Unix Jobs in London

Unix
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 272 177
Rank change year-on-year +51 -95 -8
Permanent jobs citing Unix 188 257 697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.45% 1.09% 2.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 10.46% 8.37% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 79 167 492
10th Percentile £43,750 £51,700 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £66,875 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -0.37% +7.06%
75th Percentile £85,625 £96,250 £103,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,797 3,069 5,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.82% 12.97% 15.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 2,329 4,143
10th Percentile £33,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £102,500 £111,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in London

Unix
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Unix in London

Unix
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in London

Unix
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +39 30 £65,000 -23.53% 9
South London +22 23 £80,000 +36.46% 3
West London - 16 - - 4
East London -1 13 £65,000 -7.14% 1
North London - 7 - -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 18 (9.57%) Confluence
2 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.60%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.06%) Apache
4 2 (1.06%) GemFire
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 22 (11.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (10.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.66%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.53%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.53%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 91 (48.40%) AWS
2 70 (37.23%) Pulumi
3 10 (5.32%) Azure
4 9 (4.79%) GCP
5 8 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.13%) SaaS
7 4 (2.13%) Sentry
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 3 (1.60%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (1.60%) Datadog
8 3 (1.60%) dbt
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.06%) GitHub
9 2 (1.06%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.06%) IaaS
9 2 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (35.64%) Broadband
2 16 (8.51%) TCP/IP
3 10 (5.32%) Firewall
4 6 (3.19%) DNS
5 5 (2.66%) DHCP
5 5 (2.66%) FIX Connectivity
6 3 (1.60%) SAN
6 3 (1.60%) Telnet
6 3 (1.60%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.06%) SSL
7 2 (1.06%) VLAN
8 1 (0.53%) FTP
8 1 (0.53%) VoIP
8 1 (0.53%) VPN
8 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (46.81%) Relational Database
2 69 (36.70%) NoSQL
3 67 (35.64%) RDBMS
4 31 (16.49%) SQL Server
5 16 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (5.85%) MongoDB
6 11 (5.85%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (3.19%) Redis
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.06%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.06%) DB2
9 2 (1.06%) MySQL
10 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.53%) KDB
10 1 (0.53%) NonStop SQL
10 1 (0.53%) OLTP
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (35.64%) Jaeger
2 24 (12.77%) Git
3 23 (12.23%) JIRA
4 18 (9.57%) Jenkins
5 7 (3.72%) Maven
6 4 (2.13%) JUnit
6 4 (2.13%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.60%) Subversion
8 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.06%) GitLab
8 2 (1.06%) Mockito
8 2 (1.06%) Postman
8 2 (1.06%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.06%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.06%) Xcode
8 2 (1.06%) XCTest
9 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (39.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 65 (34.57%) Finance
3 46 (24.47%) Social Skills
4 42 (22.34%) Banking
5 21 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (5.32%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.79%) Front Office
8 8 (4.26%) Back Office
9 6 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.66%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.13%) Legal
12 3 (1.60%) Advertising
12 3 (1.60%) Spanish Language
13 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (39.36%) Lead
2 67 (35.64%) Team Leader
3 36 (19.15%) Analyst
4 26 (13.83%) Support Analyst
5 21 (11.17%) Applications Support
5 21 (11.17%) Senior
6 15 (7.98%) Unix Support
7 12 (6.38%) SQL Analyst
7 12 (6.38%) SQL Support Analyst
8 11 (5.85%) Banking Analyst
9 10 (5.32%) Developer
10 9 (4.79%) Applications Support Analyst
10 9 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.79%) Linux Support
11 7 (3.72%) Administrator
11 7 (3.72%) Financial Analyst
11 7 (3.72%) Support Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) Site Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) Unix Analyst
