Unix Jobs in the North West

Unix
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 217 218
Rank change year-on-year -24 +1 -32
Permanent jobs citing Unix 34 69 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.44% 0.71% 1.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.49% 5.80% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 21 46 36
10th Percentile - £42,238 £39,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,928 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £55,000 £57,325
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% -4.06% -1.59%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,429 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £98,301 £75,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +12.00%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 973 1,190 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.50% 12.19% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 395 888 773
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,175 £24,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £76,840 £71,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Unix in the North West

Unix
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Unix in the North West

Unix
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Unix in the North West

Unix
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Manchester +37 21 £78,810 +25.53% 10
Lancashire -58 11 £42,500 -4.01% 8
Cheshire +7 1 £80,000 +45.45% 6
Cumbria - 1 £52,500 -
Unix
England

Unix
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (14.71%) Apache
3 3 (8.82%) GemFire
4 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 8 (23.53%) NEC Housing
2 2 (5.88%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) GCP
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.71%) AWS
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (8.82%) Apigee
4 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.82%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (8.82%) dbt
4 3 (8.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (8.82%) Pulumi
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) DNS
2 7 (20.59%) Firewall
3 6 (17.65%) DHCP
3 6 (17.65%) IPv4
3 6 (17.65%) LAN
3 6 (17.65%) VLAN
4 3 (8.82%) FTP
4 3 (8.82%) HTTP
4 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.88%) HTTPS
5 2 (5.88%) Internet
5 2 (5.88%) SSH
5 2 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) NoSQL
2 6 (17.65%) Redis
3 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.82%) Apache Ignite
3 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (8.82%) InterSystems Cache
3 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.82%) RDBMS
3 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.88%) MySQL
4 2 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Git
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.82%) JUnit
1 3 (8.82%) Maven
1 3 (8.82%) SonarQube
1 3 (8.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (52.94%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Local Government
2 8 (23.53%) Police
2 8 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Social Housing
3 6 (17.65%) Banking
3 6 (17.65%) Retail
4 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.88%) Front Office
6 2 (5.88%) Law
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Senior
2 8 (23.53%) Consultant
2 8 (23.53%) Implementation Consultant
3 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) IT Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Manager
4 3 (8.82%) Java Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Java Server Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Server Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Technical Support
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Support
5 2 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Spring
2 3 (8.82%) Django
2 3 (8.82%) Hibernate
2 3 (8.82%) Kafka
2 3 (8.82%) Middleware
2 3 (8.82%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (8.82%) RESTful
2 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.88%) EDI
3 2 (5.88%) LAMP
3 2 (5.88%) Loki
3 2 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Housing Association
2 4 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.76%) Data Structures
3 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Derivative
4 2 (5.88%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Equities
4 2 (5.88%) Fixed Income
4 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.88%) Life Science
4 2 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (5.88%) Replication
5 1 (2.94%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 22 (64.71%) Linux
2 10 (29.41%) Windows
3 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (8.82%) zOS
5 2 (5.88%) AIX
5 2 (5.88%) CentOS
5 2 (5.88%) CoreOS
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) CI/CD
2 12 (35.29%) DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) Housing Management
4 6 (17.65%) Business Continuity
4 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (17.65%) Incident Management
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (17.65%) Microservices
4 6 (17.65%) OO
4 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.65%) Roadmaps
4 6 (17.65%) TDD
5 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (14.71%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (8.82%) Computer Science
7 3 (8.82%) Electronic Trading
7 3 (8.82%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) SQL
2 9 (26.47%) Python
3 7 (20.59%) Java
3 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.76%) Go
5 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.88%) AWK
6 2 (5.88%) C
6 2 (5.88%) C++
6 2 (5.88%) Korn
6 2 (5.88%) Perl
6 2 (5.88%) PHP
7 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) DBS Check
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (29.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Docker
2 7 (20.59%) Hyper-V
3 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.88%) KVM
4 2 (5.88%) Postfix
4 2 (5.88%) Sendmail
4 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (8.82%) Istio
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) CA Endevor
4 2 (5.88%) Grafana
4 2 (5.88%) Nagios
4 2 (5.88%) Nessus
4 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.88%) Puppet
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) NEC
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Veeam
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.76%) Google
5 3 (8.82%) Solace
5 3 (8.82%) TIBCO
5 3 (8.82%) VMware
6 2 (5.88%) IBM
6 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.88%) SAP
6 2 (5.88%) Tenable