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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 73 88
Rank change year-on-year -55 +15 -32
Permanent jobs citing Unix 11 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.32% 0.41% 0.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.75% 6.45% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 9
10th Percentile - £42,250 £48,500
25th Percentile £61,761 £43,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,306 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.91% -5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £74,987 £48,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,075 - £72,421
England median annual salary £65,576 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.92% +4.17% -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 163 62 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.71% 6.40% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 134 48 79
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,300 £30,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £30,500 £32,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £35,000 £44,274
Median % change year-on-year +34.29% -20.95% -1.61%
75th Percentile £80,000 £53,750 £55,625
90th Percentile £115,500 £67,500 £59,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -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 26 September 2026.

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 26 September 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
Tyne and Wear -60 9 £69,306 +45.91% 5
Durham - 2 £71,991 - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Azure AKS
4 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (27.27%) OCI
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Datadog
5 1 (9.09%) dbt
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
General
1 10 (90.91%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (27.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (81.82%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Coaching
1 11 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
3 9 (81.82%) Agile
4 7 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (63.64%) DevOps
4 7 (63.64%) Scrum
5 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
6 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (27.27%) Microservices
8 3 (27.27%) Observability
9 2 (18.18%) Case Management
9 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
9 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
10 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
10 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Argo
2 1 (9.09%) logstash
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Pega
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft