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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 78 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 -22 +7
Permanent jobs citing Unix 5 11 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.49% 1.12% 1.02%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.76% 11.00% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 5
10th Percentile - £42,500 £40,552
25th Percentile £46,446 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.60% -23.08% +67.74%
75th Percentile £78,790 £73,322 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% -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 74 100 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 7.21% 10.16% 14.38%
Number of salaries quoted 51 63 74
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,950 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £38,250 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +42.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £60,750 £59,500 £51,875
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,243 £59,250
England median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.00% - -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 31 December 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 31 December 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
Durham +5 3 £73,801 +6.48%
Tyne and Wear +3 2 £48,445 -3.11%
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 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) dbt
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
1 3 (60.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (60.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Coaching
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) BMC
2 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk