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 citing Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	131	72	80
Rank change year-on-year	-59	+8	-27
Permanent jobs citing Unix	11	7	11
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East	0.30%	0.70%	0.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category	6.67%	9.09%	9.40%
Number of salaries quoted	11	6	11
10^th Percentile	-	£43,750	-
25^th Percentile	£61,761	£46,250	£50,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£69,306	£60,651	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+14.27%	+1.08%	-7.69%
75^th Percentile	£75,531	£78,790	£73,322
90^th Percentile	£76,075	-	£74,144
England median annual salary	£65,576	£67,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-2.85%	+12.50%	-6.98%

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 citing operating system skills in the North East.

	6 months to 23 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing operating system skills	165	77	117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East	4.45%	7.75%	8.80%
Number of salaries quoted	134	60	72
10^th Percentile	£29,000	£27,975	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£36,250	£30,500	£34,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£47,250	£45,000	£47,324
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.91%	+18.31%
75^th Percentile	£81,875	£54,563	£59,000
90^th Percentile	£115,500	£70,000	£67,150
England median annual salary	£46,000	£42,000	£50,000
% change year-on-year	+9.52%	-16.00%	-3.85%

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 Salary Trend in the North East

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 23 October 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 23 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Tyne and Wear	-68	9	£69,305	+45.91%	6
Durham	-9	2	£71,991	-2.45%
Unix England

Unix Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 23 October 2026, job vacancies citing Unix also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region citing Unix.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Linux	100.0%	11
2	AWS	90.9%	10
2	CI/CD	90.9%	10
2	Coaching	90.9%	10
2	Mentoring	90.9%	10
6	Agile	81.8%	9
7	Windows	72.7%	8
8	Continuous Integration	63.6%	7
8	DevOps	63.6%	7
8	Scrum	63.6%	7
11	Azure	54.5%	6
11	Continuous Improvement	54.5%	6
11	Infrastructure as Code	54.5%	6
14	Test Automation	45.5%	5
15	Infrastructure Engineering	36.4%	4
15	Terraform	36.4%	4
17	Observability	27.3%	3
17	OCI	27.3%	3
19	Amazon ECS	18.2%	2
19	Azure AKS	18.2%	2
19	Case Management	18.2%	2
19	Clean Code	18.2%	2
19	Collaborative Culture	18.2%	2
19	Containerisation	18.2%	2
19	GitLab	18.2%	2
19	Java	18.2%	2
19	Oracle	18.2%	2
19	Pega	18.2%	2
19	PostgreSQL	18.2%	2
19	Python	18.2%	2

Unix Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Operating Systems

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Linux	100.0%	11
2	Windows	72.7%	8
3	Windows Server	9.1%	1