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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 260 217
Rank change year-on-year -53 -43 -36
Permanent jobs citing Unix 336 617 692
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 1.11% 1.54%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.16% 7.56% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 184 231 527
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £43,075
25th Percentile £45,844 £50,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £84,056
90th Percentile £92,625 £90,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 4,693 8,160 7,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.53% 14.66% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,589 4,828 6,636
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £43,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.00% - -4.76%

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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 2025. 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 +16 151 £76,250 +8.93% 89
South East +25 52 £58,000 +5.45% 47
South West +29 41 £56,250 -25.98% 17
East of England +11 40 £43,085 -25.07% 10
North of England -77 26 £51,722 +3.44% 20
Midlands -20 24 £73,801 +34.18% 18
West Midlands -12 16 £75,000 +42.86% 12
Yorkshire -31 10 £25,750 -57.08% 7
North West -45 9 £60,000 +20.00% 14
East Midlands +5 8 £49,000 -10.91% 6
North East +5 7 £61,123 +22.25%
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 40 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (8.04%) Apache Spark
3 26 (7.74%) Exchange Server 2003
4 22 (6.55%) Tomcat
4 22 (6.55%) WebSphere
5 16 (4.76%) WebSphere Application Server
6 6 (1.79%) Apache
6 6 (1.79%) Confluence
6 6 (1.79%) nginx
7 5 (1.49%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.49%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.19%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.89%) IIS
9 3 (0.89%) WebLogic Portal
10 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.60%) JBoss
10 2 (0.60%) SAS
10 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 19 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Shopify
2 4 (1.19%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.89%) Primavera
4 2 (0.60%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.30%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 108 (32.14%) AWS
2 60 (17.86%) Azure
3 37 (11.01%) GCP
4 30 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
4 30 (8.93%) Amazon S3
5 27 (8.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (5.36%) Amazon ELB
7 17 (5.06%) Amazon ECR
8 15 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (4.46%) Serverless
9 13 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.87%) OpenShift
10 12 (3.57%) GitHub
10 12 (3.57%) Pulumi
10 12 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.27%) dbt
12 10 (2.98%) SaaS
13 9 (2.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.33%) DNS
2 27 (8.04%) DHCP
2 27 (8.04%) SSL
3 25 (7.44%) TCP/IP
4 21 (6.25%) Firewall
5 11 (3.27%) VPN
6 10 (2.98%) SAN
7 9 (2.68%) VLAN
8 8 (2.38%) HTTPS
9 7 (2.08%) MPLS
10 6 (1.79%) HTTP
10 6 (1.79%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (1.79%) VoIP
10 6 (1.79%) WAN
10 6 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.79%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.49%) LAN
12 4 (1.19%) Broadband
12 4 (1.19%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.19%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.01%) Oracle Database
2 36 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (8.04%) Oracle Database 10g
4 23 (6.85%) Relational Database
5 22 (6.55%) Metadata
6 20 (5.95%) DynamoDB
6 20 (5.95%) Spark SQL
7 19 (5.65%) SQL Server
8 18 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (5.36%) DB2
8 18 (5.36%) Delta Lake
9 13 (3.87%) Big Data
10 12 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (3.27%) MySQL
11 11 (3.27%) NoSQL
11 11 (3.27%) Redis
12 9 (2.68%) Power BI
12 9 (2.68%) Tableau
13 8 (2.38%) Hadoop
14 7 (2.08%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 19 (5.65%) Git
2 18 (5.36%) MLflow
3 11 (3.27%) JIRA
4 10 (2.98%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.08%) GitLab
6 5 (1.49%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.19%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.19%) Toad
8 3 (0.89%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.89%) JUnit
8 3 (0.89%) Mocha
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.89%) webpack
9 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.60%) Gradle
9 2 (0.60%) Maven
9 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.30%) Jasmine
General
1 94 (27.98%) Finance
2 80 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 33 (9.82%) Banking
4 26 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.17%) Law
6 14 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.87%) Investment Banking
8 11 (3.27%) German Language
9 8 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.08%) Electronics
11 6 (1.79%) Front Office
11 6 (1.79%) Marketing
11 6 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.49%) Legal
13 4 (1.19%) Advertising
13 4 (1.19%) Back Office
13 4 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 54 (16.07%) Senior
2 35 (10.42%) Administrator
3 33 (9.82%) Applications Support
4 32 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 29 (8.63%) Linux Support
6 28 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
7 25 (7.44%) 3rd Line Support
8 23 (6.85%) Systems Support
9 22 (6.55%) Analyst
10 21 (6.25%) Developer
10 21 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
10 21 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
11 20 (5.95%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 18 (5.36%) Operations Engineer
13 17 (5.06%) Unix Support
14 16 (4.76%) Support Analyst
15 15 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
16 13 (3.87%) Linux Support Engineer
17 10 (2.98%) Applications Engineer
17 10 (2.98%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.42%) JSON
2 33 (9.82%) XML
3 32 (9.52%) HTML
4 30 (8.93%) Regular Expression
5 22 (6.55%) LDAP
6 20 (5.95%) NumPy
6 20 (5.95%) Pandas
6 20 (5.95%) PySpark
6 20 (5.95%) PyTorch
6 20 (5.95%) TensorFlow
7 18 (5.36%) Keras
7 18 (5.36%) Lambda Expressions
7 18 (5.36%) Metaflow
7 18 (5.36%) scikit-learn
7 18 (5.36%) WebSphere MQ
7 18 (5.36%) YAML
8 16 (4.76%) LAPP Stack
9 14 (4.17%) OAuth
10 13 (3.87%) FIX Protocol
11 11 (3.27%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 79 (23.51%) Linux Command Line
2 38 (11.31%) Onboarding
3 25 (7.44%) e-Learning
4 20 (5.95%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.27%) PKI
7 8 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.08%) Driving Licence
8 7 (2.08%) Replication
9 6 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.79%) Clustering
9 6 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.79%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.79%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.49%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.19%) NHS
11 4 (1.19%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 211 (62.80%) Linux
2 104 (30.95%) Windows
3 47 (13.99%) Solaris
4 36 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (8.33%) HPUX
6 26 (7.74%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (6.55%) Windows 7
7 22 (6.55%) Windows Server 2008
8 16 (4.76%) Windows Server
9 9 (2.68%) Debian
9 9 (2.68%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.49%) AIX
11 4 (1.19%) CentOS
12 3 (0.89%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.30%) Android
14 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.30%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (18.75%) AI
2 60 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (16.07%) ITIL
4 50 (14.88%) CI/CD
5 49 (14.58%) DevOps
6 42 (12.50%) High Availability
7 41 (12.20%) Agile
8 40 (11.90%) Data Analysis
9 37 (11.01%) Incident Management
10 36 (10.71%) Containerisation
10 36 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (9.82%) Change Management
11 33 (9.82%) Machine Learning
12 29 (8.63%) Computer Science
12 29 (8.63%) Visualisation
13 28 (8.33%) LLM
14 27 (8.04%) Data Science
15 26 (7.74%) SDLC
16 25 (7.44%) Innovative Thinking
17 24 (7.14%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 191 (56.85%) Python
2 86 (25.60%) SQL
3 46 (13.69%) Bash
4 42 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 27 (8.04%) Perl
6 25 (7.44%) JavaScript
7 24 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 23 (6.85%) Java
9 14 (4.17%) R
10 10 (2.98%) C#
11 8 (2.38%) Korn
12 7 (2.08%) C
12 7 (2.08%) MATLAB
13 5 (1.49%) C++
13 5 (1.49%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.19%) Fortran
14 4 (1.19%) Go
14 4 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.19%) VB
15 3 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 103 (30.65%) Degree
2 99 (29.46%) Security Cleared
3 83 (24.70%) SC Cleared
4 60 (17.86%) DV Cleared
5 32 (9.52%) CCNA
5 32 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (8.63%) AWS Certification
7 25 (7.44%) CCNP
8 22 (6.55%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (5.06%) CISSP
11 10 (2.98%) CISA
11 10 (2.98%) Network+ Certification
12 8 (2.38%) Master's Degree
12 8 (2.38%) PhD
13 7 (2.08%) ACCA
13 7 (2.08%) CIMA
14 6 (1.79%) GCIA
14 6 (1.79%) GCIH
14 6 (1.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (16.07%) SLA
2 11 (3.27%) GDPR
2 11 (3.27%) QA
3 8 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.08%) NIST
5 3 (0.89%) COBIT
6 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.60%) ITGC
6 2 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 53 (15.77%) Docker
2 47 (13.99%) Active Directory
3 24 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.49%) XenApp
4 5 (1.49%) XenDesktop
5 4 (1.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Flume
6 2 (0.60%) HDFS
6 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (16.07%) Terraform
2 43 (12.80%) Kubernetes
3 41 (12.20%) Ansible
4 18 (5.36%) Grafana
4 18 (5.36%) Kubeflow
5 10 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.38%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.08%) SCCM
8 6 (1.79%) AWS Copilot
8 6 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.89%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.89%) Netcool
10 3 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.89%) Puppet
11 2 (0.60%) Argo
11 2 (0.60%) Kibana
11 2 (0.60%) logstash
11 2 (0.60%) Oozie
11 2 (0.60%) Suricata
Vendors
1 65 (19.35%) Oracle
2 58 (17.26%) Microsoft
3 53 (15.77%) VMware
4 41 (12.20%) Red Hat
5 38 (11.31%) Cisco
6 33 (9.82%) Google
6 33 (9.82%) IBM
7 23 (6.85%) Databricks
8 21 (6.25%) SAP
9 16 (4.76%) ServiceNow
10 12 (3.57%) Dell
11 11 (3.27%) Fortinet
11 11 (3.27%) Splunk
12 9 (2.68%) Atlassian
13 8 (2.38%) HP
13 8 (2.38%) IFS
13 8 (2.38%) Juniper
13 8 (2.38%) NetApp
13 8 (2.38%) Palo Alto
14 7 (2.08%) Apple