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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 246 244
Rank change year-on-year -66 -2 -48
Permanent jobs citing Unix 320 574 626
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.19% 1.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.15% 7.72% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 176 205 471
10th Percentile £40,633 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,236 £50,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £80,315 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £89,375 £90,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +3.85%

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 4,473 7,438 7,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.43% 15.42% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,402 4,207 6,468
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,400 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,897 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +15 153 £75,000 +8.21% 36
South West +19 47 £57,500 -20.13% 11
South East +14 47 £58,000 +11.54% 27
East of England +12 37 £43,085 -25.07% 12
North of England -99 18 £55,000 +4.76% 16
Midlands -45 13 £73,801 +29.48% 13
West Midlands -36 9 £74,401 +24.00% 8
North West -61 7 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Yorkshire -37 6 £25,750 -67.86% 3
North East +5 5 £73,801 +47.60% 2
East Midlands -22 4 £40,000 -27.27% 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 35 (10.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (8.13%) Exchange Server 2003
3 22 (6.88%) WebSphere
4 21 (6.56%) Tomcat
5 16 (5.00%) WebSphere Application Server
6 7 (2.19%) Apache Spark
7 5 (1.56%) Anypoint
7 5 (1.56%) Confluence
7 5 (1.56%) WebLogic
8 4 (1.25%) Apache
8 4 (1.25%) nginx
8 4 (1.25%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.94%) IIS
9 3 (0.94%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.31%) JBoss
10 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (2.19%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.56%) Shopify
3 4 (1.25%) NEC Housing
3 4 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.94%) Primavera
5 2 (0.63%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 99 (30.94%) AWS
2 55 (17.19%) Azure
3 40 (12.50%) GCP
4 27 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 24 (7.50%) Pulumi
6 17 (5.31%) Amazon ECR
7 16 (5.00%) GitHub
7 16 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (4.69%) Serverless
9 13 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (4.06%) PaaS
10 12 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.75%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.75%) SaaS
11 11 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (3.44%) dbt
11 11 (3.44%) OpenShift
12 8 (2.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.81%) SSL
2 24 (7.50%) DHCP
2 24 (7.50%) DNS
3 22 (6.88%) TCP/IP
4 17 (5.31%) Firewall
5 15 (4.69%) Broadband
6 11 (3.44%) WAN
7 9 (2.81%) SAN
7 9 (2.81%) VLAN
8 8 (2.50%) VPN
9 7 (2.19%) 5G
9 7 (2.19%) MPLS
9 7 (2.19%) SD-WAN
10 6 (1.88%) HTTPS
10 6 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.88%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.56%) VoIP
12 4 (1.25%) HTTP
12 4 (1.25%) Kerberos
12 4 (1.25%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.56%) Oracle Database
2 33 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (9.06%) Relational Database
4 27 (8.44%) Oracle Database 10g
5 20 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (5.63%) DB2
7 16 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.06%) RDBMS
9 12 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (3.44%) Big Data
10 11 (3.44%) Redis
11 8 (2.50%) Power BI
11 8 (2.50%) Tableau
12 7 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (1.88%) FileMaker
13 6 (1.88%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.88%) MySQL
14 5 (1.56%) Apache Hive
15 4 (1.25%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 19 (5.94%) Git
2 13 (4.06%) Jaeger
3 11 (3.44%) LabVIEW
4 10 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.50%) GitLab
5 8 (2.50%) JIRA
6 4 (1.25%) Toad
7 3 (0.94%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.63%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.63%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.63%) JUnit
8 2 (0.63%) Mocha
8 2 (0.63%) webpack
9 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.31%) Postman
9 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.31%) Xcode
General
1 84 (26.25%) Finance
2 58 (18.13%) Social Skills
3 34 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.31%) Banking
5 21 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.69%) German Language
7 15 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.38%) Telecoms
9 13 (4.06%) Electronics
9 13 (4.06%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.81%) Law
11 8 (2.50%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.56%) Legal
13 4 (1.25%) Back Office
13 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.25%) Front Office
13 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.25%) Local Government
13 4 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (15.00%) Senior
2 31 (9.69%) Support Engineer
3 30 (9.38%) Administrator
4 29 (9.06%) Applications Support
4 29 (9.06%) Linux Support
5 26 (8.13%) Linux Engineer
6 25 (7.81%) 3rd Line Support
6 25 (7.81%) Systems Administrator
7 23 (7.19%) Systems Support
8 22 (6.88%) Infrastructure Support
9 19 (5.94%) Analyst
9 19 (5.94%) Unix Support
10 18 (5.63%) Developer
11 17 (5.31%) Lead
12 15 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.06%) Linux Support Engineer
13 13 (4.06%) Verification Engineer
14 12 (3.75%) Support Analyst
15 11 (3.44%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.25%) JSON
2 34 (10.63%) XML
3 33 (10.31%) HTML
4 29 (9.06%) Regular Expression
5 22 (6.88%) LDAP
6 21 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
7 18 (5.63%) WebSphere MQ
8 16 (5.00%) LAPP Stack
9 13 (4.06%) OpenTelemetry
10 11 (3.44%) Django
10 11 (3.44%) pytest
11 10 (3.13%) Middleware
11 10 (3.13%) OAuth
12 8 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (2.50%) REST
13 7 (2.19%) RESTful
13 7 (2.19%) SOAP
14 6 (1.88%) Node.js
14 6 (1.88%) OAuth2
15 5 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (19.06%) Linux Command Line
2 34 (10.63%) Onboarding
3 24 (7.50%) Management Information System
4 20 (6.25%) e-Learning
5 12 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.13%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.50%) PKI
9 7 (2.19%) Clustering
9 7 (2.19%) Hedge funds
9 7 (2.19%) Self-Driving Car
10 6 (1.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 6 (1.88%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.88%) Replication
11 5 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.25%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.25%) NHS
12 4 (1.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 208 (65.00%) Linux
2 103 (32.19%) Windows
3 44 (13.75%) Solaris
4 37 (11.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (8.13%) HPUX
5 26 (8.13%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (6.88%) Windows 7
6 22 (6.88%) Windows Server 2008
7 12 (3.75%) Windows Server
8 10 (3.13%) Debian
9 8 (2.50%) Mac OS
10 5 (1.56%) AIX
11 4 (1.25%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.63%) CentOS
13 1 (0.31%) Android
13 1 (0.31%) CoreOS
13 1 (0.31%) SUSE
13 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (19.38%) DevOps
2 60 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (17.19%) ITIL
4 52 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (15.94%) AI
6 49 (15.31%) High Availability
7 42 (13.13%) Agile
8 38 (11.88%) Data Analysis
8 38 (11.88%) Incident Management
9 35 (10.94%) Change Management
10 33 (10.31%) CI/CD
11 32 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 30 (9.38%) Containerisation
13 29 (9.06%) LLM
14 27 (8.44%) Analytics
15 25 (7.81%) Incident Response
15 25 (7.81%) Test Automation
16 24 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (6.88%) Roadmaps
17 22 (6.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 185 (57.81%) Python
2 58 (18.13%) SQL
3 57 (17.81%) Bash
4 42 (13.13%) PowerShell
5 36 (11.25%) JavaScript
6 31 (9.69%) Java
7 27 (8.44%) Perl
8 20 (6.25%) Shell Script
9 16 (5.00%) Go
10 13 (4.06%) MATLAB
11 10 (3.13%) R
12 9 (2.81%) C#
13 8 (2.50%) Korn
14 6 (1.88%) C
15 5 (1.56%) PL/SQL
16 4 (1.25%) C++
16 4 (1.25%) Fortran
16 4 (1.25%) VB
17 3 (0.94%) Scala
18 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 107 (33.44%) Degree
2 97 (30.31%) Security Cleared
3 80 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 55 (17.19%) DV Cleared
5 40 (12.50%) AWS Certification
6 27 (8.44%) CCNA
6 27 (8.44%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (7.19%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (6.25%) CCNP
10 19 (5.94%) CISSP
11 11 (3.44%) HND
12 8 (2.50%) CISA
13 7 (2.19%) ACCA
13 7 (2.19%) CCSK
13 7 (2.19%) CIMA
13 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
13 7 (2.19%) Network+ Certification
13 7 (2.19%) PhD
14 6 (1.88%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (16.88%) SLA
2 11 (3.44%) GDPR
3 9 (2.81%) QA
4 8 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.50%) NIST
5 6 (1.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.94%) COBIT
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (14.38%) Active Directory
2 45 (14.06%) Docker
3 24 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.25%) XenApp
5 4 (1.25%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (16.88%) Ansible
2 51 (15.94%) Terraform
3 38 (11.88%) Kubernetes
4 20 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.38%) Argo
5 14 (4.38%) Grafana
6 13 (4.06%) Kustomize
7 6 (1.88%) AWS Copilot
7 6 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.56%) SCCM
9 4 (1.25%) Puppet
9 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.94%) Netcool
10 3 (0.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.94%) Podman
11 2 (0.63%) Suricata
12 1 (0.31%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.31%) Nagios
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 61 (19.06%) Oracle
2 52 (16.25%) VMware
3 49 (15.31%) Microsoft
4 47 (14.69%) Google
5 40 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 33 (10.31%) IBM
7 30 (9.38%) Cisco
8 20 (6.25%) SAP
9 16 (5.00%) ServiceNow
10 12 (3.75%) Dell
11 11 (3.44%) Splunk
12 9 (2.81%) Workday
13 8 (2.50%) Fortinet
13 8 (2.50%) IFS
13 8 (2.50%) Juniper
13 8 (2.50%) NetApp
13 8 (2.50%) Palo Alto
14 7 (2.19%) Arista
14 7 (2.19%) HP
14 7 (2.19%) Symantec