Unix Jobs in England

Unix
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 347 204
Rank change year-on-year +41 -143 -17
Permanent jobs citing Unix 506 689 1,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.97% 0.74% 1.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.30% 5.46% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 199 435 799
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,520 £40,937
25th Percentile £40,120 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £90,750 £97,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £58,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +16.38% -11.25% +0.54%

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 6,934 12,630 13,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.30% 13.61% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 4,301 9,648 9,347
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £91,250
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,996 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.60% -12.39% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in England

Unix
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in England.

Salary trend for Unix in England

Unix
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 +59 207 £78,000 -5.45% 282
South East +22 83 £37,500 -27.54% 51
North of England -40 44 £67,626 +39.76% 29
East of England +53 40 £27,500 -46.60% 35
Midlands +57 37 £65,000 +23.81% 21
West Midlands +61 29 £65,000 -7.14% 12
North West -36 25 £69,384 +32.16% 14
South West +40 12 £78,810 +50.11% 20
Yorkshire +26 10 £62,500 +78.57% 8
North East +33 9 £60,000 +20.00% 7
East Midlands +36 8 £64,000 +28.00% 9
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 19 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.37%) IIS
4 11 (2.17%) Confluence
4 11 (2.17%) Tomcat
5 10 (1.98%) Apache
6 7 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.19%) GemFire
8 3 (0.59%) SAS
8 3 (0.59%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 34 (6.72%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.79%) Fidessa
2 4 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.20%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 301 (59.49%) AWS
2 225 (44.47%) Pulumi
3 65 (12.85%) Azure
4 25 (4.94%) GCP
5 19 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
5 19 (3.75%) Amazon S3
5 19 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (3.56%) Amazon ELB
7 16 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (2.96%) Entra ID
9 14 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (2.57%) SaaS
11 11 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (1.98%) Amazon ECR
12 10 (1.98%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 10 (1.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (1.98%) AWS CodeBuild
12 10 (1.98%) dbt
13 9 (1.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 9 (1.78%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 215 (42.49%) Broadband
2 33 (6.52%) TCP/IP
3 24 (4.74%) Firewall
4 14 (2.77%) DNS
4 14 (2.77%) SSL
5 12 (2.37%) DHCP
6 9 (1.78%) DMARC
7 6 (1.19%) SAN
7 6 (1.19%) VPN
8 5 (0.99%) VLAN
9 4 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
10 3 (0.59%) LAN
10 3 (0.59%) PuTTY
10 3 (0.59%) Telnet
11 2 (0.40%) FTP
11 2 (0.40%) Internet
11 2 (0.40%) IPv4
11 2 (0.40%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.40%) VoIP
11 2 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 237 (46.84%) NoSQL
3 223 (44.07%) RDBMS
4 44 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 41 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (4.55%) Metadata
7 22 (4.35%) Delta Lake
8 21 (4.15%) Spark SQL
9 19 (3.75%) DynamoDB
10 18 (3.56%) Redis
11 15 (2.96%) MySQL
12 14 (2.77%) MongoDB
13 12 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (1.98%) Oracle Database
16 9 (1.78%) DB2
17 7 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (1.38%) Hadoop
18 6 (1.19%) KDB
Development Applications
1 215 (42.49%) Jaeger
2 44 (8.70%) Git
3 30 (5.93%) Jenkins
4 22 (4.35%) JIRA
5 18 (3.56%) MLflow
6 15 (2.96%) Maven
7 13 (2.57%) JUnit
8 12 (2.37%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.79%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.59%) Mockito
12 3 (0.59%) Postman
12 3 (0.59%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.59%) Subversion
12 3 (0.59%) Xcode
12 3 (0.59%) XCTest
13 1 (0.20%) NetBeans
13 1 (0.20%) TestRail
General
1 253 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 131 (25.89%) Social Skills
3 109 (21.54%) Finance
4 54 (10.67%) Banking
5 31 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (4.94%) Law
7 20 (3.95%) Front Office
8 12 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.98%) Marketing
9 10 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.78%) Czech Language
10 9 (1.78%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.19%) Billing
12 6 (1.19%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.99%) Advertising
13 5 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.79%) Legal
15 3 (0.59%) Automotive
15 3 (0.59%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 239 (47.23%) Lead
2 215 (42.49%) Team Leader
3 67 (13.24%) Senior
4 46 (9.09%) Analyst
5 32 (6.32%) Support Analyst
6 25 (4.94%) Software Engineer
7 24 (4.74%) Developer
8 23 (4.55%) Administrator
8 23 (4.55%) Applications Support
9 19 (3.75%) IT Support
