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

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 257 185
Rank change year-on-year -13 -72 -9
Permanent jobs citing Unix 51 137 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.46% 0.79% 1.75%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.62% 6.12% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 36 93 127
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,944 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,813 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% -1.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,548 £67,070
90th Percentile £93,778 £100,064 £77,715
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%

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 1,410 2,239 2,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.77% 12.94% 13.66%
Number of salaries quoted 735 1,754 1,523
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £24,800
25th Percentile £30,875 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £58,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £67,968 £71,652
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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 5 May 2025.

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 5 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
North West -13 34 £69,384 +26.15% 19
Yorkshire +42 13 £85,253 +16.59% 12
North East +32 4 £69,384 +56.71% 6
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 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.80%) Apache
3 3 (5.88%) GemFire
3 3 (5.88%) IIS
4 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 8 (15.69%) NEC Housing
2 2 (3.92%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) GCP
3 8 (15.69%) AWS
3 8 (15.69%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (13.73%) Apigee
4 7 (13.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (11.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 6 (11.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 6 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (11.76%) AWS CodeBuild
5 6 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (11.76%) dbt
5 6 (11.76%) GitHub
5 6 (11.76%) Pulumi
6 4 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.84%) Sentry
7 3 (5.88%) PaaS
7 3 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.49%) TCP/IP
2 11 (21.57%) Firewall
3 10 (19.61%) LAN
4 9 (17.65%) DNS
5 7 (13.73%) HTTP
6 6 (11.76%) DHCP
6 6 (11.76%) IPv4
6 6 (11.76%) VLAN
7 4 (7.84%) VPN
7 4 (7.84%) WAN
8 3 (5.88%) FTP
8 3 (5.88%) HTTPS
9 2 (3.92%) Internet
9 2 (3.92%) SSH
9 2 (3.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) NoSQL
2 9 (17.65%) Redis
3 6 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.88%) Apache Ignite
5 3 (5.88%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.88%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.92%) MySQL
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.73%) Git
2 7 (13.73%) JUnit
2 7 (13.73%) Maven
2 7 (13.73%) SonarQube
2 7 (13.73%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (7.84%) Spinnaker
4 1 (1.96%) GitLab
4 1 (1.96%) JIRA
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
General
1 27 (52.94%) Finance
2 15 (29.41%) Banking
3 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 8 (15.69%) Local Government
4 8 (15.69%) Police
4 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 8 (15.69%) Retail
4 8 (15.69%) Social Housing
5 6 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Front Office
7 2 (3.92%) Law
7 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.92%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Senior
2 8 (15.69%) Consultant
2 8 (15.69%) Implementation Consultant
3 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Software Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) IT Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Cloud Specialist
6 4 (7.84%) Site Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (5.88%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Java Server Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Server Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Support Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) Spring
2 7 (13.73%) Hibernate
2 7 (13.73%) Spring Boot
3 6 (11.76%) Django
3 6 (11.76%) XML
4 5 (9.80%) RESTful
4 5 (9.80%) XSLT
5 4 (7.84%) HTML
5 4 (7.84%) SOAP
6 3 (5.88%) ARM Templates
6 3 (5.88%) Kafka
6 3 (5.88%) Middleware
6 3 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.92%) EDI
7 2 (3.92%) LAMP
7 2 (3.92%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Housing Association
2 5 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.84%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.88%) Derivative
4 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (3.92%) Equities
5 2 (3.92%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.92%) Life Science
5 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.92%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) iSeries
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (74.51%) Linux
2 19 (37.25%) Windows
3 7 (13.73%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.88%) AIX
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (5.88%) zOS
5 2 (3.92%) CentOS
5 2 (3.92%) CoreOS
5 2 (3.92%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.96%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) CI/CD
2 24 (47.06%) DevOps
3 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (19.61%) Microservices
3 10 (19.61%) TDD
4 9 (17.65%) Observability
5 8 (15.69%) Housing Management
5 8 (15.69%) OO
5 8 (15.69%) Performance Monitoring
6 7 (13.73%) Containerisation
6 7 (13.73%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (13.73%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (13.73%) Event-Driven
6 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (13.73%) Software Engineering
6 7 (13.73%) Static Application Security Testing
6 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
6 7 (13.73%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 22 (43.14%) Python
2 21 (41.18%) SQL
3 12 (23.53%) Java
4 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
5 9 (17.65%) JavaScript
6 8 (15.69%) Bash
7 6 (11.76%) C
7 6 (11.76%) Go
7 6 (11.76%) Perl
8 4 (7.84%) Jython
9 3 (5.88%) Bicep
10 2 (3.92%) AWK
10 2 (3.92%) C++
10 2 (3.92%) Korn
10 2 (3.92%) PHP
11 1 (1.96%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.96%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.96%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) DBS Check
2 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) Degree
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (31.37%) Docker
2 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 7 (13.73%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.92%) KVM
4 2 (3.92%) Postfix
4 2 (3.92%) Sendmail
4 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (37.25%) Terraform
2 11 (21.57%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.73%) Istio
4 6 (11.76%) Ansible
4 6 (11.76%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (5.88%) SCCM
6 2 (3.92%) CA Endevor
6 2 (3.92%) Grafana
6 2 (3.92%) Nagios
6 2 (3.92%) Nessus
6 2 (3.92%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.92%) Puppet
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) VMware
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.69%) NEC
3 7 (13.73%) Google
3 7 (13.73%) Oracle
4 6 (11.76%) Veeam
5 4 (7.84%) Dynatrace
6 3 (5.88%) IBM
6 3 (5.88%) Solace
6 3 (5.88%) TIBCO
7 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.92%) SAP
7 2 (3.92%) Tenable
8 1 (1.96%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.96%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.96%) Splunk