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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 514 366 346
Rank change year-on-year -148 -20 -113
Permanent jobs citing Unix 188 290 686
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.73% 0.72%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.61% 4.69% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 107 203 463
10th Percentile £39,600 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -12.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £87,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.08% +12.07% -14.07%

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 5,214 6,186 12,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.27% 15.64% 13.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,973 3,993 9,865
10th Percentile £27,705 £27,000 £25,925
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 £67,750 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £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 17 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 17 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 -80 98 £75,000 - 44
South West -25 36 £70,000 +0.86% 8
North of England -41 28 £69,310 +4.52% 22
North West -8 15 £60,000 -13.52% 15
South East -67 10 £62,500 +50.60% 19
Yorkshire -41 9 £69,310 +10.90% 5
Midlands -38 8 £28,500 -55.29% 3
East of England -18 5 £61,500 +123.64% 8
West Midlands -37 5 £28,500 -54.40% 1
North East -50 4 £69,310 +15.52% 2
East Midlands -27 3 £61,500 -12.14% 2
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 (1.06%) Confluence
1 2 (1.06%) 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 14 (7.45%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.32%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.13%) Line 50
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (42.55%) AWS
2 57 (30.32%) Azure
3 21 (11.17%) GCP
3 21 (11.17%) Pulumi
4 17 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (7.45%) Azure AKS
5 14 (7.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (7.45%) SaaS
6 13 (6.91%) GitHub
7 10 (5.32%) PaaS
8 8 (4.26%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.72%) IaaS
9 7 (3.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.19%) Apigee
10 6 (3.19%) Kong
10 6 (3.19%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.60%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.57%) Broadband
1 18 (9.57%) Firewall
2 15 (7.98%) TCP/IP
3 14 (7.45%) DNS
4 11 (5.85%) WAN
5 9 (4.79%) 5G
5 9 (4.79%) SD-WAN
6 8 (4.26%) HTTPS
7 7 (3.72%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.66%) Network Security
9 4 (2.13%) 3GPP
9 4 (2.13%) MGW
9 4 (2.13%) MVNO
9 4 (2.13%) Packet Switching
9 4 (2.13%) RTP
9 4 (2.13%) SGSN
9 4 (2.13%) SMPP
9 4 (2.13%) VoIP
10 3 (1.60%) CHAP
11 2 (1.06%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.23%) NoSQL
1 23 (12.23%) Relational Database
2 21 (11.17%) MongoDB
3 20 (10.64%) RDBMS
4 19 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (9.04%) Oracle Database
6 7 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.72%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.19%) Power BI
7 6 (3.19%) Tableau
8 4 (2.13%) Db2
8 4 (2.13%) FileMaker
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.60%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.60%) Redis
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database 12c
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 24 (12.77%) GitLab
2 22 (11.70%) Git
3 18 (9.57%) Jaeger
4 9 (4.79%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.79%) LabVIEW
5 7 (3.72%) Jenkins
6 6 (3.19%) JIRA
7 5 (2.66%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.13%) Metasploit
8 4 (2.13%) Subversion
9 3 (1.60%) Selenium
10 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.06%) Gradle
10 2 (1.06%) JMeter
10 2 (1.06%) Maven
11 1 (0.53%) NetBeans
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.53%) Toad
11 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 77 (40.96%) Finance
2 52 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (15.43%) Banking
5 27 (14.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (11.70%) Public Sector
7 12 (6.38%) Electronics
8 9 (4.79%) Legal
9 8 (4.26%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.19%) Front Office
10 6 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.19%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.66%) Retail
12 4 (2.13%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.60%) Back Office
13 3 (1.60%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.60%) Japanese Language
14 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.53%) Retail Finance
14 1 (0.53%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 43 (22.87%) Senior
2 25 (13.30%) Lead
3 17 (9.04%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (9.04%) Senior DevOps
4 16 (8.51%) Developer
4 16 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.98%) DBA
5 15 (7.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 13 (6.91%) Automation Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) Analyst