9 19 (3.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 19 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (3.56%) Operations Engineer
11 17 (3.36%) Consultant
12 15 (2.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (2.77%) Linux Support
14 11 (2.17%) Site Engineer
14 11 (2.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (2.17%) SQL Analyst
14 11 (2.17%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (43.87%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (42.49%) OpenTelemetry
3 27 (5.34%) FIX Protocol
3 27 (5.34%) REST
4 25 (4.94%) PySpark
5 19 (3.75%) YAML
6 18 (3.56%) Keras
6 18 (3.56%) Lambda Expressions
6 18 (3.56%) Metaflow
6 18 (3.56%) NumPy
6 18 (3.56%) Pandas
6 18 (3.56%) PyTorch
6 18 (3.56%) scikit-learn
6 18 (3.56%) Spring
6 18 (3.56%) TensorFlow
7 17 (3.36%) Kafka
8 15 (2.96%) SOAP
9 14 (2.77%) XML
10 13 (2.57%) Hibernate
10 13 (2.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (3.56%) Algorithms
2 18 (3.56%) Equities
3 17 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.96%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.77%) Derivative
5 14 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.37%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.37%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 11 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.98%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.78%) Clustering
9 9 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.78%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.58%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.38%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.19%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 402 (79.45%) Linux
2 74 (14.62%) Windows
3 23 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.56%) CentOS
4 18 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (3.16%) Solaris
6 8 (1.58%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.38%) Rocky
8 6 (1.19%) AIX
9 5 (0.99%) HPUX
10 4 (0.79%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.59%) zOS
12 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (53.16%) Agile
1 269 (53.16%) DevOps
2 246 (48.62%) Continuous Integration
3 241 (47.63%) Containerisation
4 238 (47.04%) Roadmaps
5 233 (46.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 228 (45.06%) High Availability
6 228 (45.06%) Task Automation
7 223 (44.07%) Mentoring
8 218 (43.08%) Performance Optimisation
9 217 (42.89%) Resource Management
10 216 (42.69%) Product Management
11 215 (42.49%) Budget Control
11 215 (42.49%) Cost Optimisation
11 215 (42.49%) GitOps
12 93 (18.38%) Problem-Solving
13 76 (15.02%) CI/CD
14 37 (7.31%) Software Engineering
15 36 (7.11%) OO
16 34 (6.72%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 343 (67.79%) Python
2 277 (54.74%) Java
3 261 (51.58%) Bash
4 245 (48.42%) JavaScript
5 229 (45.26%) Go
6 150 (29.64%) SQL
7 39 (7.71%) Shell Script
8 34 (6.72%) PowerShell
9 22 (4.35%) C++
10 15 (2.96%) Perl
11 12 (2.37%) C
11 12 (2.37%) PL/SQL
12 11 (2.17%) T-SQL
12 11 (2.17%) TypeScript
13 10 (1.98%) VBA
14 7 (1.38%) C#
15 6 (1.19%) Fortran
16 4 (0.79%) ABAP
17 3 (0.59%) Groovy
17 3 (0.59%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 222 (43.87%) AWS Certification
2 46 (9.09%) Degree
3 32 (6.32%) Security Cleared
4 26 (5.14%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.38%) RHCE
8 6 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.19%) PhD
9 5 (0.99%) CISA
9 5 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.79%) OCA
10 4 (0.79%) OCP
10 4 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.59%) CCNA
11 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.78%) SLA
4 8 (1.58%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (0.99%) ITGC
5 5 (0.99%) QA
6 4 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.20%) GDPR
7 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 274 (54.15%) Docker
2 34 (6.72%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.38%) HDFS
4 7 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.99%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Flume
6 3 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.40%) KVM
7 2 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.40%) Xen
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) NFS
8 1 (0.20%) vCloud
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
8 1 (0.20%) XenApp
8 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 268 (52.96%) Terraform
2 263 (51.98%) Kubernetes
3 249 (49.21%) Ansible
4 225 (44.47%) Prometheus
5 216 (42.69%) Argo
5 216 (42.69%) Kustomize
6 31 (6.13%) Grafana
7 20 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (3.56%) Kubeflow
9 11 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.98%) AWS Copilot
11 9 (1.78%) Istio
11 9 (1.78%) Progress Chef
12 8 (1.58%) SCCM
13 6 (1.19%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.99%) Puppet
15 4 (0.79%) Kibana
15 4 (0.79%) logstash
16 3 (0.59%) Oozie
Vendors
1 237 (46.84%) Google
2 83 (16.40%) Oracle
3 62 (12.25%) Microsoft
4 29 (5.73%) Red Hat
5 24 (4.74%) VMware
6 21 (4.15%) Databricks
7 15 (2.96%) Atlassian
8 14 (2.77%) Splunk
9 13 (2.57%) SAP
10 11 (2.17%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.78%) Cisco
12 6 (1.19%) TIBCO
13 5 (0.99%) Bloomberg
13 5 (0.99%) CyberArk
13 5 (0.99%) Fortinet
13 5 (0.99%) ION Trading
13 5 (0.99%) Solace
13 5 (0.99%) Sybase
13 5 (0.99%) Symantec
13 5 (0.99%) Veritas