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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 274 190
Rank change year-on-year +15 -84 -30
Permanent jobs citing Unix 134 248 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.05% 1.05% 1.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.64% 7.92% 12.75%
Number of salaries quoted 77 169 503
10th Percentile £43,750 £52,100 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -0.37% +9.99%
75th Percentile £86,250 £96,250 £103,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £121,250
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 1,755 3,131 5,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.78% 13.26% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 2,385 4,220
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 £88,750 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £111,250
England median annual salary £46,323 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.94% -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 1 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 1 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 +30 27 £65,000 -31.58% 10
East London -4 3 £65,000 -7.14% 1
South London +14 1 £80,000 +36.46% 2
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 (13.43%) Confluence
2 10 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.24%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.49%) Apache
4 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.49%) GemFire
5 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (17.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (14.18%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (5.97%) NEC Housing
2 6 (4.48%) Fidessa
3 3 (2.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.75%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.75%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.42%) AWS
2 14 (10.45%) Azure
3 11 (8.21%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (6.72%) GCP
5 4 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.99%) GitHub
5 4 (2.99%) Sentry
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (2.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (2.24%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.24%) Datadog
6 3 (2.24%) dbt
6 3 (2.24%) Pulumi
7 2 (1.49%) Apigee
7 2 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.49%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.93%) TCP/IP
2 10 (7.46%) Firewall
3 9 (6.72%) DNS
4 6 (4.48%) DHCP
4 6 (4.48%) FIX Connectivity
5 4 (2.99%) SSL
6 3 (2.24%) SAN
6 3 (2.24%) Telnet
6 3 (2.24%) Unified Communications
7 2 (1.49%) SMTP
7 2 (1.49%) VLAN
8 1 (0.75%) FTP
8 1 (0.75%) VoIP
8 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (25.37%) SQL Server
2 24 (17.91%) Relational Database
3 16 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (8.96%) MongoDB
5 11 (8.21%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.48%) Redis
7 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.24%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.49%) ClickHouse
8 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.49%) DB2
8 2 (1.49%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.49%) OLTP
8 2 (1.49%) Power BI
8 2 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.75%) KDB
9 1 (0.75%) MySQL
9 1 (0.75%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (17.16%) JIRA
2 21 (15.67%) Git
3 18 (13.43%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.22%) Maven
5 4 (2.99%) JUnit
5 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.24%) Subversion
7 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.49%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.49%) GitLab
7 2 (1.49%) Mockito
7 2 (1.49%) Postman
7 2 (1.49%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.49%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.49%) Xcode
7 2 (1.49%) XCTest
8 1 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.75%) Gradle
General
1 75 (55.97%) Finance
2 50 (37.31%) Social Skills
3 45 (33.58%) Banking
4 24 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.46%) Back Office
5 10 (7.46%) Front Office
5 10 (7.46%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.97%) Local Government
6 8 (5.97%) Police
6 8 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.97%) Social Housing
7 7 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.73%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.99%) Legal
10 3 (2.24%) Advertising
10 3 (2.24%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (29.85%) Analyst
2 28 (20.90%) Support Analyst
3 22 (16.42%) Applications Support
4 20 (14.93%) Senior
5 15 (11.19%) Unix Support
6 13 (9.70%) SQL Analyst
6 13 (9.70%) SQL Support Analyst
7 12 (8.96%) Banking Analyst
7 12 (8.96%) Developer
8 11 (8.21%) Applications Support Analyst
9 9 (6.72%) Consultant
