 6 (2.96%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.46%) CISM
8 5 (2.46%) SANS
9 4 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.97%) CISA
9 4 (1.97%) OSCP
10 3 (1.48%) CGEIT
10 3 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.48%) FFIEC
10 3 (1.48%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.99%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.42%) QA
2 5 (2.46%) NIST
3 4 (1.97%) GDPR
3 4 (1.97%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.97%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.48%) COBIT
5 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.49%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.49%) ITGC
6 1 (0.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 32 (15.76%) Docker
2 13 (6.40%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.99%) Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) GPFS
5 1 (0.49%) Lustre
5 1 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (25.12%) Terraform
2 37 (18.23%) Kubernetes
3 31 (15.27%) Ansible
4 26 (12.81%) Argo
5 22 (10.84%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.39%) Puppet
7 13 (6.40%) Oracle RMAN
8 12 (5.91%) Kustomize
9 10 (4.93%) Data Guard
9 10 (4.93%) Grafana
9 10 (4.93%) Nagios
10 5 (2.46%) SCCM
11 3 (1.48%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.48%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.99%) Kibana
12 2 (0.99%) logstash
12 2 (0.99%) Podman
13 1 (0.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 38 (18.72%) Oracle
2 21 (10.34%) Google
3 19 (9.36%) Red Hat
4 17 (8.37%) Microsoft
5 15 (7.39%) IBM
6 12 (5.91%) Pega
7 10 (4.93%) VMware
8 9 (4.43%) Adobe
9 7 (3.45%) Cisco
10 6 (2.96%) F5
10 6 (2.96%) Juniper
10 6 (2.96%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.46%) Snow
11 5 (2.46%) Splunk
12 4 (1.97%) Apple
12 4 (1.97%) Databricks
12 4 (1.97%) Sage
12 4 (1.97%) Sybase
12 4 (1.97%) TOWER Software
13 3 (1.48%) OpenText