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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 345 348
Rank change year-on-year -102 +3 -137
Permanent jobs citing Unix 231 310 640
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.30% 0.83% 0.77%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.71% 5.08% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 112 187 476
10th Percentile £41,250 £34,600 £39,500
25th Percentile £54,688 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £79,211 £82,751 £82,548
90th Percentile £88,750 £94,267 £100,064
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,626 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.58% +12.71% -14.29%

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 4,901 6,108 12,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.27% 16.31% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,682 4,114 10,042
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.22% +7.78% -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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -34 114 £81,500 +8.67% 32
North of England -95 29 £60,000 -13.52% 16
South West -37 27 £67,500 -6.24% 9
East of England -20 26 £61,500 +0.41% 5
South East -62 23 £58,000 +38.10% 23
North West -58 13 £60,000 -11.28% 11
Yorkshire -53 11 £69,310 -18.70% 1
Midlands -54 9 £28,500 -52.50% 12
West Midlands -43 8 £28,500 -52.50% 7
North East -44 5 £58,877 -15.14% 4
East Midlands -48 1 - - 5
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 15 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (5.19%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (0.87%) Anypoint
3 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.87%) Confluence
3 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) nginx
4 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.43%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.30%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (1.30%) Line 50
4 2 (0.87%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.87%) Shopify
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.43%) Primavera
5 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (34.63%) AWS
2 60 (25.97%) Azure
3 22 (9.52%) GCP
3 22 (9.52%) Pulumi
4 16 (6.93%) SaaS
5 15 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.06%) GitHub
6 14 (6.06%) PaaS
7 11 (4.76%) Azure AKS
7 11 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (4.76%) IaaS
7 11 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (3.46%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (2.60%) Apigee
10 6 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.60%) Kong
10 6 (2.60%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.73%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.39%) Firewall
2 20 (8.66%) DNS
3 19 (8.23%) Broadband
4 18 (7.79%) TCP/IP
5 12 (5.19%) DHCP
6 9 (3.90%) HTTPS
7 8 (3.46%) 5G
7 8 (3.46%) SD-WAN
7 8 (3.46%) WAN
8 7 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (2.16%) VLAN
10 4 (1.73%) FIX Connectivity
10 4 (1.73%) MPLS
10 4 (1.73%) VPN
11 3 (1.30%) CHAP
11 3 (1.30%) Network Security
11 3 (1.30%) VoIP
12 2 (0.87%) Internet
12 2 (0.87%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.26%) NoSQL
2 25 (10.82%) Relational Database
3 22 (9.52%) Oracle Database
4 20 (8.66%) RDBMS
5 17 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (6.06%) MongoDB
7 13 (5.63%) Oracle Database 10g
8 6 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.60%) Power BI
8 6 (2.60%) Tableau
9 5 (2.16%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.73%) Big Data
10 4 (1.73%) DB2
11 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.30%) FileMaker
11 3 (1.30%) Redis
11 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.87%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.87%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.87%) Informix
Development Applications
1 22 (9.52%) GitLab
2 19 (8.23%) Jaeger
3 14 (6.06%) Git
4 9 (3.90%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.46%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.46%) LabVIEW
6 4 (1.73%) Metasploit
7 3 (1.30%) JIRA
7 3 (1.30%) Selenium
8 2 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.87%) Gradle
8 2 (0.87%) JMeter
8 2 (0.87%) Maven
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 64 (27.71%) Finance
2 58 (25.11%) Social Skills
3 34 (14.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.52%) Banking
6 19 (8.23%) Public Sector
7 16 (6.93%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (6.49%) German Language
9 9 (3.90%) Electronics
10 8 (3.46%) Telecoms
11 7 (3.03%) Investment Banking
11 7 (3.03%) Legal
12 5 (2.16%) Front Office
13 4 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.73%) Law
13 4 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.30%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.30%) Back Office
14 3 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.30%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 36 (15.58%) Senior
2 20 (8.66%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (8.66%) Lead
3 18 (7.79%) Automation Engineer
4 17 (7.36%) Linux Engineer
5 15 (6.49%) Analyst
6 14 (6.06%) 3rd Line Support
6 14 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
7 13 (5.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 12 (5.19%) Developer
