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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 375 301
Rank change year-on-year -138 -74 -95
Permanent jobs citing Unix 258 280 620
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.65% 0.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.28% 4.71% 6.96%
Number of salaries quoted 183 164 292
10th Percentile £37,750 £27,250 £37,612
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £62,500 £59,563
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% +4.93% -8.37%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £92,000
UK median annual salary £65,576 £61,000 £59,563
% change year-on-year +7.50% +2.41% -8.37%

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 6,026 5,941 8,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.83% 13.80% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,441 3,814 5,324
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -74 106 £70,000 -12.50% 223
North of England -19 62 £69,305 +45.91% 36
South West -65 48 £72,500 +38.10% 25
North West -11 30 £65,576 +63.94% 17
Yorkshire -17 20 £69,306 +10.89% 10
Midlands -49 20 £61,500 -12.14% 26
West Midlands -34 17 £62,500 -16.67% 20
North East -57 12 £69,308 +45.91% 10
East of England -49 7 £60,000 +41.18% 17
South East -95 6 £62,500 +50.60% 28
East Midlands -39 3 £61,500 +6.03% 6
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 9 (3.49%) Confluence
1 9 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.55%) WebLogic
3 2 (0.78%) Documentum
3 2 (0.78%) JBoss
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.78%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.65%) FLEXCUBE
2 8 (3.10%) Fidessa
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (1.94%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (1.55%) Line 50
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Retail
6 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.78%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 102 (39.53%) AWS
2 74 (28.68%) Azure
3 38 (14.73%) GCP
4 21 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (7.75%) Azure AKS
6 14 (5.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (4.26%) OCI
8 11 (4.26%) SaaS
9 10 (3.88%) GitHub
10 7 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.71%) dbt
11 6 (2.33%) Entra ID
11 6 (2.33%) Slack
12 5 (1.94%) Datadog
12 5 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.16%) Amazon S3
13 3 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.57%) DNS
2 30 (11.63%) TCP/IP
3 19 (7.36%) Firewall
4 18 (6.98%) DHCP
5 15 (5.81%) 3GPP
5 15 (5.81%) MGW
5 15 (5.81%) MVNO
5 15 (5.81%) Packet Switching
5 15 (5.81%) RTP
5 15 (5.81%) SGSN
5 15 (5.81%) SMPP
6 12 (4.65%) VPN
7 8 (3.10%) FIX Connectivity
8 7 (2.71%) Network Security
8 7 (2.71%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (2.33%) SSH
9 6 (2.33%) WAN
10 4 (1.55%) BGP
10 4 (1.55%) OSPF
10 4 (1.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.75%) MongoDB
1 20 (7.75%) Oracle Database
2 19 (7.36%) SQL Server
3 18 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.10%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (3.10%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.55%) FileMaker
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (1.55%) Oracle Database 12c
6 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.16%) Db2
6 3 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.16%) MySQL
7 2 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.78%) KDB
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (0.78%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (10.08%) GitLab
2 24 (9.30%) Git
3 21 (8.14%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.04%) JIRA
5 8 (3.10%) Eclipse
6 7 (2.71%) Subversion
7 5 (1.94%) Selenium
8 4 (1.55%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.55%) Maven
8 4 (1.55%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.55%) Toad
9 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.78%) Gradle
10 2 (0.78%) JMeter
10 2 (0.78%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.78%) Robot Framework
General
1 79 (30.62%) Finance
2 57 (22.09%) Social Skills
3 52 (20.16%) Public Sector
4 35 (13.57%) Banking
5 30 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.26%) Retail
8 8 (3.10%) Front Office
9 7 (2.71%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.33%) Electronics
11 4 (1.55%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.55%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.55%) Legal
11 4 (1.55%) Retail Finance
12 3 (1.16%) Aviation
12 3 (1.16%) Avionics
12 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.16%) Military
13 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (34.50%) Senior
2 34 (13.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (12.40%) Senior DevOps
4 29 (11.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 24 (9.30%) Developer
6 20 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (6.98%) Administrator
7 18 (6.98%) Analyst
8 17 (6.59%) DBA
9 16 (6.20%) Support Analyst
10 15 (5.81%) Network Engineer
11 13 (5.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.04%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.65%) Lead
12 12 (4.65%) Oracle DBA
