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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 70 86
Rank change year-on-year -50 +16 -18
Permanent jobs citing Unix 8 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.25% 0.54% 0.52%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.26% 6.76% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 8
10th Percentile £61,761 £42,750 £47,750
25th Percentile £63,160 £45,000 £55,698
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,308 £47,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +45.91% -24.34% +39.52%
75th Percentile £74,987 £52,813 £68,974
90th Percentile £75,313 £60,125 £72,637
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.85% +3.53% -3.41%

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 152 74 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.80% 8.03% 9.04%
Number of salaries quoted 127 63 90
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,640 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,625 £32,000 £31,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £40,000 £43,536
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -8.12% +2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £48,375 £58,438
90th Percentile £120,000 £67,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,038 £49,262
% change year-on-year +9.66% -16.70% -6.17%

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
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 28 August 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 -64 7 £69,306 +45.91% 1
Durham - 1 £71,991 - 6
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 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) dbt
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
General
1 7 (87.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Senior
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Coaching
1 8 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 6 (75.00%) Scrum
4 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (37.50%) Microservices
6 2 (25.00%) Case Management
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Architecture Roadmap
7 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 1 (12.50%) Observability
7 1 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
7 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Pega
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle