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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 96 89
Rank change year-on-year -44 -7 +124
Permanent jobs citing Unix 7 78 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.30% 2.14% 2.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.35% 17.53% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6 15 45
10th Percentile £39,250 - £38,084
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £44,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -19.23% +15.00%
75th Percentile £75,967 £53,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% -21.15% +18.18%

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 298 445 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.59% 12.23% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 180 211 312
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £27,150
25th Percentile £29,875 £32,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £80,000
North West median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +11.76%

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 +12 2 £73,801 +6.48%
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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) dbt
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Pulumi
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Redis
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 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
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
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
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Django
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 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
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
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) Service-Level Objective
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) AI
4 1 (14.29%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Information Security
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) OOP
4 1 (14.29%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Network+ Certification
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) FortiGate
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (14.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat