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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 94 91
Rank change year-on-year +29 -3 -45
Permanent jobs citing Unix 6 22 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.77% 1.18% 1.74%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.68% 8.80% 13.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 19
10th Percentile £49,750 - £33,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £42,238 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £47,137 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.20% +25.70% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74,258 £67,968 £47,586
90th Percentile - - £54,138
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%

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 62 250 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 7.93% 13.41% 12.60%
Number of salaries quoted 57 202 130
10th Percentile £28,800 £24,050 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £31,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £48,750 £52,406
90th Percentile £70,953 £61,250 £62,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 16 May 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 16 May 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 - 3 £69,384 -
Tyne and Wear +22 2 £53,750 +14.03% 8
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 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) Pulumi
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (50.00%) dbt
3 3 (50.00%) Sentry
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) Broadband
2 1 (16.67%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (50.00%) Redis
3 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
4 1 (16.67%) Big Data
4 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (16.67%) HBase
4 1 (16.67%) Impala
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) Neo4j
4 1 (16.67%) QlikView
4 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) SQLite
4 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jaeger
General
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (16.67%) Plotly
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) Regular Expression
2 1 (16.67%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) AIX
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PROC SQL
3 1 (16.67%) R
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Flume
2 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Argo
3 1 (16.67%) Kibana
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Kustomize
3 1 (16.67%) logstash
3 1 (16.67%) Oozie
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (16.67%) SAP