12 6 (3.19%) Unix Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (38.30%) Elastic Stack
2 67 (35.64%) OpenTelemetry
3 16 (8.51%) FIX Protocol
4 7 (3.72%) REST
5 6 (3.19%) HTML
5 6 (3.19%) Spring
6 5 (2.66%) Hibernate
6 5 (2.66%) HTML5
6 5 (2.66%) J2EE
6 5 (2.66%) Kafka
6 5 (2.66%) Middleware
6 5 (2.66%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.13%) .NET
7 4 (2.13%) React
7 4 (2.13%) SOAP
7 4 (2.13%) Web Services
8 3 (1.60%) Django
8 3 (1.60%) RESTful
8 3 (1.60%) XML
9 2 (1.06%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.57%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.85%) Clustering
2 11 (5.85%) Derivative
3 10 (5.32%) Equities
4 9 (4.79%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.26%) Fixed Income
5 8 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.66%) Eurex
6 5 (2.66%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.13%) Bitcoin
7 4 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.13%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.60%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.60%) Replication
8 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.06%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 167 (88.83%) Linux
2 34 (18.09%) Windows
3 15 (7.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (5.85%) CentOS
5 9 (4.79%) Solaris
6 7 (3.72%) Rocky
7 6 (3.19%) Windows Server
8 4 (2.13%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.60%) zOS
10 2 (1.06%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.53%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (55.85%) DevOps
2 83 (44.15%) Agile
3 77 (40.96%) Continuous Integration
4 75 (39.89%) High Availability
4 75 (39.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (39.36%) Task Automation
6 71 (37.77%) Roadmaps
7 70 (37.23%) Containerisation
7 70 (37.23%) Mentoring
8 69 (36.70%) Performance Optimisation
9 68 (36.17%) Resource Management
10 67 (35.64%) Budget Control
10 67 (35.64%) Cost Optimisation
10 67 (35.64%) GitOps
10 67 (35.64%) Product Management
11 31 (16.49%) Change Management
11 31 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (13.83%) CI/CD
13 25 (13.30%) Computer Science
13 25 (13.30%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 125 (66.49%) Python
2 90 (47.87%) Bash
3 88 (46.81%) Java
4 78 (41.49%) JavaScript
5 72 (38.30%) Go
6 65 (34.57%) SQL
7 20 (10.64%) T-SQL
8 19 (10.11%) Shell Script
9 17 (9.04%) PowerShell
10 10 (5.32%) Perl
11 8 (4.26%) C++
12 5 (2.66%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.60%) Gremlin
14 2 (1.06%) C
14 2 (1.06%) Groovy
14 2 (1.06%) Ruby
14 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.53%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 70 (37.23%) AWS Certification
2 15 (7.98%) Degree
3 8 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.66%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.66%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.13%) RHCE
6 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) CCNA
7 1 (0.53%) CEH
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.53%) CISSP
7 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.53%) GCIA
7 1 (0.53%) GCIH
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.53%) OSCP
7 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.32%) SLA
2 4 (2.13%) FINRA
2 4 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.06%) GDPR
3 2 (1.06%) QA
System Software
1 81 (43.09%) Docker
2 7 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.66%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.53%) KVM
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.53%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (47.87%) Ansible
2 81 (43.09%) Kubernetes
3 79 (42.02%) Terraform
4 76 (40.43%) Prometheus
5 68 (36.17%) Argo
5 68 (36.17%) Kustomize
6 18 (9.57%) Grafana
7 7 (3.72%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.66%) Puppet
9 3 (1.60%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (1.06%) Istio
10 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.53%) CFEngine
11 1 (0.53%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.53%) Control-M
11 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.53%) Kibana
11 1 (0.53%) logstash
11 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 73 (38.83%) Google
2 47 (25.00%) Oracle
3 25 (13.30%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.32%) Splunk
5 8 (4.26%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.26%) VMware
6 7 (3.72%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.19%) ION Trading
7 6 (3.19%) Symantec
8 5 (2.66%) Bloomberg
8 5 (2.66%) CQG
8 5 (2.66%) Patsystems
8 5 (2.66%) Reuters
8 5 (2.66%) Trayport
8 5 (2.66%) Veritas
9 3 (1.60%) Cisco
9 3 (1.60%) EMC
9 3 (1.60%) Remedy
9 3 (1.60%) SaltStack