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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 373 342
Rank change year-on-year -137 -31 -112
Permanent jobs citing Unix 190 286 685
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.73% 0.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.70% 4.66% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 109 198 465
10th Percentile £41,000 £30,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,240 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £99,500 £87,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £66,250 £58,228
% change year-on-year +1.89% +13.78% -13.74%

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 5,142 6,137 12,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.28% 15.61% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,913 3,938 9,822
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £25,772
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 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -85 98 £75,000 - 31
South West -13 39 £70,000 +0.86% 7
North of England -47 26 £69,310 -0.11% 16
North West -1 13 £60,000 -13.52% 11
South East -68 10 £62,500 +50.60% 16
Midlands -37 8 £28,500 -56.15% 5
Yorkshire -42 8 £69,310 +10.90% 4
East of England -12 6 £61,500 +123.64% 6
West Midlands -38 5 £28,500 -55.29% 4
North East -43 5 £69,310 -0.11% 1
East Midlands -22 3 £61,500 -12.14% 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 (1.05%) Confluence
1 2 (1.05%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.53%) Apache
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.53%) IIS
2 1 (0.53%) JBoss
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (8.42%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.11%) Line 50
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (40.53%) AWS
2 57 (30.00%) Azure
3 21 (11.05%) Pulumi
4 19 (10.00%) GCP
5 17 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.89%) GitHub
6 15 (7.89%) SaaS
7 14 (7.37%) Azure AKS
7 14 (7.37%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (5.79%) PaaS
9 8 (4.21%) IaaS
9 8 (4.21%) OpenShift
9 8 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.16%) Apigee
10 6 (3.16%) Kong
10 6 (3.16%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.47%) Broadband
1 18 (9.47%) Firewall
2 16 (8.42%) TCP/IP
3 13 (6.84%) DNS
3 13 (6.84%) WAN
4 11 (5.79%) 5G
4 11 (5.79%) SD-WAN
5 8 (4.21%) HTTPS
6 7 (3.68%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (2.63%) Network Security
8 4 (2.11%) VoIP
9 3 (1.58%) 3GPP
9 3 (1.58%) CHAP
9 3 (1.58%) MGW
9 3 (1.58%) MVNO
9 3 (1.58%) Packet Switching
9 3 (1.58%) RTP
9 3 (1.58%) SGSN
9 3 (1.58%) SMPP
10 1 (0.53%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.11%) NoSQL
1 23 (12.11%) Relational Database
2 20 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 20 (10.53%) RDBMS
3 19 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.89%) Oracle Database
5 7 (3.68%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.16%) Power BI
6 6 (3.16%) Tableau
7 4 (2.11%) Db2
7 4 (2.11%) FileMaker
8 3 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.58%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (1.58%) Redis
9 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database 11g
9 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (0.53%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.53%) KDB
Development Applications
1 24 (12.63%) GitLab
2 22 (11.58%) Git
3 18 (9.47%) Jaeger
4 11 (5.79%) LabVIEW
5 9 (4.74%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.68%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.63%) JIRA
8 4 (2.11%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.11%) Metasploit
9 3 (1.58%) Selenium
9 3 (1.58%) Subversion
10 2 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.05%) Gradle
10 2 (1.05%) JMeter
10 2 (1.05%) Maven
11 1 (0.53%) LSMW
11 1 (0.53%) NetBeans
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (40.53%) Finance
2 52 (27.37%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.68%) Banking
5 25 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (11.58%) Public Sector
7 14 (7.37%) Electronics
8 10 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (4.74%) Legal
10 7 (3.68%) Investment Banking
11 6 (3.16%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.63%) Front Office
13 4 (2.11%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.58%) Back Office
14 3 (1.58%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.58%) Japanese Language
14 3 (1.58%) Retail
15 2 (1.05%) German Language
16 1 (0.53%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 41 (21.58%) Senior
2 25 (13.16%) Lead
3 18 (9.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (7.89%) Developer
4 15 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (7.89%) Senior DevOps
5 14 (7.37%) Automation Engineer
5 14 (7.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.84%) DBA
6 13 (6.84%) Linux Engineer
6 13 (6.84%) Test Engineer
7 11 (5.79%) Analyst
7 11 (5.79%) Product Engineer
7 11 (5.79%) Product Test Engineer
7 11 (5.79%) Verification Engineer
