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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 367 356
Rank change year-on-year -149 -11 -132
Permanent jobs citing Unix 189 288 686
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.73% 0.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.68% 4.70% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 106 200 466
10th Percentile £40,625 £30,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £40,240 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,125 £87,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £58,457
% change year-on-year +3.85% +11.19% -13.40%

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 5,131 6,128 12,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.28% 15.61% 13.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,898 3,936 9,859
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £67,688 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -52 99 £75,000 - 29
South West -24 36 £71,250 +2.66% 8
North of England -40 27 £69,310 -0.11% 14
North West -2 14 £60,000 -13.52% 11
South East -67 10 £62,500 +50.60% 13
Midlands -32 8 £28,500 -56.15% 4
Yorkshire -44 8 £69,310 +10.90% 2
East of England -17 6 £61,500 +123.64% 6
West Midlands -37 5 £28,500 -56.15% 4
North East -41 5 £69,310 +7.14% 1
East Midlands -21 3 £61,500 -12.14%
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 2 (1.06%) Confluence
1 2 (1.06%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.53%) Apache
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.53%) IIS
2 1 (0.53%) JBoss
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (4.76%) FLEXCUBE
2 4 (2.12%) Line 50
3 3 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (41.27%) AWS
2 58 (30.69%) Azure
3 21 (11.11%) Pulumi
4 20 (10.58%) GCP
5 17 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.94%) SaaS
7 14 (7.41%) Azure AKS
7 14 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 14 (7.41%) GitHub
8 11 (5.82%) PaaS
9 8 (4.23%) IaaS
9 8 (4.23%) OpenShift
9 8 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.17%) Apigee
10 6 (3.17%) Kong
10 6 (3.17%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
12 3 (1.59%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.52%) Broadband
1 18 (9.52%) Firewall
2 16 (8.47%) TCP/IP
3 13 (6.88%) DNS
4 12 (6.35%) WAN
5 10 (5.29%) 5G
5 10 (5.29%) SD-WAN
6 8 (4.23%) HTTPS
7 7 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.65%) Network Security
9 4 (2.12%) VoIP
10 3 (1.59%) 3GPP
10 3 (1.59%) CHAP
10 3 (1.59%) MGW
10 3 (1.59%) MVNO
10 3 (1.59%) Packet Switching
10 3 (1.59%) RTP
10 3 (1.59%) SGSN
10 3 (1.59%) SMPP
11 1 (0.53%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.17%) NoSQL
1 23 (12.17%) Relational Database
2 21 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 20 (10.58%) RDBMS
4 19 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (8.47%) Oracle Database
6 7 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.17%) Power BI
7 6 (3.17%) Tableau
8 4 (2.12%) Db2
8 4 (2.12%) FileMaker
9 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.59%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.59%) Redis
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.53%) KDB
11 1 (0.53%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 24 (12.70%) GitLab
2 22 (11.64%) Git
3 18 (9.52%) Jaeger
4 10 (5.29%) LabVIEW
5 9 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.70%) Jenkins
7 6 (3.17%) JIRA
8 4 (2.12%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.12%) Metasploit
9 3 (1.59%) Selenium
9 3 (1.59%) Subversion
10 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.06%) Gradle
10 2 (1.06%) JMeter
10 2 (1.06%) Maven
11 1 (0.53%) LSMW
11 1 (0.53%) NetBeans
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (41.27%) Finance
2 53 (28.04%) Social Skills
3 31 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.81%) Banking
5 26 (13.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (12.17%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.88%) Electronics
8 9 (4.76%) Legal
9 8 (4.23%) Investment Banking
9 8 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.17%) Front Office
10 6 (3.17%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.12%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.59%) Back Office
12 3 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.59%) Japanese Language
12 3 (1.59%) Retail
13 2 (1.06%) German Language
14 1 (0.53%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 43 (22.75%) Senior
2 25 (13.23%) Lead
3 18 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (8.47%) Senior DevOps
5 15 (7.94%) Developer
5 15 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
6 14 (7.41%) DBA
6 14 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.35%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (6.35%) Test Engineer
8 11 (5.82%) Analyst
9 10 (5.29%) Product Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Product Test Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Verification Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Consultant
10 9 (4.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
10 9 (4.76%) Team Leader
11 8 (4.23%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (7.41%) Node.js
4 10 (5.29%) pytest
4 10 (5.29%) REST
5 8 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (4.23%) HTML
5 8 (4.23%) JSON
5 8 (4.23%) XML
6 7 (3.70%) Kafka
7 6 (3.17%) Jinja
7 6 (3.17%) YAML
7 6 (3.17%) YANG
8 5 (2.65%) CSS
9 4 (2.12%) Django
9 4 (2.12%) J2EE
9 4 (2.12%) React
9 4 (2.12%) RESTful
9 4 (2.12%) Struts
10 3 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 11 (5.82%) Hedge funds
3 11 (5.82%) Security Posture
4 10 (5.29%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (5.29%) Self-Driving Car
5 9 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.70%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.65%) Blockchain
8 4 (2.12%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.12%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.59%) IVR
9 3 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.06%) Clustering
10 2 (1.06%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 144 (76.19%) Linux
2 55 (29.10%) Windows
3 23 (12.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (5.82%) AIX
5 8 (4.23%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.65%) Mac OS
6 5 (2.65%) Solaris
6 5 (2.65%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.12%) Kali Linux
8 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.53%) Debian
9 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.53%) ThreadX
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.51%) DevOps
2 53 (28.04%) Agile
3 50 (26.46%) CI/CD
4 45 (23.81%) Test Automation
5 44 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (21.16%) Mentoring
7 38 (20.11%) Continuous Integration
8 36 (19.05%) High Availability
9 34 (17.99%) Task Automation
10 31 (16.40%) Containerisation
10 31 (16.40%) Incident Response
11 29 (15.34%) Roadmaps
12 25 (13.23%) Computer Science
12 25 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (12.17%) Validation
14 20 (10.58%) Coaching
14 20 (10.58%) Microservices
15 19 (10.05%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (10.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 97 (51.32%) Python
2 51 (26.98%) Bash
3 50 (26.46%) Java
4 41 (21.69%) SQL
5 31 (16.40%) JavaScript
6 22 (11.64%) Shell Script
7 19 (10.05%) Go
8 12 (6.35%) MATLAB
8 12 (6.35%) PowerShell
9 10 (5.29%) C++
10 9 (4.76%) Korn
10 9 (4.76%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.70%) Perl
12 6 (3.17%) Rust
13 5 (2.65%) C#
13 5 (2.65%) VB
13 5 (2.65%) VBA
13 5 (2.65%) VBScript
14 4 (2.12%) PHP
15 2 (1.06%) C
Qualifications
1 45 (23.81%) Degree
2 20 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (9.52%) AWS Certification
5 14 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 13 (6.88%) CISSP
7 12 (6.35%) HND
8 8 (4.23%) CCSK
9 6 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.65%) CISM
10 5 (2.65%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.65%) SANS
11 4 (2.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (2.12%) CISA
11 4 (2.12%) OSCP
12 3 (1.59%) CGEIT
12 3 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.59%) FFIEC
12 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
13 2 (1.06%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.76%) QA
2 6 (3.17%) NIST
3 4 (2.12%) GDPR
3 4 (2.12%) ISO 14001
3 4 (2.12%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.59%) COBIT
4 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) ITGC
6 1 (0.53%) MiFID
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (16.40%) Docker
2 11 (5.82%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.17%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.06%) Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (31.22%) Terraform
2 38 (20.11%) Ansible
2 38 (20.11%) Kubernetes
3 32 (16.93%) Argo
4 24 (12.70%) Prometheus
5 18 (9.52%) Kustomize
6 13 (6.88%) Puppet
7 11 (5.82%) Oracle RMAN
8 8 (4.23%) Data Guard
8 8 (4.23%) Nagios
9 6 (3.17%) Grafana
10 5 (2.65%) SCCM
11 3 (1.59%) AWS Copilot
11 3 (1.59%) Check_MK
12 2 (1.06%) Kibana
12 2 (1.06%) logstash
12 2 (1.06%) Podman
13 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 34 (17.99%) Oracle
2 30 (15.87%) Google
3 21 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 16 (8.47%) Microsoft
5 13 (6.88%) IBM
6 12 (6.35%) VMware
7 9 (4.76%) Adobe
8 8 (4.23%) Cisco
9 6 (3.17%) F5
9 6 (3.17%) Juniper
9 6 (3.17%) Palo Alto
9 6 (3.17%) SAP
9 6 (3.17%) Splunk
10 5 (2.65%) Snow
11 4 (2.12%) Apple
11 4 (2.12%) Databricks
11 4 (2.12%) Sage
11 4 (2.12%) Sybase
11 4 (2.12%) TOWER Software
12 3 (1.59%) Citrix