12 12 (4.65%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.65%) Test Engineer
13 11 (4.26%) IT Support
14 10 (3.88%) Core Network Engineer
14 10 (3.88%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (19.77%) Terraform
2 17 (6.59%) FIX Protocol
3 15 (5.81%) Node.js
4 10 (3.88%) Web Services
5 9 (3.49%) Jakarta EE
5 9 (3.49%) REST
5 9 (3.49%) RESTful
6 8 (3.10%) React
6 8 (3.10%) Struts
7 7 (2.71%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (2.71%) HTML
7 7 (2.71%) Kafka
8 6 (2.33%) CSS
8 6 (2.33%) Middleware
9 4 (1.55%) pytest
9 4 (1.55%) YAML
10 3 (1.16%) Spring
11 2 (0.78%) Django
11 2 (0.78%) OpenMP
11 2 (0.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.20%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.81%) IVR
3 13 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.88%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (3.88%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.10%) Eurex
6 7 (2.71%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.33%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.55%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (1.55%) Self-Driving Car
10 3 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.16%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.16%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 221 (85.66%) Linux
2 89 (34.50%) Windows
3 25 (9.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.04%) AIX
5 12 (4.65%) Windows Server
6 11 (4.26%) CentOS
7 10 (3.88%) Mac OS
7 10 (3.88%) Oracle Linux
7 10 (3.88%) Solaris
8 9 (3.49%) Rocky
9 7 (2.71%) Ubuntu
9 7 (2.71%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.39%) Debian
10 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (34.11%) CI/CD
2 87 (33.72%) DevOps
3 69 (26.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (26.74%) Mentoring
4 65 (25.19%) Agile
5 61 (23.64%) Coaching
6 54 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (20.16%) Test Automation
8 44 (17.05%) Scrum
9 40 (15.50%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (12.79%) Containerisation
10 33 (12.79%) Software Engineering
11 32 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (11.24%) ITIL
13 28 (10.85%) Incident Response
14 27 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (10.08%) Validation
16 24 (9.30%) Runbook
17 23 (8.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 22 (8.53%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 81 (31.40%) Python
2 71 (27.52%) SQL
3 50 (19.38%) Bash
4 38 (14.73%) Java
5 29 (11.24%) Shell Script
6 26 (10.08%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.75%) PL/SQL
8 19 (7.36%) Perl
9 18 (6.98%) C++
9 18 (6.98%) PowerShell
10 12 (4.65%) Korn
11 9 (3.49%) C
12 8 (3.10%) Ruby
12 8 (3.10%) Rust
13 6 (2.33%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.94%) C#
14 5 (1.94%) Go
15 4 (1.55%) PHP
16 3 (1.16%) Ada
16 3 (1.16%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 52 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.63%) Degree
4 20 (7.75%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.33%) A+ Certification
6 6 (2.33%) HND
6 6 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (1.94%) CISSP
8 4 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.55%) CISM
9 3 (1.16%) CEH
9 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.16%) GCIH
9 3 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.16%) RHCE
9 3 (1.16%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.16%) SANS
10 2 (0.78%) IBM AIX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (11.24%) QA
2 5 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.55%) GDPR
3 4 (1.55%) ISO 14001
3 4 (1.55%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.55%) NIST
4 3 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.16%) MIL-STD-1553
5 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) COBIT
6 1 (0.39%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.39%) ITGC
System Software
1 30 (11.63%) Docker
2 11 (4.26%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (2.71%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (0.78%) Lustre
6 1 (0.39%) Ceph
6 1 (0.39%) Firmware
6 1 (0.39%) GPFS
6 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.39%) KVM
6 1 (0.39%) NFS
6 1 (0.39%) Samba
6 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.75%) Ansible
3 19 (7.36%) Puppet
4 15 (5.81%) Grafana
4 15 (5.81%) Prometheus
5 14 (5.43%) Argo
5 14 (5.43%) Oracle RMAN
6 10 (3.88%) Data Guard
6 10 (3.88%) Nagios
7 3 (1.16%) logstash
7 3 (1.16%) Podman
8 2 (0.78%) Kibana
8 2 (0.78%) Nmap
8 2 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.39%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.39%) Control-M
9 1 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (26.74%) Oracle
2 26 (10.08%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.69%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.65%) IBM
4 12 (4.65%) Pega
5 9 (3.49%) Bloomberg
5 9 (3.49%) Google
6 8 (3.10%) CQG
6 8 (3.10%) ION Trading
6 8 (3.10%) Patsystems
6 8 (3.10%) Reuters
6 8 (3.10%) Trayport
7 6 (2.33%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.94%) Apple
8 5 (1.94%) Sybase
9 4 (1.55%) Adobe
9 4 (1.55%) OpenText
9 4 (1.55%) Retek
9 4 (1.55%) Sage
9 4 (1.55%) SAP