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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 85 61
Rank change year-on-year +16 -24 +2
Permanent jobs citing Unix 4 9 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.42% 0.64% 1.56%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.67% 7.20% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile £42,250 £48,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £43,750 - £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,500 £69,800
90th Percentile - £72,421 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 60 125 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 6.36% 8.82% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47 79 73
10th Percentile £25,300 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50,625 £53,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £69,960
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -

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

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 18 September 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 +15 4 £47,500 -5.00% 2
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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (75.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Metadata
1 4 (100.00%) Spark SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (75.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (75.00%) HBase
2 3 (75.00%) Impala
2 3 (75.00%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 3 (75.00%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (75.00%) QlikView
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) SQLite
2 3 (75.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) PySpark
2 3 (75.00%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) Plotly
2 3 (75.00%) Regular Expression
2 3 (75.00%) Shiny
3 1 (25.00%) Keras
3 1 (25.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (25.00%) Metaflow
3 1 (25.00%) NumPy
3 1 (25.00%) Pandas
3 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Science
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Data Development
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Matching
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Impact Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Operational Stability
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) PROC SQL
2 3 (75.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Flume
1 3 (75.00%) HDFS
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kibana
1 3 (75.00%) logstash
1 3 (75.00%) Oozie
2 1 (25.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks
2 3 (75.00%) Informatica
2 3 (75.00%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (75.00%) SAP