Unix Jobs in England

Unix
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Unix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Unix over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 209 181
Rank change year-on-year -126 -28 -2
Permanent jobs citing Unix 699 1,697 2,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.82% 1.82% 2.26%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.56% 11.31% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 480 912 1,461
10th Percentile £39,325 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £82,548 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,064 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +1.63%

All Operating Systems
England

Unix is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,562 14,999 25,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.81% 16.09% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9,968 10,270 15,180
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -95 243 £80,000 -0.37% 91
North of England -59 140 £55,000 +3.77% 12
South East -32 127 £52,500 - 30
South West -48 93 £52,500 +5.00% 19
Midlands -51 77 £50,000 -23.08% 14
North West -5 69 £55,000 -1.79% 5
Yorkshire -25 50 £70,576 +15.36% 7
West Midlands -6 45 £50,000 -23.08% 7
East Midlands -49 32 £50,000 -23.08% 7
North East -4 21 £44,274 +14.26%
East of England -74 15 £38,750 -35.42% 24
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 40 (5.72%) WebLogic
2 34 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (3.29%) Apache
3 23 (3.29%) Tomcat
4 18 (2.58%) Captiva
4 18 (2.58%) FileNet
4 18 (2.58%) nginx
4 18 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 18 (2.58%) WebSphere
5 17 (2.43%) Confluence
6 15 (2.15%) Oracle Service Bus
7 13 (1.86%) IIS
8 10 (1.43%) JBoss
9 3 (0.43%) GlassFish
9 3 (0.43%) WordPress
10 2 (0.29%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 43 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.15%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.29%) CATIA
4 2 (0.29%) NASTRAN
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (3.43%) NEC Housing
2 16 (2.29%) Fidessa
2 16 (2.29%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.86%) Adaptiv
3 6 (0.86%) Temenos T24
3 6 (0.86%) Unit4 Business World
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.29%) Demantra
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle ASCP
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.14%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.14%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 170 (24.32%) Azure
2 160 (22.89%) AWS
3 64 (9.16%) GCP
4 54 (7.73%) IaaS
5 46 (6.58%) SaaS
6 33 (4.72%) GitHub
7 26 (3.72%) PaaS
8 24 (3.43%) Power Platform
9 22 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (2.29%) OpenShift
11 11 (1.57%) Serverless
12 10 (1.43%) Entra ID
13 9 (1.29%) Amazon S3
14 8 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (0.86%) Rubrik
17 5 (0.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 71 (10.16%) Firewall
2 61 (8.73%) TCP/IP
3 60 (8.58%) DNS
4 43 (6.15%) DHCP
5 35 (5.01%) VPN
6 26 (3.72%) SNMP
7 24 (3.43%) HTTP
8 23 (3.29%) Internet
9 19 (2.72%) BGP
9 19 (2.72%) MPLS
10 18 (2.58%) SAN
11 17 (2.43%) WAN
12 16 (2.29%) FIX Connectivity
12 16 (2.29%) SSH
13 14 (2.00%) LAN
14 13 (1.86%) VLAN
15 12 (1.72%) Network Security
15 12 (1.72%) SSL
16 11 (1.57%) HTTPS
16 11 (1.57%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (13.02%) SQL Server
2 69 (9.87%) MySQL
3 58 (8.30%) Oracle Database
4 52 (7.44%) NoSQL
5 45 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (5.87%) Relational Database
7 38 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
9 28 (4.01%) MongoDB
10 24 (3.43%) Power BI
11 23 (3.29%) Data Lake
12 17 (2.43%) Oracle Database 11g
13 16 (2.29%) Oracle Database 12c
14 15 (2.15%) Oracle Database 10g
14 15 (2.15%) VLDB
15 11 (1.57%) RDBMS
16 10 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
17 9 (1.29%) Tableau
18 8 (1.14%) MariaDB
19 7 (1.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 84 (12.02%) JIRA
2 55 (7.87%) Git
3 20 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
4 18 (2.58%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.43%) GitLab
6 14 (2.00%) Eclipse
7 13 (1.86%) LabVIEW
7 13 (1.86%) Subversion
8 10 (1.43%) GNU Toolchain
9 9 (1.29%) IBM UrbanCode
10 7 (1.00%) Snyk
11 6 (0.86%) Appium
11 6 (0.86%) RStudio
11 6 (0.86%) UI Automator
12 5 (0.72%) DTrace
12 5 (0.72%) GDB
13 4 (0.57%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.57%) JUnit
13 4 (0.57%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.57%) Postman
General
1 243 (34.76%) Finance
2 169 (24.18%) Social Skills
3 124 (17.74%) Banking
4 122 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 48 (6.87%) Police
7 28 (4.01%) Local Government
8 26 (3.72%) Back Office
9 24 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (3.29%) Telecoms
11 20 (2.86%) Front Office
12 18 (2.58%) Financial Institution
13 17 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (2.43%) Retail
14 16 (2.29%) Law
15 10 (1.43%) Games
15 10 (1.43%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.86%) Automotive
16 6 (0.86%) Retail Banking
17 5 (0.72%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 121 (17.31%) Senior
2 114 (16.31%) Analyst
3 106 (15.16%) Applications Support
4 89 (12.73%) Developer
5 79 (11.30%) Support Analyst
6 72 (10.30%) Applications Support Analyst
7 57 (8.15%) Software Engineer
8 47 (6.72%) Administrator
9 44 (6.29%) Architect
10 43 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 39 (5.58%) Support Engineer
12 36 (5.15%) Lead
13 32 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (3.72%) DBA
14 26 (3.72%) Oracle DBA
14 26 (3.72%) Systems Administrator
15 24 (3.43%) Senior Support Analyst
16 23 (3.29%) Linux Administrator
16 23 (3.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
16 23 (3.29%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (6.15%) XML
2 42 (6.01%) REST
3 36 (5.15%) Web Services
4 30 (4.29%) Spring
5 29 (4.15%) SOAP
6 28 (4.01%) J2EE
7 27 (3.86%) HTML
7 27 (3.86%) Node.js
8 25 (3.58%) FIX Protocol
9 22 (3.15%) CSS
9 22 (3.15%) Java EE
9 22 (3.15%) OpenMP
10 20 (2.86%) AngularJS
11 17 (2.43%) Middleware
12 16 (2.29%) JSON
12 16 (2.29%) Kafka
12 16 (2.29%) OpenACC
12 16 (2.29%) OpenID
13 15 (2.15%) React
14 13 (1.86%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
2 50 (7.15%) Public Cloud
3 44 (6.29%) Data Centre
4 40 (5.72%) Linux Command Line
5 34 (4.86%) Algorithms
6 33 (4.72%) Management Information System
7 29 (4.15%) CUDA
8 22 (3.15%) Private Cloud
9 20 (2.86%) Mainframe
10 18 (2.58%) DataPower
11 16 (2.29%) Blockchain
11 16 (2.29%) Eurex
12 15 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
13 13 (1.86%) CMDB
13 13 (1.86%) Replication
14 12 (1.72%) Driving Licence
14 12 (1.72%) GNSS
15 11 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
15 11 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (1.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 481 (68.81%) Linux
2 315 (45.06%) Windows
3 72 (10.30%) Solaris
4 67 (9.59%) Windows Server
5 62 (8.87%) CentOS
6 42 (6.01%) Ubuntu
7 28 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 21 (3.00%) AIX
9 19 (2.72%) CoreOS
9 19 (2.72%) Mac OS
10 17 (2.43%) zOS
11 12 (1.72%) Windows 10
12 10 (1.43%) VMS
13 7 (1.00%) Debian
14 6 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.57%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.57%) Windows 7