8 9 (4.74%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 9 (4.74%) Team Leader
9 8 (4.21%) Applications Support
9 8 (4.21%) Oracle DBA
9 8 (4.21%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.05%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.47%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (7.37%) Node.js
4 11 (5.79%) pytest
5 10 (5.26%) REST
6 8 (4.21%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (4.21%) HTML
6 8 (4.21%) JSON
6 8 (4.21%) XML
7 6 (3.16%) Jinja
7 6 (3.16%) Kafka
7 6 (3.16%) YAML
7 6 (3.16%) YANG
8 5 (2.63%) CSS
9 4 (2.11%) Django
9 4 (2.11%) J2EE
9 4 (2.11%) React
9 4 (2.11%) RESTful
9 4 (2.11%) Struts
10 3 (1.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.32%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (5.79%) Security Posture
3 11 (5.79%) Self-Driving Car
4 10 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.26%) Hedge funds
5 9 (4.74%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.68%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.63%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.63%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.58%) Clustering
9 3 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.58%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.58%) IVR
9 3 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.05%) IoT
10 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 143 (75.26%) Linux
2 56 (29.47%) Windows
3 23 (12.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (5.26%) AIX
5 7 (3.68%) Oracle Linux
6 6 (3.16%) Solaris
7 5 (2.63%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.63%) Windows Server
8 4 (2.11%) Kali Linux
9 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.53%) CentOS
10 1 (0.53%) Debian
10 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.53%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.32%) DevOps
2 51 (26.84%) Agile
2 51 (26.84%) CI/CD
3 46 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (23.68%) Test Automation
5 40 (21.05%) Mentoring
6 38 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 35 (18.42%) High Availability
8 34 (17.89%) Task Automation
9 31 (16.32%) Containerisation
10 30 (15.79%) Incident Response
11 29 (15.26%) Roadmaps
12 25 (13.16%) Computer Science
12 25 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (12.63%) Validation
14 20 (10.53%) Coaching
14 20 (10.53%) Microservices
15 19 (10.00%) ITIL
15 19 (10.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (51.05%) Python
2 51 (26.84%) Bash
3 49 (25.79%) Java
4 38 (20.00%) SQL
5 30 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 21 (11.05%) Shell Script
7 19 (10.00%) Go
8 13 (6.84%) MATLAB
9 12 (6.32%) PowerShell
10 10 (5.26%) C++
11 8 (4.21%) Korn
11 8 (4.21%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.68%) Perl
13 6 (3.16%) Rust
14 5 (2.63%) C#
14 5 (2.63%) VB
14 5 (2.63%) VBA
14 5 (2.63%) VBScript
15 4 (2.11%) PHP
16 2 (1.05%) C
Qualifications
1 45 (23.68%) Degree
2 20 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 19 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 13 (6.84%) CISSP
5 13 (6.84%) HND
6 8 (4.21%) CCSK
7 6 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (2.63%) CISM
8 5 (2.63%) SANS
9 4 (2.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (2.11%) CISA
9 4 (2.11%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.11%) OSCP
10 3 (1.58%) CGEIT
10 3 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.58%) FFIEC
10 3 (1.58%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.05%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.74%) QA
2 6 (3.16%) NIST
3 4 (2.11%) GDPR
3 4 (2.11%) ISO 14001
3 4 (2.11%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.58%) COBIT
4 3 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) ITGC
6 1 (0.53%) MiFID
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (16.84%) Docker
2 10 (5.26%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.16%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.05%) Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (31.05%) Terraform
2 39 (20.53%) Ansible
3 38 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 32 (16.84%) Argo
5 23 (12.11%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.47%) Kustomize
7 13 (6.84%) Puppet
8 10 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
9 7 (3.68%) Data Guard
9 7 (3.68%) Nagios
10 5 (2.63%) Grafana
10 5 (2.63%) SCCM
11 3 (1.58%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.58%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.58%) Podman
12 2 (1.05%) Kibana
12 2 (1.05%) logstash
13 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 33 (17.37%) Oracle
2 30 (15.79%) Google
3 23 (12.11%) Red Hat
4 16 (8.42%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.37%) VMware
6 12 (6.32%) IBM
7 9 (4.74%) Adobe
8 8 (4.21%) Cisco
9 6 (3.16%) F5
9 6 (3.16%) Juniper
9 6 (3.16%) Palo Alto
9 6 (3.16%) SAP
10 5 (2.63%) Snow
10 5 (2.63%) Splunk
11 4 (2.11%) Apple
11 4 (2.11%) Databricks
11 4 (2.11%) Sage
11 4 (2.11%) Sybase
11 4 (2.11%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.58%) Citrix