Unix Job Trends in the North West

Unix
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Unix skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 115 147
Rank change year-on-year -64 +32 +52
Permanent jobs citing Unix 7 93 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.11% 1.84% 1.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.85% 14.67% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5 22 41
10th Percentile £51,375 - £38,084
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,790 £61,375 £84,056
90th Percentile - £74,144 £100,064
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -7.69% -

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 378 634 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.93% 12.54% 11.99%
Number of salaries quoted 329 345 420
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,300 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,179 £74,041 £75,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Unix job vacancy trend in the North West

Unix
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Manchester -46 4 £73,801 +23.72% 4
Cumbria +12 2 £55,000 +7.32% 1
Cheshire -22 1 £51,250 - 4
Unix
England

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) dbt
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Pulumi
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (28.57%) Redis
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Practitioner
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Solaris
3 1 (14.29%) SUSE
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) AI
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) CRUD
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Open Source
3 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) ABAP
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Mirantis
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) VMware