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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 139 110
Rank change year-on-year -9 -29 +77
Permanent jobs citing Unix 7 46 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.30% 1.14% 2.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.70% 9.48% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 43
10th Percentile £39,250 £47,500 £38,317
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £49,257
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -19.23% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,938 £53,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,751 - £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -23.08% +16.07%

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 411 485 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 17.42% 12.01% 15.39%
Number of salaries quoted 231 258 356
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,275 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,375 £35,875 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.79% +28.89%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £79,375
North West median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £51,536
% change year-on-year -5.88% -17.53% +21.26%

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

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 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in Manchester

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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) Apigee
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JUnit
1 2 (28.57%) Maven
1 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Keras
2 1 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (14.29%) Metaflow
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) NumPy
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Driving Licence
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) OO
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) MLOps
4 1 (14.29%) OWASP
4 1 (14.29%) Server Management
4 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Go
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) FortiGate
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (28.57%) Istio
4 1 (14.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat