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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 384 348
Rank change year-on-year -126 -36 -135
Permanent jobs citing Unix 207 287 612
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.66% 0.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.65% 4.41% 5.57%
Number of salaries quoted 134 191 378
10th Percentile £42,948 £27,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £46,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +12.50% -8.75%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £69,305 £67,626 £59,563
% change year-on-year +2.48% +13.54% -8.86%

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 5,679 6,511 10,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.39% 15.03% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 4,327 4,328 8,372
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,000 £46,958
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.56% -10.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -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 22 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 22 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 -68 95 £75,000 -6.25% 45
South West -39 41 £63,750 -19.11% 2
North of England -29 39 £69,306 +2.48% 19
North West -7 20 £60,000 -13.52% 17
Yorkshire -35 13 £69,310 +10.90% 1
Midlands -42 11 £61,500 -5.38% 7
South East -68 10 £62,500 +66.67% 13
West Midlands -30 9 £48,903 -24.76% 7
East of England -15 6 £61,500 +123.64% 2
North East -53 6 £69,310 +15.52% 1
East Midlands -29 2 £61,500 -3.91%
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 (0.97%) Confluence
1 2 (0.97%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.48%) Apache
2 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.48%) Documentum
2 1 (0.48%) JBoss
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (6.76%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (2.42%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (2.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.93%) Line 50
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (1.93%) Oracle Retail
4 2 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.48%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (40.58%) AWS
2 64 (30.92%) Azure
3 29 (14.01%) GCP
4 18 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.76%) Azure AKS
5 14 (6.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (5.80%) GitHub
7 11 (5.31%) SaaS
8 8 (3.86%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.38%) PaaS
10 6 (2.90%) Apigee
10 6 (2.90%) Kong
11 5 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.42%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.93%) Datadog
12 4 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.93%) IaaS
12 4 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (1.45%) dbt
13 3 (1.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.70%) Firewall
2 15 (7.25%) TCP/IP
3 14 (6.76%) DNS
4 8 (3.86%) HTTPS
5 6 (2.90%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.90%) WAN
6 5 (2.42%) Network Security
6 5 (2.42%) SSH
7 4 (1.93%) 3GPP
7 4 (1.93%) 5G
7 4 (1.93%) MGW
7 4 (1.93%) MVNO
7 4 (1.93%) Packet Switching
7 4 (1.93%) RTP
7 4 (1.93%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.93%) SGSN
7 4 (1.93%) SMPP
7 4 (1.93%) VoIP
8 3 (1.45%) SAN
9 2 (0.97%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.63%) MongoDB
2 21 (10.14%) Oracle Database
3 19 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.42%) Power BI
6 5 (2.42%) Tableau
7 4 (1.93%) FileMaker
7 4 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.45%) Db2
8 3 (1.45%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.45%) Redis
9 2 (0.97%) Big Data
9 2 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (0.97%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 25 (12.08%) GitLab
2 19 (9.18%) Git
3 12 (5.80%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.38%) Eclipse
5 7 (3.38%) JIRA
6 6 (2.90%) Subversion
7 4 (1.93%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.93%) Metasploit
7 4 (1.93%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.93%) Selenium
7 4 (1.93%) Toad
8 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.97%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.97%) Gradle
8 2 (0.97%) JMeter
8 2 (0.97%) Maven
9 1 (0.48%) LSMW
9 1 (0.48%) NetBeans
9 1 (0.48%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (40.58%) Finance
2 57 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.43%) Public Sector
4 31 (14.98%) Banking
5 29 (14.01%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.83%) Front Office
6 10 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.83%) Retail
7 9 (4.35%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.35%) Legal
8 7 (3.38%) Electronics
9 6 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.42%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.93%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.93%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.45%) Back Office
12 3 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.45%) Japanese Language
13 2 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (32.37%) Senior
2 32 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (14.98%) Senior DevOps
