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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 302 202
Rank change year-on-year -78 -100 -12
Permanent jobs citing Unix 289 598 933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.87% 1.71%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.77% 6.69% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 177 301 685
10th Percentile £27,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

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 6,062 8,939 9,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.05% 13.01% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,919 5,558 7,614
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% -4.76% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix 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 September 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 17 September 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 -14 139 £80,000 +6.67% 71
South East +13 50 £41,500 -13.54% 48
South West +39 29 £78,810 +21.25% 20
East of England +5 28 £42,500 -19.05% 17
North of England -40 22 £57,500 +15.00% 34
Midlands -2 21 £70,000 +22.81% 28
West Midlands +15 14 £75,000 -14.29% 15
Yorkshire -3 11 £62,500 +56.25% 11
East Midlands +12 7 £58,000 +10.48% 11
North West -38 7 £40,000 -20.00% 21
North East +14 4 £47,500 -5.00% 2
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (7.96%) Apache Spark
2 20 (6.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (6.92%) Tomcat
3 14 (4.84%) WebSphere
4 13 (4.50%) IIS
5 9 (3.11%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (2.42%) Apache
6 7 (2.42%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.73%) nginx
8 4 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (1.04%) Confluence
9 3 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2003
9 3 (1.04%) SAS
10 2 (0.69%) JBoss
11 1 (0.35%) GemFire
Applications
1 28 (9.69%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.69%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.35%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 88 (30.45%) AWS
2 54 (18.69%) Azure
3 27 (9.34%) Amazon S3
4 25 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
5 23 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (6.23%) Amazon ELB
6 18 (6.23%) Entra ID
7 17 (5.88%) GCP
7 17 (5.88%) SaaS
8 13 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (3.11%) Power Automate
10 9 (3.11%) Serverless
11 8 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.77%) Cohesity
12 7 (2.42%) Apigee
12 7 (2.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (2.42%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.34%) SSL
2 21 (7.27%) Firewall
3 14 (4.84%) TCP/IP
4 12 (4.15%) SAN
5 9 (3.11%) DMARC
6 8 (2.77%) DNS
7 7 (2.42%) DHCP
8 6 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (2.08%) Wireshark
9 5 (1.73%) HTTP
9 5 (1.73%) HTTPS
9 5 (1.73%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.73%) VPN
9 5 (1.73%) WAN
10 4 (1.38%) Broadband
10 4 (1.38%) LAN
10 4 (1.38%) VoIP
11 3 (1.04%) SMTP
11 3 (1.04%) X.400
11 3 (1.04%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.80%) SQL Server
2 31 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (10.38%) Relational Database
4 25 (8.65%) Metadata
5 21 (7.27%) Spark SQL
6 20 (6.92%) DynamoDB
7 19 (6.57%) MySQL
8 18 (6.23%) Delta Lake
9 14 (4.84%) NoSQL
10 13 (4.50%) Oracle Database
11 10 (3.46%) DB2
12 7 (2.42%) Big Data
12 7 (2.42%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.42%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (2.42%) Power BI
12 7 (2.42%) Tableau
13 6 (2.08%) FileMaker
13 6 (2.08%) KDB
13 6 (2.08%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 35 (12.11%) Git
2 22 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 18 (6.23%) MLflow
4 13 (4.50%) Maven
5 12 (4.15%) JIRA
5 12 (4.15%) JUnit
6 9 (3.11%) SonarQube
6 9 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.38%) Toad
8 3 (1.04%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.04%) Postman
8 3 (1.04%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.04%) Xcode
9 2 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.69%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.69%) Mockito
9 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.69%) webpack
9 2 (0.69%) XCTest
General
1 112 (38.75%) Finance
2 101 (34.95%) Social Skills
3 48 (16.61%) Banking
4 24 (8.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (7.27%) Law
6 16 (5.54%) Front Office
7 14 (4.84%) Public Sector
8 11 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.46%) Marketing
10 9 (3.11%) Czech Language
10 9 (3.11%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.42%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.38%) Local Government
13 3 (1.04%) Advertising
13 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.69%) Legal
14 2 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 55 (19.03%) Senior
2 43 (14.88%) Administrator
3 31 (10.73%) Applications Support
4 27 (9.34%) Developer
5 24 (8.30%) Analyst
6 23 (7.96%) Software Engineer
7 22 (7.61%) Lead
7 22 (7.61%) Support Engineer
7 22 (7.61%) Systems Administrator
8 20 (6.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 19 (6.57%) Linux Support
10 18 (6.23%) IT Support
10 18 (6.23%) Operations Engineer
11 17 (5.88%) Support Analyst
