Unix Jobs in England

Unix
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 338 210
Rank change year-on-year -76 -128 -30
Permanent jobs citing Unix 277 693 1,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.81% 1.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.41% 5.53% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 181 474 872
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,275 £41,067
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £52,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £82,548 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,064 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,626 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +12.71% -13.60% +11.12%

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 6,280 12,538 14,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.11% 14.66% 16.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,146 9,925 10,082
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -14.29% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in England.

Salary trend for Unix in England

Unix
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in England over the 6 months to 8 May 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 8 May 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 +11 132 £75,000 -6.25% 294
North of England -14 51 £69,384 +26.15% 39
South East +28 48 £42,000 -17.65% 100
North West -30 34 £69,384 +26.15% 21
Midlands -6 20 £60,000 +20.00% 22
West Midlands +22 19 £60,000 +20.00% 14
South West +46 15 £71,991 +37.13% 12
Yorkshire +26 13 £85,253 +16.59% 11
East of England +43 9 £27,500 -29.03% 26
North East +33 4 £69,384 +56.71% 7
East Midlands +9 1 £70,000 +40.00% 7
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 19 (6.86%) Confluence
2 17 (6.14%) Apache
2 17 (6.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (4.33%) Tomcat
4 10 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.61%) IIS
5 8 (2.89%) Apache Spark
6 6 (2.17%) GemFire
7 5 (1.81%) NetWeaver
8 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.08%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 31 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (5.78%) NEC Housing
2 7 (2.53%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.17%) Fidessa
3 6 (2.17%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (1.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (1.08%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.72%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.36%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.36%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.61%) AWS
2 44 (15.88%) Azure
3 27 (9.75%) GCP
4 20 (7.22%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (5.05%) GitHub
7 11 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (3.97%) Apigee
7 11 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (3.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (3.61%) Amazon ECR
8 10 (3.61%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 10 (3.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 10 (3.61%) AWS CodeBuild
8 10 (3.61%) dbt
8 10 (3.61%) IaaS
8 10 (3.61%) PaaS
8 10 (3.61%) Pulumi
9 9 (3.25%) Sentry
10 8 (2.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.27%) TCP/IP
2 22 (7.94%) DNS
2 22 (7.94%) Firewall
3 16 (5.78%) SSL
4 15 (5.42%) DHCP
5 10 (3.61%) LAN
5 10 (3.61%) VLAN
6 8 (2.89%) WAN
7 7 (2.53%) HTTP
8 6 (2.17%) DMARC
8 6 (2.17%) FIX Connectivity
8 6 (2.17%) IPv4
9 5 (1.81%) VPN
10 4 (1.44%) 5G
10 4 (1.44%) FTP
10 4 (1.44%) SD-WAN
11 3 (1.08%) HTTPS
11 3 (1.08%) SSH
11 3 (1.08%) Telnet
11 3 (1.08%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.33%) SQL Server
2 36 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (11.19%) Relational Database
4 25 (9.03%) NoSQL
5 19 (6.86%) Oracle Reports
6 17 (6.14%) Redis
7 15 (5.42%) MongoDB
8 13 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (4.33%) Oracle Database
10 11 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (3.25%) DB2
12 9 (3.25%) SAP HANA
13 8 (2.89%) Apache Hudi
13 8 (2.89%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (2.89%) Delta Lake
13 8 (2.89%) Hadoop
14 7 (2.53%) Oracle Exadata
14 7 (2.53%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.81%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 37 (13.36%) Git
2 35 (12.64%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.75%) JIRA
4 16 (5.78%) Maven
5 13 (4.69%) JUnit
5 13 (4.69%) SonarQube
6 11 (3.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (3.61%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.53%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (1.44%) LabVIEW
9 4 (1.44%) Spinnaker
9 4 (1.44%) Subversion
10 3 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.08%) GitLab
10 3 (1.08%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.72%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.72%) Mockito
11 2 (0.72%) Postman
11 2 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.72%) XCTest
General
1 112 (40.43%) Finance
2 103 (37.18%) Social Skills
3 67 (24.19%) Banking
4 43 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.86%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (6.14%) Local Government
6 17 (6.14%) Police
6 17 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.78%) Social Housing
8 13 (4.69%) Front Office
9 12 (4.33%) Law
10 11 (3.97%) Investment Banking
11 10 (3.61%) Retail
12 9 (3.25%) Back Office
12 9 (3.25%) Telecoms
13 6 (2.17%) Billing
13 6 (2.17%) Czech Language
13 6 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.81%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 51 (18.41%) Senior
2 47 (16.97%) Analyst
3 33 (11.91%) Support Analyst
4 23 (8.30%) Consultant
5 20 (7.22%) Applications Support
6 19 (6.86%) Software Engineer
7 18 (6.50%) Developer
8 17 (6.14%) Administrator
9 16 (5.78%) Implementation Consultant
10 15 (5.42%) Unix Support
11 14 (5.05%) Lead
12 13 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.69%) Linux Support
12 13 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (4.69%) SQL Analyst
12 13 (4.69%) SQL Support Analyst
13 12 (4.33%) IT Support
13 12 (4.33%) Site Engineer
13 12 (4.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 11 (3.97%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.86%) Kafka
2 17 (6.14%) FIX Protocol
2 17 (6.14%) Middleware
2 17 (6.14%) Spring
3 16 (5.78%) XML
4 14 (5.05%) Hibernate
4 14 (5.05%) REST
4 14 (5.05%) SOAP
4 14 (5.05%) Spring Boot
5 13 (4.69%) RESTful
6 11 (3.97%) HTML
7 10 (3.61%) Django
8 9 (3.25%) Web Services
9 8 (2.89%) JSON
9 8 (2.89%) PyArrow
9 8 (2.89%) PySpark
10 7 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
10 7 (2.53%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 5 (1.81%) HTML5
11 5 (1.81%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.94%) Management Information System
2 19 (6.86%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.78%) Housing Association
4 15 (5.42%) Algorithms
4 15 (5.42%) Derivative
5 14 (5.05%) Equities
6 13 (4.69%) Clustering
7 11 (3.97%) Data Centre
7 11 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.97%) Fixed Income
7 11 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (3.61%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.17%) Self-Driving Car
10 5 (1.81%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.81%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.81%) Eurex
10 5 (1.81%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 200 (72.20%) Linux
2 85 (30.69%) Windows
3 23 (8.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (7.58%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.69%) AIX
6 11 (3.97%) CentOS
6 11 (3.97%) Solaris
7 8 (2.89%) Mac OS
7 8 (2.89%) zOS
8 7 (2.53%) Rocky
9 5 (1.81%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.72%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.36%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (24.91%) DevOps
3 57 (20.58%) CI/CD
4 49 (17.69%) Computer Science
5 34 (12.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 33 (11.91%) Change Management
7 31 (11.19%) Agile
8 30 (10.83%) ITIL
9 26 (9.39%) Microservices
10 25 (9.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (8.30%) Collaborative Working
11 23 (8.30%) TDD
12 22 (7.94%) Project Management
12 22 (7.94%) Software Engineering
13 21 (7.58%) Test Automation
14 20 (7.22%) Release Management
15 19 (6.86%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (6.86%) Customer Service
16 18 (6.50%) Physics
16 18 (6.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 145 (52.35%) SQL
2 115 (41.52%) Python
3 58 (20.94%) Java
4 47 (16.97%) Bash
5 39 (14.08%) PowerShell
6 31 (11.19%) Shell Script
7 29 (10.47%) JavaScript
8 24 (8.66%) C
8 24 (8.66%) C++
9 22 (7.94%) Perl
10 21 (7.58%) T-SQL
11 13 (4.69%) Go
12 11 (3.97%) PL/SQL
13 10 (3.61%) Fortran
14 7 (2.53%) MATLAB
14 7 (2.53%) VBA
15 4 (1.44%) ABAP
15 4 (1.44%) Groovy
15 4 (1.44%) Jython
16 3 (1.08%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 48 (17.33%) Degree
2 28 (10.11%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.78%) DBS Check
5 14 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.97%) Master's Degree
7 10 (3.61%) PhD
8 5 (1.81%) OCA
8 5 (1.81%) OCP
8 5 (1.81%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.44%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.44%) HND
9 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (1.08%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.08%) PMP
11 2 (0.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.91%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.33%) SLA
3 11 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.81%) FINRA
5 5 (1.81%) GDPR
5 5 (1.81%) QA
6 3 (1.08%) PMO
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (14.44%) Docker
2 27 (9.75%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.25%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.89%) HDFS
6 5 (1.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (1.08%) KVM
7 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.08%) vSphere
8 2 (0.72%) Postfix
8 2 (0.72%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.36%) Firmware
9 1 (0.36%) LXC
9 1 (0.36%) NFS
9 1 (0.36%) Samba
9 1 (0.36%) vCloud
9 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 42 (15.16%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.91%) Terraform
3 28 (10.11%) Ansible
4 16 (5.78%) Grafana
5 13 (4.69%) Istio
6 10 (3.61%) AWS Copilot
7 8 (2.89%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.89%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (2.53%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (2.53%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.53%) Puppet
9 5 (1.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (1.08%) SCCM
11 2 (0.72%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.72%) Nagios
11 2 (0.72%) Nessus
12 1 (0.36%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.36%) Control-M
12 1 (0.36%) MOM
Vendors
1 80 (28.88%) Oracle
2 36 (13.00%) Red Hat
3 31 (11.19%) Microsoft
4 21 (7.58%) VMware
5 16 (5.78%) NEC
6 14 (5.05%) Google
7 12 (4.33%) SAP
8 11 (3.97%) Splunk
9 9 (3.25%) Dynatrace
9 9 (3.25%) IBM
10 8 (2.89%) Atlassian
10 8 (2.89%) Veeam
11 6 (2.17%) Bloomberg
11 6 (2.17%) ION Trading
11 6 (2.17%) Symantec
11 6 (2.17%) TIBCO
12 5 (1.81%) CQG
12 5 (1.81%) Reuters
12 5 (1.81%) Sybase
12 5 (1.81%) Veritas