4 28 (13.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 21 (10.14%) Developer
6 19 (9.18%) DBA
7 18 (8.70%) Administrator
8 14 (6.76%) Oracle DBA
9 13 (6.28%) Senior DBA
9 13 (6.28%) Senior Oracle DBA
10 11 (5.31%) Analyst
10 11 (5.31%) Linux Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) Applications Support
11 10 (4.83%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.83%) Systems Administrator
12 9 (4.35%) Consultant
12 9 (4.35%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.86%) Java Developer
13 8 (3.86%) Senior Consultant
13 8 (3.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.76%) Node.js
2 11 (5.31%) REST
3 10 (4.83%) YAML
4 8 (3.86%) Kafka
5 7 (3.38%) FIX Protocol
5 7 (3.38%) Jakarta EE
5 7 (3.38%) React
5 7 (3.38%) RESTful
5 7 (3.38%) Struts
5 7 (3.38%) Web Services
6 6 (2.90%) HTML
6 6 (2.90%) Jinja
6 6 (2.90%) JSON
6 6 (2.90%) XML
6 6 (2.90%) YANG
7 5 (2.42%) CSS
8 4 (1.93%) Django
8 4 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.93%) Middleware
8 4 (1.93%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.83%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.38%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.38%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.38%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.90%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.93%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.93%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (1.93%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.93%) IVR
8 4 (1.93%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.45%) Derivative
9 3 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 164 (79.23%) Linux
2 64 (30.92%) Windows
3 27 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (7.25%) AIX
5 13 (6.28%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.42%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.42%) Solaris
7 4 (1.93%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.48%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.27%) DevOps
2 68 (32.85%) CI/CD
3 50 (24.15%) Agile
4 48 (23.19%) Test Automation
5 45 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (17.87%) Mentoring
7 35 (16.91%) Incident Response
8 34 (16.43%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (15.46%) Scrum
11 31 (14.98%) Coaching
12 27 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (12.56%) High Availability
14 24 (11.59%) Computer Science
15 23 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
15 23 (11.11%) ITIL
16 21 (10.14%) Change Management
16 21 (10.14%) Containerisation
16 21 (10.14%) Performance Tuning
16 21 (10.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (37.68%) Python
2 52 (25.12%) SQL
3 43 (20.77%) Bash
4 39 (18.84%) Java
5 29 (14.01%) Shell Script
6 20 (9.66%) JavaScript
7 19 (9.18%) PL/SQL
8 14 (6.76%) C++
8 14 (6.76%) Korn
9 11 (5.31%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.83%) Perl
11 7 (3.38%) Rust
12 6 (2.90%) MATLAB
13 5 (2.42%) C#
13 5 (2.42%) VB
13 5 (2.42%) VBA
13 5 (2.42%) VBScript
14 4 (1.93%) PHP
15 3 (1.45%) C
15 3 (1.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 36 (17.39%) Degree
2 30 (14.49%) Security Cleared
3 23 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (7.25%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.86%) CISSP
7 6 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (2.90%) HND
8 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.93%) CCSK
8 4 (1.93%) CISM
8 4 (1.93%) OSCP
8 4 (1.93%) SANS
9 3 (1.45%) CISA
9 3 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.45%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.80%) QA
2 5 (2.42%) NIST
3 4 (1.93%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.93%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.45%) GDPR
4 3 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.97%) COBIT
5 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.48%) ITGC
System Software
1 21 (10.14%) Docker
2 16 (7.73%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.97%) Firmware
4 2 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.48%) GPFS
5 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.48%) KVM
5 1 (0.48%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 37 (17.87%) Terraform
2 24 (11.59%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.14%) Ansible
4 16 (7.73%) Oracle RMAN
5 15 (7.25%) Puppet
6 14 (6.76%) Argo
7 13 (6.28%) Data Guard
7 13 (6.28%) Nagios
8 12 (5.80%) Grafana
8 12 (5.80%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.42%) SCCM
10 3 (1.45%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.45%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.97%) Kibana
11 2 (0.97%) logstash
11 2 (0.97%) Podman
12 1 (0.48%) Control-M
12 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 43 (20.77%) Oracle
2 20 (9.66%) Red Hat
3 18 (8.70%) IBM
3 18 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.80%) Pega
5 11 (5.31%) VMware
6 9 (4.35%) Adobe
7 7 (3.38%) Cisco
7 7 (3.38%) Google
8 6 (2.90%) F5
8 6 (2.90%) Juniper
8 6 (2.90%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.42%) Snow
9 5 (2.42%) Splunk
10 4 (1.93%) Apple
10 4 (1.93%) New Relic
10 4 (1.93%) Retek
10 4 (1.93%) Sage
10 4 (1.93%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.93%) Sybase