9 9 (6.72%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Linux Support
10 8 (5.97%) Financial Analyst
10 8 (5.97%) Implementation Consultant
10 8 (5.97%) Lead
11 7 (5.22%) Support Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Support Specialist
12 6 (4.48%) Unix Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.43%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (5.22%) Kafka
2 7 (5.22%) Middleware
2 7 (5.22%) REST
3 6 (4.48%) HTML
3 6 (4.48%) Spring
4 5 (3.73%) Hibernate
4 5 (3.73%) HTML5
4 5 (3.73%) J2EE
4 5 (3.73%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.99%) .NET
5 4 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.99%) React
5 4 (2.99%) SOAP
5 4 (2.99%) Web Services
6 3 (2.24%) Django
6 3 (2.24%) RESTful
6 3 (2.24%) XML
7 2 (1.49%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (1.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.43%) Management Information System
2 13 (9.70%) Clustering
3 12 (8.96%) Derivative
4 10 (7.46%) Equities
4 10 (7.46%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.97%) Fixed Income
5 8 (5.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (5.97%) Housing Association
6 6 (4.48%) Eurex
7 5 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.73%) Equity Derivative
7 5 (3.73%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.99%) Bitcoin
8 4 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.99%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.24%) Hedge funds
9 3 (2.24%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 105 (78.36%) Linux
2 39 (29.10%) Windows
3 18 (13.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (6.72%) CentOS
4 9 (6.72%) Solaris
5 7 (5.22%) Rocky
6 6 (4.48%) Windows Server
7 5 (3.73%) Mac OS
7 5 (3.73%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.73%) zOS
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.75%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (29.85%) DevOps
2 34 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (23.88%) Change Management
4 29 (21.64%) Computer Science
5 28 (20.90%) ITIL
6 25 (18.66%) CI/CD
7 23 (17.16%) Disaster Recovery
8 18 (13.43%) Agile
8 18 (13.43%) Release Management
9 12 (8.96%) Client Onboarding
10 10 (7.46%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (7.46%) Customer Service
10 10 (7.46%) Microservices
10 10 (7.46%) Risk Management
11 8 (5.97%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (5.97%) Incident Management
11 8 (5.97%) Scrum
11 8 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (56.72%) SQL
2 59 (44.03%) Python
3 23 (17.16%) Bash
4 21 (15.67%) Java
4 21 (15.67%) T-SQL
5 18 (13.43%) Shell Script
6 17 (12.69%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.21%) JavaScript
7 11 (8.21%) Perl
8 8 (5.97%) C++
9 4 (2.99%) Go
9 4 (2.99%) Groovy
10 3 (2.24%) Gremlin
10 3 (2.24%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.24%) Ruby
11 2 (1.49%) C
12 1 (0.75%) COBOL
12 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (14.18%) Degree
2 9 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.97%) DBS Check
4 4 (2.99%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.99%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.75%) CEH
6 1 (0.75%) CISSP
6 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.75%) GCIA
6 1 (0.75%) GCIH
6 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.75%) OSCP
6 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.75%) PMP
6 1 (0.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.46%) SLA
2 8 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (3.73%) FINRA
5 3 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.24%) GDPR
5 3 (2.24%) PMO
5 3 (2.24%) QA
System Software
1 16 (11.94%) Docker
2 6 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.73%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (16.42%) Ansible
2 15 (11.19%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.45%) Grafana
4 10 (7.46%) Terraform
5 8 (5.97%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.99%) Istio
6 4 (2.99%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.99%) Puppet
7 3 (2.24%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.75%) Argo
9 1 (0.75%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.75%) Control-M
9 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.75%) Kibana
9 1 (0.75%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.75%) logstash
9 1 (0.75%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 47 (35.07%) Oracle
2 26 (19.40%) Red Hat
3 12 (8.96%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.72%) VMware
5 8 (5.97%) Atlassian
5 8 (5.97%) NEC
5 8 (5.97%) Splunk
6 7 (5.22%) ION Trading
7 6 (4.48%) Bloomberg
7 6 (4.48%) CQG
7 6 (4.48%) Google
7 6 (4.48%) Patsystems
7 6 (4.48%) Reuters
7 6 (4.48%) Symantec
7 6 (4.48%) Trayport
8 5 (3.73%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.73%) Veritas
9 3 (2.24%) Cisco
9 3 (2.24%) Remedy
9 3 (2.24%) SaltStack