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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 152 173
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 +6
Permanent jobs citing Unix 4 11 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.072% 0.49% 0.79%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.67% 2.36% 5.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 24
10th Percentile £52,800 £63,178 £42,238
25th Percentile £53,250 £64,069 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £69,384 £58,891
Median % change year-on-year -15.69% +17.82% -9.40%
75th Percentile £65,135 £82,751 £82,548
90th Percentile £73,478 - £100,064
North West median annual salary £60,000 £68,505 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.41% +24.55% -8.33%

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 239 466 722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.29% 20.67% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 188 271 536
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £62,688
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,818
North West median annual salary £40,000 £44,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.11% -1.11% -

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
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

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 17 May 2026. 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 -14 1 £74,301 +7.09%
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (25.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Mirantis
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Google