Unix Jobs in the North East

Unix
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Unix skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Unix over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 93 83
Rank change year-on-year +28 -10 -23
Permanent jobs citing Unix 9 19 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.59% 0.95% 1.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 12.33% 8.09% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 12
10th Percentile £44,250 - £33,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,238 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +12.99% +10.63%
75th Percentile £74,258 £67,968 £47,672
90th Percentile - - £70,017
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.40% +0.77%

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 73 235 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.77% 11.74% 12.41%
Number of salaries quoted 62 189 112
10th Percentile £25,445 £23,750 £26,275
25th Percentile £32,125 £26,250 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the North East

Unix
Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in the North East.

Salary trend for Unix in the North East

Unix
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North East over the 6 months to 12 July 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 12 July 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 +22 5 £47,500 -5.00% 5
Durham - 3 £69,384 -
Northumberland - 1 - -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 4 (44.44%) Apache Spark
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) Pulumi
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (33.33%) dbt
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (33.33%) Sentry
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) PuTTY
1 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (44.44%) Metadata
2 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
2 4 (44.44%) Spark SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (33.33%) Apache Hive
3 3 (33.33%) Big Data
3 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
3 3 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 3 (33.33%) HBase
3 3 (33.33%) Impala
3 3 (33.33%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (33.33%) Neo4j
3 3 (33.33%) Power BI
3 3 (33.33%) Qlik Sense
3 3 (33.33%) QlikView
3 3 (33.33%) Redis
3 3 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jaeger
2 1 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
1 3 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) PySpark
2 3 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (33.33%) Django
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 3 (33.33%) Plotly
2 3 (33.33%) Regular Expression
2 3 (33.33%) Shiny
3 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Keras
3 1 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) Metaflow
3 1 (11.11%) NumPy
3 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (11.11%) Pandas
3 1 (11.11%) PyTorch
3 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
3 1 (11.11%) TensorFlow
3 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) AIX
2 1 (11.11%) Solaris
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (44.44%) Data Analysis
1 4 (44.44%) Data Science
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
1 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
1 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
1 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
2 3 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Coaching
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
2 3 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) Bash
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) PROC SQL
3 3 (33.33%) R
4 1 (11.11%) Go
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 3 (33.33%) Apache Flume
2 3 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
2 3 (33.33%) Kibana
2 3 (33.33%) logstash
2 3 (33.33%) Oozie
3 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
4 1 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Argo
4 1 (11.11%) Kubeflow
4 1 (11.11%) Kustomize
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Informatica
2 3 (33.33%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (33.33%) SAP