7 12 (6.38%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) Test Engineer
8 10 (5.32%) Oracle DBA
9 9 (4.79%) Administrator
9 9 (4.79%) Consultant
9 9 (4.79%) Network Engineer
9 9 (4.79%) Senior DBA
9 9 (4.79%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 9 (4.79%) Team Leader
9 9 (4.79%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.17%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (7.45%) Node.js
4 10 (5.32%) REST
5 9 (4.79%) pytest
6 8 (4.26%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (3.72%) Kafka
8 6 (3.19%) HTML
8 6 (3.19%) Jinja
8 6 (3.19%) JSON
8 6 (3.19%) XML
8 6 (3.19%) YAML
8 6 (3.19%) YANG
9 5 (2.66%) CSS
9 5 (2.66%) J2EE
9 5 (2.66%) React
9 5 (2.66%) RESTful
9 5 (2.66%) Struts
10 4 (2.13%) Django
10 4 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.04%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (5.85%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.32%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.32%) Hedge funds
4 10 (5.32%) Security Posture
5 9 (4.79%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (3.72%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.72%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.66%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.13%) IVR
9 3 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.06%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (1.06%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 147 (78.19%) Linux
2 55 (29.26%) Windows
3 24 (12.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (6.38%) AIX
5 9 (4.79%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.66%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.66%) Solaris
7 4 (2.13%) Kali Linux
7 4 (2.13%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.53%) Debian
9 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.53%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.70%) DevOps
2 54 (28.72%) Agile
3 50 (26.60%) CI/CD
4 43 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (22.87%) Test Automation
5 42 (22.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (21.28%) Mentoring
7 39 (20.74%) Continuous Integration
8 37 (19.68%) High Availability
9 34 (18.09%) Task Automation
10 32 (17.02%) Incident Response
11 30 (15.96%) Containerisation
12 28 (14.89%) Roadmaps
13 27 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (13.30%) Computer Science
15 23 (12.23%) Validation
16 21 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 20 (10.64%) Microservices
18 19 (10.11%) Performance Optimisation
18 19 (10.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 93 (49.47%) Python
2 51 (27.13%) Bash
2 51 (27.13%) Java
3 42 (22.34%) SQL
4 32 (17.02%) JavaScript
5 23 (12.23%) Shell Script
6 19 (10.11%) Go
7 12 (6.38%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.85%) C++
8 11 (5.85%) MATLAB
8 11 (5.85%) PL/SQL
9 10 (5.32%) Korn
10 8 (4.26%) Perl
11 6 (3.19%) Rust
12 5 (2.66%) C#
12 5 (2.66%) VB
12 5 (2.66%) VBA
12 5 (2.66%) VBScript
13 4 (2.13%) PHP
14 2 (1.06%) C
Qualifications
1 42 (22.34%) Degree
2 20 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.11%) AWS Certification
3 19 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (7.45%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.38%) CISSP
6 11 (5.85%) HND
7 7 (3.72%) CCSK
8 6 (3.19%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (2.66%) CISM
9 5 (2.66%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.66%) SANS
10 4 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (2.13%) CISA
10 4 (2.13%) OSCP
11 3 (1.60%) CGEIT
11 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.60%) FFIEC
11 3 (1.60%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.06%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.32%) QA
2 6 (3.19%) NIST
3 4 (2.13%) GDPR
3 4 (2.13%) ISO 14001
3 4 (2.13%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.60%) COBIT
4 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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
System Software
1 32 (17.02%) Docker
2 12 (6.38%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.13%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.06%) Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (30.32%) Terraform
2 39 (20.74%) Kubernetes
3 36 (19.15%) Ansible
4 32 (17.02%) Argo
5 24 (12.77%) Prometheus
6 18 (9.57%) Kustomize
7 13 (6.91%) Puppet
8 12 (6.38%) Oracle RMAN
9 9 (4.79%) Data Guard
9 9 (4.79%) Nagios
10 6 (3.19%) Grafana
11 5 (2.66%) SCCM
12 3 (1.60%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (1.60%) Check_MK
13 2 (1.06%) Kibana
13 2 (1.06%) logstash
13 2 (1.06%) Podman
14 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 35 (18.62%) Oracle
2 29 (15.43%) Google
3 20 (10.64%) Red Hat
4 15 (7.98%) Microsoft
5 14 (7.45%) IBM
6 11 (5.85%) VMware
7 9 (4.79%) Adobe
8 8 (4.26%) Cisco
9 6 (3.19%) F5
9 6 (3.19%) Juniper
9 6 (3.19%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.66%) Snow
10 5 (2.66%) Splunk
11 4 (2.13%) Apple
11 4 (2.13%) Databricks
11 4 (2.13%) Sage
11 4 (2.13%) SAP
11 4 (2.13%) Sybase
11 4 (2.13%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.60%) Citrix