15 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (21.32%) ITIL
2 131 (18.74%) Agile
2 131 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (15.74%) DevOps
4 88 (12.59%) Change Management
5 79 (11.30%) Computer Science
6 73 (10.44%) Incident Management
7 72 (10.30%) Mentoring
8 68 (9.73%) Roadmaps
8 68 (9.73%) Software Engineering
9 65 (9.30%) Containerisation
9 65 (9.30%) Cybersecurity
10 56 (8.01%) Coaching
11 53 (7.58%) Actionable Insight
12 52 (7.44%) Artificial Intelligence
13 48 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 46 (6.58%) Customer Service
15 45 (6.44%) Test Automation
16 43 (6.15%) CI/CD
17 42 (6.01%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 220 (31.47%) Python
1 220 (31.47%) SQL
2 123 (17.60%) Java
3 92 (13.16%) PowerShell
4 90 (12.88%) Bash
5 73 (10.44%) Shell Script
6 72 (10.30%) C
7 70 (10.01%) C++
8 57 (8.15%) JavaScript
9 54 (7.73%) Perl
10 34 (4.86%) Fortran
11 27 (3.86%) PL/SQL
11 27 (3.86%) Ruby
12 25 (3.58%) C#
13 13 (1.86%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.57%) PHP
15 8 (1.14%) Go
15 8 (1.14%) TypeScript
16 7 (1.00%) R
17 6 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 185 (26.47%) Degree
2 124 (17.74%) Security Cleared
3 73 (10.44%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (4.86%) Master's Degree
4 34 (4.86%) PhD
5 22 (3.15%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (1.86%) HND
7 13 (1.86%) Oracle Certification
8 12 (1.72%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.57%) CCNA
10 8 (1.14%) CISA
10 8 (1.14%) CISSP
11 7 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.86%) MCSE
12 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (9.87%) SLA
2 26 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.86%) GDPR
4 10 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.43%) QA
5 8 (1.14%) NIST
6 7 (1.00%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.86%) ITGC
7 6 (0.86%) PMO
8 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) ISAE 3402
10 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.29%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 50 (7.15%) Docker
2 49 (7.01%) Active Directory
3 46 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (4.72%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.58%) Oracle RAC
6 15 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (1.00%) Firmware
8 6 (0.86%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.57%) KVM
10 3 (0.43%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.43%) XenApp
11 2 (0.29%) OpenSIPS
11 2 (0.29%) Shibboleth
11 2 (0.29%) vSphere
12 1 (0.14%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.14%) Postfix
12 1 (0.14%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 52 (7.44%) Kubernetes
2 47 (6.72%) Ansible
3 36 (5.15%) Puppet
4 31 (4.43%) SCCM
5 29 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (3.15%) OpenSSO
7 20 (2.86%) Terraform
8 18 (2.58%) Progress Chef
9 17 (2.43%) Oracle RMAN
10 16 (2.29%) Data Guard
11 13 (1.86%) WMI
12 9 (1.29%) Nessus
12 9 (1.29%) WSUS
13 8 (1.14%) NetBackup
14 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (1.00%) Nexpose
14 7 (1.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 6 (0.86%) Control-M
15 6 (0.86%) Grafana
15 6 (0.86%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 201 (28.76%) Oracle
2 116 (16.60%) Microsoft
3 70 (10.01%) VMware
4 50 (7.15%) IBM
5 49 (7.01%) Red Hat
6 48 (6.87%) Remedy
7 45 (6.44%) Splunk
8 31 (4.43%) Cisco
9 27 (3.86%) SAP
10 25 (3.58%) ION Trading
11 24 (3.43%) Google
11 24 (3.43%) NEC
11 24 (3.43%) Qualys
12 23 (3.29%) ServiceNow
13 22 (3.15%) Dynatrace
14 19 (2.72%) Citrix
14 19 (2.72%) Sun
15 18 (2.58%) Kofax
15 18 (2.58%) Pega
16 17 (2.43%) Bloomberg