8 12 (5.19%) Systems Support
9 11 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Security Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.02%) JSON
1 37 (16.02%) XML
2 32 (13.85%) HTML
3 29 (12.55%) Regular Expression
4 25 (10.82%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (8.23%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (5.63%) Node.js
7 10 (4.33%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (3.90%) REST
9 8 (3.46%) pytest
10 6 (2.60%) Jinja
10 6 (2.60%) YAML
10 6 (2.60%) YANG
11 4 (1.73%) Kafka
11 4 (1.73%) LDAP
11 4 (1.73%) OAuth
11 4 (1.73%) RESTful
12 3 (1.30%) .NET
12 3 (1.30%) CSS
12 3 (1.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.88%) Linux Command Line
2 31 (13.42%) Onboarding
3 18 (7.79%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (7.36%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.63%) Hedge funds
6 12 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (5.19%) Security Posture
7 8 (3.46%) Cyber Threat
7 8 (3.46%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.46%) Self-Driving Car
8 7 (3.03%) Clustering
9 5 (2.16%) Blockchain
9 5 (2.16%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.16%) IoT
10 4 (1.73%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.73%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 4 (1.73%) NHS
10 4 (1.73%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.73%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.30%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 145 (62.77%) Linux
2 67 (29.00%) Windows
3 20 (8.66%) Solaris
4 15 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (5.63%) HPUX
6 12 (5.19%) Windows Server 2003
7 11 (4.76%) Windows 7
7 11 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (3.03%) Windows Server
9 6 (2.60%) AIX
10 4 (1.73%) Kali Linux
10 4 (1.73%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (1.30%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.43%) CentOS
12 1 (0.43%) Debian
12 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.43%) SUSE
12 1 (0.43%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (27.27%) DevOps
2 54 (23.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (22.08%) Agile
4 49 (21.21%) AI
5 48 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (19.05%) CI/CD
7 38 (16.45%) Mentoring
7 38 (16.45%) Test Automation
8 37 (16.02%) Containerisation
9 36 (15.58%) Continuous Integration
9 36 (15.58%) Task Automation
10 34 (14.72%) Data Analysis
10 34 (14.72%) High Availability
11 29 (12.55%) LLM
11 29 (12.55%) Roadmaps
12 28 (12.12%) Computer Science
13 25 (10.82%) Incident Response
14 24 (10.39%) ITIL
15 23 (9.96%) Incident Management
16 20 (8.66%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 138 (59.74%) Python
2 57 (24.68%) Bash
3 47 (20.35%) Java
4 32 (13.85%) SQL
5 30 (12.99%) JavaScript
6 25 (10.82%) PowerShell
7 22 (9.52%) Go
8 15 (6.49%) Perl
9 13 (5.63%) Shell Script
10 8 (3.46%) C#
10 8 (3.46%) MATLAB
11 5 (2.16%) C++
11 5 (2.16%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.16%) Rust
11 5 (2.16%) VB
11 5 (2.16%) VBA
11 5 (2.16%) VBScript
12 4 (1.73%) Korn
13 3 (1.30%) C
13 3 (1.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (32.47%) Degree
2 37 (16.02%) Security Cleared
3 28 (12.12%) SC Cleared
4 26 (11.26%) AWS Certification
5 21 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (6.49%) CISSP
6 15 (6.49%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.76%) CCSK
8 8 (3.46%) HND
9 7 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (2.16%) OSCP
11 4 (1.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.73%) CCNA
11 4 (1.73%) CISA
11 4 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.30%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
12 3 (1.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.79%) SLA
2 9 (3.90%) QA
3 5 (2.16%) GDPR
3 5 (2.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.73%) NIST
5 3 (1.30%) COBIT
5 3 (1.30%) ISO 14001
5 3 (1.30%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) ITGC
6 1 (0.43%) MiFID
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (15.58%) Docker
2 22 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 15 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.16%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (2.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.43%) Firmware
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (24.68%) Terraform
2 50 (21.65%) Ansible
3 42 (18.18%) Kubernetes
4 30 (12.99%) Argo
5 24 (10.39%) Prometheus
6 19 (8.23%) Kustomize
7 9 (3.90%) Grafana
8 5 (2.16%) SCCM
9 4 (1.73%) Oracle RMAN
9 4 (1.73%) Podman
10 3 (1.30%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (1.30%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.30%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.30%) Nagios
10 3 (1.30%) Puppet
11 2 (0.87%) Kibana
11 2 (0.87%) logstash
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 36 (15.58%) Oracle
2 34 (14.72%) Google
3 33 (14.29%) VMware
4 30 (12.99%) Microsoft
5 23 (9.96%) Red Hat
6 13 (5.63%) IBM
7 12 (5.19%) Cisco
8 10 (4.33%) Juniper
8 10 (4.33%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.90%) SAP
10 8 (3.46%) Adobe
10 8 (3.46%) Splunk
11 7 (3.03%) Symantec
12 6 (2.60%) F5
12 6 (2.60%) Workday
13 5 (2.16%) Databricks
13 5 (2.16%) Dell
13 5 (2.16%) Snow
14 4 (1.73%) HP
14 4 (1.73%) TOWER Software