Senior Unix Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Unix Engineer
England > London

As of 1 January 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior Unix Engineer salary in London.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Unix Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.007% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary - - £56,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.08%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,453 14,685 16,817
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.81% 92.97% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,230 8,588 13,582
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Senior Unix Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Unix Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Unix Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Unix Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Unix Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Unix Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Unix Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Senior Unix Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior Unix Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bourne shell
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) C-shell
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Component Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management

Senior Unix Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Component Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Bourne shell
1 1 (100.00%) C-shell
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle ZFS
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VocaLink