Unix Job Trends in Manchester

Unix
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 84 86
Rank change year-on-year -39 +2 +126
Permanent jobs citing Unix 5 75 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.19% 2.67% 2.73%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.63% 17.16% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 38
10th Percentile £55,763 £49,250 £38,084
25th Percentile £60,656 £50,000 £43,878
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £59,654 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.72% -9.96% +20.45%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £84,056
90th Percentile - £98,474 £100,064
North West median annual salary £66,901 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +33.80% -13.04% +15.00%

All Operating Systems
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 190 437 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.04% 15.54% 17.57%
Number of salaries quoted 169 229 276
10th Percentile £26,850 £26,450 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £81,250
North West median annual salary £40,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.71% -5.56% +5.88%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Unix job vacancy trend in Manchester

Unix
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Unix

Unix
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 22 December 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
Salford +2 2 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Unix
North West

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) dbt
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Pulumi
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (40.00%) Redis
3 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Keras
2 1 (20.00%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (20.00%) Metaflow
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) NumPy
2 1 (20.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) CRUD
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat