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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 149 138
Rank change year-on-year -40 -11 -28
Permanent jobs citing Unix 11 8 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.15% 0.34% 1.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.54% 1.91% 9.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £53,200 £39,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,563 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £76,075 £82,751 £53,750
90th Percentile £79,127 - -
North West median annual salary £64,038 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.73% +20.00% -23.08%

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 311 418 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.23% 17.53% 12.04%
Number of salaries quoted 212 237 261
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £61,563 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
North West median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -17.59%

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 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Unix in Manchester

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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (18.18%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Unix Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Unix Linux Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Site Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
2 1 (9.09%) JMS
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Solaris
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.09%) CentOS
4 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
4 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Coaching
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) AI
4 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
4 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
4 3 (27.27%) Observability
4 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
4 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
4 3 (27.27%) Service Management
4 3 (27.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (9.09%) RHCE
3 1 (9.09%) RHCSA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Podman
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) Puppet
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
1 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Mirantis
2 2 (18.18%) YouTube
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk