Unix Job Trends in the North East

Unix
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 85 54
Rank change year-on-year +11 -31 +5
Permanent jobs citing Unix 7 11 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.68% 0.88% 1.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.78% 10.48% 6.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 6
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £46,299 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,123 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -23.08% +62.50%
75th Percentile £78,790 £73,322 £71,825
90th Percentile - £74,144 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

All Operating Systems
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 90 105 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 8.69% 8.37% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 64 64 73
10th Percentile £28,700 £32,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £36,625 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £50,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% +42.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £60,750 £59,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,644 £68,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Unix job vacancy trend in the North East

Unix
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North East over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in the North East

Unix
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the North East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Tyne and Wear +9 4 £47,500 -5.00% 1
Durham +3 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (28.57%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) dbt
3 3 (42.86%) Pulumi
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) PaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (28.57%) Sentry
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata
2 3 (42.86%) Redis
2 3 (42.86%) Spark SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (28.57%) Apache Hive
3 2 (28.57%) Big Data
3 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
3 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 2 (28.57%) HBase
3 2 (28.57%) Impala
3 2 (28.57%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (28.57%) Neo4j
3 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 2 (28.57%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (28.57%) SQLite
3 2 (28.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Django
1 3 (42.86%) PySpark
2 2 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Plotly
2 2 (28.57%) Regular Expression
2 2 (28.57%) Shiny
3 1 (14.29%) Keras
3 1 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (14.29%) Metaflow
3 1 (14.29%) NumPy
3 1 (14.29%) Pandas
3 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
3 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
3 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
3 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) AI
3 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
3 3 (42.86%) Coaching
3 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Matching
4 2 (28.57%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) PROC SQL
3 2 (28.57%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Flume
2 2 (28.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Copilot
2 2 (28.57%) Kibana
2 2 (28.57%) logstash
2 2 (28.57%) Oozie
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Kubeflow
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Informatica
2 2 (28.57%) MicroStrategy
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) BMC
3 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk