Unix Jobs in Lancashire

Unix
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 74 70
Rank change year-on-year -48 -4 +47
Permanent jobs citing Unix 12 12 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.62% 0.93% 0.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.31% 9.60% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 5
10th Percentile - - £40,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,238 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,274 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% -16.46% +6.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,968 -
90th Percentile £87,500 - -
North West median annual salary £68,505 £55,000 £56,663
% change year-on-year +24.55% -2.93% -2.73%

All Operating Systems
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 362 125 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 18.70% 9.70% 12.54%
Number of salaries quoted 49 113 62
10th Percentile £24,500 £22,614 £24,200
25th Percentile £32,110 £27,000 £28,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,134 £38,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -18.09% +56.67%
75th Percentile £51,240 £55,000 £49,383
90th Percentile £55,500 £67,968 £57,050
North West median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.88%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Lancashire

Unix
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for Unix in Lancashire

Unix
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Lancashire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in Lancashire

Unix
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Blackburn - 10 £42,500 - 1
Unix
North West

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) DNS
2 7 (58.33%) DHCP
2 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 7 (58.33%) IPv4
2 7 (58.33%) LAN
2 7 (58.33%) VLAN
3 2 (16.67%) FTP
3 2 (16.67%) HTTP
3 2 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 2 (16.67%) SSH
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (58.33%) Retail
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (58.33%) IT Engineer
1 7 (58.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) EDI
1 2 (16.67%) LAMP
1 2 (16.67%) Loki
1 2 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Life Science
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (16.67%) AIX
4 2 (16.67%) CentOS
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Business Continuity
1 7 (58.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 7 (58.33%) Incident Management
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (16.67%) Supplier Management
3 2 (16.67%) Threat Detection
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (8.33%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) AWK
2 2 (16.67%) C
2 2 (16.67%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) Korn
2 2 (16.67%) Perl
2 2 (16.67%) PHP
2 2 (16.67%) Python
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
1 7 (58.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) KVM
2 2 (16.67%) Postfix
2 2 (16.67%) Sendmail
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Nagios
1 2 (16.67%) Nessus
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Veeam
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (16.67%) Tenable
3 2 (16.67%) VMware