Unix Jobs in Manchester

Unix
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 185 154
Rank change year-on-year +34 -31 +29
Permanent jobs citing Unix 15 41 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.62% 0.69% 1.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.33% 5.44% 12.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 38
10th Percentile £39,850 £42,238 £54,175
25th Percentile £45,625 £47,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,505 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.49% -19.23% +6.49%
75th Percentile £80,627 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £67,968 -
North West median annual salary £69,384 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +32.16% -19.23% +13.04%

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 450 754 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 18.69% 12.71% 14.59%
Number of salaries quoted 259 518 450
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,675 £25,225
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £61,875 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,368 £72,500 £78,500
North West median annual salary £44,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.11% -5.26% +11.76%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Unix in Manchester

Unix
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in Manchester

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 1 July 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 - 3 £69,384 - 2
Unix
North West

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) GemFire
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
1 7 (46.67%) GCP
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (20.00%) Apigee
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (20.00%) dbt
3 3 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (20.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (26.67%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) DHCP
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (13.33%) Internet
5 1 (6.67%) FTP
5 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) NoSQL
2 6 (40.00%) Redis
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (20.00%) Apache Ignite
3 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (20.00%) InterSystems Cache
3 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
4 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) JUnit
1 3 (20.00%) Maven
1 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) MLflow
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
4 2 (13.33%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Java Server Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Support
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) Django
2 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) Middleware
2 3 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) Keras
3 1 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (6.67%) Metaflow
3 1 (6.67%) NumPy
3 1 (6.67%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
3 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
3 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (20.00%) Derivative
1 3 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (13.33%) Credit Derivative
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Equities
2 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) iSeries
3 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) OO
3 6 (40.00%) Microservices
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) TDD
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (26.67%) OOP
5 3 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
5 3 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
5 3 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
5 3 (20.00%) Multithreading
5 3 (20.00%) Open Source
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) Go
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (20.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (20.00%) Istio
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.67%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Solace
2 3 (20.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks