Unix Job Trends in the North of England

Unix
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 268 277
Rank change year-on-year -39 +9 -67
Permanent jobs citing Unix 26 33 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.13% 0.41% 0.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.69% 1.90% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24 27 80
10th Percentile £52,800 £41,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,625 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £69,384 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +38.77% -15.25%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,751 £60,000
90th Percentile - £86,000 £67,968
England median annual salary £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -13.32%

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 968 1,738 2,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.90% 21.65% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 758 720 1,729
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,125 £29,750 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -3.41%
75th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,800
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Unix relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Unix job vacancy trend in the North of England

Unix
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

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 12 June 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
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +9 14 £60,000 -13.52% 14
Yorkshire -37 8 £69,310 +10.90% 2
North East -41 4 £69,310 +7.14% 1
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) AWS
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 13 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.69%) dbt
4 2 (7.69%) PaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Pulumi
4 2 (7.69%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) ATM
2 1 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (57.69%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Senior
2 13 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 13 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 7 (26.92%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Unix Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Unix Linux Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Cryptography Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (7.69%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Linux
2 16 (61.54%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Solaris
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
2 15 (57.69%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (57.69%) DevOps
3 13 (50.00%) Coaching
3 13 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 13 (50.00%) Microservices
3 13 (50.00%) Scrum
3 13 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (11.54%) Incident Response
5 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.69%) Application Performance Monitoring
6 2 (7.69%) Containerisation
6 2 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (7.69%) Observability
6 2 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (7.69%) Prototyping
6 2 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (57.69%) Terraform
2 13 (50.00%) Argo
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (7.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Google
1 2 (7.69%) Mirantis
1 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
1 2 (7.69%) VMware
2 1 (3.85%) Splunk
2 1 (3.85%) Thales