12 16 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 15 (5.19%) Consultant
13 15 (5.19%) Linux Engineer
14 14 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (4.50%) Infrastructure Support
16 11 (3.81%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.00%) REST
2 21 (7.27%) PySpark
3 20 (6.92%) NumPy
3 20 (6.92%) Pandas
3 20 (6.92%) PyTorch
3 20 (6.92%) TensorFlow
4 18 (6.23%) Keras
4 18 (6.23%) Lambda Expressions
4 18 (6.23%) Metaflow
4 18 (6.23%) scikit-learn
4 18 (6.23%) YAML
5 16 (5.54%) FIX Protocol
6 14 (4.84%) SOAP
7 13 (4.50%) OAuth
7 13 (4.50%) React
7 13 (4.50%) XML
8 12 (4.15%) JSON
9 11 (3.81%) Spring
9 11 (3.81%) Spring Boot
9 11 (3.81%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 21 (7.27%) e-Learning
3 17 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.84%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.81%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.46%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.11%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.11%) PKI
8 8 (2.77%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.77%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.77%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.42%) Driving Licence
9 7 (2.42%) Equities
9 7 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 6 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.73%) Replication
12 4 (1.38%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 192 (66.44%) Linux
2 77 (26.64%) Windows
3 30 (10.38%) Solaris
4 27 (9.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (7.96%) Windows Server
6 14 (4.84%) CentOS
7 12 (4.15%) Mac OS
8 9 (3.11%) Debian
9 7 (2.42%) HPUX
10 6 (2.08%) AIX
11 4 (1.38%) Apple iOS
11 4 (1.38%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.35%) Android
14 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.35%) Rocky
14 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (21.11%) Agile
3 55 (19.03%) CI/CD
4 41 (14.19%) Software Engineering
5 40 (13.84%) SDLC
6 38 (13.15%) DevOps
6 38 (13.15%) High Availability
7 32 (11.07%) ITIL
8 30 (10.38%) OO
9 29 (10.03%) Machine Learning
10 28 (9.69%) Artificial Intelligence
10 28 (9.69%) Time Management
11 27 (9.34%) Visualisation
12 26 (9.00%) Containerisation
12 26 (9.00%) Data Science
12 26 (9.00%) Test Automation
13 24 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (8.30%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (8.30%) TDD
14 23 (7.96%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 136 (47.06%) Python
2 116 (40.14%) SQL
3 48 (16.61%) Bash
4 43 (14.88%) Java
5 36 (12.46%) JavaScript
6 34 (11.76%) Shell Script
7 33 (11.42%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.23%) C++
9 12 (4.15%) Go
9 12 (4.15%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.81%) R
11 10 (3.46%) C#
12 9 (3.11%) C
12 9 (3.11%) PL/SQL
12 9 (3.11%) VBA
13 8 (2.77%) Korn
14 7 (2.42%) Perl
15 5 (1.73%) Fortran
15 5 (1.73%) MATLAB
16 4 (1.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (19.03%) Degree
2 51 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 43 (14.88%) SC Cleared
4 29 (10.03%) DV Cleared
5 22 (7.61%) CCNA
5 22 (7.61%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (7.27%) CCNP
7 18 (6.23%) AWS Certification
8 12 (4.15%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (3.46%) CISA
9 10 (3.46%) CISSP
10 8 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.42%) Azure Certification
11 7 (2.42%) Master's Degree
11 7 (2.42%) PhD
11 7 (2.42%) RHCE
12 6 (2.08%) GCFA
12 6 (2.08%) GCIA
12 6 (2.08%) GCIH
13 5 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.57%) SLA
2 17 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.77%) NIST
3 8 (2.77%) QA
4 7 (2.42%) GDPR
5 5 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.73%) ITGC
6 4 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (1.38%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.04%) COBIT
8 2 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (17.30%) Docker
2 33 (11.42%) Active Directory
3 22 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.38%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.38%) XenApp
4 4 (1.38%) XenDesktop
5 3 (1.04%) Apache Flume
5 3 (1.04%) HDFS
6 2 (0.69%) KVM
6 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.69%) Xen
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 48 (16.61%) Terraform
2 40 (13.84%) Kubernetes
3 39 (13.49%) Ansible
4 23 (7.96%) Grafana
5 22 (7.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (6.23%) Kubeflow
7 13 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (3.81%) SCCM
9 8 (2.77%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.77%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.42%) Istio
11 6 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (1.73%) FortiGate
12 5 (1.73%) Puppet
13 3 (1.04%) Argo
13 3 (1.04%) Kibana
13 3 (1.04%) logstash
13 3 (1.04%) Netcool
13 3 (1.04%) Oozie
14 2 (0.69%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 65 (22.49%) Microsoft
2 64 (22.15%) Oracle
3 33 (11.42%) Red Hat
3 33 (11.42%) VMware
4 27 (9.34%) Cisco
5 26 (9.00%) Google
6 21 (7.27%) Databricks
7 18 (6.23%) IBM
8 14 (4.84%) SAP
9 11 (3.81%) Splunk
10 10 (3.46%) Apple
10 10 (3.46%) Atlassian
11 9 (3.11%) ServiceNow
12 8 (2.77%) NetApp
13 7 (2.42%) Dynatrace
14 5 (1.73%) Citrix
14 5 (1.73%) CyberArk
14 5 (1.73%) Fortinet
14 5 (1.73%) Imperva
15 4 (1.38%) Sophos