Unix Jobs in the North of England

Unix
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 161 191
Rank change year-on-year -115 +30 +29
Permanent jobs citing Unix 91 272 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.56% 2.10% 1.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.03% 13.80% 9.77%
Number of salaries quoted 56 113 228
10th Percentile £32,000 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £67,968 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £78,343 £76,500
England median annual salary £62,783 £66,125 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.05% +1.73% +4.00%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,808 1,971 3,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.09% 15.18% 17.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,294 1,322 2,371
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,734 £23,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,968 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Unix as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Unix in the North of England.

Salary trend for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Unix in the North of England

Unix
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
North West -51 57 £53,750 -17.31% 8
Yorkshire -56 27 £40,000 -34.62% 5
North East -15 7 £62,783 +44.33% 1
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (8.79%) Apache
1 8 (8.79%) IIS
1 8 (8.79%) Tomcat
2 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (16.48%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.47%) AWS
2 13 (14.29%) Azure
3 12 (13.19%) IaaS
4 8 (8.79%) Serverless
5 6 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (6.59%) GCP
6 5 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.40%) SaaS
8 3 (3.30%) Nutanix
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.20%) Rubrik
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.10%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) Firewall
2 4 (4.40%) SAN
3 3 (3.30%) DHCP
3 3 (3.30%) DNS
3 3 (3.30%) Ethernet
3 3 (3.30%) NAS
3 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.20%) LAN
4 2 (2.20%) Network Security
4 2 (2.20%) VLAN
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.10%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.10%) Internet
5 1 (1.10%) IPv4
5 1 (1.10%) Multicast
5 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.27%) SQL Server
2 16 (17.58%) Oracle Database
3 15 (16.48%) MySQL
4 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (8.79%) NoSQL
6 7 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
7 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.30%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.20%) Informix
10 1 (1.10%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (8.79%) JIRA
2 4 (4.40%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
General
1 30 (32.97%) Public Sector
2 18 (19.78%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.68%) Finance
4 15 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (16.48%) Local Government
4 15 (16.48%) Police
5 9 (9.89%) Retail
6 7 (7.69%) Back Office
7 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Law
8 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (19.78%) Senior
2 15 (16.48%) Linux Engineer
3 13 (14.29%) Developer
4 12 (13.19%) Applications Support
4 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (12.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (12.09%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) DBA
6 10 (10.99%) Oracle DBA
6 10 (10.99%) Software Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Unix Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Administrator
7 9 (9.89%) Software Developer
7 9 (9.89%) Unix Linux Engineer
8 8 (8.79%) Analyst
8 8 (8.79%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) PostgreSQL DBA
10 5 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 4 (4.40%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) Node.js
2 8 (8.79%) Web Services
3 4 (4.40%) CSS
3 4 (4.40%) jQuery
4 3 (3.30%) RESTful
5 2 (2.20%) HTML
5 2 (2.20%) J2EE
5 2 (2.20%) JMS
5 2 (2.20%) SOAP
5 2 (2.20%) Spring
5 2 (2.20%) Struts
5 2 (2.20%) XML
6 1 (1.10%) .NET
6 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.10%) Kohana
6 1 (1.10%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.18%) Public Cloud
2 12 (13.19%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.79%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (7.69%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.20%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.20%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.10%) Clustering
7 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 61 (67.03%) Linux
2 36 (39.56%) Windows
3 19 (20.88%) Solaris
4 6 (6.59%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.30%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.20%) AIX
7 1 (1.10%) Android
7 1 (1.10%) CentOS
7 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.18%) Mentoring
2 19 (20.88%) ITIL
3 16 (17.58%) Coaching
4 15 (16.48%) Agile
4 15 (16.48%) Change Management
4 15 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (13.19%) CI/CD
5 12 (13.19%) Roadmaps
6 11 (12.09%) Architecture Roadmap
6 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 10 (10.99%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (10.99%) Full Stack Development
7 10 (10.99%) Problem Management
7 10 (10.99%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (10.99%) Task Automation
8 8 (8.79%) Data Security
8 8 (8.79%) Network Architecture
8 8 (8.79%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (8.79%) Risk Register
8 8 (8.79%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.57%) Python
2 21 (23.08%) SQL
3 16 (17.58%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.99%) Java
5 8 (8.79%) Bash
5 8 (8.79%) Perl
5 8 (8.79%) Ruby
5 8 (8.79%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.20%) PHP
6 2 (2.20%) VB
6 2 (2.20%) VBScript
7 1 (1.10%) C#
7 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (32.97%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.67%) Degree
3 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.89%) DV Cleared
5 7 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.20%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.10%) CCNP
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.10%) MCSE
7 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.20%) NIST
2 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.20%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (10.99%) Docker
1 10 (10.99%) Hyper-V
2 8 (8.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.59%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.30%) vSphere
5 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.10%) KVM
6 1 (1.10%) Lustre
6 1 (1.10%) PowerHA
6 1 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 10 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) Terraform
3 4 (4.40%) Grafana
3 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.30%) Ansible
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.20%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.20%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.10%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.10%) Icinga
6 1 (1.10%) Nagios
6 1 (1.10%) nmon
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.10%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.10%) Puppet
6 1 (1.10%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 34 (37.36%) Oracle
2 16 (17.58%) Microsoft
3 15 (16.48%) NEC
4 12 (13.19%) Red Hat
4 12 (13.19%) VMware
5 11 (12.09%) BMC
6 8 (8.79%) Facebook
7 6 (6.59%) IBM
8 5 (5.49%) Veeam
9 3 (3.30%) Apple
10 2 (2.20%) Commvault
10 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
10 2 (2.20%) Veritas
11 1 (1.10%) Cisco
11 1 (1.10%) Dell
11 1 (1.10%) HP
11 1 (1.10%) PagerDuty
11 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.10%) Sophos
11 1 (1.10%) Twitter