Unix Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Unix
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 35 53
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 -6
Permanent jobs citing Unix 5 2 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.52% 0.85% 2.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 18.52% 14.29% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60,950
25th Percentile - - £79,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +77.34%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £63,274 - -
UK median annual salary £67,250 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.46% +12.07% -14.07%

All Operating Systems
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 27 14 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.83% 5.96% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 14 4 42
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,775 £27,625
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,438 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +23.46% -19.00%
75th Percentile £45,813 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £71,750 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Unix
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Unix job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Unix
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Unix.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Unix

Unix
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Unix in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Unix in Northern Ireland

Unix
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Unix within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 14 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
County Antrim -19 5 £40,000 - 3
Unix
UK

Unix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (20.00%) dbt
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (20.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
General
1 5 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Applications Support
1 4 (80.00%) Graduate
1 4 (80.00%) Graduate Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (20.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) Fintech
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google