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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 249 186
Rank change year-on-year -45 -63 -4
Permanent jobs citing Unix 42 141 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.81% 1.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.38% 6.28% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 31 93 130
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,238 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £55,000 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% -0.45% +10.50%
75th Percentile £82,751 £75,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,064 £73,021
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% +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 1,765 2,247 2,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.35% 12.85% 13.76%
Number of salaries quoted 719 1,756 1,508
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £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 £57,948
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 14 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 14 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 -39 27 £67,626 +22.96% 33
Yorkshire +38 10 £78,810 +37.06% 23
North East +27 5 £69,384 +47.20% 11
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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (11.90%) Apache
3 3 (7.14%) GemFire
3 3 (7.14%) IIS
4 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) Azure
2 14 (33.33%) GCP
3 12 (28.57%) AWS
4 10 (23.81%) Pulumi
5 8 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 6 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 6 (14.29%) Apigee
6 6 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (14.29%) dbt
6 6 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (9.52%) Sentry
8 3 (7.14%) IaaS
8 3 (7.14%) PaaS
8 3 (7.14%) SaaS
9 2 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.19%) TCP/IP
2 9 (21.43%) DNS
2 9 (21.43%) Firewall
3 8 (19.05%) LAN
4 6 (14.29%) DHCP
4 6 (14.29%) IPv4
4 6 (14.29%) VLAN
5 5 (11.90%) HTTP
6 4 (9.52%) Broadband
7 3 (7.14%) FTP
7 3 (7.14%) HTTPS
8 2 (4.76%) Internet
8 2 (4.76%) SSH
8 2 (4.76%) SSL
8 2 (4.76%) VPN
8 2 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 9 (21.43%) Redis
3 7 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 7 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 6 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
6 3 (7.14%) Apache Ignite
6 3 (7.14%) InterSystems Cache
6 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.76%) MySQL
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (14.29%) Git
2 6 (14.29%) JUnit
2 6 (14.29%) Maven
2 6 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 6 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (9.52%) Jaeger
4 2 (4.76%) Spinnaker
5 1 (2.38%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) JIRA
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 10 (23.81%) Banking
2 10 (23.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 7 (16.67%) Retail
5 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Front Office
6 2 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.76%) Law
6 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.38%) Cantonese Language
7 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Senior
2 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
5 4 (9.52%) Site Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Team Leader
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Java Server Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Server Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Support Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Spring
2 6 (14.29%) Django
2 6 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 6 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 5 (11.90%) RESTful
4 4 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (9.52%) XML
5 3 (7.14%) ARM Templates
5 3 (7.14%) Kafka
5 3 (7.14%) Middleware
5 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (7.14%) XSLT
6 2 (4.76%) EDI
6 2 (4.76%) HTML
6 2 (4.76%) LAMP
6 2 (4.76%) Loki
6 2 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.52%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.14%) Derivative
3 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (4.76%) Equities
4 2 (4.76%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (4.76%) Life Science
4 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (4.76%) Replication
5 1 (2.38%) iSeries
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (88.10%) Linux
2 15 (35.71%) Windows
3 7 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.14%) AIX
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.76%) CentOS
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.38%) Solaris
6 1 (2.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) DevOps
2 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 11 (26.19%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (23.81%) Roadmaps
5 9 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 9 (21.43%) Microservices
5 9 (21.43%) TDD
6 8 (19.05%) OO
6 8 (19.05%) Performance Monitoring
7 7 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
7 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (16.67%) Observability
7 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.29%) Agile
8 6 (14.29%) Business Continuity
8 6 (14.29%) Clean Code
8 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven
8 6 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) Java
3 11 (26.19%) JavaScript
3 11 (26.19%) PowerShell
4 10 (23.81%) Bash
4 10 (23.81%) Go
4 10 (23.81%) SQL
5 4 (9.52%) C
5 4 (9.52%) Perl
6 3 (7.14%) Bicep
7 2 (4.76%) AWK
7 2 (4.76%) C++
7 2 (4.76%) Jython
7 2 (4.76%) Korn
7 2 (4.76%) PHP
8 1 (2.38%) ActionScript
8 1 (2.38%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.38%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 4 (9.52%) Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (40.48%) Docker
2 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 7 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.76%) KVM
4 2 (4.76%) Postfix
4 2 (4.76%) Sendmail
4 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (47.62%) Terraform
2 12 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.05%) Ansible
4 6 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
4 6 (14.29%) Istio
5 4 (9.52%) Argo
5 4 (9.52%) Kustomize
5 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.14%) SCCM
7 2 (4.76%) Grafana
7 2 (4.76%) Nagios
7 2 (4.76%) Nessus
8 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Google
2 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) VMware
3 7 (16.67%) Oracle
4 6 (14.29%) Veeam
5 3 (7.14%) IBM
5 3 (7.14%) Solace
5 3 (7.14%) TIBCO
6 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.76%) SAP
6 2 (4.76%) Tenable
7 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.38%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (2.38%) Splunk